eighteenth century

Full cfp here: https://www.sal.org.uk/2026/07/crd-cfp/

Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas (father as well as son), William Wordsworth, Percy B. Shelley, Friedrich Hölderlin, G.W.F. Hegel… The list of writers from the era conventionally identified as “Romantic” to have become enthusiastic about the French Revolution could keep on going indefinitely. In fact, ever since the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1765, through the French and the Haitian Revolutions throughout the 1790’s, all the way to 1848, the year that de-politicized Charles Baudelaire (according to his letter from May 5, 1852 to Narcisse Ancelle), literary production seems to have been inseparable from the process of building after and thinking social revolution.

Call for Papers | Society of Early Americanists

American Literature Association | “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, and Traditions”

November 5–7, 2026 | Santa Fe, NM

The Novel in/and Early America

For this upcoming ALA Symposium, the SEA invites papers and presentations that deal with any aspect of “The American Novel: Forms, Genres, and Traditions” prior to (approximately) 1830. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

How do female characters employ their bodies to navigate, process, and challenge the cultural and socioeconomic structures of their times? Under the antagonistic system where the pursuit of “good life” is no longer plausible, how do women across different cultures, historical periods, and geopolitical contexts respond by utilizing their bodily autonomy and agency? This panel invites papers that critically investigate female bodily representation in the context of empowerment and change. In particular, this panel is interested in literary analyses that focus on the subtle yet tangible (dis)orientation of female bodies in and out of public spaces.

MLA 2027 - Just-in-Time Session Proposal

Conference Date: January 7 to 10, 2027. 
Location: (Los Angeles, CA)
Submission Deadline: (August 17th, 2026)

TITLE: Many Stories, One History: Re-examining the Diverse Coalition of the American Revolution

A small number of additional abstracts (on disability in German Literature) are currently being sought for an edited volume to be published by Metzler Publishing House (an imprint of Springer Nature). The volume adopts a comparative approach and examines representations of disability and/or addiction in German-language and Japanese literature. Interested scholars are invited to send a brief abstract or topic proposal as soon as possible to habib.tekin@hotmail.com and hayashih@kansai-u.ac.jp by 2.7.2026.

2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes’s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes’s life, work, and reputation.

Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Topics might include:

Adolfo Ibáñez University and the consortium of institutions sponsoring this event are delighted to invite you to the 2027 World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, centered on the theme “Global Imaginaries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: the Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century.” The congress will be held in Viña del Mar, overlooking the port city of Valparaíso.     

Voices from the Margins

British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Day Conference

The John Rylands Library

Manchester

June 22, 2026

Call for Papers

Call for Papers // Society of Early Americanists // 2027

“Queer Humors”

The 35th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Palm Springs, CA, March 24-27, 2027“Design”

This peer-reviewed fast-track collection seeks to publish innovative approaches to teaching Aphra Behn’s work, building on existing critical and pedagogical scholarship.

We do invite essays on Behn’s most-taught work, Oroonoko, but we aim particularly to give sustained attention to the full range of her literary life, and are especially interested in proposals about works that have been shown to be amenable to modern undergraduate teaching: the plays, the shorter fiction, the poems.

International Conference

Université de Montréal

February 5-7, 2027

Call for Papers

Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma, and Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SEPTEMBER 22, 2026

15th January 2027 | Royal Holloway, University of London (Hybrid)

"We need, urgently, to reconnect with our planet, and recognise ourselves as inseparable rather than special; reliant upon rather than dominating" (Erica Fudge, 2022)