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:

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences 

An Interdisciplinary Journal - ISSN 2469-4002

http://www.netsoljournal.net/

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.

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.

Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page

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. 

Keynote speakers:

Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité

For the Annual Conference in Atlanta, April 8-11, 2026, PCA will be piloting poster sessions.  Poster sessions allow scholars to share their research and ideas in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being part of the program.  

If the proposal is accepted, presenters should create a poster presentation that visually summarizes their topic, highlighting such things as their main argument, their research methods, and overall conclusions.

Poster sessions will be scheduled in a four hour block (8 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.).  Presenters should be ready to set up and take down at those times and will need to schedule a 90 minute block in which to be with their posters.   

orum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up.

Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene

Editor: Dewey W. Hall

Call for Contributions 

Rural Futures/Todhchaí na Tuaithe: 
Social and Environmental Justice in Ireland 
Sacred Heart University, Dingle, Ireland 
June 8-10, 2026 

The inaugural three-day Rural Futures conference at Sacred Heart University’s campus in Dingle, Ireland, will feature keynote speaker Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), and a plenary conversation on the future of rural Irish literature with authors Belinda McKeon (Maynooth University) and Mike McCormack (University of Galway).

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”

Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)

Listening: The Dark Side of Literature, Art and Thought / À L'Écoute: le côté obscur de la littérature, de l’art et de la pensée

Special issue of L’Atelier https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/la 18.1 (april 2027) 

Guest Editor: Adrienne Janus Proposals (approximately 350 words) in English or in French should be sent to Adrienne Janus [adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr] and Anne Ullmo [anne.ullmo@univ-tours.fr] by 15 Feb. 2026

SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures 

American Literature Association, 37th Annual Conference

May 20-23, 2026

The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL

SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures 

Inherently interdisciplinary, Medieval Studies is older than many disciplines and departments in universities today. In light of that long history, what disciplinary norms and training do medievalists have in common? What is the state of Medieval Studies as a discipline? What can we do to sustain Medieval Studies at the highest level for future generations? This year’s annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association seeks to foster conversations about the future of our field, while creating a forum for the presentation of new research by medievalists and scholars of related fields at all stages and of all backgrounds.

Call for Book Chapters: Transhuman Futures in Media and Literature

International Conference (Hybrid) on Impact of Globalization on Society, Culture and Literature, January 19-20, 2026, organized by IQAC, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, and Antarmukh: A Bengali Research Journal.

About the Conference

USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers

(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent

April 10th and 11th, 2026

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, MS