CFP: Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling Area of the Popular Culture Association

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.

Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:

For the Annual Conference in Atlanta, April 8-11, 2026, PCA will be piloting poster sessions.  Poster sessions allow scholars to share their research and ideas in a less formal setting compared to traditional presentations while still being part of the program.  

If the proposal is accepted, presenters should create a poster presentation that visually summarizes their topic, highlighting such things as their main argument, their research methods, and overall conclusions.

Poster sessions will be scheduled in a four hour block (8 a.m. - 12 p.m. or 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.).  Presenters should be ready to set up and take down at those times and will need to schedule a 90 minute block in which to be with their posters.   

orum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. This special issue will be published in the fall of 2026. The submission deadline is January 20, 2026. Issues of identity shape not only who we are as faculty, but also how we perform and the connections we make in the classroom. Identifying one’s place, not just as an educator but as a person, has unique implications for part-time and contingent faculty in higher learning, both in and outside the academic spaces they take up.

Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene

Editor: Dewey W. Hall

Call for Contributions 

Rural Futures/Todhchaí na Tuaithe: 
Social and Environmental Justice in Ireland 
Sacred Heart University, Dingle, Ireland 
June 8-10, 2026 

The inaugural three-day Rural Futures conference at Sacred Heart University’s campus in Dingle, Ireland, will feature keynote speaker Nessa Cronin (University of Galway), and a plenary conversation on the future of rural Irish literature with authors Belinda McKeon (Maynooth University) and Mike McCormack (University of Galway).

Orbit: A Journal of American Literature

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century

Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza)

Digital Subjectivities

Digital technologies have become integral to our everyday lives – from work, play, and relationships to political engagement and scholarship – shaping our subjective experiences and the ways we relate to others and ourselves. Their proliferation not only offers new tools for communication and knowledge production but also fundamentally reconfigures how the self is conceptualised and lived. This conference will explore the impact of digital technologies on subjective experience, knowledge production within and beyond academia, culture and politics, and questions of individual and collective agency.

Call for Papers: JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing

Issue 12.1: Utterings and Echoes: ‘The page lures the voice’ 

(After Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities, 1999)

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-art-writing#call-for-papers

Call for Papers

2026 EALA Annual Conference

From Technē to Technology

Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University

Date: October 17, 2026

Venue: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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.

Call for Book Chapters: Mythological Motifs in German Narratives

The study of mythology transcends the boundaries of time, space, and medium. Myths have always been an integral part of human storytelling, shaping collective identities, cultural ideologies, and individual imaginations. From ancient oral traditions and epics to contemporary literature, cinema, graphic novels, and digital media, mythological motifs continue to evolve and find expression across genres and media.

Call for Book Chapters

Reimagining Futures in Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk Narratives

4th International Environmental Humanities Conference:THE BLUE HUMANITIES

Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye)

May 20-23, 2026

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Steve Mentz (St. John’s University, USA)

Simon C. Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, S. Korea)

2 more keynote speakers to be announced

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium 
May 16, 2026 
https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/?m=0

The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.

Memories & Dreams: Exploring Perspectives on Past, Future and Possibility in Materials for Young People

Call for Paper Proposals

Deadline for Submission: Friday, January 30th, 2026

A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture.

University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday July 17th & Saturday July 18th, 2026

"Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open" - Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia.

The CÉMA is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference ‘Beowulf & circulations,’ to be held in Paris at the Institut Historique Allemand and the Sorbonne on March 13-14, 2026, with keynotes by Irina Dumitrescu (Universität Bonn) and Francis Leneghan (Oxford University). A public reading of Beowulf is scheduled on Friday 13 March evening.

The text of Beowulf was consigned in writing over two centuries after its initial oral composition. It is extant in only one manuscript, yet resonates in at least Andreas (from another codex), and once circulated as part of a thriving oral literary economy now no longer retrievable.

DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR 

Popular Culture Association 2026 (PCA 26): Atlanta, GA

April 2026

"Visual Culture’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures"

The VISUAL CULTURE area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes proposals in anticipation of its 2026 conference, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 8-11.

Femspec, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, is seeking new reviewers to contribute to the journal. We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduate, early-career, and independent researchers. Femspec is interested in reviews of new titles within feminist, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore genres. This is not limited to printed text, and we welcome reviews of new TV and film. Please see the list below for suggested review material, but do get in touch with any suggestions. We are also keen to publish reviews of new scholarly works. Again, do get in touch to discuss this.

Recently published and forthcoming books:

The Diaspora Child Strikes Back is a  multidisciplinary conference held in-person in Camden, NJ, USA, from June 11-13 2026. 

Announcement: Call for papers extended and shift to online conference! New deadline: January 7, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

The Plant Turn: Literature, Ecology, and the Green Imagination Across Periods

“Under Strong Interest” by Bloomsbury Academic's Critical Plant Studies

Editor’s Introduction

Special Issue CFP – Living in Languages
“Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis”
Abstracts due: August 30, 2025
Preliminary drafts due: November 30, 2025
Expected publication: Summer 2026

What happens to the translator in the act of translation?
This special edition of Living in Languages explores translation not only as the movement of
meaning across languages, but as a transformative ontological practice—one that acts upon the
translator, unsettling their assumptions, reconfiguring their relation to the world, and altering
their very being.

Visual Cultures of the Medical Modern

A two-day conference to be held at Azim Premji Bengaluru, 19th - 20th February, 2026 co-

organized by the English and Media Studies group

About the conference:

Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"

Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism

Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India