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Food Studies Panel at PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 7:28pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 5:30pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Call for paper for the July issue (Open Issue) of Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities (www.entanglements.in)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Entanglements: Journal of PosthumanitiesEntanglements: Journal of Posthumanities is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, bi-annual, transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling the overarching human social contract that largely underpins existing disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.

Multisensuality and Language Across Media, Cultures, and Histories: International Scientific Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Sprachenzentrum, University of Vienna; University of the National Education Commision, Kraków; Koszalin University of Technology; Pomeranian University in Słupsk
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Call for Papers 

Multisensuality and Language Across Media, Cultures, and Histories International Scientific Conference 

When: November 14–15, 2025 Where: Online 

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.” — Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments 

Special Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah - 122nd PAMLA Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - Thursday, May 15th 2025

Overview - 

Edited Collection CFP: "Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Dr. Myers Enlow and Dr. Marla Harris
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

This edited collection, Killing It In The Classroom: Teaching the Young Adult Detective Genre aims to address the changes in young adult detective/mystery literature, television shows, movies, and video games from 2015 to the present. The time, we maintain, is ripe for a re-investigation: adolescent engagement with social media and technology, along with the psychological after-effects of the Covid years, have significantly impacted what it means to be a teen in 2025. How does the YA detective fiction genre offer ways to explore contemporary issues and anxieties relevant to teens today?

Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 7, 2025

Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology Titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss"

Overview:

Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal is thrilled to invite submissions for an international poetry anthology titled "Alone Together: Echoes of Existence in the Modern Abyss". 

Bible and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Bible and Literature (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

This session welcomes papers about the Bible and Literature that will ideally but not necessarily connect to the conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” and touch on:

— Jewish biblical or post-biblical works

— Canonical or non-canonical Christian scriptures

— Post-biblical literary works that borrow from, adapt, translate, comment on, satirize, or allude to biblical stories, verses, characters, themes, or tropes

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

Special Issue on Early Childhood Studies of Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
AT-Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives (ISSN: 2977-1633) invites outstanding dissertations/papers from MA Early Childhood students and early career researchers to submit abstracts/ interests by 30th June 2025.

For this special issue, we seek to explore a wide range of early childhood studies content. We strive to build a bridge between theory and practice in early childhood, which not only reflects researcher interests but can also appeal to public understanding of relevant educational issues. For more detials visit the journal's website https://recap.at-journals.com/.

Proposed timeline:

30 June 2025: Abstract/Interest submission deadline

Thomas Nashe and Voice

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:05pm
St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This two-day conference, sponsored by the Faculty of English and St John’s College, Cambridge, invites proposals for papers on Thomas Nashe and voice. Papers might consider orality and performance; typographic representation of dialogue; gesture and non-verbal speech; heteroglossia and genre hybridity; point of view, narrative perspective, and focalization; style, parody, and mimicry; and Nashe’s use of multiple authorial personae and narratorial surrogates.

Call for Review Essays - C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! This would be a 3,000-word essay putting 2–3 academic books in conversation. Check out the suggestion of topics and titles below and get in touch with our review editors via email (c21literature.reviews@gmail.com) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications. You’re welcome to run with a topic we’ve proposed or tweak it to your research interests and we’d be happy to develop your ideas with you!

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
Litinfinite Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Litinfinite Journal

July 2025

(Vol 7 Issue I)

On

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
Litinfinite Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.

(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)

Travel and Tourism (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference) 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-

- travel and gender/race/class
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- travel in 2025: how has politics changed travel?

Coercive Forces in the Contemporary World

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We invite website submissions of poems and creative essays that engage with coercive forces in capitalist and imperialist states based on  Marxist thought, particularly in the Global South. We are especially interested in poems and essays that critically address contemporary global issues, including but not limited to race, gender, environment, decolonization, and imperialism.

Our Blog section features poetry, creative and analytical essays. 

Submissions: https://www.thelocomotive.org/submission

Due Date: 06/30/2025

Marginal Infrastructures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
University of Pittsburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Date: 19-20

September 2025

Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University

Mode: In Person

Body,Time and Digital Technology

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:04pm
University of Cyprus, Department of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Call for Papers

Body, Time, and Digital Technology

2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus

Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Madeline Zehnder and Thomas W. Howard
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

CFP: Small Forms in Nineteenth-Century America

This edited collection expands critical approaches to scale in nineteenth-century America by shifting focus from immensity (Baker 2006; Roberts 2014) to “small forms,” or forms disposed toward brevity or reduction. Building on scholarship that examines the operation of individual forms such as epigraphs (Stokes 2021), extracts (Wisecup 2021), footnotes (Cohen 2022), recipes (Tompkins 2013), and the serial sketch (Spires 2021), this collection aims to synthesize analysis of diverse small forms evident in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

Rhetorical Theory (PAMLA Standing Session)

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)

 

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description 

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

Call for Articles for L'Histoire Volume 4, Issue 1, a Biannual Magazine of the Social Sciences

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:03pm
Voyages into the Past
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The history of "rights" as a concept is mired in complications. Regarded as the moral or legal recognition of interests or entitlements of individuals and communities, rights have been present in history in a variety of ways - both justiciable and not. This history of rights, and the securing of rights, is long and arduous, and has taken various forms along the way - with sudden victories and abrupt revocations all the same - resulting in the present that we find ourselves in now.

CFP Screening Women and/in Politics - Film Journal

updated: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 2:02pm
Film Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Screening Women and/in Politics

Film Journal - special issue

Hélène Charlery and Anita Jorge

 

This special issue of Film Journal seeks papers on the representation of political women and women in institutional politics in audiovisual productions from and on the anglophone world, whether they be documentaries, fiction films (short, medium, feature-length, television or platform) films, series or mini-series.

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