Call for Papers

The 8th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference

Theme: Labor in America: Perspectives on the African American Contribution

Conference Dates: October 24, 2025

Venue:  Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2025

Victorian Review is currently accepting submissions for a forum on George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda, to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Guest edited by Eliot scholar Ilana Blumberg, “Daniel Deronda at 150 Years” will appear in VR 51.2. We seek readable, engaging, and focused pieces of 1200-1500 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and we welcome a wide range of themes, styles, and approaches, both personal and academic. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

You are invited to submit an abstract for this panel for the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention to be held on March 5–8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Wyndham Grand Hotel Downtown.

The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection

How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture

We invite chapters for a multi-disciplinary edited collection exploring heavy metal and rock bands that use concealed identities, stage personas and masks as a substantial part of their performance and aesthetic. Hidden identities are not a new phenomenon in either popular music generally or heavy metal/hard rock music more narrowly, as performers obscuring their identity through face paint, masks, and wigs goes back over half a century and encompasses bands including Kiss, Slipknot, and Gwar. New masked bands, including Sleep Token and Ghost, have recently risen to widespread popularity.

Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language

“Time and Disability in Literature”

Guest Edited by Adam Barrows, Professor of English, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canda)

The ‘No Kings’ protests on June 14, 2025, incited millions of people across the United States to oppose the policies of Donald Trump’s second presidency, manifesting an outspoken resistance against forms of autocracy. While the fervor and visibility of protesting has wavered throughout US history, sites and moments of resistance (against the government, specific policies, businesses, individuals, etc.) dominate the nation’s collective memory: from the anti-monarchist sentiment linking ‘No Kings’ to the Boston Tea Party, from the abolitionist movement to demonstrations against the Vietnam War, from the Stonewall uprising to Occupy Wall Street or the #MeToo movement.

Stephen King and MAGA Dystopia: from The Dead Zone to Holly

This panel welcomes papers about Stephen King antagonists that foreshadow the rise of Trump & MAGA (e.g., Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone), as well as other contemporary American authors and narratives that anticipate or reflect the nation's current dystopic climate and contentious culture wars.

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https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Happy Summer!

John Wargacki

C19 Conference, Cincinnati, OH

March 12-14, 2026

(Re)generative Storytelling: Embodied Narratives for Resilience and Social Renewal

(A Creative Panel Session of 57th NeMLA Annual Convention| March 5-8, 2025| Pittsburgh PA), Virtual Only

Abstract submission link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21583

Hemingway in Toronto

July 22-27, 2026 | Toronto, Canada

The Hemingway Society invites proposals for the 21st International Hemingway Conference, exploring Hemingway’s ties to Toronto and his broader literary legacy.

Toronto was a pivotal stop in Hemingway’s early career—a place where he honed his craft as a journalist, earned his first bylines at The Toronto Star, and briefly settled to welcome his first child in 1923. The 2026 conference offers an opportunity to revisit these formative years and discuss Hemingway’s impact from multiple perspectives.

Eighty years after the end of WWII, questions remain about the adequacy, let alone possibility, of language to convey the "limit-experience." Yoko Ota, writing City of Corpses [shikabane no machi] just days after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, acknowledges that the writer’s challenge is nearly impossible in the face of such an unprecedented weapon. Nevertheless, she still responds to the intense urgency to write.

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?

This session is part of NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA.