The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2027–2028 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the center’s internationally renowned collections in the humanities.

Fellowships are open to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any career stage, and independent researchers — including journalists and artists — whose work engages deeply with archival materials. Residency lengths range from one week to two months, with stipends provided to support travel and research. 

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century," edited by Melanie Hack (University of Bergen) and Lisa Waddington (University of Maastricht).

• Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 December 2026
• Submission of Full Papers: 1-15 May 2027
• Publication of the Issue: June/December 2027

About the issue:

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV throws down a gauntlet: “When
human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain
profoundly human.” What does it mean to remain “profoundly human” in a technological society?
Are any of the advancements that we have come to perceive as essential to western standards of living
at odds with human flourishing? What are the implications, benefits, and costs of the relationship
between humanity and technology? The Braniff Graduate Student Association (BGSA) invites
undergraduate students in all liberal arts disciplines to consider these questions at the Braniff
Undergraduate Conference in the Liberal Arts (BUCLA) on February 5-6, 2027.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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 

Call for papers

Radiophonic Intermediality in

Contemporary Theatre and Performance

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: 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

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

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

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.

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.

"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 

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  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

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

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.

This panel is proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting on May 15 & 16, 2027. 

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.

Call for Papers | Chronologies 

The Velvet Light Trap, Volume 100 (to be published fall 2027) 

Submission deadline: October 11, 2026 

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.