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The Corporate Uncanny
Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026
Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.
Subject: Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027
Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on [special topic title] for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
We are open to multiple gateways, literary and interdisciplinary, to War Literature and Trauma Studies.
Call for Papers, September 2026
Entanglements: Regimes of Extraction and The Literary Imagination of Place
Co-editors: Dr. Gayathri Goel and Dr. Jennifer Horwitz
As mass movements and resistance struggles from Reconstruction and Indigenous sovereignty through women’s liberation and civil rights activism make clear, American history has been indelibly shaped by divergent, contradictory, and deeply contested understandings of a common political language centered on “freedom.” Far from a static, settled, or predetermined concept, Eric Foner contends that “freedom” has proved “a terrain of conflict, open to very different and sometimes contradictory interpretations.” The story of the United States is, in no small part, a contest over what it means to be free.
Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2026-2027
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Comics and the Midwest, to be guest-edited by Rachael Price (rprice@abac.edu), Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
The American Midwest has served as a key locale in comics and graphic novels, both as a setting for some of the most famous stories in this format and as an important center of newspaper and comic-book publishing. This volume seeks to explore the importance of the Midwest in comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels, from the early twentieth century to the present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Midwestern Drama, to be guest-edited by Marilyn Atlas (atlas@ohio.edu).
Organised by University College Dublin and AMPS this conference explores how towns, cities and regions can respond to climate change, social challenges and urban transformation. Bringing together architecture, planning, sustainability, conservation, public health and community perspectives it is explicitly interdisciplinary and explores practical, critical and conceptual approaches to creating more resilient, inclusive, healthy and livable places.
Dublin itself provides a compelling setting for the event, combining historic neighbourhoods, Georgian architecture, modernist housing, docklands regeneration, expanding transport, diverse cultural history and sometimes contentious community issues.
We seek submissions on unruly (re)readings of the medieval that drive a wedge into Derrida's conception of differánce between the signifier and signfied of the sign. Various modern media types, including but not limited to literature, film, television, animation, TTRPGs, video game RPGS, comics and graphic novels, podcasts, etc., offer an array of opportunities for exploring what we make of the "medieval" and why. We are interested in work that engages more than traditional examples of medievalism, especially that which might speak for or represent perspectives traditionally deemed "unruly." Under-represented paradigms encouraged.
Look Again: (Re)Vision for Community Empowermentsubmit here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22356 Accepted Panel for NeMLA 2027, Chairs: Audrey Peterson-McCann (University at Albany, SUNY ) Yolande Schutter (University at Albany, SUNY) contact email: apeterson-mccann@albany.edu
Special Issue: Climate Adaptation
Adaptation (OUP)
Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028
Submit: https://academic.oup.com/adaptation
(early papers accepted for continuous publication)
Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell
Call for papers
Radiophonic Intermediality in
Contemporary Theatre and Performance
When Get Out was released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s landmark debut feature signified a major inflection point in the history of horror. Not only did the film garner a rare blend of blockbuster commercial success and critical reputability perhaps not seen since The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or The Sixth Sense (1999), but it also broke through the confines of genre to become a larger pop cultural phenomenon.
The Corporate Uncanny
Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026
Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.
Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Subject: Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027
Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027
Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri
The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Writing Centers for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA - March 24-27, 2027
Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
We welcome a wide range of approaches, periods, genres, and traditions. In keeping with the conference theme of “Gateways,” proposals might take up any of the questions and possibilities suggested below in the general call for papers as they relate to BIPOC & Asian American literature.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 11/01/2026.
Conference Theme: Gateways
Since the widespread emergence of Generative AI a few years ago, educators across disciplines have been reconsidering how technology shapes teaching, learning, writing, and assessment. While some departments and faculty have leaned into these new Large Language Models and the technological "advances" they offer, others have worked just as diligently to keep AI out of their classrooms.
Dates of Conference: 4-8 November 2026Format: Hybrid – Online (via Zoom) & In-Person (Thessaloniki, Greece)Note: The onsite/in-person conference will take place exclusively on 6-7 November, 2026 and be streamed live on Zoom.Organizer: KN: F.L.A.ME.S. by Konstantina Kliagkona (www.knflames.gr) International, interdisciplinary conference titled: The Hidden Faces of Violence II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance Followi
The 2027 Global Asias Summer Institute will be held June 14-18, 2027. SI2027, co-directed by Shuang Shen, Jooyeon Rhee, and Tina Chen, adopts Global Asias’ approach of “relational nonalignment” to consider the previously invisible, forcefully concealed, less studied, yet culturally far-reaching sites of coordination and connection in the histories of Cold War at the intersection of imperialist expansion and domination, postcolonial nationalism, migration, and diaspora. Institute participants spend a week reading and thinking about the annual theme, as well as significant time workshopping their work in progress.
This CFP is currently accepting paper proposals for the VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
Queering the Settler Colony: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian and Australian LiteratureAbstract
The comparative study of Canadian and Australian literature has long demonstrated the value of reading these two settler-colonial traditions alongside one another. Building on the pioneering comparative work of Sneja Gunew, this seminar seeks to extend this dialogue by foregrounding queer identities, sexualities, and non-normative forms of belonging as central categories of comparative inquiry.
Submissions are invited by the Editors of Cambridge Quarterly for the Richard D. Gooder Graduate Essay Prize. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. Essays of up to 7,500 words, including notes, on topics in literary and cultural criticism, broadly conceived, are warmly invited. Further details, including competition rules and how to submit, can be found at
AISCLI International Symposium
Unruly Epistemologies in the Age of Post-Truth:
Archives, Indigeneity, Authenticity, and the Politics of Knowledge
Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Roma
10-11 December 2026
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2026.
Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue) deadline for submissions: December 25, 2026 Website: https://thepocketpoetjourn.wixsite.com/the-pocket-poet-1
contact email: thepocketpoetjournal@yahoo.com
Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue)
"Speculative Souths"
The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
June 10-12, 2027
CFP Deadline: November 2, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Kiese Laymon, Rice University, author of Long Division and Heavy
Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes remains a beloved classic novel among readers, many of whom first encountered this book during their adolescent years.
This forthcoming essay collection seeks to deepen high school and undergraduate reader engagement with Something Wicked This Way Comes and contribute to ongoing studies of Bradbury’s work.
Although all essay proposals will be considered and additional proposed topics are highly encouraged, some possibilities include:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2026 Issue
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/the-mini-plays-magazine/submit
Submission email: miniplaysmag@gmail.com
Theme: Borrowed Time
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FRESH WORDS — AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MAGAZINE
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Submissions: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com
HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME 12) An Anthology of Existential & Absurd Plays
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026
Publication: October 2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology
Small acts. Quiet rebellions. Lives changed one choice at a time.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026
Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements
“Medical Humanities and Feminism in Literature and Film”
(https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22501)
58th Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention to be held March 6 to 9 2027 in Newport, Rhode Island.
See the CFP below. You also can click on the link above to read the CFP and to submit an abstract. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and include a works cited; the deadline for submission is 30 September.
4th International Conference
The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media
17 – 18 December 2026
College of Language and Communication 4th International Conference (LANACOM 2026)
The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media
SYMPOSIUM ON THE WORK OF A.R. AMMONS
Cornell University, April 30, 2027
28th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (Feb 27-28, 2027) in St. Petersburg, Florida (on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus)
Languages and Cultures in a Changing World: Identity, Responsibility, and Justice
Abstracts for papers (and panels) are now being considered. Deadline for abstracts: Nov. 16, 2026
Selected papers will be published in a post-conference anthology. To view prior publication, visit the conference website.
15th January 2027 | Royal Holloway, University of London (Hybrid)
"We need, urgently, to reconnect with our planet, and recognise ourselves as inseparable rather than special; reliant upon rather than dominating" (Erica Fudge, 2022)
This panel is proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting on May 15 & 16, 2027.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Neohelicon Special Issue: Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies
Neohelicon invites article submissions for a special issue on “Aesthetics, Forms, Readers: New Directions in Science Fiction Studies.”
The Editorial Board of the History and Art Journal officially invites original and unpublished research articles for its upcoming Volume 2.
We welcome interdisciplinary submissions in English and Spanish across history, art history, and museology. Our main thematic tracks include Early Modern and Modern History, Visual Culture, Archival Research, Material Culture, and Digital Humanities.
StructuresCarleton University
Ottawa, Canada
June 24-26, 2027
Call for Papers | Chronologies
The Velvet Light Trap, Volume 100 (to be published fall 2027)
Submission deadline: October 11, 2026
18th SAAS Conference “Negotiating Identity and Power: Resistance, Rebellion, and Resilience in U.S. Literature and Culture” (Universidad de Oviedo, March 15-17, 2027)
PANEL: Queer Bounds: Circulating Affects in Contemporary Ethnic US Literature
CHAIRS: Paula Barba Guerrero & Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)
Abstract
This seminar proposes to examine Italian and Italian American food studies through the comparative frameworks of transnational circulation, intermedial representation, and cultural translation. Rather than approaching food as a stable marker of heritage or authenticity, the seminar treats it as a mobile signifying practice through which texts, images, commodities, and affects travel across linguistic, national, and medial boundaries. Food thus becomes a privileged comparative object: it links literature to film, advertising to visual culture, and national discourse to diasporic rearticulation.
“Shit Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Faecality in Anglophone Postcolonial and Decolonial Literatures and Arts”
University of Lille, 29–30 April, 2027 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Pr. Stephanie Newell (Yale University)
John Steinbeck once remarked that fellow-Californian Robinson Jeffers wrote some the “greatest poetry since Whitman.” Steinbeck kept a significant collection of Jeffers work both in his personal library and Ed Ricketts’ Lab, where Jeffers was an influential topic in their endlessly varied conversations. When asked about possibility of meeting the poet, Steinbeck declined with a telling degree of reverence: “His poetry is perfect to me, and I don’t think one should get the man mixed up with his work.” Although they did eventually meet—notably when Steinbeck lived in Monterey in 1944—their relationship was one of distant, though friendly, mutual respect.
The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships - The International Journal of Young Adult Literature 8/2027
Guest editors:
Dalila Forni (Università dell’Aquila - IT)
Alessandra Mazzini (Università di Bergamo - IT)
Valentina Baeli (Università di Catania - IT)
This seminar is seeking like-minded presenters for a productive discussion focused on noise as a concept and an approach to exploring the intersection of sound studies and literature! The 2027 ACLA conference will take place in Houston, Texas (the University of Houston) on May 20-23, 2027. Please submit an abstract (around 250 words) with title to the seminar via the ACLA online portal by September 22, 2026. Please feel free to reach out to the seminar organizer Dr. Yiren Zheng (yiren.zheng@dartmouth.edu) with any questions!
Editor
Dr Kaniphnath Malhari Kudale
Associate Professor of English, Gurunanak Institute of Technology (GNITC), Hyderabad, Telangana, India
General Editor
Dr Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
Editor, Rupkatha Journal
About the Volume
Neighborhood Modernisms
Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster Pitch
Anushka Sen, Loyola University Chicago (asen2@luc.edu)
Ria Banerjee, CUNY Guttman Community College and the Graduate Center (sbanerjee@gc.cuny.edu)
Global Irish Famine Diaspora Stories
2027 International Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland.
May 13-15, 2027
Call for Papers:
The 2027 International Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 13—15. The theme of the 2027 International Famine Summer School is “Global Irish Famine Diaspora Stories”. It commemorates the 180th Anniversary of Black ’47.
The editors of a volume under contract with Routledge’s Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series are seeking a 7,000-word essay on Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch. The volume focuses on rewritten water myths in English and situates itself in current debates in the blue and environmental humanities. It grows out of an international conference on the topic that the editors held at Lund University in June 2026.