Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.1

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec

Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Call for Papers

National Conference of Research Scholars

Vision of a Viksit Bharat: Challenges, Initiatives, Strategies

24-25 February, 2025

Theme: Society, Citizens, Development

Eligibility: PhD Scholars registered in any University or Research Institution

Call for papers

We invite paper proposals for Panel 36: Margins of edibility: Non-food in South Asian literatures at the upcoming 28th European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS 2025) hosted by University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) from October 1-4, 2025.

Panel description:

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 Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025.  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 is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together

Mary Shelley Today: Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century seeks to reevaluate the influence of Mary Shelley, and particularly her most prominent novel, on literature and imaginative work of the last quarter century (defined as 1999-2024). This project engages with works and authors on whom little has been written to date in the hope of providing exciting new resources for Romanticists and general readers alike.

The Sea and the World

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference at Al Al-Bayt University, 8-9 April 2025 

Languages in the Digital World

As part of this conference, several discussion topics will be open to contributors. The following list is not exhaustive, but its main axes will allow for the identification of assessments, the evaluation of ongoing data, and the outlining of perspectives for the future. 

In order to provide the broadest possible picture of the multiple dimensions of the interaction between living languages and the digital world, the debates will focus on these areas, which present as many opportunities as challenges for our societies. 

Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable

American Studies Association Conference

November 20th-23rd

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March. 

Please email me by January 31st  if you’re interested.

Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies invites scholarly contributions that delve into the complex and dynamic relationships between memory, materiality, and affect in literary and cultural studies. This annual issue seeks to unravel the intricate ways in which memory is constructed, mediated, and transformed through material objects, spatial configurations, and emotional experiences.

Issue 40 - Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies

Deadline: Submissions due by March 1, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu. 

“Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others”  - Call for Papers

International Network for Interreligious Research and Education |
Date:  July 21–25, 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Berlin

Latinx Fandoms

Editor: Frederick Luis Aldama

Despite the recent boom in fan studies scholarship—a field that has traditionally provided space for those deemed academically undisciplined—significant gaps remain in our understanding of the cultural impact of Latinx fan communities and scenes. With Latinx Fandoms I hope to address this by bringing together the work of extraordinary scholars to highlight Latinx practices, knowledges, and cultural innovations as fans, fandoms, and collective shapers of scenes.

The history of the Black Atlantic is rife with narratives of leaving and returns that can prove destabilizing factors, regarding identity and culture. Yet, it is in these stories, that a more complete image of the complexities of the lives of the people who traverse(d) the Black Atlantic becomes clearer. The literature of the men and women whose texts engage the 500-year history of the Black Atlantic narrative work to form a more nuanced image of Black life in the US, Caribbean, and Europe. In doing so, many of these works demonstrate the influence of African culture on members of the Diaspora through the inclusion of African spirituality in the texts.

Call for additional contributions to volume

Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures: 

History, Representation, Diversity 

(under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2025

First drafts: 31 March 2025

Submission of manuscript: 1 July 2025