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We invite you to submit scholarly or creative work to the 91st Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association. As a regional affiliate of the College English Association, anyone in our region (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky) is encouraged to participate.
This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.
CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026
The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.
The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.
CFP:
Actors, Acting, and Activism: Performing Eugene O’Neill’s Plays
Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas
Deadline to indicate interest: May 15
Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS
The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:
CFP: Football and Performance
Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh
We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance. Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?
Please see here for full details: https://www.wethecivic.org/submit
Scroll to the bottom of this page for submission form: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/wtc/
Essays, Reported Pieces, Criticism, Art & Visual, Video & Hybrid Forms
In 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a document that promised liberty and justice for all and delivered them to very few.
This anniversary will be loud. It will be choreographed.
And Nonprofit Quarterly, in community with nonprofit and media partners, will contest it.
Poverty in the South is too often discussed at a distance. Flattened into stereotype, policy language, nostalgia, or shame, it is rarely given the complexity, dignity, and literary force it deserves.
Hand to Mouth seeks new work by Southern writers whose lives have been shaped by poverty. We are interested in writing that reflects on poverty as lived experience, inherited condition, social structure, class passage, stigma, kinship, resourcefulness, hunger, desire, labor, and survival.
Mike Flanagan has emerged over the past fifteen years as one of the most prolific and recognizable horror creators in film and television, working across low-budget independent cinema, studio-backed films, and prestige limited series. Yet despite his prominence, versatility, and authorial trademarks, especially his collaborations with recurring actors and other artistic partners, he has received little sustained scholarly attention.
As Section Editor for The Latinx and Hispanic Experience, I am reaching out to invite you to submit a chapter to this section of the forthcoming volume, The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, edited by Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, Dr. Jamie Penven, and Dr. Theodore Ransaw.
Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu
Chênière journal call-for-papers
Volume 10
Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its tenth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.
This panel invites discussions of Steinbeck's complicated imagination of American life and culture in his novels and nonfiction. Alternately fraught and adoring, critical and laudatory, his works attend with specificity to Americanness as a unique and discernible identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Especially encouraged are papers that attend to the tensions and disjunctures in Steinbeck’s descriptions of American society, including his treatment of gender, decolonial readings of his novels, and approaches that expose often contradictory relationships that extend among people, places, and power in his body of work.
Part of the PAMLA Conference in Seattle, WA from November 12, 2026 - November 15, 2026.
LFA 2026: ADAPTATION/NATION
LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Elon University, Elon, NC
October 1st – 3rd 2026
DEADLINE UPDATED TO JUNE 1ST 2026 due to late application demand. Please continue to share widely.
CFP: “American Carnage”
Canadian Association for American Studies, October 23-25, 2026 (In person at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
NEW: Visit our website: https://american-carnage.ca
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]
http://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html
ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)
*** May Issue***
Call for papers
PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference
2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.
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You are invited to submit a paper to the session "Passing Novels Now and Then:Gender, Class" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
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You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "(Almost) Fifty Tears Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Cultural History:
As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.
The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment.
I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions. I encourage you to invite friends/colleagues outside of the Appalachian region, too.
Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference
30 September – 2 October 2026
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin
Keynotes: Jenny Stümer (Universität Heidelberg) | Dan Hassler-Forest (Utrecht University)
The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026.
Panel proposal #6 for the ASAP 17 Conference
Madison, WI | October 15-17, 2026
How Soon is Now? Co-Constructing Hope for the Collective Present
In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.
Call For Papers: American Book Review Focus on “Drama and Resistance” I will be guest editing and contributing an introduction that situates a collection on “Drama and Resistance” within the postmodern/post-World War II era for the literary journal American Book Review. The topic is inclusive of contemporary American drama. For this collection, I’ve been asked to solicit 8-10 short essays and book reviews on this topic that are roughly 1,500 words each (or 6/7 pages double-spaced).
The Society of Early Americanists’ 15th Biennial Conference // Chicago, March 18-20, 2027
Early America through Critical Heritage Studies
Organized by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
As the section editor for The Queer Experience, I invite you to submit a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.
The Queer Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender identity, sexuality, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of queer people in society at the present moment.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Send your abstracts to: congress@iasa-world.org by 31st May, 2026.