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Bildungsroman: Coming of Age Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:31am
Shiv Nadar University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

“Youth is, so to speak, modernity's ‘essence’, the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past”, says Franco Moretti as he dissects the genre of bildungsroman. Youth, he decidedly notes, is  at the heart of the genre, owing to the mobility and interiority that it facilitates, and  its characterisation as dynamic and unstable, yet transient and impermanent. Critics such as Barbra Whitman trace the genre as far back as Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE) and evolving to include an array of narratives and characters, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1623) to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister (1795-95).

Samuel Beckett and the Tragic

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:19am
Samuel Beckett Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Please note that the French version of the CFP is available after the English one.
Veuillez noter que la version française de l’appel à contributions est disponible après celle en anglais.

Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A) Special issue

The Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), in collaboration with the refereed bilingual journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A), invites abstract submissions for a special issue on Samuel Beckett and the Tragic.

Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize

 

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is pleased to announce that the Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize will be awarded to the best graduate paper submitted for presentation as a paper at the 2025 ANZSA conference, Shakespeare in Spirit, in Brisbane 2-4 July. The prize is a cheque for AUD$500 and includes mentoring support towards peer-reviewed publication of the paper, provided by a suitably expert senior scholar on the ANZSA Executive.

You are eligible to enter for the prize if:

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network

Call for papers

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

 

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2025

Edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Jean-Yves Heurtebise,
Kuang-chi Hong, and Li-hsin Hsu

 

Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2025.

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

The Outdated

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Aberrations-Graduate Conference, UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Department
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

 

Keynote speaker: Dr. Nick Davis - Northwestern University 

Submission form: https://forms.gle/NseVDG44o6pggdao7

If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference, please email aberrations@tft.ucla.edu 

MLA 2026 / Guaranteed Session Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here (DEADLINE MARCH 5, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Gabrielle (Brie) Owen on behalf of GS Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities 25-26 June 2025, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA.

Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.

The Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities features research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:16am
María Gil Poisa/University of Oviedo (Spain)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture

Edited by María Gil Poisa (University of Oviedo, Spain) and Débora Madrid Brito (University of La Laguna, Spain)

Apply for Editorial Positions

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 12:03am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The journal is looking for dynamic board members. Please complete the following form and indicate your choices. Working for the journal is voluntary, and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential.  Apply HERE>>

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:59pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Chapter about Monsters that can control human minds

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 8:24am
Nizar Zouidi/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:25am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:24am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Call for papers: Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:23am
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

Special IssueGlobal thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

Endnotes 2025: Solidarity and Spaces

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 7:23pm
University of British Columbia - Vancouver
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.

Proposed Panel for ASA 2025: "Tourism and Self-Help Culture"

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 4:54pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

FRAME 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue”

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:21pm
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 12:55pm
IATIS / Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation

الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

10 – 13 December 2025

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

Open Access Medieval Studies Conference

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 10:56am
Medievalists for Palestine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.

We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 14. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.

Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...

Extended Deadline: Call for Chapter on Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" Reality Series on the FX Channel

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 10:50am
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

This is a call for chapter proposals on the late Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days reality TV series (2005-08) on the FX Channel for the FX Reader, an anthology of FX's best original TV series, which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  In each 30 Days episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, would spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle or environment with which they are not familiar, which include such topics as working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim, and others.

**deadline extension** Landscapes of Language and Literature (IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference)

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 9:28am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization // Rachel Martin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025

**Deadline for submissions extended to February 8th**

IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference 

Landscapes of Language and Literature 

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format. 

Medieval and Early Modern Orients: New Encounters

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 8:11am
Medieval and Early Modern Orients
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The decolonial, digital project Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) is delighted to announce its first hybrid conference to be held from the 11th - 14th of December 2025, in person in Cape Town, South Africa, and online. 

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech University)
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College)

 

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 6:09am
Mohsen HAMLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

 

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

DFW25: A Virtual Conference

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:56am
The International David Foster Wallace Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 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, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a two-day Zoom event hosted by The International David Foster Wallace Society. 

On Friday, June 8th, 2025 from 5 pm to 7 pm, EST: a live reading of “This Is Water.” Please join us to read a passage, or simply to listen. Afterward, an open forum will discuss the impact of this monumental speech. 

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