Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. It’s open to anyone studying for a higher degree (master’s or doctoral) in the UK or elsewhere, or who graduated no earlier than 31st January 2024. The deadline for entries is Friday 28 February 2025.

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE Cold War Studies Project (CWSP) of the London School of Economics and Political Science are pleased to announce their 2025 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from May 8 to May 10, 2025. 

American Studies Association 2025

November 20-23, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Session Proposal Call for Participants

Homonationalism, Imperial “Harm-Reduction,” and Pinkwashing Zionism

New Horizons in English Studies vol. 10/2025

LITERATURE, MEDIA AND CULTURE HERE AND NOW

New Horizons in English Studies (indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH+) invites submissions to the 10/2025 issue, welcoming previously unpublished research papers and reviews in the broadly understood field of literary, media and cultural studies (L, M & C). The scope of subjects includes but is not limited to the following:

CFP: 

We are seeking participants for a roundtable for the American Literature Association’s 2025 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025. This roundtable aims to further our understanding of the Federal Writers’ Project’s (FWP) literary legacy. 

Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture

Guaranteed Session at MLA 2026 (Toronto, Jan. 8-11), sponsored by the Children's Literature Association

This panel seeks papers that consider the role of anthropomorphism in children’s literature and culture.

Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the most financially successful franchise in film history. Between 2008 and 2019 not only did it become a commercial behemoth, redefining the landscape of blockbuster cinema, but also a cultural phenomenon, delighting fans all around the globe. Yet post-Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the conclusion of “The Infinity Saga,” the MCU has struggled to maintain the same level of success and no longer resonates with audiences the way it once did. The MCU, and the wider superhero genre, has faced mounting criticism from fans, critics and even notable industry professionals on a wide range of issues.

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: “Failing Media”

Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference

University of Chicago, April 25–26, 2025

Keynote: Nicholas Baer (UC Berkeley)

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.

For New Deadline and How to Submit Your Abstract, Click NOTICE 18:
https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en/notice/press-and-reviews/01JG9QCYG7XM2H36DE...

The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature. 

Contributions can take two forms:

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar and contemporary topics for the 2025 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA from May 21-24, 2025 (information about the annual conference can be found at the ALA conference page website). The Postwar Literature Group has three guaranteed panels this year, two in postwar studies and one in contemporary studies. Please review our calls for papers below, and email Jacqueline.Foertsch@unt.edu with any questions.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

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Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine