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Call for Papers 1: You Are On Native Land: Understanding Medieval Studies in Turtle Island
The EDID Committee of the CSM/SCM invites papers on Indigeneity and the medieval.
Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.
The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.
Cornell EGSO Conference 2026: Effervescence
Deadline for Submissions: January 5th, 2026
Conference Date: March 20th, 2026
Call for Academic and Creative Proposals
“This impulse to violence had been in her for a long time, growing, feeding, until finally she had blown up in a thousand pieces... Yes, a one-way ticket, she thought. I've had one since the day I was born. The train was on the track.”
—Ann Petry, The Street
Iperstoria Special Issue no. 28 (Dec 2026) - Playful Literature, Literary Play: (Video) Games and American Fiction
Guest Editors
Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)
Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)
Stefan Schubert, Leipzig University (stefan.schubert@uni-leipzig.de)
3rd International H/Story Seminar
Communism in Historical Fiction
02.04.2026
online
University of Silesia in Katowice
Institute of Literary Studies
H/Story Research Group
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.
The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) invites submissions for our 19th Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-7, 2026.
PAC is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media; comic books and graphic novels; anime and manga; tabletop and video gaming; etc., presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed, based on scholarly research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Stars and Screen’
Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium
May 16, 2026
The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.
Proposals are due: February 1, 2026.
See the Call for Papers, more information and submit proposals on the
Stars and Screen website:
The organizing committee of the South Asia Graduate Student Conference (SAGSC-XXIII) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its twenty-third annual conference: “Resonant Boundaries: (Inter)disciplinarity in and about South Asia.” This year’s conference will take place on March 5th-6th, 2026. We cordially invite papers from independent scholars and graduate students at any stage of study and in any discipline from universities across the world.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS: MONTRÉAL 2026
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
The 2026 CSRS/SCÉR conference will be held in person at l’Université de Montréal (Montréal, Québec) from Saturday June 6, 2026, to Monday June 8, 2026.
NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences
An Interdisciplinary Journal - ISSN 2469-4002
CALL FOR PAPERS
Faculty-owned and faculty-run interdisciplinary journal NETSOL welcomes submissions from all scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
NETSOL has been housed at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2016.
NETSOL is a peer-reviewed biannual academic e-journal publishing original research articles and book reviews. All articles go through a double-blind peer-review process.
We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume titled “Documentation of/as Violence.” In this volume, we seek to explore how documentation, or the lack thereof, can function in capacities that both enforce and protect against violence. We understand documents, and documentation, through two primary functions: surveillance and preservation. The collection of materials capturing violence enacted upon marginalized communities, as well as how the practice of documentation itself can be a violent action of surveillance experienced by marginalized communities complicate the function of representation in library and archival collections.
In 2021, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) issued a position statement on “the Role of Reading in the College Writing Classroom”. In this statement, 4Cs “affirm[ed] the need to develop accessible and effective reading pedagogies in college writing classrooms” because it would help student performance across the university and in students’ roles as citizens in a democracy. The statement correctly notes that reading pedagogy is an issue writing studies has not taken up in a robust way for about 30 years and that it is now receiving attention at four-year institutions, though reading pedagogy has long been addressed at two-year schools.
Spectral Boundaries: Gender and Sexuality in Asian Horror Cinema
Dr. Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page
Call for Special Issues: Christianity and Literature
As a peer-reviewed journal publishing since 1951, Christianity and Literature invites proposals for Special Issues exploring focused topics at the intersection of Christian faith and literary expression. We are interested in issues that address, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Please consider submitting an abstract for the edited collection, Reconfiguring Critical Thinking in Higher Education for the 21st Century (Springer, Education).
We welcome research on critical thinking in higher education in Southeast Asia. The first section of the collection endeavours to define critical thinking in the current climate. The essays of the second section share classroom activities and curriculum design that aim to teach critical thinking. And the final section considers how LLMs can both facilitate and inhibit the cultivation of critical thinking in student learners.
We aim to have completed articles ready for submission by August, 2026.
CFP: Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling Area of the Popular Culture Association
Keynote speakers:
Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité
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:
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks academic essays for a special themed section in Juxta 12: AI and haiku (as well as related poetic forms such as haibun, haiga, senryu, and tanka). Topics may be wide-ranging, including tributes to haijin who have influenced the author’s work by engaging/not engaging AI tools to write in someone else’s style.
Guidelines:
Deadline: July 15, 2026
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.
For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book.
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.
Conference Title: Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa
Date: June 4 - 5, 2026
Venue: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Aims & Rationale:
Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene
Editor: Dewey W. Hall
Call for Contributions
Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.
One panel, “Teaching with Humor” will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines such as literature and other humanities can employ the humor found in literary texts, cartoons, films, songs, memes and media for a richer understanding of the subject matter.
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)
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature/Film Quarterly on “Female Adaptations, Female Sources”
Guest Editor: Betty Kaklamanidou (Aristotle University)
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
Listening: The Dark Side of Literature, Art and Thought / À L'Écoute: le côté obscur de la littérature, de l’art et de la pensée
Special issue of L’Atelier https://ojs.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/la 18.1 (april 2027)
Guest Editor: Adrienne Janus Proposals (approximately 350 words) in English or in French should be sent to Adrienne Janus [adrienne.janus@univ-tours.fr] and Anne Ullmo [anne.ullmo@univ-tours.fr] by 15 Feb. 2026
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
SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures
American Literature Association, 37th Annual Conference
May 20-23, 2026
The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
SSAWW at 25: Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures
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.
Inherently interdisciplinary, Medieval Studies is older than many disciplines and departments in universities today. In light of that long history, what disciplinary norms and training do medievalists have in common? What is the state of Medieval Studies as a discipline? What can we do to sustain Medieval Studies at the highest level for future generations? This year’s annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association seeks to foster conversations about the future of our field, while creating a forum for the presentation of new research by medievalists and scholars of related fields at all stages and of all backgrounds.
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: Transhuman Futures in Media and Literature
Call for Book Chapters
Reimagining Futures in Steampunk, Cyberpunk, and Solarpunk Narratives
International Conference (Hybrid) on Impact of Globalization on Society, Culture and Literature, January 19-20, 2026, organized by IQAC, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, and Antarmukh: A Bengali Research Journal.
About the Conference
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
USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers
(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent
April 10th and 11th, 2026
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
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.
CONCEPT NOTE
Call For Papers
Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and
metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records
human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its
significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations
of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.
One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend
accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient
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.
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 27–29, 2026. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions. The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian
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.
BLOOMSBURY
Call for Papers
Lives Remembered: Trans Narratives of Memory
Bloomsbury's Trans Studies series
Editors: Dr. Arpana Venu & Dr. Neethu P Antony
VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh
About the Volume
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