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South Asian Expressions: Reimagining Narratives, Histories, and Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 4:48am
Editors, South Asian Expressions: Reimagining Narratives, Histories, and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

South Asian Expressions: Reimagining Narratives, Histories, and Cultures

South Asian literature presents an intricate and layered depiction of the life, history, and identity of the people within their geopolitical spaces of belonging and beyond. These narratives delve into the socio-political complexities, cultural tensions, and resilient identities shaped by colonial legacies and postcolonial realities. Addressing themes such as the impact of British colonialism and the upheavals of national and cultural divisions, this body of literature intricately portrays intersections of gender, caste, religion, and class, capturing the evolving dimensions of South Asian identity.

Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:12pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Hiding Behind Trees: Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature and Culture

Guaranteed Session at MLA 2026 (Toronto, Jan. 8-11), sponsored by the Children's Literature Association

This panel seeks papers that consider the role of anthropomorphism in children’s literature and culture.

Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?

Readers Needed for "Author Meets Readers" Roundtable

updated: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025 - 8:51pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable

 

American Studies Association Conference

November 20th-23rd

San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March. 

 

Please email me by January 31st  if you’re interested.

ASA 2025: Children & History of Medicine

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:31pm
Mary Zaborskis
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

This American Studies Association 2025 panel seeks papers that consider the role of children and childhood in histories of medicine. From experiments across medical, scientific, and social scientific disciplines to issues of consent and privacy to interventions that delimit trajectories of child development, histories of medicine have helped shape childhoods–its bounds, temporalities, and norms–and children have helped to shape medicine–its protocols, rationales, and knowledges. 

Dragons in Fairy Tales

updated: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 12:59am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered. 

Please be advised that dragons are the primary focus of the collection. I have received several abstracts about fairy tales in general, and I apologize for any confusion caused by the CFP. All chapters must discuss dragons in some way.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

The Place of Franchises in American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:58am
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Nancy Drew and Sookie Stackhouse. The Executioner and Sweet Valley High. Warhammer or Star Wars tie-in novels. Franchise series like these occupy a unique position, inspiring voracious (often young) readers while often complicating traditional scholarly approaches to literature.

We seek 15-minute papers for a prospective panel on franchise fiction, mass market books, and pulp at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025.

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:29am
Wheaton College MA English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com 

 

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025. 

 

"Tessering through Career Transitions" (ChLA "Building a Career" Panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:50am
Children's Literature Association (ChLA) Membership Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

The professional journey of children’s and young adult literature scholars, librarians, and educators often involves significant transitions. These transitions present unique opportunities and challenges, often requiring redefinition of identity, reevaluation of goals, and the navigation of new professional landscapes. For this year’s “Building a Career Panel,” the Membership Committee invites proposals for an interactive workshop panel that explores the diverse experiences of career transitions within the field of children’s and young adult literature.

"It’s About Time!" (Syllabus Swap Panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:49am
Children's Literature Association (ChLA) Membership Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

The times, they are a changing! AI, book bans, changes in student populations, the rise of the neoliberal university, and more are changing how we engage with children's literature in the classroom. With all these changes, what is it about time we talk about?

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF FANTASY LITERATURE STUDIES MAGIC FARE: GASTRONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF FANTASY WORLDBUILDING

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

hosted online on 15–16 January 2025, at 11 am (+2 GMT)

 

Anyone, then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs.

Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

 

The Green Fuse - Nature in Fantasy

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:19pm
Dr Kevan Manwaring/British Fantasy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In this special issue we will look at environmental aspects of Fantasy. Since its very earliest manifestations, in taproot texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fantasy has been entangled with the natural and supernatural world.

‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.’
Dylan Thomas

Call for Chapters on "Storied Citizenship"

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 6:03am
Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

EXTENSION: CFP: Children’s/Young Adult Culture at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:05am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

 

Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:19am
Litwin Books
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

For a generation, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise was emblematic of heroism, fighting against adversity, and inclusion of outsiders. This is why Rowling’s arguable alignment of herself, in 2020 and since, with transphobic and trans-exclusionary rhetoric felt like such a betrayal to many of her readers, prompting a revaluation of her work and what it means to them now. With the co-edited collection Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter, we intend for contributors to explore the matter of what we collectively do with Harry Potter in the wake of its creator’s very public turn. Some readers have favored a careful delineation between author and work; others have regretfully concluded that no such delineation is possible.

Conference for Young Adult Literature Louisiana (CYALL) Call for Proposals

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:27pm
Conference for Young Adult Literature - Louisiana (CYALL)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

The Conference for Young Adult Literature Louisiana (CYALL) is accepting proposals for papers, slide presentations, lightning talks, and 20x20 sessions. The conference is a forum to discuss, demonstrate, and champion learning strategies in teaching young adult literature. College faculty, graduate students, librarians, authors, K-12 educators, and scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers and presentations on all aspects of YA literature and media.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is February 15, 2025 

The conference will be held on April 11, 2025 and will be onsite.

Family Fictions: Generations and Genealogies in European Culture

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:12pm
KU Leuven
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Family Fictions
Generations and Genealogies in European Culture

15- 17. 05. 2025, KU Leuven

Keynotes:
Prof. Stefan Willer (Humboldt University)
Prof. David Amigoni (Keele University)
Dr. Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children's Literature in An Era of Heightened Censorship

updated: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 11:46am
Danielle Russell, Glendon College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship

In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?

Engaging young people with the climate emergency through literature.

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:35am
University of Gloucestershire / University of Minnesota
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We are seeking chapters for an edited book with the provisional title: Engaging young people with the climate emergency through literature. We are currently working with Bristol University Press to get this project off the ground.

INSAP 2025: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
The Conferences on The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Call for Papers: INSAP XIII: Celestial Connections Across Time and Space(Queen’s University Belfast, 8-13 June 2025)

 

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the INSAP XIII conference Celestial Connections Across Time and Space. This conference aims to bring together scholars, artists, and scientists from various disciplines to explore the multifaceted relationships between the skies - be it the stars, planets, or other celestial phenomena - and their influence across cultures, histories, and fields of study. INSAP’s purpose from its inception has been to foster a dialogue that bridges the gap between the sciences and the arts, encouraging a holistic understanding of the universe.

 

Literary Musings - Regular Issue December 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459
Academic Journal
Research Academy

Literary Druid - Regular Issue October 2024

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:34am
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for 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.

Call for Abstracts: Two-Day In-person/Offline Conference on “Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 1:51am
Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Conference Theme: Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture (In-person/Offline)

Name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Conference coordinators: Srirupa Chatterjee (Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH) and Anandita Pan (Assistant Professor, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH)

 

Conference dates: Feb 28 - March 1, 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

 

CFP: Children’s/Young Adult Culture at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 2:00am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

Companionship in Literature and Cultural Studies

updated: 
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 7:06am
University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to submit your original research articles and review papers in the forthcoming special issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia devoted to the concept of companionship in its various social, technological, historical manifestations.

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