Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2026 Annual Conference, November 5-7, 2026 in Baltimore, MD

FEMINANIMALS
Representations of Women and/as Animals in Literature, Arts, and Other Media

University of Oxford, Oriel College

14-16 April 2027

Keynote speakers: Prof Chloë Taylor (University of Alberta) and Dr Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)

Roundtable with Queer Kinship Network led by Prof Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford)

Organising committee: Dr Fanny Clemente (University of Oxford), Dr Greta Colombani (independent scholar), Dr Cécile Bishop (University of Oxford)

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

Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas

Deadline to indicate interest: May 15

Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS

The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:

Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Kant's Concept of Spontaneity and its Legacy in Later Theories of Subjectivity," edited by Jessica Segesta (University of Palermo, Italy) and Valentina Dafne De Vita (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany).

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**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**

Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic

Issue VI: Unthemed Issue

Deadline for abstracts and pitches: 25th July 2026

‘You cannot adapt to extinction’. —Vanessa Nakate

‘The development of ecocriticism itself can been read as a type of Gothic story. If imagined figuratively as if it were a horror film, the field of ecocriticism is at a point where it is confronting the monster that has been hidden in the basement’. —Tom J. Hillard

Call for Book Chapters

Theme: Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English

Multani Mal Modi College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:

‘Prisms of Interpretation: Analysing Literature in English’

Society for the Study of Affect (SSA)
#MAKE: Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies
Vancouver, BC, October 23 to 25, 2026

Abstracts due May 29, 2026
Submit here: https://affectsociety.com/make/conference/?submit=paper&stream_id=30 

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Meta Mazaj, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Katarzyna Marciniak, Occidental College

Call for Papers

The CFP for "Language Teaching and Technology: From Gaming to AI" is now open via this link for the PAMLA 2026 conference, from the 12th to the 15th of November 2026, in Seattle. 

Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/

The Phenomenology of the Stand-up Comic: Toward a Sociology of Gendered Humour

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited collection that examines how race and ethnicity have been imagined, negotiated, and represented in Irish children’s and young adult literature — and in literature by young people — from 1600 to 2000. This volume builds directly on the 2025 Irish Studies Review special issue on race, ethnicity, and representation in 21st-century Irish youth literature which was the first full-length scholarly publication to map this under-researched field. The special issue demonstrated the richness and urgency of examining how difference, belonging, and alterity are conceptualised in contemporary Irish youth texts, and highlighted the need for deeper historical contextualisation and research.

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Adoption in Popular Media

deadline for submissions: 

June 15, 2026

full name / name of organization: 

Stacy Fowler / St. Mary’s University

contact email: 

sfowler@stmarytx.edu

Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA). 

Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.

The annual graduate student conference organized by the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California is now accepting applications. Submission deadline is June 1, 2026.

This year’s conference invites proposals that engage broadly with the theme, Delirium. 

It will take place on October 23–24, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Professor Eugenie Brinkema joining for the Keynote. 

We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches, including creative works.

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.

Kala Pani Crossings #4:

Jahaji bhai / Jahaji behen: Fraught Legacies, New Kinships, Reimagined Solidarities

Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry 

in partnership with EMMA (University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry),

IHRIM (ENS-Lyon, France), VALE (Sorbonne University)

& DIRE and LCF (University of Reunion Island)

Dates: February 16-17, 2027

Venue: IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry)

Call for Contributions and Book Reviews for PSA
Newsletter #35: Postcolonial/Decolonial Water Stories
We invite submissions exploring the dynamic intersections between colonialism (past and ongoing)
and water/waterscapes through a humanities perspective. As many scholars have pointed out,
“Unequal access to water and the political processes that direct management are fundamentally
rooted in colonialism” (Hartwig, Jackson, Markham & Osborne 2023, p. 31) Water – oceans, rivers,
seas, and wetlands – has long been central to colonial histories, shaping routes of conquest,
migration, trade, and resistance. In literary texts and other cultural productions, waterscapes often

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production

Guest Editors

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

&

Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

Rationale

SPECTATOR 47.1 — SPEED - CALL FOR PAPERS/BOOK REVIEWS

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Spectator is seeking papers and reviews for issue 47.1, Speed, themed around USC’s 2025 First Forum Conference on the same topic organized by Minji Kim and Tanushree Sharma. Their call for submissions on this theme is copied below:

The contemporary moment is often thought of synonymously with the idea of speed. The 20th

and 21st centuries were marked by rapidly ascending rates of movement: the movement of

Contemporary social, ecological, technological, and existential crises compel a rethinking of what it means to exist, to coexist, and to take form in a posthuman world.

Call for Papers

Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism

Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective

Overview
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.