Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

 Call for Book Chapters

‘Mother(hood)’ in Anglophone Asian Literature: Representations, Interventions, and Critical Reframing

Eudora Welty Society Call for Papers at

American Literature Association 2026 Conference (May 20-23, 2026 at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago)

New Approaches to Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples

Call for papers:
Philosophy and Literary Genres in the Twentieth CenturyJournal: Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee - Critical Journal of History of Ideas 

(https://en.giornalecritico.it/)

Issue editors:

Raffaele Ariano (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan)

Paolo Babbiotti (University of Turin)

Matteo Falomi (Sapienza University of Rome / University of Essex)

In the Middle Ages, Christian liturgy was far more than a sequence of prayers and ceremonies: it structured religious practice, shaped sacred space, and gave material form to the expression of faith. Objects, vestments, and books played a central role in this framework, endowed with a visual, tactile, and symbolic language that embodied the theology of the sacred. The International Conference Instrumenta altaris: Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy seeks to refocus attention on the material dimension that, throughout the medieval centuries, rendered the invisible visible and preserved —often in fragmentary form— a tangible legacy of devotion.

18th ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English)
31st August – 4th September 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Call for Contributions to the ESSE Panel "Infrastructures of Feeling: The European City in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media"

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.

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...

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.

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/...

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 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.

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).

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’.

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.

Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures

Special Issue 3/2026

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia

philologia.studia@ubbcluj.ro

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

[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.