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ACLA 2027 Seminar: Sinologising Witnessing: Trauma Theory and Chinese Literature and Film

American Comparative Literature Association 2027 Annual Meeting, University of Houston
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Three decades on, the founding categories of trauma theory: belatedness, aporia, the unspeakable, the event that cannot be claimed, remain largely those of a single archive: European, modernist, post-Holocaust. Stef Craps’s decolonising critique (2010; 2013; 2014) has exposed the field’s marginalisation of non-Western suffering, its universalisation of a Euro-American psycho-diagnostic invention, its prescription of fragmentary modernist techniques as its defining form, and its neglect of the connections between metropolitan and other histories of violence. Yet that critique has been prosecuted largely through postcolonial and Anglophone Global South materials.

AI, Literary Writing, and Remediation: Rethinking Creativity, Form, and Authorship

2027 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Virtual Seminar
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 20, 2026

From Christopher Strachey’s Love Letter Generator to today’s generative AI writing tools and multimodal models, AI technologies are reshaping how literary works are created, adapted, and circulated across media. Texts can now be generated, illustrated, voiced, animated, and transformed into comics, audiobooks, visual art, and video, prompting renewed questions about creativity, form, authorship, authenticity, and human agency.This seminar asks: Can AI-generated literature and art be understood as forms of artificial creativity? Does AI expand, automate, or redefine human creativity? How does human–AI collaboration challenge traditional ideas of authorship and authenticity?

Unruly (Re) Readings of the Medieval

International Congress on Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

We seek submissions on unruly (re)readings of the medieval that drive a wedge into Derrida's

conception of differánce between the signifier and signified of the sign. Various modern media

types, including but not limited to literature, film, television, animation, TTRPGs, video game RPGS,

comics and graphic novels, podcasts, etc., offer an array of opportunities for exploring what we

make of the "medieval" and why. We are interested in work that engages more than

traditional examples of medievalism, especially that which might speak for or represent

perspectives traditionally deemed "unruly." Under-represented paradigms encouraged!

(Dis)embodied Korea and Korean Women in Korean/Korean American Literature, TV, and Film -- NeMLA 2027 Panel

Jina Lee -- NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

This panel will investigate representations of Korea, Koreanness, and Korean women's bodies and consider how these representations serve as a site for the reproduction of the sexualized and gendered relationship between the US and South Korea. It will also interrogate these racialized bodies as the site for the articulation of trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities or, alternatively, as potential sites of empowerment.

It will consider how Korean nationalism, national unity, and diaspora are complicated by gender and body politics, and how we may envision gaining agency through depictions of the colonized and militarized Korean peninsula and Korean/American women's bodies as represented in literary, film, and other cultural iterations.

Harry Ransom Center, 2027-2028 Fellowships

Harry Ransom Center
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 6, 2026

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its 2027–2028 research fellowship program. Up to 50 fellowships will be awarded to support projects that require substantial on-site use of the center’s internationally renowned collections in the humanities.

Fellowships are open to graduate students, current and former academic faculty at any career stage, and independent researchers — including journalists and artists — whose work engages deeply with archival materials. Residency lengths range from one week to two months, with stipends provided to support travel and research. 

Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century

Social Inclusion / Cogitatio Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2026

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century," edited by Melanie Hack (University of Bergen) and Lisa Waddington (University of Maastricht).

  • Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 December 2026
  • Submission of Full Papers: 1-15 May 2027
  • Publication of the Issue: June/December 2027

About the issue:

Panel: The Power of Repetition | NeMLA 2027

Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

"The Power of Repetition"

 

Chairs: Curtis Browne (Brown University) and Chi Le (Brown University)

 

Undergraduate Conference: Humanity, Technology, and the Good Life

Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, University of Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 6, 2026

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV throws down a gauntlet: “When
human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain
profoundly human.” What does it mean to remain “profoundly human” in a technological society?
Are any of the advancements that we have come to perceive as essential to western standards of living
at odds with human flourishing? What are the implications, benefits, and costs of the relationship
between humanity and technology? The Braniff Graduate Student Association (BGSA) invites
undergraduate students in all liberal arts disciplines to consider these questions at the Braniff
Undergraduate Conference in the Liberal Arts (BUCLA) on February 5-6, 2027.

The Corporate Uncanny

Saramanda Swigart
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2026

The Corporate Uncanny

Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026

Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.

War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027

College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

Subject: Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027

 

Call for Papers: War Literature and Trauma Studies at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on [special topic title] for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

We are open to multiple gateways, literary and interdisciplinary, to War Literature and Trauma Studies.

Call for Papers

Gayathri Goel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Call for Papers, September 2026

Entanglements: Regimes of Extraction and The Literary Imagination of Place

Co-editors: Dr. Gayathri Goel and Dr. Jennifer Horwitz

Call For Contributions "Contested Meanings of Freedom in the United States"

RSAJournal, no. 38 (2027)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

As mass movements and resistance struggles from Reconstruction and Indigenous sovereignty through women’s liberation and civil rights activism make clear, American history has been indelibly shaped by divergent, contradictory, and deeply contested understandings of a common political language centered on “freedom.”  Far from a static, settled, or predetermined concept, Eric Foner contends that “freedom” has proved “a terrain of conflict, open to very different and sometimes contradictory interpretations.” The story of the United States is, in no small part, a contest over what it means to be free.

CFP: Comics and the Midwest

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Comics and the Midwest, to be guest-edited by Rachael Price (rprice@abac.edu), Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

The American Midwest has served as a key locale in comics and graphic novels, both as a setting for some of the most famous stories in this format and as an important center of newspaper and comic-book publishing. This volume seeks to explore the importance of the Midwest in comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels, from the early twentieth century to the present. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

CFP: Midwestern Drama

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature invites essay proposals for a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed journal Midwestern Miscellany on the topic of Midwestern Drama, to be guest-edited by Marilyn Atlas (atlas@ohio.edu).

CFP: Dublin, Ireland – Livable Towns, Cities, Regions 2027

Architecture Media Politics Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 5, 2026

Organised by University College Dublin and AMPS this conference explores how towns, cities and regions can  respond to climate change, social challenges and urban transformation. Bringing together architecture, planning, sustainability, conservation, public health and community perspectives it is explicitly interdisciplinary and explores practical, critical and conceptual approaches to creating more resilient, inclusive, healthy and livable places.

 

Dublin itself provides a compelling setting for the event, combining historic neighbourhoods, Georgian architecture, modernist housing, docklands regeneration, expanding transport, diverse cultural history and sometimes contentious community issues.

Intangible, Intelligible, Intractable: Unruly (Re)Readings of the Medieval

International Congress on Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 12, 2026

We seek submissions on unruly (re)readings of the medieval that drive a wedge into Derrida's conception of differánce between the signifier and signfied of the sign. Various modern media types, including but not limited to literature, film, television, animation, TTRPGs, video game RPGS, comics and graphic novels, podcasts, etc., offer an array of opportunities for exploring what we make of the "medieval" and why. We are interested in work that engages more than traditional examples of medievalism, especially that which might speak for or represent perspectives traditionally deemed "unruly." Under-represented paradigms encouraged.

Climate Adaptation

Deborah Cartmell / De Montfort University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 30, 2028

Special Issue: Climate Adaptation

Adaptation (OUP)

 

Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028

Submit: https://academic.oup.com/adaptation

(early papers accepted for continuous publication) 

 

Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell

 

Horror Studies Special Issue (2027) CFP: "What Did Get Out Get Us?"

Horror Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

         When Get Out was released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s landmark debut feature signified a major inflection point in the history of horror. Not only did the film garner a rare blend of blockbuster commercial success and critical reputability perhaps not seen since The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or The Sixth Sense (1999), but it also broke through the confines of genre to become a larger pop cultural phenomenon.

The Corporate Uncanny

Saramanda Swigart
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 15, 2026

The Corporate Uncanny

Edited Collection | Vernon Press
Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2026

Vernon Press has accepted the proposal for The Corporate Uncanny, an interdisciplinary edited collection examining how contemporary media represent—and make experiential—the strange familiarity of corporate power.

Composition & Rhetoric: Practice (CEA 4/1/27-4/3/27)

College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Writing Centers (CEA 4/1/27-4/3/27)

College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

Subject: Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027

 

Call for Papers: Writing Centers at CEA 2027

Apr. 1-3, 2027 | St. Louis, Missouri

The Westin St. Louis Hotel
https://cea-web.org/the-conference-hotel

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Writing Centers for our 57th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

CFP: Adaptations and Retellings 2027

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, MA - March 24-27, 2027

https://pcaaca.org/

Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.

BIPOC & Asian American Literature (CEA 4/1-4/3/27)

College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BIPOC & Asian American Literature for our 2027 annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

We welcome a wide range of approaches, periods, genres, and traditions. In keeping with the conference theme of “Gateways,” proposals might take up any of the questions and possibilities suggested below in the general call for papers as they relate to BIPOC & Asian American literature.

 

The deadline for abstract submissions is 11/01/2026.

Conference Theme: Gateways

Proposed Volume: Teaching without GenAI in the Age of AI

University of North Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Since the widespread emergence of Generative AI a few years ago, educators across disciplines have been reconsidering how technology shapes teaching, learning, writing, and assessment. While some departments and faculty have leaned into these new Large Language Models and the technological "advances" they offer, others have worked just as diligently to keep AI out of their classrooms.

The Hidden Faces of Violence II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma and Resistance

KN: F.L.A.ME.S. by Konstantina Kliagkona
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Dates of Conference: 4-8 November 2026Format: Hybrid – Online (via Zoom) & In-Person (Thessaloniki, Greece)Note: The onsite/in-person conference will take place exclusively on 6-7 November, 2026 and be streamed live on Zoom.Organizer: KN: F.L.A.ME.S. by Konstantina Kliagkona (www.knflames.gr) International, interdisciplinary conference titled: The Hidden Faces of Violence II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance Followi

2027 Global Asias Summer Institute — “Global Asias’ Cold War: Cartographies of Intimacy”

Global Asias Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 6, 2026

The 2027 Global Asias Summer Institute will be held June 14-18, 2027. SI2027, co-directed by Shuang Shen, Jooyeon Rhee, and Tina Chen, adopts Global Asias’ approach of “relational nonalignment” to consider the previously invisible, forcefully concealed, less studied, yet culturally far-reaching sites of coordination and connection in the histories of Cold War at the intersection of imperialist expansion and domination, postcolonial nationalism, migration, and diaspora. Institute participants spend a week reading and thinking about the annual theme, as well as significant time workshopping their work in progress.

CFP for the ACLA VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting (May 15&16, 2027) Queering the Settler Colony: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian and Australian Literature

Lydia Roupakia and Theodora Patrona/ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

This CFP is currently accepting paper proposals for the VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association

Queering the Settler Colony: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian and Australian LiteratureAbstract

The comparative study of Canadian and Australian literature has long demonstrated the value of reading these two settler-colonial traditions alongside one another. Building on the pioneering comparative work of Sneja Gunew, this seminar seeks to extend this dialogue by foregrounding queer identities, sexualities, and non-normative forms of belonging as central categories of comparative inquiry.

Richard Gooder Prize for PhD Students

The Cambridge Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 15, 2026

Submissions are invited by the Editors of Cambridge Quarterly for the Richard D. Gooder Graduate Essay Prize. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. Essays of up to 7,500 words, including notes, on topics in literary and cultural criticism, broadly conceived, are warmly invited. Further details, including competition rules and how to submit, can be found at

"Speculative Souths" Symposium

The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 2, 2026

"Speculative Souths" 

The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts 

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

June 10-12, 2027 

 

CFP Deadline: November 2, 2026 

 

Keynote Speaker: Kiese Laymon, Rice University, author of Long Division and Heavy 

 

Critical Insights: Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

Jericho Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 31, 2026

Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes remains a beloved classic novel among readers, many of whom first encountered this book during their adolescent years.

This forthcoming essay collection seeks to deepen high school and undergraduate reader engagement with Something Wicked This Way Comes and contribute to ongoing studies of Bradbury’s work.

Although all essay proposals will be considered and additional proposed topics are highly encouraged, some possibilities include:

Call for Submissions: "HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME 12)

Fresh Words An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  FRESH WORDS — AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MAGAZINE

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Submissions: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

  HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME 12)  An Anthology of Existential & Absurd Plays

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026
Publication: October 2026

Call for Submissions: “Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology”

Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  Tiny Revolutions: A Flash Fiction Anthology

Small acts. Quiet rebellions. Lives changed one choice at a time.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026

Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026

Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

“Medical Humanities and Feminism in Literature and Film”

Mary Thompson James Madison University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

“Medical Humanities and Feminism in Literature and Film”
(https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22501)
58th Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention to be held March 6 to 9 2027 in Newport, Rhode Island. 

See the CFP below.  You also can click on the link above to read the CFP and to submit an abstract.  Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and include a works cited; the deadline for submission is 30 September.

The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media

College of Language and Communication 4th International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

4th International Conference

 

The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17 – 18 December 2026

College of Language and Communication 4th International Conference (LANACOM 2026)

The Archival Turn: Re-anchoring Memory and Identity across Literature, Language and Media

CFP: 28th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (St. Petersburg, FL, Feb. 2027)

Margit Grieb SCFLLF
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 16, 2026

28th Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film (Feb 27-28, 2027) in St. Petersburg, Florida (on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus)

Languages and Cultures in a Changing World: Identity, Responsibility, and Justice

Abstracts for papers (and panels) are now being considered. Deadline for abstracts: Nov. 16, 2026

Selected papers will be published in a post-conference anthology. To view prior publication, visit the conference website.

Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century

Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 25, 2026

15th January 2027 | Royal Holloway, University of London (Hybrid)

"We need, urgently, to reconnect with our planet, and recognise ourselves as inseparable rather than special; reliant upon rather than dominating" (Erica Fudge, 2022)

Call for Papers: History and Art Journal (Volume 2) – Submissions Open

Editorial Board, History and Art Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 1, 2026

The Editorial Board of the History and Art Journal officially invites original and unpublished research articles for its upcoming Volume 2.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions in English and Spanish across history, art history, and museology. Our main thematic tracks include Early Modern and Modern History, Visual Culture, Archival Research, Material Culture, and Digital Humanities.

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