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Contemporary Indigenous Horror

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:21pm
Naomi Simone Borwein (Western University), Krista Collier-Jarvis (Mi’kmaw/L’nu, Mount Saint Vincent University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

 Contemporary Indigenous Horror

Edited by Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein and Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis

  

Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:21pm
University of Bialystok
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

PASE 2025/Crossroads 5 Conference
Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities
June 4-6, 2025
University of Białystok, Poland

Suddenly, we became aware that humans could destroy the livability of the planet—whether
intentionally or otherwise. This awareness only increased as we learned about pollution, mass
extinction, and climate change. One half of current precarity is the fate of the earth: what kinds
of human disturbances can we live with? Despite talk of sustainability, how much chance do
we have for passing a habitable environment to our multispecies descendants?
Anna Tsing

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Open Call for Submissions

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) is currently soliciting submissions for our 2025 open issue. We invite interdisciplinary work with critical and intersectional approaches to race and racialization. In addition to scholarly essays, JCRI welcomes the submission of visual, literary, digital, and audio art and performance documentation relevant to our mandate, as well as activist roundtables, interviews, and shorter essays.

We publish work that features

Edith Wharton and Democracy

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025
  • Edith Wharton and Democracy

ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston

Edith Wharton and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston

Edith Wharton is regularly the question or answer on Jeopardy! these days. She’s also the heroine of a 2024 murder mystery by Mariah Fredericks. The indie band The Magnetic Fields penned a love-letter to the “masterpiece of catastrophic love” that is Wharton’s 1911 Ethan Frome, and a diverse range of voices cite Wharton as an influence or a favorite: Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Beth Nguyen, and Francis Ford Coppola—whose adaptation of The Glimpses of the Moon is currently underway. A novel that, in fact, also inspired Tavi Gevinson’s 2024 audio series.

Roundtable: Neurodivergence in Academia

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Popular Culture Association - Neurodivergent Studies Area
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Speakers are invited to share experiences, insights, and expertise on a roundtable exploring how neurodivergence shapes and intersects with professional academic life. This session will examine the nuanced realities of neurodivergence within academia and related spaces, particularly for faculty, researchers, and academic staff. Speakers will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes), followed by a moderated discussion. This format is envisioned as an opportunity to share ideas and experiences in a less formal way than traditional research panels. 

 

We welcome presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

CfP: Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / Istanbul University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur

(E-ISSN: 2619-9890)

Call for Papers

Issue 53 (2025/1)

Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Journal of German Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal founded in 1954 by Istanbul University’s Department of German Language and Literature. It is published biannually (June & December). 

Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Bethune-Cookman University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 13-14, 2025. Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature celebrates Hurston in the age of artificial intelligence and acknowledges the parallels between Hurston and AI in challenging and expanding our understanding of human creativity and identity. Noted Hurston scholar, literary critic, and writer Dr. Deborah Plant is the scheduled keynote speaker.

Adolescence in Film and Television (April 16-19, 2025); Proposals due November 30, 2024

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:19pm
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart / Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2024.

Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.

The Green Fuse - Nature in Fantasy

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:19pm
Dr Kevan Manwaring/British Fantasy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In this special issue we will look at environmental aspects of Fantasy. Since its very earliest manifestations, in taproot texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fantasy has been entangled with the natural and supernatural world.

‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.’
Dylan Thomas

Murder Media Symposium

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:19pm
Liverpool John Moores University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Murder Media Symposium

Call For Papers:

Liverpool John Moores University, 11th April 2025.

 

The recent Dahmer: Monster (Netflix, 2022), The Long Shadow (ITV, 2023), No Man of God (Sealey, 2021), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt (BBC Sounds, 2017), stand as some of the latest examples of the long and rich history of true crime content. The Murder Media Symposium will explore approaches to contemporary true crime and murder media texts, and the industrial, production, and fan cultures that surround such material.

Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 9:57pm
Rajpath Publisher
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 23, 2024

Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language

Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language invites researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their original manuscripts for consideration in our upcoming issues. We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of creative arts and the English language from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines.

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

CRAFTING LONGEVITY: LITERARY ARTS, AESTHETIC INQUIRIES, AND LEGACIES

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 3:09pm
THE GREGORY J. HAMPTON GRADUATE ENGLISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 1:59pm
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarDurban University of Technology, South Africa

Meddling with the Monolith: Tracing Genres of Contact through Expressions of Alterity

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 12:25pm
16th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students' Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 16, 2024

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

UPDATE: Nonhuman Animal Cultures

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 10:16am
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, College Park, MD, July 8-11 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Paper jam: Nonhuman Animal Cultures 

 To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

 

Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words on any example or aspect of the following:

Nonhuman avian culture(s)

Nonhuman oceanic culture(s)

Insect culture(s)

transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH

Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action research)

Call for Chapters on "Storied Citizenship"

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 6:03am
Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.

Frauds & Fakes in Words and Music

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 6:02am
International Association for Word and Music Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Call for papers
Frauds & Fakes in Words and Music
University of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 6:02am
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)

 

Special issue editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Onyemaechi Udumukwu, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

 

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

2025 Famine Summer School Call for Papers

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 6:02am
National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland (Irish Heritage Trust)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Humanitarianism and Hunger

2025 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland. 

May 29—June 1, 2025

Call for Papers:The 2025 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 29—June 1, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Famine Summer School is “Humanitarianism and Hunger”.

Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:55am
Cambridge Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Submissions are invited for the Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, offered by Cambridge Quarterly, a journal published by Oxford University Press. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. 

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English, as well as on film, music, theatre, television, dance, the visual arts and other cultural and artistic forms, singly or in comparison.  

Joy to You and Me: Making Space for Joy in the Writing Classroom

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:54am
Committee for the Conference on the Teaching of Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday April 24th and Friday April 25th2025. Proposal submissions are due onFridayJanuary 10th, 2025 and can be submitted through this form.

Three Day International Conference on Graphic Narratives and Comics Studies as World Literature Phenomena

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:53am
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

With the ‘Comics studies having finally arrived’, the young genre no longer has an obligation to justify its existence and significance. The legitimacy of the medium has been endorsed time and again by decades of scholarly works produced and being produced in the domain. Alongside this ongoing legitimation process, we are now witnessing a multifaceted engagement with a plethora of works – including both fiction and non-fiction – produced in the comics medium, leading to the rise of comics as a global literary phenomenon.

 

ATDS Panels at the Comparative Drama Conference, July 9-11 2025

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:53am
Richard Gilbert / Loyola University Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Panels Sponsored by the American Theatre and Drama Society  

 

The following panels are seeking papers for presentation at the Comparative Drama Conference July 9-11, 2025 at the London Academy for Music & Dramatic Art.  

 

ALA 2025 Arthur Miller Society Call For Papers

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:53am
Arthur Miller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

 The Arthur Miller SocietyCall for Papers and ProposalsALA 2025Boston, Massachusetts The American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). The Arthur Miller Society will have two sessions at this conference. For the first panel, we are inviting papers that consider how Arthur Miller's life and work have been co-opted by contemporary playwrights, film directors, and writers.

Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:53am
Anuparna Mukherjee, IISER Bhopal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Abstracts are invited for the ICSSR Sponsored Three-Day International Conference "Urban Metamorphoses: Understanding the Dynamics and Diversity of South Asian Cities" at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal.

*Conference dates: 27 February–01 March 2025

Conference Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

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