“This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow.” Those four lines of dedication close “Snow for Wallace Stevens” (2009) by the African American poet Terrance Hayes—an ambivalent ode, blending wintry detachment and “love without / forgiveness,” “lost faith” and faith regained. Hayes is far from the only poet of color, from the United States or elsewhere, to write a poem after or against Stevens.

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism”

“The European conquerors are the first who are not merely after subjugation and economic exploitation, but the means of production itself, by ripping the land from underneath the feet of the native population.” – Rosa Luxemburg, “The Dissolution of Primitive Communism”

JAMS@AX25

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX25 academic symposium, July 3- July 6, 2025 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

While the JAMS@AX25 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers that match Anime Expo’s theme of: “Academics''!

Virginia Woolf Miscellany #104: Woolf and Failure

Mary Wilson

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

This conference is the second in a sequence of events co-organized by three public universities: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, University of California Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the theme of the political economy of South Asia. Titled South Asian Capitalism(s), this Fall 2025 conference aims to investigate how capitalist accumulation is socially structured across South Asia.

While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.

Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
 
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern

Call For Papers: 

AfroNordic Feminisms

This special issue of  Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint. 

We invite submissions engaging with questions such as: 

• What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?

This proposed panel will address intersections between carceral studies and literary studies, with a focus on modernist literature and art and their contemporary legacies.

Call for Papers

2025 EALA Annual Conference

Disease and Death

Conference Co-organizers:

English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan), National Taipei University of Education and University of Taipei

Date: October 18, 2025

Venue: National Taipei University of Education

The deadline for abstract submission is extended to February 25, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

In partnership with UK’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department, “Leveling Up the Classroom” is continuing with a central focus on the integration of digital technologies and media into classroom settings. The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments. 

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)