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Multilingualism, Cultural Diversity, and Intercultural Communication for Sustainable Development
Scope of the Book
Call for Proposals
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2026 (virtual)
October 22-25, 2026
THE BOUNDARIES OF FAN STUDIES AND FANDOM
Call for Papers:
Panel Title: Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Location: MLA National Conference, Los Angeles, California
Date: January 7-10, 2027
Panel Hosts: Dr. Jeff Birkenstein and Dr. Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College (Centralia, Washington)
Proposal Deadline: March 22, 2026
The Challenge
Hi all,
See the below CFP for a panel on Pacific early American literature for next year’s MLA. Please circulate to anyone you think might be interested!
Conspiracy Theories in the Wake of Disaster
Matthew N. Hannah
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Zachary Loeb
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Purdue University
This cfp is for a proposed seminar at MLA 2027, to be held in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027. This seminar explores classrooms as sites of care and repair through trauma-informed and inclusive pedagogies and institutional courage, engaging embodiment, memory, and affect as approaches to trauma and learning. Submit a 200-word abstract and bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026
Submit your abstract via email to:
Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University (pozorskia@ccsu.edu ) Aili Pettersson Peeker, University of California, Santa Barbara (aili@writing.ucsb.edu )
Vulnerability has become a key term in contemporary critical theory, ethics, trauma studies, gender studies, disability studies, postcolonial studies, and affect theory. But fiction has long engaged with vulnerability – not necessarily as weakness or exposure, but as a condition of relationality, openness, resistance, and change. From tragic protagonists to marginalized bodies and precarious subjectivities, literary texts have repeatedly returned to fragility, dependency, and risk.
Paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon, the neo-Victorians have a habit of adapting just about everything – and in just about every possible direction. The stories of Victorian poems, novels, plays, operas, paintings, songs, dances, and tableaux vivants are constantly being adapted from one medium to another and then back again not only on film, television, radio, and digital or social media, but also theme parks, historical enactments, and virtual reality experiments. In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different genres or expressions interact.
Beyond Human: Unruly Senses of Being, Knowing, and Feeling Existence
UCSD Literature Department Graduate Student Conference
University of California, San Diego
In-Person, May 15-16, 2026
Call for papers: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media
International Interdisciplinary Seminar
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
14–15 May 2026 | Hybrid format
The seminar explores islands as mythical, symbolic, and narrative spaces across cultures and media. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions from island studies, environmental humanities, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, media studies, and related fields.
Abstract deadline: 30 March 2026
Full CFP and details:
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Duties include:
Collating and formatting content for each new issue of the journal. Liaising with the journal's editor and other volunteer collective members to make changes to the issue's content and layout until the end of each issue's production period.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:
Website Editor
Duties include:
Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current issue of the journal
This online panel seeks proposals that examine how humor, irony, and formal games use linguistic misbehavior to create new emotional landscapes, construct gendered subjectivities, and challenge traditional hierarchies across global literatures.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to Dr. Haihong Yang (hyang@udel.edu) by March 15th.
The 2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference (IPCLC 2026), hosted by the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), brings together postgraduate students and emerging scholars from Hong Kong and beyond for a day of cross-cultural conversation. Taking place in person at HKU on May 26, 2026, the conference offers a supportive forum for sharing work in progress, building scholarly networks, and testing new comparative methods across literary, cultural, and media studies. Featuring themed panels, a keynote lecture, and Best Paper Award(s), IPCLC 2026 invites participants to consider how comparison can sharpen our understanding of urgent questions in the humanities.
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance.
If literature has long played a central role in defining what it means to be human, posthumanist thought urges us to reconsider that definition in the face of unprecedented technological, ecological, and cultural transformations. Rather than announcing the ‘end’ of the human, posthumanism interrogates the category itself, foregrounding humanity’s entanglements with other species, material environments, and technological systems. In doing so, it challenges human exceptionalism and exposes the historical contingency and political implications of the ‘human’ as a normative construct.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Edited Volume
Island Studies in South Asia: Gender, Culture and Islandness
We're excited to announce that the DIY Methods Conference is back for another year! Pitches are due by April 20th, 2026. Please don't hesitate to email us (annepasek@trentu.ca and trentwintermeier@utexas.edu) if you have any questions.
Call for Paper
The Politics of Ableism: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Literature and Media
Edited by Habib Tekin & Nizara Hazarika
Call for book chapters
Theme: Intimate Empires
Call for Contributions - New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine
Title: Witness, Voice, and Agency: Chinese Poetry as Emancipatory Narrative
This panel explores how Chinese poetry, from classical to contemporary, functions as emancipatory narrative across historical periods, aesthetic forms, and sociopolitical contexts.
We welcome papers that examine how poets articulate conditions of constraint while imagining, inhabiting, or enacting liberatory possibilities. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Call for Contributions
Comics and (Eco)Social Justice - Graphic Narratives for Transformation
VII Jornadas ALCES XXI. Valencia. July 14-17, 2026
Comics and (Eco)Social Justice - Graphic Narratives for Transformation is a research seminar within the ALCES XXI Conference (Valencia, July 14–17, 2026) dedicated to exploring Spanish graphic narratives as a space for critical intervention and reflection on ecological and social justice. The seminar will be conducted in Spanish.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting
SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES
Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2026
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! No. You… you… complete… me.” – The Joker (The Dark Knight, 2008)
One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez
Proposed Dates: 1-2 May 2026
Proposed Venue: SRM University, Sikkim
Organized by: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)
Gabriel García Márquez, born in Columbia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.
The D H Lawrence Society of North America and the Joseph Conrad Society of America are seeking panel papers on the themes of exile and emancipation in the works of both Lawrence and Conrad. Proposals specialized on either author will be considered for inclusion, but we are especially interested in papers that address both of these important writers in a comparative or interdisciplinary manner. In either case, early for Conrad and later for Lawrence, the author left his home country in the interests of a less constrained existence elsewhere, thereby raising the possibilities of exilic nostalgia and regret. At the same time, both equally sought spaces of freedom and movement in expatriat
The UC Davis English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) is hosting its fourth annual student-led Connections Conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Time.” This year’s conference considers “Time” in its broadest sense. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “time” is defined as “A finite extent or stretch of continued existence.” Time has also been conceptualized in other terms.
This panel will foreground how Muslim minorities acculturate cooperative networks of solidarity, acceptance, creativity and affect beyond rigid notions of nation, region and sovereignties. In this context we will look at ruptures which persist due to the rigid and restrictive processes of neocolonial and neoliberal regimes and how it continues to shape the lived and material realities of South Asian Muslims across national and diasporic contexts. In particular we will discuss the historical contexts and enduring consequences of the rigid and restrictive processes of colonisation, partition, migration, trade, caste, legalities, and majoritarianism as it intersects with the inter-nation and cross-border movements of Muslims within and beyond South Asia.
Title: Unsettled Englishes: Migration, Displacement, and the Anzaldúan Borderland
Sponsoring Entity: MLA LSL Global English Forum
Description: In alignment with the 2027 Presidential Theme, "Emancipatory Narratives," this session interrogates the linguistic borders that define the migrant experience. Grounded in Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of the "linguistic borderland," we explore the space where identity, displacement, and Global English collide.
Title: Algorithm or Ally? AI, Global English, and the Future of Language Learning
Sponsoring Entity: MLA LSL Global English Forum
Convention: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, Jan 7–10)
Description: The future of Global English is now inextricably linked to the rise of Artificial Intelligence. This session investigates a fundamental tension: Is AI democratizing language access, or is it a new, automated iteration of "Linguistic Imperialism"?
This session ignites conversation about teaching feminist and queer studies amid moral panic, exploring how desire, rage, and care become radical tools—keeping classrooms alive, embodied, and defiantly political in the face of ideological chill. (Virtual Session)
Deadline: Monday, March 23, 2026
Send proposals of 200-words with a shot bio to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (rcalabretta@gmail.com) and Victoria Muñoz (vmunoz@adelphi.edu)
Present-day cultural and political shifts are producing seismic impacts upon Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs and curricula across geopolitical contexts. This session explores new currents, approaches and strategies for teaching WGS in the classroom. (In-Person Session)
Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Send proposals of 200-words with a shot bio to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (rcalabretta@gmail.com) and Victoria Muñoz (vmunoz@adelphi.edu)
Abstracts are invited for a proposed special session to be held at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, scheduled for 5-7 November 2026 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.
The nature of free speech has been a flashpoint in the past decade of contemporary Anglo-American and Western politics. Depending on who you ask, free speech is imperiled by politically correct language and the silencing of right-leaning voices among the elite, or by political administrations, corporations, and other institutions that remove books from libraries and syllabi from classrooms. As these principles collide, the dialectic between freedom of expression and institutional censorship reaches a crucible—a volatile tension that distills our understanding of these core principles.
Join us for our two-day conference on Trade in Legend and Tradition, to be held on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September as the twentieth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, at Tuckers Hall, home of the Guild of Tuckers, Weavers and Shearmen in Fore Street, Exeter EX4 3AN. Whether you’re into fairs or fairy gold, merchant gilds or markets, make us an offer. Contributions are welcome on the lore of trade, commerce or business: from smugglers to street cries and the South Sea Bubble, from murdered pedlars to plague stones, it’s all grist to the mill. Anyone can join us – folklorists, entrepreneurs, economic historians, storytellers, captains of industry and jacks of all trades.
Butoh Symposium, Kingston University London, 17-18 September, 2026
We will be holding a Butoh Symposium over two days and two evenings, 17-18 September 2026, at the Main Auditorium of Kingston University’s award-winning Town House Building, in south-west London. The Symposium is organised by researchers attached to the School of Art’s Visual Cultures Research Centre at Kingston University’s School of Art faculty. This symposium follows on from our recent successful symposia of 2024-25 on the work of Antonin Artaud and on ‘experimental archives’.
Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise
MLA Sound Forum, 2027 Guaranteed Session
MLA annual conference, Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027.
Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise
Call for Submissions
Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities is an international open-access and peer-reviewed annual e-journal, which provides an outstanding platform for Tibetan writers, translators and all research scholars in the area of Tibet Studies to publish their works.
Yeshe is currently open to submissions of academic articles, reviews, and interviews related to Tibet, as well as poetry, performance, prose, art, and fiction written in English or translated into English) for its sixth annual issue to be published in October 2026. Please check our submission page for the guidelines.
Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series
CALL FOR CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED
Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender
Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson
The incoherence of “transgender” as a category is both a feature and
a bug. As an umbrella category, its boundaries are sometimes
deliberately fuzzy, and sometimes vague enough to cannibalize
everything that approaches them. As the field of Transgender
Studies approaches its adolescence, with several decades of
scholarship now behind us, it is crucial to turn to a mainstay of
feminist thought and employ self-critique about the category of
Seeking 250-word proposals examining feeding and nourishment as maternal practices that shape care, embodiment, and power, through literary, cultural, and medical humanities approaches in contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone contexts. Deadline: March 2
Seeking papers exploring how media forms (methods of inscription, technologies of reproducing text, sound, and image, digital platforms, archives, social media, AI, and beyond) shape the production, circulation, and reception of lyric.
250-word abstract, brief bio and CV by March 20, 2026: nskillma@iu.edu
Seeking submissions exploring the formal contours of ecopoetics across time, cultural traditions, and media environments.
250-word abstract, brief bio and CV by March 20, 2026.
Nikki Skillman, Indiana University-Bloomington
Call for Papers: Drama Therapy Review
Special Issue: ‘Reclamation of Asian Voices in Times of Global Unrest’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/drama-therapy-review#call-for-papers
Special Issue Editors: RT, MG, DC
Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Pedagogy and Department of English and American Studies of the University of Gdańsk, Poland, in cooperation with ELLMEnet (Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network), are proud to welcome researchers from all over the world to contribute to our 4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood.
Roundtable considering pressing academic freedom challenges and potential strategies from and for those without tenure protections, especially staff, contingent faculty, lecturers, professional and clinical track faculty, and grad students. ~200-word abstracts, ~100-word bios.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Patrick Lawrence, University of South Carolina Lancaster (pslawren@mailbox.sc.edu)
This roundtable considers positive solutions in the face of disappearing positions and programs, and declining academic freedoms. Successful approaches to reversing this trend desired. We must work together to resist. ~200-word abstracts. ~100-word bios.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta U (nimeyer@augusta.edu)
Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press for Rice University, invites submissions of original scholarly essays for upcoming issues. We seek work that offers fresh, rigorous contributions to the study of British literature across four historical fields:
• English Renaissance Literature
• Tudor and Stuart Drama
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Nineteenth-Century Literature
“The urban” has taken many forms in the history of film, video and moving image works—with both documentary depictions and speculative representations of poverty, marginal life and geographies, displacement and gentrification, social alienation, racial and ethnic identities, gender and sexual identities, politics and social activism. As both a trope and a subject, the urban—a conceptualization of lifeways existing within the construct of “the city”that are beyond economic capture—has emerged as a distinguishing conceptual frame for understanding the ways that cities have succumbed to their own commoditization and commercialization.
The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers for one or more sessions at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. Papers on any aspect of Milton’s works, historical milieu, sources, and reception and comparative approaches are welcome. Send 150-word abstracts and 50-word biographical statements to Marissa Greenberg, MSA Secretary, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com by Monday, 16 March 2026.