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Call for Papers: Horror Videogames - A Companion

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 6:44pm
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for Papers: Horror Videogames: A Companion

Editors: Dr Connor Jackson and Dr Ewan Kirkland

 

This publication – which is planned for submission to Peter Lang’s Genre Fiction and Film Companions series – aims to provide readers with an accessible yet scholarly overview of the historical, cultural, technological and aesthetic dimensions of the horror videogame, organised around an extensive series of short case studies. Accordingly, we are seeking abstracts for a series of shorter chapters presenting critical analyses of key titles in the genre’s history.

Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 33 (2025)

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 3:41pm
College English Association, Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Mid-Atlantic Review seeks scholarly articles, position papers, short fiction, poems, and pedagogical reflections for its Special 2025 Issue focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the span of a year or two, generative AI has posed unprecedented challenges to and opportunities for higher education, the humanities, and the arts. Intellectual, pedagogical, and artistic engagement with this emerging technology is vital in our current world and this issue of The Mid-Atlantic Review encourages such engagement. We are also looking for original photographs or artwork related to the Mid-Atlantic region. Ethically produced AI art related to the Mid-Atlantic region would be of particular interest for this issue.

When I Knew: Coming Out as a Form of Self-Knowledge

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 3:41pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference - Atlanta, GA - November 6-8, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The process of coming out is often framed as a moment of self-realization, a turning point where individuals gain profound insight into their sexual orientation or gender identity. This panel seeks to explore how literature, film, television, and video games depict the mental, psychological, and emotional processes that LGBT individuals undergo as they recognize and articulate their identities. 

Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 2:51pm
Journal of Food,Culture & Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

We are inviting abstracts of papers on “Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for the Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Q1). In this special issue, we aim to probe into culinary histories and practices as appended to cultural/collective memory, where the idealised and marketable concept of “authenticity” emerges as a “palimpsest” conditioned by competing ideologies of nostalgia and privilege afforded by the ability to relocate.

Now What? What Now?: The 'Writing' Classroom after 2025

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 10:43am
SUNY Council on Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Seismic developments in technology, politics, and cognition are radically transforming the traditional writing classroom, which has been a site of contradiction (and at times controversy) since its formation after the GI Bill and the “democratization” of the university. Whether one starts with Raymond Williams or the New Critics through the Sputnik era, the cultural interventions of the late ’60s and the process movement, or the cultural turn of the ’80s, the “field” on which “the writing classroom” is founded has been a contested zone all along.

NeMLA 2026 Session Proposals

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:13am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The 2026 NeMLA convention will be March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, PA at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.

The NeMLA 2026 convention organizing committee is thrilled to announce the opening plenary and keynote speakers: novelist Simon Han (Nights When Nothing Happened) and feminist luminary Cherríe Moraga (Heroes and Saints, Native Country of the Heart, co-editor with Gloria Anzaldúa of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color).

Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Black Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:13am
Billy Joe Turner Interdisciplinary Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

4th Annual Billy Joe Turner Symposium
Title: Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature
Dates: April 15–17, 2026
Location: Texas Southern University – Houston, TX
Format: In-Person Conference

CFP NEMLA 2026--THE ITALIAN SOUTH AND SOUTHERN (RE)GENERATION

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:13am
NORTH EASTERN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026—The Italian South and Southern (Re)generation 

 

CFP NEMLA 2026--ITALIAN FOOD AS (RE)GENERATION

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:12am
NORTH EASTERN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026--Italian Food as (Re) Generation

The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.

Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, Re-Generation, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or foodway as the locus of creation and re-creation invites us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian, Italian American, and/or wider contexts of the Italian Diaspora.

Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 7:35am
Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Abstracts deadline:15 June 2025.

Publication date:    Summer 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              English, or Finnish

 

Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 6:08am
Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025


CFP for SPECIAL ISSUE

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

Journal:                      Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher:                   The Australian National University
Guest-editors:             Dr. Moussa Pourya Asl & Dr. Roya Monsefi
Abstract deadline:        15 May 2025

Literary Druid - Regular Issue July 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 7:11pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute to learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

CFP PAMLA 2025-Italian and Italian American Foodways

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:47pm
PACIFIC ANCIENT & MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Please consider submitting an abstract for PAMLA 2025--Italian and Italian American Foodways.

The conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from Nov 20-Nov 23, 2025. The extended deadline for abstracts is June 30th, 2025.

Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.

In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2025 theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" as represented through food in Italian and Italian American media and literature.

I Symposium on Archipelagic Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:47pm
University of Madeira, CEComp University of Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.

 

Mad Max Franchise: An Edited Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Sarah Gawronski / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for papers:  Essays for an edited collection about the Mad Max franchise 

Sarah Gawronski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

 

Name / Organization (or Independent Scholar)

Contact info: sarahmgawronski@gmail.com

 

Call for Assignments on Race and Dis/ability

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 9, 2025

Deadline extended to June 9

 


 

Overview

 

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.


 

Full Solicitation

 

Narrativas latinoamericanas sobre el miedo, siglos XX y XXI

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.

Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Kate Koppy (NES) and Elitza Kotzeva (AUA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for Chapters

Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

an edited collection with The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Book Series 

from The WAC Clearinghouse

Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2025

Contact:  decolonialwritingbook@gmail.com

Renaissance Ecologies – 7th Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
University of Gothenburg
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis.

Veterans Studies Panel, PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

CFP PAMLA 2025--ITALIAN CINEMA STANDING SESSION

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
PACIFIC ANCIENT & MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Please consider sending an abstract for the Standing Session on Italian Cinema PAMLA 2025. The extended deadline is June 30th, 2025.

Moviegoers in Italy have long gone to the cinema to make sense of Italian history, particularly in regard to socio-political issues and questions. For the 122nd edition of the PAMLA conference, we would like to ask presenters for the “Italian Cinema” session to think about Italy’s cinema as a mode of collective history-making, but also a collective space where structured forms of forgetting also occur. We thus invite proposals related to this year’s theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” as well as those unrelated.

We have also extended the topic to include Italian American Film and TV series.

The 53rd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.

 

Indigeneity in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Concept Note

Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Online Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:45pm
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

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