Call for Chapter Proposals
Call for Papers: Islamic Shakespeares
Edited by Dr. Önder Çakırtaş and Prof. Paul Innes
We invite scholars to contribute to Islamic Shakespeares, an upcoming edited volume that explores the intersections between Shakespeare and Islamic cultures, traditions, and identities in various historical, theatrical, and literary contexts. This volume seeks to investigate how Shakespeare has been engaged with, adapted, and reimagined in relation to Islam, whether through performance, translation, critical discourse, or cultural reception.
Potential Topics Include, but are not limited to:
Special issue of Brontë Studies: Re-mapping the Brontës
Inspired by the Brontë Society’s 2025 conference, '"Under an African summer’s sun": Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire', Brontë Studies, the official journal of the Brontë Society, invites the submission of new and original research articles for a Special Issue in 2026 on the Brontës and their real and imagined locations.
Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize 2025
Brontë Studies is pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 iteration of the Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize. The prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Japanese Video Games and Critiques of the Western Aesthetic Tradition
Deadline Extended to 30 April 2025
Not Without Laughter: Tracing Humour in African American Literature Across the Ages
Not Without Laughter: Tracing Humour in African American Literature Across the Ages
Many philosophers, from Aristotle to Hobbes, Freud to Schopenhauer, Spencer to Peter McGraw, have given interesting insights on matters concerning humour, comedy, and laughter. While the classical theories of humour, namely the superiority theory, the incongruity theory, and the relief theory, discuss the fundamental nature of humour, its evolved forms, such as the benign violation theory, provide a more compact version of the same. Nevertheless, humour is pervasive and can be witnessed in all aspects of life.
Crime and Hope for Justice: Criminality and Violence in Web Series, Cinema and Fiction in the 21st Century
Call For Paper
“History provides numerous examples of people who were convinced that they were doing the right thing and committed terrible crimes because of it.”
---Christopher Paolini
Call for papers: Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
【Special Issue】Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment
Guest editor
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za
CALL FOR PAPERS
ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus
BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition)
Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas
An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture
Call for Papers
An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025
Jeju National University
South Korea
Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective
Georgia Philological Association CFP
The GPA is accepting submissions for a special edition of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association on the 19th century. Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy as they relate to the 19th century will be considered.
Please send submissions to Nate Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by April 30, 2025.
Please visit our website for information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php
Call for Papers: Special Issue of English Studies on Digital Humanities and the English Novel
Call for Papers: Special Issue of English Studies on Digital Humanities and the English Novel
We are pleased to invite submissions for a special issue of English Studies on the intersection of digital humanities (DH) and the study of the English novel. This special issue aims to push the boundaries of how we understand the novel as a genre by leveraging computational and quantitative methods to explore form, structure, and themes in English fiction. We invite scholars from both the digital humanities and literary studies to contribute to this exciting and interdisciplinary dialogue.
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Introducing the Privileged Logics Blog: A New Hub for Crucial Conversations
In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue.
MMLA-African American Literature Permanent Section
The African American Literature Permanent Section of the Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from potential panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Informed by this year’s conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this section is calling for scholarly work that ties literature written by Black Americans to concepts of hope and its relationship to artistic production. Potential questions to address include, but are in no way limited to: How have representations of hope in Black American literature shifted across the centuries? What do depictions of hope look like when it has been disrupted or challenged?
(De)Constructions of the Future
Call for Articles:
Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, XVI (2026)
Edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus
(De)Constructions of the Future
Call for Papers - Special Issue: The Marriage Plot, 'Post'-Marriage
In a 2023 piece in the London Review of Books,Maylin Hays asks,“In the post-marriage era, what happens to the marriage plot?” Despite being in the midst of this alleged “post-marriage era,” conversations about marriage seem to be animating public discourse more than ever—from wildly popular “trad wife” influencers on social media, to the increasing frequency of conversations about gendered household labor in marriage self-help books like Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play (2019) and Kate Mangino’s Equal Partners (2022), to the recent rise in divorce memoirs like Lyz Lenz’s This American Ex-Wife (2024).
Queer Palimpsests
Abstract
Queer palimpsests are texts from which queerness has been erased – but only on the surface. Scholars, therefore, are invited to reinvestigate these texts and their underlying queerness. This project includes books, movies, songs, fashion, artifacts, architecture, archives… a queer excavation in order to indicate the traces, specters, echoes, or presences of the past that remain even as many past narrative elements, structures, or tropes are forgotten.
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Hope in African Literatures
The African Literature Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s convention which will be held in person in Milwaukee, WI.
"The Humanities is Where Hope Lives” for MMLA's Creative Writing II: Poetry
The Creative Writing II: Poetry permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks creative, critical, and hybrid proposals that connect to this year’s convention theme of "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”. We are particularly interested in presentations from poets and poet-scholars who engage with the value of the Humanities in languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies. Any humanities-oriented poetics and praxis are welcome to address any element of these considerations that are pertinent to the discussion.
Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section [MMLA 25]
CFP Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section
Chair: Keegan Lannon, University of Illinois – Chicago.
Conference: Nov 14-16, 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
What Does Hope Look Like?
If it is true, as the CFP for this conference notes, that “hope can be found in the Humanities,” then comics and graphic novels offer a unique glimpse into that hope by drawing on the media affordances of prose and the visual arts. Comics let us “see” hope and optimism is ways other media are unable to.
ELINET LEM Early Career Researcher Workshop
The Language Education and Multilingualism (LEM) Strand of ELINET is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the ELINET LEM Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop, which will be held virtually on May 23, 2025. This workshop is an opportunity for ECRs in language education and multilingualism to present their research to an international academic audience, engage in discussions, receive feedback, and connect with peers and experts. With this workshop, we aim to promote multilingual education research and policy development by engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue and encouraging collaboration and professional networking.
Location: Online
Submission Deadline: 31-Mar-2025
Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen
Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen
Saturday 21st June 2025
Falmouth University
This freein-person symposium will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of Bonkbusters, Soap Operas and Made-for-TV Melodramas.
CfP: Research Network “Ephemeral Epistemologies and Encounters”
We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into dialogue various questions about ephemerality, specifically examining how different fleeting forms of expression are implicated in the continual making and unmaking of proximities, both human and non-human, producing “a matter of temporary intensities and pacts amongst people” and other entities (Vélez-Serna, 14).
The Great Literary Roast: Giving Fictional Characters the Critique They Deserve.
Literature and film are filled with characters whose choices shape worlds, inspire audiences, and sometimes make no sense at all. This session takes a playful yet insightful approach to the conference theme of Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion by examining how cultural memory preserves, distorts, or over-glorifies certain fictional figures. Through witty critiques and audience participation, we’ll interrogate why some characters remain revered despite glaring flaws while others are unfairly forgotten or misunderstood. What does our collective memory choose to retain, and what are we rewriting with each new adaptation, retelling, or reinterpretation?
THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO
The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting
THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO
Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS / ACAS 2025
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2025
Multiple-Births in Literature
This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.
Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism
MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism
Deadline: April 24th, 2025
For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.
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Cultural History; PAMLA (November 20-23, 2025)
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Cultural History
Do Animals Hope?
MMLA 2025 Animal Studies Panel
“Do Animals Hope?”
Although many books have been written on hope for non-human animals, their collective or individual survival, this session invites proposals on hope by non-human animals, or representations of such hope. Many different approaches are welcome—literary critical, ethnographic (human or animal), environmental studies, affect studies, thought experiments. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract to Lucinda Cole (lcol@illinois.edu) by April 14, 2025.
Virtual session