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Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 12:41pm
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 11:21am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries around the world.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have over 50 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 11:21am
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.

We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.

Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth. 

Upcoming deadline: CFP The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:56am
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium

Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture

Date: 19 September 2025

Location: Online

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)

Bloomsbury's Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:35am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. More than 100 books have already appeared in the series.

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:35am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. 

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:35am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. More than 40 books have already appeared in the series.

UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII (9/18-20)

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 10:23am
University of Virginia-Wise Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 3:46am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, June 23, 2025 - 1:17am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 9:32pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** June Issue***

Submission System

Scope & Topics                                                  

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 CFP for ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION

updated: 
Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 7:33pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 15th by 5pm EST

 Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu

 The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

 We are seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference.

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

updated: 
Sunday, June 22, 2025 - 1:06pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

Extended 2025: "Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously."

updated: 
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 10:57pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 29, 2025

"Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously"

 

This roundtable encourages classroom narratives of successful moments teaching texts in a virtual learning management system (LMS) space. Considerations for using open educational resources (OER), novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels, readers, articles, films, or other texts are welcome. Classes can be composition- or literature-based and presentations may focus on the strategy, challenge, or the selection of texts.

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026

updated: 
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 6:11am
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 11, 2026

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

Global K-Culture Conference (Deadline extended)

updated: 
Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 4:35am
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Global K-Culture Conference

August 28 (Thu) ~ August 29 (Fri), 2025 (2 days)

Chungbuk National University, Korea

https://kculture.chungbuk.ac.kr/

 

Keynote Speakers

 

Hyung-jin Lee (Sookmyung Women’s University)

Topic: “K-culture and Translation“ (TBA)

 

Ji Hyeon Kim (Hanyang University)

Topic: “K-culture and Media Platform” (TBA)

 

 

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

updated: 
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 4:19pm
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Published by Penn State University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation

Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

 

Special issue editors:

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India

 

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

updated: 
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 12:01pm
Foundation for Developed India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

Organised by 

Foundation for Developed India

 

20th September, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Concept Note:

Embodied Masculinities: Reconfiguring the Hegemony

updated: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 9:07pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Feminist scholar Peggy Phelan (1993) famously said that “visibility is a trap” and argued for the immense power of the unmarked. Such a theory of the unmarked finds utmost relevance in the case of what R.W. Connell calls hegemonic masculinity, which often maintains its superiority by being the norm and thus abstract, untraceable. However, material bodily practices among marginalized groups of men often subvert such invisibility tactics, expose the nodes of hegemonic and normative masculinities, and articulate a language of resistance. For example, dance scholar Mark Broomfield (2024) observes that black gay male dancers in America use “straight acting” as a way of passing and surviving in a world where white heterosexual masculinity is the norm.

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