“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

NEW Deadline: July 11, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

Call For Proposals

The CreArte hybrid conference seeks submission of proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers), roundtables, workshops, and performances. We invite proposals from artists, educators, academics, and public scholars who examine various forms of Latino/a/e/x artistic expression, including but not limited to film, literature, music, visual arts, and dance, and how these artistic expressions have impacted the direction of society, broadly. Our hybrid conference is held in association with the CreArte Expo Latino Cultural Festival, a weekend-long celebration where attendees immerse themselves in Latino/a/e/x culture through literature, film, music, dance, cosplay, dance, comics and much more.

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.

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova

 The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
Dr. Andrew Harrison
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
Kathleen Jones
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
Dr. Martin Griffiths
Author and Musician

'Variations of Anglophone Humor Studies'

A Special Issue of Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

Edited by Kamil Chrzczonowicz and Jack Harrison (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Media in Transition: The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine 

Edited by: Sangita Shresthova and Alfonso Hegde

Call for Submissions

Is artificial intelligence inevitable? Will it usher in a new era of creativity? Will it actually completely automate away all human creativity? How much agency do we have over AI? Is this the death of the author? Is this the end of original creative expression as we know it?  

CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.

A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture 46.2 (Summer 2026):

Edited by:

Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu

Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu

This panel session for RSA 2026 in San Francisco invites proposals for papers on early modern literature and narrative theory, broadly conceived. Papers might consider narrative perspective, focalization, and free indirect discourse; formalist, structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to early modern narrative; and genre theory. How might early modern narrative invite us to question some of the assumptions of narrative theory, with its traditional emphasis on the novel? What kind of narrative theory (or theories) does early modern literature offer us?

Please email 200-word abstracts to Eve Houghton (eh565@cam.ac.uk) by July 31, 2025. 

Date: 19-20 September 2025

Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University

Mode: In Person

The international journal Jewish Film and New Media is currently seeking article-length manuscripts on international cinema, television, or other new media (e.g. YouTube videos, photographs, graphic novels) about or made by Jews. Of particular interest is consideration of texts deserving new or renewed consideration.

Submissions should be 8,000-10,0000 words in length following Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Notes should appear at the end of the essay, in the same font size as the text, and double spaced.

Deadline for consideration in upcoming issues is September 1, 2025.

Date: October 17-19, 2025

Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX

Theme: Archetypes & Myths

Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025

Keynote(s): TBD

Graduate students of Southern Methodist University’s Departments of English, Anthropology, and History, in collaboration with the Moody School of Advanced Studies, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, and the department of English, have collaborated to hold the second annual Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH) Conference at SMU from October 17th-October 19, 2025. 

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

Calling all children's literature scholars! The Children's Literature panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference is accepting papers until June 30th or when the panel is filled. PAMLA will meet November 20th-23rd in San Francisco. To submit a paper visit the online PAMLA portal and create an account: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/