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Las guerras del cuerpo: ataques, resiliencia, colaboración

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:18pm
Diane Marting, President, Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Las guerras del cuerpo: ataques, resiliencia, colaboración 
XXXIII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)  June 4-5, 2025
The University of Mississippi (EEUU)
Oxford, MS

Hybrid Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) 

 

Abstract Deadline: April 19, 2025. Contact:  aegsoxford@gmail.com
Congress themes: 

The World of Warcraft Handbook: Twenty Years in Azeroth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:18pm
David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) / Russell McDermott (Dickinson College)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The World of Warcraft Handbook: Twenty Years in Azeroth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Edited by David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) &  Russell McDermott (Dickinson College)

Brandeis Novel Symposium 2025: The Bostonians (1886)

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:17pm
Brandeis Novel Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The ninth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will
take place on Friday October 17, 2025, invites proposals for
papers on Henry James’s novel The Bostonians (1886). The
Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that
chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient
theoretical, historical, political, and narratological
questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2024 BNS
website and this archive for more information about the
BNS.)

Layered Memories: Migration, Slavery, and Erasure in Multi-ethnic Literature

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:17pm
Pacific Ancient Modern and Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This session explores how multi-ethnic American literature navigates palimpsestic memory—narratives layered with the lingering and hidden imprints of forced migration, slavery, displacement, and systemic erasure. From the brutal dislocations of the transatlantic slave trade to the quiet erasures embedded in ongoing displacement and marginalization, writers have often turned to transcribing stories of the past and present as a process of “Rememory[ing].” This panel seeks papers exploring the ways in which multi-ethnic literature traces stories despite systematic and social mandates to usher such narratives into oblivion. We especially welcome literary papers detailing a resistance and reclamation of racially oppressed identities.

 

Call for Papers: Prospero 30 (2025) general issue

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:17pm
Prospero-A Journal of Foreign literatures and cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) 

University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXX 

(2025). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely open access journal, published 

annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes 

articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide 

hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered 

Call for chapters Title: Queerly Platformed: LGBTQ Realities, Resistance, and Algorithmic Life in the Age of Social Media

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:17pm
University of Nevada Reno
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 25, 2025

https://paromitapain.com/call-for-chapter-proposals-queerly-platformed-l...

Call for Chapters

Queerly Platformed: LGBTQ Realities, Resistance, and Algorithmic Life in the Age of social media
Editor: Paromita Pain: https://paromitapain.com/research/

Email: paromita.pain@gmail.com
Publisher: (TBD – Routledge/Taylor & Francis or other academic press)
Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2025
Full Chapter Deadline: December 15, 2025

This is Water Symposium

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:16pm
The International David Foster Wallace Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston on May 23rd, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a four-day Zoom symposium themed around Wallace’s monumental speech. While it may be disappointing not to see each other in person, this is an opportunity to do things we can’t do at an in-person conference, and a chance to reconnect with our friends from around the globe. 

MSA 2025: The Pedagogical Stakes of an Expanding Modernism

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:16pm
Benjamin Paul, Boston College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

Modernist Studies in the 21st century has rigorously adapted itself to bridge the gap between the narrowly periodized referent of “modernism” and the much broader range of literary-critical interests that the term encompasses. This trend is heralded by Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s 2008 call for a spatio-temporally and “vertically” expanded “New Modernist Studies,” and it reaches its logical extreme in Susan Stanford Friedman’s Planetary Modernisms (2015), which locates discrete modernisms both throughout and beyond the scope of recorded human history.

British Literature and Culture: Long 19th Century

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:08pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference 2025 in San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstract

Any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome. Of particular interest are proposals focusing on authors or works not typically discussed, and proposals that connect to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion."

Description

While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture from this period are welcome, these topics are of particular interest:

• The remembered and the forgotten

• Photography

• Romantic memory

CfP: Yaşar Kemal – Literary Aesthetics, Cultural Resonance, and Enduring Legacy

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:08pm
Routledge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We invite contributions for an upcoming edited volume on Yaşar Kemal, one of the most influential figures in Turkish literature and world literature. Despite Kemal’s international acclaim and extensive literary output, no comprehensive edited volume in English has yet been published. This book aims to fill that gap by offering critical perspectives on Kemal’s literary aesthetics, social engagement, and cultural legacy.

Scope and Themes

We welcome contributions from diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Style and Aesthetics

o Narrative structures, use of folklore, and oral storytelling traditions

Call For Papers for The Renaissance Conference of Southern California 67th Annual Conference

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
THE RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA67th Annual ConferenceSaturday, 01 November 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 67th Annual Conference, to be held at Chapman University, in conjunction with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, and the Bernardino Telesio Professorship in Italian Studies CALL FOR PAPERS:RENAISSANCE ADAPTATIONS The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for both papers and complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (including Art, Architecture, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Theater, Language and L

Marianne Moore Generations Conference 2025

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
Stanford Humanities Center
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025

Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY) 
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward? 

Bryher's Influence on Modernist Writing

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
Kristina Marie Darling, Editor
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This volume, under contract with Bloomsbury, will focus on the intersection of Bryher’s work as a writer and filmmaker/critic. Although her contemporaries, particularly H.D., are widely known, Bryher’s far-reaching influence is largely overlooked by scholars of Modernism.  With that in mind, I'm thrilled to invite essays that explore Bryher's writings, letters, and films, as well as her influence on other creative practitioners.  Please send essays by June 30th, 2025 to Kristina Marie Darling, the volume's editor.  Essays of any length are welcome for consideration.  

Call for Papers (Vol.4, N.1): Critical Approaches to Speculative Fiction

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 9:44am
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online, double-blind peer-reviewed journal from the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently accepting article and review submissions for the first issue of its Volume 4 until 30 June 2025. The previous issue featured reflections, in the form of articles and interviews, on the life/death dichotomy, approached from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative perspective. In 2025, we are launching estrema's first call for papers specifically focused on a particular field of study: Speculative Fiction.

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 6:37am
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

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Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 6:15pm
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. Proposals are due May 4, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship for California Creative Writers of Color

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Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 4:34pm
Muses & Melanin Fellowship
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship is a hybrid, fully funded, eight-month professional development program for talented California BIPOC creative writers who aspire to become professional authors. To be eligible, applicants must not:

Call for Book Review Editor -- RALS

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Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 12:37pm
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Book Review Editor, Resources for American Literary Study

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS) invites applications for the position of Book Review Editor. Founded in 1971 and published biannually by Penn State University Press, RALS is a peer-reviewed journal focusing upon archival and bibliographical approaches to American literature across all periods and genres.

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse: Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

updated: 
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 3:49pm
Cenk Tan and Ercan Gürova
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:

Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

CFP CLOSED - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST -

Editors’ Introduction

Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology

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Friday, May 2, 2025 - 1:05pm
Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

  • Cultural responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis (fine arts, film, popular visual culture, activism)
  • Feminist New Wave Cinema

  • Trans Cinema

  • Textiles, fiber arts, weaving screens  

  • The Culture and Politics of Gaming
  • Health Humanities

  • Graphic Medicine

  • Social Media  

We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words). 

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

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Friday, May 2, 2025 - 1:46am
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

Transformers and SOGIE: Call for Proposals for Edited Collection

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 8:59pm
Daniel M. Look
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Title: TBD, but potentials include:

  • ‘Til All Are One: Gender, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/Gender Expression (SOGIE) in Transformers

Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look

Description / Call for Papers:

We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.

PAMLA 2025: American Literature Post-1945 (Extended Deadline)

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:52pm
Pacific Modern Language Association_American Post-45 Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life are all welcome.  

PAMLA 2025: Anger and Frustration in Contemporary American Women's Fiction [Deadline Extended]

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:51pm
Pacific Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Many mainstream media outlets have observed an uptick in the mainstream popularity of American women's fiction that center on rage-filled female characters or that express anger at contemporary society. The complicated aftermath of second-wave feminism has in some ways enabled women to speak more frankly about their bodies, desires, and experiences, but these forms of sexual and social liberation of the past several decades have led to a strong backlash against reproductive freedom and a resurgent public-sphere misogyny; many feminist critics have also noticed that media discussions of progress for women—how many female CEO’s run Fortune 500 companies, for instance—have silenced structural critique of a patriarchal society.

CFP: Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), Fall 2025 General Issue

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:41pm
Journal of American Studies of Turkey
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies Essays due June 30

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 3:54pm
Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025

Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25, book reviews (2,000 words) due 31/07/25.

JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue. 

Articles that centre the broad themes of 'Collaboration, Influence, Impact' are particularly welcome. Articles (c.6,500 words inclusive of Bibliography) should be formatted using MLA, with in-text citations.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 2:12pm
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 10, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

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