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This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential and enduring franchises in video game history. Zelda has greatly impacted multiple generations of players, and has an extremely loyal and dedicated fanbse.
This session is sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America.
American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1935-1910) achieved lasting fame as Mark Twain, an identity that served as both his pen name and the persona he cultivated for the public. Twain’s writings and his distinctive character have dispersed across time and space, and the resulting Twainian tradition incorporates these elements in many ways.
Games have long used medievalist or medieval-adjacent settings to engage with audiences. Scholars have noted the various connections to be made between popular perceptions of the medieval in games and historical and textual realities of the medieval world. While games may not always make it a priority to accurately portray medieval (or pseudo-medieval) life, there are still important parallels and intertextual references that games use to harken back to the medieval world—whatever version of that that reality they choose to use as a basis, at least. Just like games construct a faux reality for their players, so too have the popular conceptions of the medieval world been carefully constructed through literature and popular culture.
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) is looking for book reviews of any recent books (published in the last 5 or 6 years) in the field of Australian studies, including Indigenous Australian studies.
In particular, JEASA is looking for reviewers for Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (2024) by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2025) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen. Other review proposals are also very welcome.
The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).
Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Call for Papers
Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability
Publisher: Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi
Deadline For submission: 15th July 2025 (11.59 PM IST)
Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences
ISSN: 2583-7974 (Online)
Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences
Theme: Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability: Changing Perspectives and Hypotheses
“December 2025 Issue”
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume (Tentative Title): " A Culinary Odyssey: Discovering the Rich Culinary Landscape of South Asia"
Editors: Dr. Chitra Krishnan, Ms. Tias Maity
Important dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15th July
Abstract:
Call for Papers
Equinox: Volume I: Fables & Firelight
Published by La Société Étoilée
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025
In its inaugural issue, Equinox invites submissions on the theme of fables and firelight—that is, the stories we gather around, the myths that shape us, and the flickering interplay between tradition, memory, and imagination. We welcome work that explores folklore, mythology, ancestral knowledge, symbolic systems, oral traditions, and the cultural rituals of storytelling across time. But we also invite broader interpretations: How do stories act as shelter? When do they burn or illuminate? What truths lie within the fantastic?
The gothic is a genre of marginalization, foregrounding locales and figures that are ghostly, monstrous, or abandoned. It is no surprise, then, that authors across the Global South, from Akwaeke Emezi to Nick Joaquín to Mariana Enríquez, embrace the gothic when constructing narratives that resist colonialism and its myriad legacies. For this special issue of The Global South, the guest editor is inviting submissions from scholars whose research engages with gothic creators throughout this nebulous region. The gothic is likewise a broad term, and, given the innumerable repercussions of colonization, we welcome contributions from across gothic subgenres—ecological, gendered, neoliberal, or queer, to name a few.
This roundtable seeks to understand the ways in which early modern people conceived of the body as being willful. Early modern poets, playwrights, and prose writers represent the body as having (or almost as if having) a will of its own. For instance, in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the titular protagonist desires to sign a devilish contract with his blood, but his blood congeals, preventing that damning deed. Margaret Cavendish imagines in Poems and Fancies cognitive processes as being directed by vital matter she metaphorizes as faeries, whose markets, funerals, and marriages dictate the functioning of the brain.
Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.
THEME
Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement
SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):
This is an open-CFP for one or more panel session(s) on Aemilia Lanyer. Lanyer has received a resurgence of attention in the last ten years from literary critics as well as popular dramatists and novelists. This panel aims to continue the scholarly conversation by seeking papers that examine new courses of inquiry or reevaluate established topics of Lanyer scholarship. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:
Call for Papers
2025 Multi-ConTEXT International Graduate Conference:
“Comparison and Convergence in English Studies”
NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 15th by 5pm EST
Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.
Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture Virtual Conference | September 4–5, 2025
Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.
Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 8, No. 2, scheduled to be published in December 2025. The deadline for submissions has been extended to July 31, 2025.
As of July 1, 2025, we are still seeking additional chapters for The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series to complement the 50+ confirmed chapters. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.
While most chapters examine Indian cinema with clearly transgender characters, we also welcome chapters for the handbook’s first theme, “Transing Cinema with No Transgender Characters,” showing how trans theories provoke new interpretations of film and television that don’t explicitly address transgender topics. For example, Dr. Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi’s chapter “Transing the Lens in Hindi Cinema” studies the following films:
As of July 1, 2025, we are still seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.
We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.
Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth.
Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. More than 100 books have already appeared in the series.
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives.
The Fourth “Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space” International Conference
The FES Acatlán through its Research Program, its Department of Humanities, the Humanities Program and the Hispanic Language and Literature Section, have the honor of convening the 4th International Conference "Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space" which will be held from November the 17th to the 19th in a hybrid format via Zoom and at the FES Acatlán campus facilities.
Conference online (via Zoom): 3-4 July 2025
CFP:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London
Call for Papers: Symposium on "Teaching Innovation in Higher Education in U.S. Literature, History, and Culture" at the CIDICO Conference
In this new edition, which will take place online on November 17, 18, and 19, and in person on November 20 and 21, organized by the SEJ-473 Research Group of the University of Almería and the Research and Training in Psychology, Education, and Health Group, we aim to continue promoting a multidisciplinary meeting of educators. This space seeks to highlight all University Areas of Knowledge and provide an opportunity to share work related to Teaching Innovation, methodologies, and research projects.
This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.
We invite contributors for a proposed Exemplaria special issue on Medieval Asexualities.
First Anglistics International
Conference on Continuing Education
in Philological and Related Studies in
the English Language (ONLINE)
September 25-26, 2025
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025
The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological
and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers,
educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English
philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims
to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic,
literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference,
Date: November 8-9, 2025
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/11/20/alchemy-2025/
Cost: 180 GBP (In person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” – Paracelsus