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Special Call for Papers, Issue 11.1 (Sprıng 2026)
For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ)
Shakespeare exists across and between multiple worlds today. After centuries of circulation in Asia, Shakespeare inhabits all locales and cultural formations in ever-changing forms, but is contained by none. Neither completely virtual nor concretely embodied, long dead yet very much alive, inhabiting past, present and future in equal measure, Shakespeare continues to thrive in the act of playing, teaching and thinking. Recent Asian Shakespeare scholarship has critically reflected upon, yet ultimately celebrated such cross-cultural, international, world-wide flourishing, bringing together new arrangements, forms and collaborations of Shakespeare’s work across art, performance and cultures.
Contributions on varied dimensions of Popular Literature in the Nineteenth Century are invited for Volume XIII of Critical Imprints (ISSN: 2319-4774), the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Department of English, Loreto College, Kolkata.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
How do we reimagine the past? How can we envision the future? In our present moment, how do we tell the story of a past that has become just as contentious as the many visions of where we want to go? The concept of legacies allows us to think through the continuum, the spectrum, and the sometimes-chaotic mishmash of the relationship of past, present, and future. The ideas of tradition, innovation, nostalgia, and refashionings can open up texts to consider their temporal, historical, and intertextual contexts.
New Directions in Early American Poetry Studies
A panel organized and sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists as part of "American Poetry: A Symposium," sponsored by the American Literature Association and the Society for the Study of American Poetry, to be held March 26–28, 2026 at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, MA. For more information: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-symposia/a...
CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553) deadline for submissions: November 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553) contact email: essencecritiquejournal@gmail.com
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies.
Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.
The DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES AT MASARYK UNIVERSITY, Brno, is pleased to announce the Brno Graduate Conference in English Studies, to be held on NOVEMBER 20-21, 2025.
This year's theme – "CULTURAL MEMORY: REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN" – invites doctoral students to explore numerous ways in which literary, cultural and linguistic practices contribute to the construction, preservation, and transformation of cultural memory.
The confirmed keynote speaker of the conference is prof. Dr. Volker Depkat from University of Regensburg.
Sustainable Shakespeare
Exploring Human-Nature Interconnectedness in the Plays of William Shakespeare
Edited by
Prof (Dr) Seema Raizada, Professor and Head, Govt MLB Girls PG Autonomous College, Bhopal, 9827055738
Prof (Dr) Rolii Agrawal, Professor and Head, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal, 9425148782
Email –sustainableshakespeare@gmail.com
Concept Note:
SILENCES
Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Cornell University April 10-12, 2026
Keynote Panel with Rachel Ablow, Jason Camlot, and Priya Joshi
View the full call here >> https://northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/...
ContactZone (http://www.aisff-starfiction.com/journal) Special Issue "Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and Television Series"
Edited by Giuseppe Balirano and Oriana Palusci
Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past”
1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, UniparkNonntal
Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC)
Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Women in Motion: Perspectives from the Indian Subcontinent
Socio-cultural factors such as gender, class, caste, ethnicity, etc. determine the motion of an individual, making the discourse especially relevant when it comes to articulating experiences of motion by/of women in the Indian subcontinent. Studies interplaying ‘motion’ and ‘female bodies’ continue to be an important avenue of exploration, illuminating how women have been navigating motion – spatially, temporally, corporeally, cognitively, socially, culturally, historically.
Call for Articles - The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power
IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis launches its new issue on the topic The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power.
Emotions shape the way individuals and communities navigate their personal and collective lives, influencing decisions, relationships and the structures that govern societies. They are deeply embedded in social, cultural and political contexts, acting as both a personal experience and a force that drives public action.
We are pleased to announce our upcoming graduate conference, Mutations, which will take place at the University of California, Berkeley on February 12–13, 2026, with our prestigious Keynote Speaker Prof. Christy Wampole from Princeton University. You’ll find the conference abstract and further details below.
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I’m reaching out regarding a proposed forthcoming academic volume titled Other(ed) Worlds: Transgender Representations in Lusophone and Portuguese-Based Creole Societies, which I will be editing. This volume will be part of Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic and edited by Dr. Douglas Vakoch (General Editor) and Courtney Morales (Senior Acquisitions Editor).
This proposed volume will bring together interdisciplinary essays exploring transgender narratives, identities, and resistances in the Lusophone World (from Portugal and Brazil to Lusophone Africa and Asia) / regions shaped by Portuguese colonial legacies (Africa, Asia, and the Americas).
Call for Papers
Emily Thomas
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
Conference at the University of Bonn, 18-20 May, 2026
The AI revolution has accelerated in recent years, propelled by the widespread use of large language models (LLMs). Today, AI systems are not only transforming technical environments but also shaping our thoughts, emotions, and everyday linguistic practices. Increasingly, AI research and industry are shifting their attention from rational problem-solving toward aspects of human life once considered the last bastions of humanity. We can contrast this approach to AI as a simulation of ‘rationality’ with the expansion of applications into the realm of the expression of emotions and other aspects of human life often seen as ‘irrational’.
Editors-in-chief: Inês Fernandes and Teresa Weinholtz
Issue 12 | Speak at Your Own Risk: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship
We are pleased to announce that the International Conference The Prism of Festivals and Performance Studies: Open Historiographical Questions, organized within the framework of the PRIN 2022 project – Theatre of Festivals between the Local and the Global. Rethinking the Italian Stage between the 1950s and the 1970s, involving the Universities of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Parma, will take place in Rome, at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, on 9–10 October 2025.
All details, including the full program and the Book of Abstracts, are available on the dedicated page of the MAP – Interuniversity Research Centre for the Memory of the Performing Arts website at the following link:
Victorian SoundingsAuckland University of TechnologyAuckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, 25-26 June 2026
Scholars of the nineteenth century have produced ground-breaking work in the interdisciplinary field of sound studies since its inception, and continue to as they help push the boundaries of the field and expand it in intriguing ways. Scholars are now exploring the importance of sound in connection to other areas, such as the interdependence of speaking, writing, reading, and listening; the sonic interconnections between the arts, science, and new technologies; and acoustic mediations in imperial encounters with indigenous peoples.
Deadline: Submissions due has been extended to October 15, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
It feels only appropriate, given the recent UR graduate worker strike, that Issue 41 of InVisible Culture focus on the problem of labor. Amid the erosion of labor protections in academia, increasing challenges faced by immigrant workers in the US, and global labor conflicts in fields like healthcare and agriculture, this moment calls for a reconsideration of what labor is and how its value is structured.
Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures
Special Issue 3/2026
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
Guest editors
Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame) boconch1@nd.edu
Erika Mihálycsa (Babeș-Bolyai University) erika.mihalycsa@ubbcluj.ro
THE BEAUTY OF KILLING FASCISM
We invite scholars to submit an abstract to ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), which is an academic society of scholars that focuses on cross-cultural literary studies to promote interactions between literature and other forms of study, such as the arts, sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts.
The conference will take place at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
During February 26 - March 1, 2026.
We will begin accepting abstracts between August 26th - October 2, 2025.
The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20 minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures.
Bridging Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Special issue editors: Gabrielle M. Jean-Louis, Michael Soriano, and Kelly Baker Josephs
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Full papers due: 15 March 2026
Issue to be published: Fall 2026
This special issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal seeks articles, interviews, and digital project reviews on the critical use of digital humanities methodologies to deepen the study of Caribbean literary works.
Call for Papers
Coming of Age, Coming Undone: Abortion, Adolescence, Teen Pregnancy, and Reproductive Justice in Global Popular Culture
Audience: Media Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Youth Studies, Reproductive Justice, Popular Culture, Girlhood Studies, Global Health, Queer Studies
Please Join Salem State University and Bridgewater State University for the 6th annual Master's in English Regional Conference: New England (MERC)
The conference will take place on February 28th, 2026 in person at Salem State University. Directions will be uploaded on our website in the coming weeks. Accepting works in literary studies, critical theory, English education & teaching, creative writing, professional writing, communication, TESOL & Linguistics, as well as rhetoric & composition
Do Humans Also Dream of Electric Sheeps?
Technoscientific, Cultural, and Cognitive Challenges of AI
International Conference – Rome, February 27-28, 2026
Organized by:
Conference theme
Since the 1990s, comics and graphic narratives have emerged as an emphatic media form for exploring the embodied experiences of disability and identity (e.g., Alaniz, Chute, Czerwiec, Dolmage, and Refaie). To date, much scholarship has focused on Anglophone or Euro-American paradigms, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of how disability intersects with race, gender, class, and colonial histories in graphic narratives from diverse contexts. To bridge the gap, this seminar brings together international scholars from multiple disciplines (e.g., comics narratology and 4EA cognition, graphic medicine, posthumanist studies, history, and visual studies) to discuss both established and emerging works, especially those from the Global South.
The Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles
Collectif Research and Writing Anthology 2027 Call for Papers
Do you want to forge community and ignite your scholarship? Connect with scholars, activists, artists, and others passionate about the advancement of women? Impact a wider audience? By publishing in Collectif, Mount Saint Mary’s University’s interdisciplinary journal of research, writing, and art, you will reach 50,000 potential readers. To celebrate the issue’s release, The Center for the Advancement of Women will host a salon, where contributors can share their work and connect with the Center community.
2027 Theme and Call
We invite short abstracts (100-200 words) in response to our call for contributions for an edited volume, ‘The Medieval in Museums’. Please send abstracts by 5pm GMT on Monday 3 November to Fran Allfrey (University of York) and Maia Blumberg (QMUL) fran.allfrey@york.ac.uk ; m.blumberg@qmul.ac.uk. Please be in touch with us to discuss your idea more informally should you wish.
CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities
A VPFA Study Day
Loughborough University, 27 March 2026
[AAAS 2026] Asian American Literature and the Law
Asian American literature has emerged as a critical site of representation and resistance within the context of over 150 years of exclusionary legal policies targeting Asian communities in the United States. Beginning with the Page Act of 1875 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, federal legislation systematically constructed Asians as perpetual foreigners, legally ineligible for citizenship and fundamentally “unassimilable.” These exclusionary frameworks extended beyond immigration to encompass alien land laws, antimiscegenation statutes, and labor restrictions that relegated Asian Americans to legal and social marginality.
“When seeking knowledge of a work of art or an art form, it never proves useful to take the receiver into account”: thus begins Walter Benjamin’s foundational essay on the study of translation. This seminar proceeds against Benjamin’s injunction, paring translation studies with recent inquiries into reading practice and readerly attention to ask how modernist writers use translation to modulate readerly difficulty. How do modernist translators adjust difficulty both to safeguard and to enhance the reader’s imagination of an original text from which they are withheld? Do moments of difficulty in translated modernist texts – whether Victorian archaisms in C.K.
In a recent article (2021), Sue-Im Lee observes a rising phenomenon in Asian American formal criticism: the proliferation of aesthetic concepts such as “opaque, transparent, fragmented, linear, nonlinear, discordant, or lyrical” (690).
Projecting Belief: Cinema and the Re-enchanted World
King’s College London – May 21-23 2026
Conference Organizers – Rachata Sasnanand and Benjamin Y Goff
Call for Papers:
Call for Papers for the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) · Please distribute · Apologies for cross-posting
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The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will take place on 8–10 April 2026, in Toulouse, France, as part of the evo* event.
Call for Papers: Teaching Baldwin / Baldwin as Teacher
South Atlantic Review Special Issue
In The Time of Man and Beyond:
Rethinking Elizabeth Madox Roberts for the 21st Century
Proposals due November 21, 2025
Guest Editors:
James Stamant, Agnes Scott College
Amanda M. Capelli, New York University
Goretti Benca, Marist College
Debates and initiatives on decolonising knowledge in Africa continue to pay significant attention to the need for increased African/indigenous content in the curriculum as well as raising awareness about biases inherent in historically dominant epistemological paradigms. However, there remains a critical gap regarding theories and theorisation as many African academics continue to rely on colonial western theories, models, concepts and paradigms for research and pedagogical purposes. This can be due to a lack of awareness of existing African-centred theories and the dearth of databases focusing on African-centred theories.
CFP: Naming and Classifying
in the Long Eighteenth Century
The Ninth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium
The Dark House: Absalom, Absalom! at 90
May 2nd and 3rd, 2026
Online via Zoom
With keynote addresses by:
Professor Mary M. Burke
(author of Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History [Oxford UP, 2022])
and
Dr John Michael Corrigan
Call for Abstracts for Edited Volume
Urban Waters in South Asian Literary Cultures
Gentle Reminder: Abstract due 30 September 2025
The 2026 CLA Online Research Conference, co-sponsored by the Children's Literature Assembly of NCTE and the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia, will be held on Friday, February 20th, 2026. The theme of the conference is Care, Advocacy, and Children's Literature Research in Theory and Praxis.
The conference will feature research presentations, a journal editor session, and a keynote talk from Dr. Jonda McNair, Charlotte S. Huck Endowed Professor of Children’s Literature, The Ohio State University.
Dominican Theology and Practice:
The Past 100 Years
Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28, 2026
Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, CT) Call for Papers: Dominican sisters and friars, their communities, and their collaborators have made monumental contributions to theological thought and pastoral ministry in the 20th and 21st centuries. This conference seeks to explore how Dominican theology and practice has shaped contemporary theology, ministry, and social engagement over the past hundred years.
We welcome submissions for 20-minute papers that examine Dominican theology and practice. Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Editors of this issue:
Salomé Honório (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Lamiae Bouqentar (University of Toronto, Canada)
“Autofiction was fun,” laments Lauren Oyler, in a 2018 review for the Baffler, “while it lasted, but a self-conscious movement based on the lives and reading lists of young urban artists was never going to break new ground; nor did it give the reader a reason to jump out of bed in the morning." As a form (or a genre – as Oyler points out in an extended essay on the subject, these terms are often used interchangeably, although she favours the former), autofiction first came into being almost fifty years ago, coined on the back cover of Serge Doubrovsky’s Fils (1977) as “autobiography?
Representation matters – but to whom? And how?
This iteration of the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference considers the ongoing significance of representational analysis as well as the critical possibilities enabled by the turn to resonance in Black media and cultural studies. Our theme, Representation and Resonance, invites original research into images and storytelling, circulation and flows, and reception practices.
While we especially invite papers on this topic, we are open to any and all critical inquiry into Black media culture, broadly defined. Our hope is to bring together any and all scholars interested and invested in Black media culture, regardless of discipline or method.