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47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open: September 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025
The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.
Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art
deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2025
full name / name of organization:
Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe
contact email:
CulturalConstellations-Europe@UMGC.edu
For Reference:
https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...
Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
2026 Conference | 12–14 March 2026 | Cincinnati, Ohio
“To Give Them All A Welcome To Our Shores”:
Immigrant Voices and Advocates in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
organized by the Margaret Fuller Society
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, to take place in Louisville, Kentucky, February 16-21. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”
Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados
Co-edited by Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) and Evelyn Soto (Rutgers University—New Brunswick)
Deadline: January 15, 2026
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature**
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We invite contributions for the next volume of our series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume will explore current directions in language and linguistic studies, language pedagogy, and applied linguistics, with the goal of highlighting innovative approaches to teaching, research, and practice.
Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We are delighted to invite contributions for the upcoming third volume of our book series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume turns its focus to postcolonial approaches in literary studies, bringing together scholarship that explores the cultural, political, and historical dimensions of literature shaped by colonial encounters and their legacies.
https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19446
This panel seeks papers that explore how American literature has shaped--and been shaped by--knowledge of the natural world, from the transcendental reflections of the 19th century to contemporary ecofeminst and ecocritical perspectives. How have authors translated environmental observation and ecological awareness into literary forms of knowledge? How does nature writing reflect evolving understandings of identity, power, science, and stewardship.
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The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) was released by the director’s production company, Proximity Media, to massive fanfare. According to The Tennessee Tribune, Sinners is the first horror film in thirty-five years to earn a grade of ‘A’ on CinemaScore exit polls and boasts “nearly unanimous rave reviews” (April 24-30, 2025). A massive box office success, Sinners raked in a stunning $45.6 million during its debut weekend. This figure, as well as other factors, have invited comparisons to Jordan Peele’s Us (2019), the current record holder for biggest debut of an original film ($71 million).
The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism. From the expansion of executive power to attacks on voting rights, judicial independence, and press freedoms, many of the traditional pillars of U.S. liberal democracy are under threat. However, illiberalism is not new to the American experience.
37th Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference
DeLand, Florida
April 17-18, 2026
Call for Papers
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization of over 200 members worldwide, invites paper proposals on topics related to Rawlings’s life and works.
Topics might include the following:
Book Chapters on Severance for Edited Collection on Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture contact email: neoliberalismandaffect@gmail.com
“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)
ReFocus: The Films of Gerard Damiano
Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.
From the iconic Orient Express to the shadowy alleys of urban noir, and to the contemporary invisible highways of cyberspace, transportation and mobility have long played an important role in crime fiction. Traditional detective fiction often relied on transportation as both setting and symbol, underscoring how mobility can conceal, isolate, or reveal, shaping the very structure of mystery and detection. In the digital age, mobility is no longer confined to physical movement; it also encompasses virtual travel, data flows, and algorithmic surveillance.
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Special Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review: Williams’s Latin American and Caribbean Heritage
ASANOR biannual conference 2026
June 4-6, Kristiansand, Norway CONSTITUTING THE US IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025
https://asanor.org/2026-conference/
The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Conference looks back to its early years for inspiration. The very first themed ASANOR seminar was titled “The Bicentennial of the US Constitution.” Many years later we return to this document, not only to revisit its cultural and historical significance but also to ask what it means to invoke the Constitution now, in a time of intensifying democratic crisis and rising illiberalism.
Call for Proposals: Edited volume on screenwriter, actor, director, and comedienne Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS
The Works of Elaine May
Edited by Jonathan Winchell
This edited volume on the works of Elaine May will be a book in the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished chapters on Elaine May’s work as a screenwriter and comedy writer. Final chapters will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers.
Please note the extended deadline of September 1, 2025, for proposals
CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2
Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)
and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)
We are soliciting scholarly essays (5,000-8,000 words) for inclusion in a follow-up volume to
our edited collection, Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, published
'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2025 issue
Theme for Fall 2025 issue: "Voices in Transition”
This theme explores moments of change, transformation, and evolution in our
personal and collective experiences - whether it's seasonal transitions, life
phases, social changes, or internal shifts in perspective.
Website: The Soliloquist Journal
SUBTHEMES:
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Feb. 19-21, 2026, at the University of Louisville (https://artsandsciences.louisville.edu/news-events/conferences/louisville-conference-literature-and-culture).
Rhetorical Society of America Conference
May 21-24, 2026
Portland, OR
“An Unassailable and Monumental Dignity”: Baldwin’s Rhetoric of Struggle
In 1963, speaking to a group of Oakland high school students about organizing for rights, suffrage, and economic change James Baldwin remarked that, “The measure of one’s dignity depends on one’s estimate of one’s self.” Dignity, for Baldwin, was born of independence, and forged through struggle against an oppressive social structure.
In Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1886 short story “A White Heron”, young protagonist Sylvia is approached by an itinerant hunter and asked to expose the location of the white heron’s nest. The threat to health, growth, and integrity here is complex, both for Sylvia and the heron, as well as the hunter. The central concept of the nest, as a space simultaneously protected and vulnerable, mundane and coveted, nourishing and abused, is an influential object and space in the narrative.
As Toni Morrison notes in Playing in the Dark, the construction of Africanist ideologies that misread and/or misrepresent Black identities is as American as apple pie. The white gaze has historically and contemporaneously controlled what is known and unknown about African Americans, just as the ingestion of Africanist ideologies has shaped how many people of the African diaspora see themselves. However, the cultural productions of African American people have frequently not only asserted the heterogeneity of African American communities, contesting Africanist collectivization, but have also affirmed ways of knowing beyond the cultural and systemic erasure of Black personhood and agency.
Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war.”