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Emerging Scholars: Knowledge Production in Crisis

updated: 
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 5:27pm
Canadian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Special issue of Canadian Literature — seeking work by new, graduate, and/or early-career scholars

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

 

Decolonizing the Mind A Journey through; February 17th 4:30 PM (CET) at https://vroom.ut.ac.ir/ffll1

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 9:49pm
University of Tehran, Iran
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

The University of Tehran English Language Scientific Student Association (UTELSSA) presents:

Decolonizing the Mind: A Journey through

Scholars and students are invited to engage in a series of thought-provoking dialogues that examine the process of decolonizing the mind. This series aims to critically explore and challenge the pervasive influences of colonialism on knowledge, culture, and society. Through interactive discussions, we will delve into the complexities of colonial and postcolonial studies, the significance of decolonial theories, and engage directly with a remarkable author in the field.

Dragons, Posthumanism, and Animality

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

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

Dragon Games and Online Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 1:37am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

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

Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 11:45pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Home: The Space We Claim

updated: 
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 3:15pm
The University of Ottawa
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Call for Papers Home: The Space We Claim March 14-16, 2025

University of Ottawa, English Graduate Student Association 2025 Conference

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition” - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:31am
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Extended Deadline--Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/29 - 5/30/2025, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 10:21am
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

The Sun Also Rises at 100

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

The Sun Also Rises at 100

MLA26: New Voices, New Directions in Milton Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:05am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should bring attention to new work in Milton studies by early career scholars and to innovative approaches by scholars of any rank. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

CFP Conference "Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:03am
Dr. Christian Alonso / VIGEO Universitat de Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

1st International Conference
Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture
14 May 2025: Facultat de Lletres, Universitat de Lleida
15 May 2025: Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Juan Martín Prada (Universidad de Cádiz), Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University), Dr. Joaquín Barriendos (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Dra. Bárbara Fluxá (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Dra. Paula Bruna (artist and researcher), Gabriela Bettini (artist and researcher)

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Marketing & the American Market

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
Richard Nowell, FAMU (The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

 

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

 

ASA 2025: Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 3:20pm
Míša Stekl / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

I would like to (co)organize a panel on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach: 

Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 2:14pm
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England's Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Call for Papers for the inaugural event of CHASE's newly established Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World: Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social,  imaginative. Bordering methods that exert their force on human lives and experiences by ordering statehood, stagnation and citizenship regimes have for long been in discussion. However, the nuances and challenges of the problem are yet to be re-evaluated and re-thought. While discussions of certain geographical areas and lives affected by borders have been in the spotlight, many remained unanalysed and, as a result, invisible.

ASALH Conference Panel - Death and Grief Among Black Communities

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Robin Brooks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

The proposed panel dovetails with this year’s conference theme for ASALH "African American labor." While it is true that “Black labor has been central to political, economic, social, cultural, and technological transformations,” the hardships of that labor and the intricacies of Black lived experiences have also led to all types of death. As people of African descent continue to be accosted on multiple fronts, examining both our historical and present-day experiences around the subject of death is an undertaking worth engaging. In recent years, conversations about the uncomfortable subject of death were facilitated by the pandemic, and several studies have documented the disproportionate mortality rate from COVID-19 for Black people in the United States.

SJSU Department of English and Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
San José State University Department of English and Comparative Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University welcomes proposals for 15-20 minute paper presentations on any topic related to literary studies or creative writing for a one-day conference just for graduate students. 

We will form panels based on the topics/categories of the abstracts that students submit. For one of the panels, we are particularly interested in papers on or related to decolonizing literary studies. The conference will take place on April 25th from 12:30-3pm.

To apply to become a presenter, please send a 250-word abstract of your paper to sjsugradconference@gmail.com by March 25, 2025.

Everywhere Below Canada: The Black South Outside the South

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Modern Languages Association Society of Southern Studies Affiliated Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Everywhere Below Canada: The Black South Outside the South

 

SSSL-Affiliated Session

MLA 2026, Toronto, Canada

January 8-11

 

Exiled Literatures: Women, Displacements, and Archives in the Global Hispanic World

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
MLA 2026 (Toronto Jan. 8-11 2026) Feministas Unidas-Guaranteed Session
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Abstract: Feministas Unidas invites interdisciplinary contributions for its non-guaranteed session in online format for MLA 2026 (Toronto, January 8-11, 2026). Proposals can be submitted even if you are not a member of Feministas Unidas. Now, if accepted, they must register for the periods 2025 and 2026. This call for contributions seeks proposals that examine literatures written by women in the transatlantic orbit, from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on experiences of exile, displacement, and the difficulties faced by both the women and their texts in entering archives.

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

... ACROSS & BEYOND THE EARLY GLOBAL WORLD

April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person]

CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA

Organized by Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA)

and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:35pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

 

English version below

 

La colección Terror. Estudios críticos, dirigida por Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns y localizada en la Universidad de Cádiz (España)busca manuscrito (monografia o colección editada) para año 2026/2027. Las propuestas y los manuscritos deben ser en español. Estamos interesados en un estudio académico (no meramente divulgativo) sobre los films de terror de Jacinto Molina (más conocido como Paul Naschy) realizados en España durante la década de oro del “Fantaterror” (1967-1976). Interesadas/os por favor mandar propuesta junto con CV completo al  email de la colección: coleccion.terror@uca.es hasta el 30 de marzo 2025.

 

Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 9:24am
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

 

Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection

Are you interested in writing a book on an endangered language? Lived Places Publishing invites proposals for its Endangered Language Studies Collection, a series designed to provide engaging and accessible supplementary materials for academic programs.

Comedy: Darkness and Light

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
International Society for Philosophy in Film
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) Fourth Annual Symposium

Call for Abstracts August 28-30, 2025 London, England

https://www.philosophyliterature.com/ispif

Theme: Comedy: Darkness and Light

Abstract Deadline April 15, 2025

Completed papers due July 30, 2025 

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:47am
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 8:36pm
International Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.

You can search for the cfp here:

https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide

I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines: 

Modernity in Translation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Journal: Encounters in translation
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Modernity in Translation

 

Guest Editors

Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA

 

Journal: Encounters in translation – Rencontres en traduction

Diamond open access:
free for authors, free for readers

 

Languages of submission

Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors

           

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