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ALA 2026: Politics in American Fiction
ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)
ALA 2026: The Novel of Ideas in American Fiction
ALA Annual Conference (May 20-23, Chicago, IL)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS: CALL FOR PAPERS
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, JUNE 19-21, 2026
The Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, in
collaboration with The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, The Centre for Hellenic
Studies at King's College London, Baylor University, the Modern Greek Studies Program at
Rutgers University, and The Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova
University, is pleased to announce an international conference dedicated to the life, work,
and legacy of Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from June 19
to June 21, 2026.
In recent decades, scholarship has increasingly foregrounded the intersection between literary studies and social justice. From Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the ethical responsibility of the critic (An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization, 2012) to Martha Nussbaum’s defence of literature as a resource for democratic imagination (Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life, 1995), critics have shown how narrative and form can reshape political thought and civic engagement. Literature has long served as a site where inequality, resistance, and collective agency are represented, contested, and reimagined.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Chinmaya75 International Conference
8–10 May 2026
Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) • Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV) • CIF
Shodha Sansthan (CIFSS)
Website: https://chinfo.org/icsc2026
Email: icsc2026@cvv.ac.in
Cultural Studies Methodology Lab
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus
In collaboration with
Department of Media Studies, Central Campus
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
Organizes
An International WorkshoponFilms and Ethnography
January 7-10, 2026
God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas. Learn about the happiest time of the year, and the old men who love nothing better than to shit all over it. From Scrooge to Sherlock Holmes, what’s with confirmed bachelors and Christmas? An irreverent and illuminating romp through 19th Century Victorian Christmas, its origins in older traditions, Oliver Cromwell, how it became an institution worldwide, and how one cantankerous old man really ties the whole thing together! This lecture will be a rollicking and intellectual hour and thirty minutes WITH a ten minute bathroom break. Bring your humbugs, we’ll be breaking out the turkey dinners and coals! Ninety minutes of holiday cheer.
Whether you have a chapbook coming up or want to start a new one, need a seedling idea for a novel or a first draft of a novelette, a play, a series of artistic sketches (note: sub the word writing with art every time we use it,) we have a one of a kind experience to make your writing take shape. A concentrated, transformative, and FUN experience to break your patterns and look at your writing in a different light! Writing does NOT have be a boring, grating “icebreaker” type deal.
Copyright and Intellectual Property Area
As our day-to-day lives depend increasingly on creating “content,” the often misunderstood rules of copyright and intellectual property have an important effect on us. The Copyright and Intellectual Property area seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about the tumultuous cultural battle raging over how we understand the production and distribution of knowledge.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Flannery O’Connor Society
American Literature Association
Annual Conference May 20-23, 2026
Palmer House Hilton | Chicago, IL
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for open topic presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association. (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/).
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
We are pleased to invite proposals for new themed issues of Film Journal, the open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal founded by SERCIA (Société d’études et de recherches sur le cinéma anglophone / Society for Study and Research in Anglophone Cinema). Established in France in 1993, SERCIA promotes the study and teaching of English-speaking cinema worldwide.
Each issue of Film Journal is devoted to a particular theme, and we welcome proposals that explore diverse aspects of film and screen studies. The journal encourages contributions that offer fresh perspectives on film history, theory, narrative, and aesthetics, and that engage critically with a wide variety of cinematic forms, genres, and traditions.
The graduate students of the Department of Music at University of Pennsylvania invite proposals for individual papers and performances for our first-ever graduate conference, For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies. The conference will take place from February 13-14, 2026 in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. We welcome submissions from graduate students across disciplines to critically examine the intersection of form and value in music, sound, and performance broadly.
Call for Chapters
Feminine Rage: A Companion
I have a thing about feminine rage. I get a lot of [scripts of] men doing really terrible things and women sitting silently whilst one tear slowly falls. I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We get mad. And we get angry. – Anya Taylor-Joy
Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
Brutalism in the Global Novel (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp)
Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India
Robert Lowell Society is inviting new papers on Robert Lowell, his work and his times, to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 20–23, 2026 in Chicago.
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, has established an essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.
ICSSR sponsored
International Conference on
The Ernest Hemingway Society is sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL (May 20–23, 2026).
Given the centenary of the publication of both The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises (1926), we encourage papers focused on the early part of Hemingway’s life and career.
Please send a 250-word proposal and short CV to Dr. Ross K. Tangedal (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) at rtangeda@uwsp.edu by January 10, 2026, for full consideration. Your submission will be confirmed via email.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
American Literature Association
37th Annual ConferenceMay 20-23, 2026Palmer House
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300 words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2026 ALA conference in Chicago.
Subjects for submissions are open but may include one of the following:
In Traditional African Festival Drama in Performance, Austine Anigala(2006)draws on the Ukpalabor festival of the Ebedei people in Southern Nigeria to argue for the performance and dramatic potential of the indigenous African festival. This provocative work is against the backdrop of polemics initiated by scholars such as Ruth Finnegan (2012) and Michael J. C. Echeruo (1973) about the dramatic limits of indigenous African festivals. Recall that Echeruo (1973) called for a re-examination of how indigenous festivals are referred to as drama.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on medieval race-making.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session that will explore disability in the medieval past and/or the ways in which disability studies and medieval studies fruitfully intersect. The session welcomes papers that consider understandings of non-standard human bodies from the medieval past and/or reflect upon the ways in which, as Godden and Hsy write, “the study of disability in the Middle Ages challenges modern narratives of bodily integrity and autonomy” (334). The non-standard body in the Middle Ages takes on a variety of forms both familiar and unfamiliar to us today, from the use of spectacles to colonies of lepers.
The EDID (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization) Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers for a session on queer world-making in medieval studies. This session takes as its starting point the idea that queerness is not only an identity category or critical lens, but also a mode of imagining, creating, and inhabiting other worlds. We are interested in how medieval texts envision alternatives to normative ideals, and in how queer approaches to these texts might open transformative possibilities.
Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island
The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval.
Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.
The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.
Cornell EGSO Conference 2026: Effervescence
Deadline for Submissions: January 5th, 2026
Conference Date: March 20th, 2026
Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
“This impulse to violence had been in her for a long time, growing, feeding, until finally she had blown up in a thousand pieces... Yes, a one-way ticket, she thought. I've had one since the day I was born. The train was on the track.”
—Ann Petry, The Street
Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction
Guest Editors
Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)
Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)
Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)
3rd International H/Story Seminar
Communism in Historical Fiction
02.04.2026
online
University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.
Since its inception, Verge has championed the role of special issues in making visible key questions in Global Asias scholarship while also suggesting new possibilities in the field. Maintaining this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for issue 14.2, a special issue slated for publication in Fall 2028.
The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.
PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium
May 16, 2026
The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.
Proposals are due: February 1, 2026.
See the Call for Papers, more information and submit proposals on the
Stars and Screen website:
The organizing committee of the South Asia Graduate Student Conference (SAGSC-XXIII) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its twenty-third annual conference: “Resonant Boundaries: (Inter)disciplinarity in and about South Asia.” This year’s conference will take place on March 5th-6th, 2026. We cordially invite papers from independent scholars and graduate students at any stage of study and in any discipline from universities across the world.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: MONTRÉAL 2026
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
The 2026 CSRS/SCÉR conference will be held in person at l’Université de Montréal (Montréal, Québec) from Saturday June 6, 2026, to Monday June 8, 2026.
NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences
An Interdisciplinary Journal - ISSN 2469-4002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Faculty-owned and faculty-run interdisciplinary journal NETSOL welcomes submissions from all scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
NETSOL has been housed at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2016.
NETSOL is a peer-reviewed biannual academic e-journal publishing original research articles and book reviews. All articles go through a double-blind peer-review process.
We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume titled “Documentation of/as Violence.” In this volume, we seek to explore how documentation, or the lack thereof, can function in capacities that both enforce and protect against violence. We understand documents, and documentation, through two primary functions: surveillance and preservation. The collection of materials capturing violence enacted upon marginalized communities, as well as how the practice of documentation itself can be a violent action of surveillance experienced by marginalized communities complicate the function of representation in library and archival collections.
In 2021, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) issued a position statement on “the Role of Reading in the College Writing Classroom”. In this statement, 4Cs “affirm[ed] the need to develop accessible and effective reading pedagogies in college writing classrooms” because it would help student performance across the university and in students’ roles as citizens in a democracy. The statement correctly notes that reading pedagogy is an issue writing studies has not taken up in a robust way for about 30 years and that it is now receiving attention at four-year institutions, though reading pedagogy has long been addressed at two-year schools.
CONCEPT NOTE
Has theatre (as a form of literature or performing arts) always been ‘experimental’ to some extent? Describing the attempt to ‘situate the beginning of experimental theatre historically’ as ‘arbitrary,’ Professor Patrice Pavis has pointed out that all new forms of theatre ‘necessarily experiments as soon as it is no longer content to reproduce existing forms and techniques and no longer considers the meaning of its production as self-evident’ (133). It is important to note at this point that Pavis’s analysis does not depict the idea of Experimental theatre to be essentially ‘Eurocentric’. Rather it hints at the possible presence of Experimental theatre across cultures.
Spectral Boundaries: Gender and Sexuality in Asian Horror Cinema
Dr. Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page
Call for Special Issues: Christianity and Literature
As a peer-reviewed journal publishing since 1951, Christianity and Literature invites proposals for Special Issues exploring focused topics at the intersection of Christian faith and literary expression. We are interested in issues that address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
The Final Frontier: Race, Ecology & Colonialism in Space Opera
Edited by Mikail Boz & Cenk Tan
Editors’ Introduction
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
REIMAGINING FRANKENSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Cross-Cultural Adaptations in Visual Culture
Edited by Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan
Editors’ Introduction
Please consider submitting an abstract for the edited collection, Reconfiguring Critical Thinking in Higher Education for the 21st Century (Springer, Education).
We welcome research on critical thinking in higher education in Southeast Asia. The first section of the collection endeavours to define critical thinking in the current climate. The essays of the second section share classroom activities and curriculum design that aim to teach critical thinking. And the final section considers how LLMs can both facilitate and inhibit the cultivation of critical thinking in student learners.
We aim to have completed articles ready for submission by August, 2026.
CFP: Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling Area of the Popular Culture Association
Keynote speakers:
Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.
Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks academic essays for a special themed section in Juxta 12: AI and haiku (as well as related poetic forms such as haibun, haiga, senryu, and tanka). Topics may be wide-ranging, including tributes to haijin who have influenced the author’s work by engaging/not engaging AI tools to write in someone else’s style.
Guidelines:
Deadline: July 15, 2026