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The Handbook of Ecofeminism

updated: 
Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 9:03am
Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: February 13, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com

In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.

Gender, NOW!! (Hybrid Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 8:11am
Penn State Graduates in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Our present conjuncture demands urgent engagement with the now of gender. Authoritarian resurgence, border militarization, algorithmic
governance, climate precarity, and uneven recoveries from overlapping pandemics shape how gender is lived, and resisted across diverse contexts: from settler colonial democracies to postcolonial nation-states and stateless territories. Anti-trans legislation, family policing, and reproductive surveillance intensify biopolitical control, while migration regimes, humanitarian aid economies, and asylum adjudication render certain genders and kinship forms precariously provisional.

Crossroads of Literary Creation: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 7:38pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 11-12, 2026

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/06/crossroads-of-literary-creation/

Participation fee: £100
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Call for Papers:

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

Unfaithful Adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde: Essays on Hybridity and the Gothic Double

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 6:23pm
Eric Riddle / McFarland Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life, disconnected from societal pressures and expectations. Many, if not all, of these media adaptations add, edit, or remove elements from the story, making it a hybrid narrative, one part Stevenson’s and one part the adapter’s. 

 

In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the Folkloric

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 3:33pm
NYU Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

 In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the Folkloric  (Graduate Student Conference)

 

New York University: Friday, May 1, 2026

 

Proposals Open on Circus History Topics and Circus Paper Student Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:39pm
Circus Historical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Circus Historical Society Convention 2026

The 2026 Circus Historical Society Convention will be held in Baraboo Wisconsin from June 10 – 13, 2026. Convention will conclude with Baraboo’s Big Top Parade. Registration and other information will be available soon. 

Call for Papers 

Proposals are now being accepted for Convention presentations on any subject related to circus history. We invite proposals for single speakers and groups. All proposals must be received using the online form by March 31, 2026. Visit https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ to submit your proposal today. 

2026 CHS Student Prize

Of Clay and Dust: A 6 Day Extensive Body Movement Workshop

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:38pm
Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, in collaboration with Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati,

in collaboration with

Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

presents

 

Of Clay and Dust

 

6 days extensive body movement workshop

 

Body awareness

Narrative based movements

Body conditioning

Introduction to Odissi with marshal arts like Mayurbhanj Chhau and Kalaripayattu

Introduction to basic Abhinaya

How to work with musicians and script

How to develop performance

 

Facilitated by Monami Nandy

 

February 16-21, 2026

Venue: Dhyana Kutir, Yoga Village Premises, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

 

Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Irish Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

“Unfinished Declarations: Independence, Identity, and Imagination in American Culture” 

Hosted by the Irish Association for American Studies 

Date: 24th and 25th April 2026 

Location: Ulster University, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland 

CCL - All Things Made New: Creation, Re-Creation, & Redemption

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Western Regional Conference on Christianity & Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Our conference theme, “All Things Made New: Creation, Re-creation, and Redemption,” aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of the creative and re-creative acts embedded in our discipline practices and the works we study. As a number of Christian scholars have pointed out, reading and writing literature is one way we can carry out our responsibility to establish a world that pleases and praises God by cultivating its potential. Just as Adam and Eve cultivated the fruits of the Garden of Eden, so are we to cultivate the talents and abilities God has given us in all areas: technology, literature, art, music, science, social and political structures, etc.

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures (conference and subsequent edited volume)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures

Conference and Subsequent Edited Volume
University of Dresden, March 18–21, 2027

 

Organizers:
Klavdia Smola (Technology University of Dresden)
Naomi Caffee (Reed College)
Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley)

Endnotes 2026: Environment, Extraction, Evolution

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Department of English Language and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Environment, Extraction, Evolution. 

 
“What do I want from literature, anyway? 
A new way of living, a new way to talk  
About the trees that doesn’t endanger them” 
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes” 

Volume on Kaouther Ben Hania

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:36pm
Nicole Wallenbrock
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026

 

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:36pm
Southern Writers/Southern Writing, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

29th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

August 8th—9th, 2026

Call for Submissions

Supernatural South(s): The Monstrous, The Fantastic, The Grotesque, The Speculative and So On…

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 29th meeting of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from August 8th-August 9th, 2026. 

American Carnage (conference; October 23-25, 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:36pm
Canadian Association for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CFP: “American Carnage”

Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Call for Guest Editors/Guest Edited Special/Themed Issues of The Apollonian

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).

Leonard Cohen 2026: Global Perspectives on a Multi-disciplinary Artist

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Joel Deshaye
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

The ten-year anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death in November 2026 invites renewed critical reflection on his life, work, and significance today. The past decade has witnessed a surge in publications on Cohen for both academic and general audiences, posthumous releases of music and the publication of an early novel, as well as his appearance in the works of other artists as both inspiration and antagonist. A singer-songwriter, poet, novelist, and visual artist, Cohen was both an icon of his home city, Montreal, and a citizen of the world. Now, as in his lifetime, his art resists divisions between nations and audiences, media and genres, philosophies and religions, academic disciplines and styles of fandom.

Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (VPFJ)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Victorian popular fiction is replete with animals – racing horses, loyal dogs, caged birds, exotic creatures, and anthropomorphic companions. These beings carried immense symbolic significance: they could function as status symbols, metaphors for the body or soul, expressions of sentiment, or instruments of moral instruction. Animals also frequently offered a lens through which Victorians addressed issues surrounding empire, industrialisation, science, social mobility, and domesticity. In popular fiction, animals were not merely background – they were moral barometers, class indicators, narrative devices, and symbols of broader anxieties regarding industrialisation, gender roles, and empire.

Call for Papers — H2D: Digital Humanities Journal — Volume 8 (continuous publication)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

H2D (Revista de Humanidades Digitais) is an interdisciplinary Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to advancing research and dialogue in Digital Humanities. We welcome contributions that explore how digital tools and methods reshape humanities scholarship and practice, bridging humanistic inquiry and technological innovation while engaging contemporary societal challenges aligned with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Gender and Supernatural

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Early Modern Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Call for Papers 2026

Deadline: February 28th 2026

Theme: Gender and Supernatural

“You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” Macbeth 1.3.46-47

Call for Submissions: Eye to the Telescope "Paying Tribute"

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Eye to the Telescope
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Call for Submissions

Eye to the Telescope Guest Editor Angela Acosta is accepting poetry submissions for Issue 60, Paying Tribute

 

The Zeitpyramide in Germany gains a new block every decade to mark the passage of time until the year 3183. Will future humans remember this art installation, or will it cease to have any meaning by the next millennium?

CFP-The Text: Vol.8 No.2-July 2026 Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
The Text (ISSN: 2581-9526)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original, unpublished research papers for July 2026 issue.
Indexed in:
1.     ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.     IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.     Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.     DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
5.     ResearchBib (Research Bible)

APOCALYPSE AS UTOPIA: Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies

Thematic Issue 2027

Apocalypse as Utopia:

Hopeful Visions of Apocalypses in Literature, Media and Culture

 

Guest Editors:

Magdalena Cieślak, University of Lodz

Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara

Katarzyna Więckowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

 

Teaching American Poetry Now

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
American Literature Association/Society for the Study of American Poetry
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a roundtable to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026. 

Roundtable: “Teaching American Poetry Now”

This roundtable invites participants to reflect on the challenges, possibilities, and urgencies of teaching American poetry in the current moment. Across institutions, student populations, and media environments, instructors are rethinking how—and why—we teach American poetry now.

Mediating American Poetry

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
American Literature Association/Society for the Study of American Poetry
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026

 

The Society for the Study of American Poetry invites proposals for a session to be held at the 37th annual American Literature Association conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026. 

Panel: Mediating American Poetry

This panel invites papers that examine American poetry through the lens of media, broadly construed and across historical periods. We seek work that explores how poetic production, circulation, reception, and interpretation have been shaped by media forms—from print technologies and the history of the book to digital platforms, archives, and social media.

Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications due by 2/9 (Hard Dealine)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 9, 2026

Announcing

The 2026 First Book Institute

May 31-June 6, 2026

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:33pm
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Call for Papers - Doctoral Conference 

 Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence

University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara 

Pescara, 4-5 June 2026

Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact  Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

 

 

«Restare, quindi, non è statica come azione, 

ma dinamica, non cristallizza il presente ma si permea di futuro»(Teti, 2022: 119).

CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:32pm
The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 8, 2026

 

CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS TO SERVE AS KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS: due by 2/08/26

The Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) is announcing our fourth annual online conference. The UGSVA conference is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students primarily from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and Carroll University, Waukesha, WI. The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom.

 

Ecos del interior. Potencialidades estéticas y políticas de lo afectivo en la literatura

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:32pm
VII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DEL MÁSTER Y DOCTORADO DE ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 6, 2026

ECOS DEL INTERIOR: POTENCIALIDADES ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS DE LO AFECTIVO EN LA LITERATURA  

Edificio A, Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11 y 12 de mayo de 2026

Edited Volume on Religion and the X-Men’s Krakoan Age

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:31pm
Editors: Gregory Jones and Daniel Ambord
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the establishment of a post-scarcity and post-mortality mutant homeland on the living island of Krakoa. The Krakoan Age ran from 2019 and 2024 and included more than 500 issues spread across 80 different comic titles. Within this vast body of text, a dizzying plurality of story-types are explored, ranging from gritty police procedurals, to sprawling war stories, to cozy slice-of-life tales. The Krakoan Age stories are also notable in their creative and interesting engagement with religious stories and themes, particularly in series such as Way of X, Legion of X and The Onslaught Revelation.

Legacies of Performance: Inheriting Pasts & Imagining Futures

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:30pm
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance Graduate Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 16, 2026

Legacies of Performance: Inheriting Pasts & Imagining Futures

Graduate Student Symposium

 

Sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

April 18, 2026

 

“Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.” – Walter Benjamin, 1942

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.” – Audre Lorde, 1978

Call for Papers Conference “Caring for the World: New Narratives of Justice, Gender, and Affect”

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:30pm
Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 30, 2026

The upcoming 34th Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) will take place at the University of Oviedofrom May 20th and 22nd, 2026. It will be hosted by the Institute of Gender and Diversity (IUGEN-DIV), the INTERSECTIONS research group (Contemporary Literatures, Cultures, and Theories), and the Department of English, French, and German.

Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:30pm
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

               

 

 

 

Irish Studies: Legacies and Futures

 

Special Issue 3/2026

 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia

philologia.studia@ubbcluj.ro

 

Guest editors

Call for Papers: Special Issue - Forms of the Nation: Borders and Migration in the Contemporary Novel (Winter 2027)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:30pm
Studies in the Novel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Since Benedict Anderson’s 1983 theorization of imagined communities, the historical alliance between the novel and the nation has been a key problematic of literary studies. And yet, in the post–Cold War decades, the centrality of the nation and its ideological weight seemed to wane. The rise of neoliberalism produced an ideology of free circulation of capital and goods, which heralded a new era of weakening national borders and enhanced cultural exchanges. In literary studies, this period saw the rise of a new critical field, world literature (Moretti, Damrosch), and the theorization of a World Republic of Letters (Casanova), which held a similarly borderless aspiration.

Progress and Peril: Victorian Perspectives on Technology for the Age of AI

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:30pm
Dr. Taten Shirley
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Perhaps the most relevant question we are facing today, both in and out of the university, is how to deal with AI. In academia, different disciplines handle this question in a myriad of ways, some insisting that to not embrace AI in the classroom is harmful to the students, while others believe the utilization of AI must weaken critical thinking skills. Regardless of the differing opinions on how to use it appropriately, no one disagrees that it is here to stay. Living through the development of this world-changing technology means that we are the ones facing the question of what it means to live well in the age of AI.

 

Mixing Form, Genre, and Media: Call for Essays, Creative Writing, Art, and Translations

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:29pm
Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

A "Melange," sans accent, is a term we use to refer to a work of art of literature that mixes form, genre, and/or media. Princeton University's Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, academic essays on melanges, and melanges in translation. 

To submit, please send the following to melange@princeton.edu

A Two-Day International Conference on Civilizational Literature Texts, Traditions, and Transcultural Dialogues across Civilizations

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:28pm
Organized by Dharwad Katte, in collaboration with Adikavi Sri Maharishi Valmiki University, Raichur, Janata Shikshana Samity, Dharwad and Peter Lang.
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

A Two-Day International Conference on Civilizational Literature Texts, Traditions, and Transcultural Dialogues across Civilizations

 Dates: 13 and 14th March, 2026

Venue: Dharwad, Karnataka, India

Mode: Hybrid

Organized by Dharwad Katte, in collaboration with Adikavi Sri Maharishi Valmiki University, Raichur, Janata Shikshana Samity, Dharwad and Peter Lang.

                                                                           Concept Note

Solidarity!

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:27pm
The Space Between Society and the Feminist Inter/Modernist Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint conference, is geographically, culturally, and historically a space between. Known as “Gate City” because of its key position on the rail network, it is not only a midpoint between the state capital, Raleigh, and North Carolina’s biggest city, Charlotte, but also an entrance to the South. At once an integral part of the region and open to the broader world, it has long exemplified the solidarities as well as the divisions that have marked the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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