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British Literature and Culture: Long 19th Century

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:08pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference 2025 in San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstract

Any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome. Of particular interest are proposals focusing on authors or works not typically discussed, and proposals that connect to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion."

Description

While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture from this period are welcome, these topics are of particular interest:

• The remembered and the forgotten

• Photography

• Romantic memory

CfP: Yaşar Kemal – Literary Aesthetics, Cultural Resonance, and Enduring Legacy

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:08pm
Routledge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We invite contributions for an upcoming edited volume on Yaşar Kemal, one of the most influential figures in Turkish literature and world literature. Despite Kemal’s international acclaim and extensive literary output, no comprehensive edited volume in English has yet been published. This book aims to fill that gap by offering critical perspectives on Kemal’s literary aesthetics, social engagement, and cultural legacy.

Scope and Themes

We welcome contributions from diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Style and Aesthetics

o Narrative structures, use of folklore, and oral storytelling traditions

Call For Papers for The Renaissance Conference of Southern California 67th Annual Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
THE RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA67th Annual ConferenceSaturday, 01 November 2025We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 67th Annual Conference, to be held at Chapman University, in conjunction with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, and the Bernardino Telesio Professorship in Italian Studies CALL FOR PAPERS:RENAISSANCE ADAPTATIONS The RCSC, a regional affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America, welcomes proposals for both papers and complete panels on the full range of Renaissance disciplines (including Art, Architecture, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Theater, Language and L

Bryher's Influence on Modernist Writing

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:05pm
Kristina Marie Darling, Editor
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This volume, under contract with Bloomsbury, will focus on the intersection of Bryher’s work as a writer and filmmaker/critic. Although her contemporaries, particularly H.D., are widely known, Bryher’s far-reaching influence is largely overlooked by scholars of Modernism.  With that in mind, I'm thrilled to invite essays that explore Bryher's writings, letters, and films, as well as her influence on other creative practitioners.  Please send essays by June 30th, 2025 to Kristina Marie Darling, the volume's editor.  Essays of any length are welcome for consideration.  

Call for Papers (Vol.4, N.1): Critical Approaches to Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 9:44am
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online, double-blind peer-reviewed journal from the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently accepting article and review submissions for the first issue of its Volume 4 until 30 June 2025. The previous issue featured reflections, in the form of articles and interviews, on the life/death dichotomy, approached from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative perspective. In 2025, we are launching estrema's first call for papers specifically focused on a particular field of study: Speculative Fiction.

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 6:37am
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship for California Creative Writers of Color

updated: 
Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 4:34pm
Muses & Melanin Fellowship
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship is a hybrid, fully funded, eight-month professional development program for talented California BIPOC creative writers who aspire to become professional authors. To be eligible, applicants must not:

Call for Book Review Editor -- RALS

updated: 
Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 12:37pm
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Book Review Editor, Resources for American Literary Study

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS) invites applications for the position of Book Review Editor. Founded in 1971 and published biannually by Penn State University Press, RALS is a peer-reviewed journal focusing upon archival and bibliographical approaches to American literature across all periods and genres.

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse: Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

updated: 
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 3:49pm
Cenk Tan and Ercan Gürova
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:

Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

CFP CLOSED - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST -

Editors’ Introduction

Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology

updated: 
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 1:05pm
Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

  • Cultural responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis (fine arts, film, popular visual culture, activism)
  • Feminist New Wave Cinema

  • Trans Cinema

  • Textiles, fiber arts, weaving screens  

  • The Culture and Politics of Gaming
  • Health Humanities

  • Graphic Medicine

  • Social Media  

We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words). 

Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South

updated: 
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 1:46am
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

 

The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on  “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”

Transformers and SOGIE: Call for Proposals for Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 8:59pm
Daniel M. Look
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Title: TBD, but potentials include:

  • ‘Til All Are One: Gender, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/Gender Expression (SOGIE) in Transformers

Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look

Description / Call for Papers:

We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.

PAMLA 2025: American Literature Post-1945 (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:52pm
Pacific Modern Language Association_American Post-45 Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life are all welcome.  

PAMLA 2025: Anger and Frustration in Contemporary American Women's Fiction [Deadline Extended]

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:51pm
Pacific Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Many mainstream media outlets have observed an uptick in the mainstream popularity of American women's fiction that center on rage-filled female characters or that express anger at contemporary society. The complicated aftermath of second-wave feminism has in some ways enabled women to speak more frankly about their bodies, desires, and experiences, but these forms of sexual and social liberation of the past several decades have led to a strong backlash against reproductive freedom and a resurgent public-sphere misogyny; many feminist critics have also noticed that media discussions of progress for women—how many female CEO’s run Fortune 500 companies, for instance—have silenced structural critique of a patriarchal society.

CFP: Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST), Fall 2025 General Issue

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 4:41pm
Journal of American Studies of Turkey
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies Essays due June 30

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 3:54pm
Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025

Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25, book reviews (2,000 words) due 31/07/25.

JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue. 

Articles that centre the broad themes of 'Collaboration, Influence, Impact' are particularly welcome. Articles (c.6,500 words inclusive of Bibliography) should be formatted using MLA, with in-text citations.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 2:12pm
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 10, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

(Deadline Is Today!) Call For Book Chapters: Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce: Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 1:59pm
Amir Gilmore, Washington State University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Call For Book Chapters

Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:

Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University

 

“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013) 

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction--EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 10:04am
Science Fiction Film and Television
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction 

Guest Editors: Burcu Kuheylan, Milt Moise, Nicholas Orlando

contact email: projectscifi.appletv@gmail.com

EXTENDED DEADLINE—Abstracts due May 21, 2025 

In this special issue of the journal, editors seek scholarly articles that contextualize and critique AppleTV+ and its production of science fiction television against the tumultuous Zeitgeist of post-2016.   

EXTENDED: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 8:04pm
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

We are seeking submissions for a special issue (titled: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance) for the peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.  
  
As disability scholar Tobin Siebers states, “Disability is properly speaking an aesthetic value, which is to say, it participates in a system of knowledge that provides materials for and increases critical consciousness about the way that some bodies make other bodies feel.” (1)   

(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 5:34pm
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

 

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

 

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

12-13th December 2025

 

 

Call for papers

Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 1:19pm
Visual Theology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

Visual Theology III Beauty and Faith
Part One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
Roger Scruton

Beauty and Faith is a two-part conference, the first of which will take place in New York City, 24-26 October 2025, and the second part in the UK, summer 2026. (Details forthcoming.)

W. B. Yeats: Dubliner

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:54am
International Yeats Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 16, 2025

W. B. YEATS: DUBLINER

The 2025 Conference of the International Yeats Society

30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin

 

Call for Chapters | Cultural Memory in Translation: Revisiting Cultural Memory Through Interpretative Lens

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:54am
Dhairya Barot, P P Savani University, INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

The book is part of the Scholarly Collection Series and seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into cultural memory studies and further uncover the dimensions of translation and transmission of cultural memory through various media.

 EDITORS

Dr. Ananta Geetey Uppal, Professor of English and Business Communication, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India
Dhairya Barot, Assistant Professor of English, School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies, P P Savani University, India

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.


 

AFFECTIVE PASSAGE IN TOXIC TIMES. FASHION AND JOY AS RESISTANCE- Fashion Highlight Journal

updated: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 10:54am
Università degli Studi di Firenze
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The amplification of right-wing, fascist rhetoric in 2025 is manifesting material effects on the lives of women, trans and queer communities, disabled persons, and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). It is a system being visibly re-organised to undo the work of feminists and other activists and exacerbate structural and systemic racism so as to dictate who will serve and whose interests will be served. In their treatise, Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis (2023, p. 2)  write that in spaces of continued “colonialism, fascism, and violent nationalisms”, developing the “theoretical tools necessary to engage with the ongoing production of race and racisms” is a necessary and urgent task.

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