Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.

Call for Papers: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory

The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the changes in a chickadee’s nerve cells after a near miss with a predator. The tree’s subsequent growth is more heavily defended by unpalatable resins, like a bird turned jumpy by its bad experience with a hawk. The fir also remembers air temperatures dating back nearly a year, a memory that helps the tree to know when to winterize its cells. […]

Roots and twigs have memories of light, gravity, heat, and minerals. (Haskell 2017: 37)

This panel explores Michael Leong’s recent association between “documental” poetry—poetry that draws on and/or revises official or invented documents—and explorations of memory broadly construed, including forgotten historical events, the plight of unrepresented people(s), and the psychological and/or physiological workings of memory itself. How do such works define memory? To what extent are the workings of memory affirmed in these works? To what extent are processes of remembering obstructed, disrupted, or fragmented?

The World of Warcraft Handbook: Twenty Years in Azeroth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Edited by David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) &  Russell McDermott (Dickinson College)

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) 

University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXX 

(2025). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely open access journal, published 

annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes 

articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide 

hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered 

The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston on May 23rd, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a four-day Zoom symposium themed around Wallace’s monumental speech. While it may be disappointing not to see each other in person, this is an opportunity to do things we can’t do at an in-person conference, and a chance to reconnect with our friends from around the globe. 

Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com Submission deadline: July 05, 2025 The Soliloquist  Journal  is inviting poems and soliloquies for its second issue (Summer 2025 issue).

We invite contributions for an upcoming edited volume on Yaşar Kemal, one of the most influential figures in Turkish literature and world literature. Despite Kemal’s international acclaim and extensive literary output, no comprehensive edited volume in English has yet been published. This book aims to fill that gap by offering critical perspectives on Kemal’s literary aesthetics, social engagement, and cultural legacy.

Scope and Themes

We welcome contributions from diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Style and Aesthetics

o Narrative structures, use of folklore, and oral storytelling traditions

This volume, under contract with Bloomsbury, will focus on the intersection of Bryher’s work as a writer and filmmaker/critic. Although her contemporaries, particularly H.D., are widely known, Bryher’s far-reaching influence is largely overlooked by scholars of Modernism.  With that in mind, I'm thrilled to invite essays that explore Bryher's writings, letters, and films, as well as her influence on other creative practitioners.  Please send essays by June 30th, 2025 to Kristina Marie Darling, the volume's editor.  Essays of any length are welcome for consideration.  

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship is a hybrid, fully funded, eight-month professional development program for talented California BIPOC creative writers who aspire to become professional authors. To be eligible, applicants must not:

Book Review Editor, Resources for American Literary Study

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS) invites applications for the position of Book Review Editor. Founded in 1971 and published biannually by Penn State University Press, RALS is a peer-reviewed journal focusing upon archival and bibliographical approaches to American literature across all periods and genres.

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

• Cultural responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis (fine arts, film, popular visual culture, activism)

• Feminist New Wave Cinema

• Trans Cinema

• Textiles, fiber arts, weaving screens  

• The Culture and Politics of Gaming

• Health Humanities

• Graphic Medicine

• Social Media  

We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words). 

Title: TBD, but potentials include:

• ‘Til All Are One: Gender, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/Gender Expression (SOGIE) in Transformers

Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look

Description / Call for Papers:

We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.