english-education

Empathy In Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities

updated: 
Monday, January 12, 2026 - 3:16pm
White Rose College of Arts and Humanities / UKRI
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

Empathy in Action: Critical Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities

ARTS & HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM

(Please read the full CfP before sending a proposal)

Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 March 2026
Notifications of acceptance: by 01 April 2026

5th Hawaii International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2026)

updated: 
Friday, January 9, 2026 - 2:41am
Francisco P. Dumanig/University of Hawaii at Hilo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

We are pleased to announce the 5th Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2026), which will be held at the Univrsity of Hawaii at Hilo on March 13 - 14, 2026. This year's conference theme is "Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature in a Changing World: Global Trends and Transformative Practices," aims to explore the emerging global trends in English language teaching and literary studies, including curriculum innovation, assessment practices, digital integration, and multilingual education.

Call for Papers: (SPECIAL ISSUE) Digital Education for All (Emerald SCOPUS)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:45pm
Emerald Journal Quality Education for All
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Papers: (SPECIAL ISSUE) Digital Education for All (SCOPUS)

We are excited to announce a Special Issue of the SCOPUS Indexed Journal "Quality Education for All" titled "Digital Education for All,” which invites contributions exploring how digital technologies can foster inclusive, equitable, and high-quality learning for communities worldwide.

Why this Special Issue?

The global shift to digital education has opened new opportunities but also exposed deep-rooted inequalities. From infrastructure and affordability to teacher readiness, inclusivity, and ethics—digital education today is as much a socio-cultural and policy challenge as it is a technological one.

GIFCon 2026 - The Technologies of the Fantastic

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:56pm
Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 18, 2026

The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is excited to announce the call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2026, to be held online on 13-15 May, with the theme of ‘The Technologies of the Fantastic’.

Innovative Strategies for Teaching and Researching Washington Irving (ALA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:56pm
The Washington Irving Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 23, 2026

The Washington Irving Society (washingtonirvingsociety.org) invites papers discussing innovative ways to teach and/or research Washington Irving and his texts, for the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026. We welcome papers offering new insight into “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and also encourage insightful studies into other Irving texts. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words plus a brief bio to Dr.

ALA 2026: Stevens and Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:06pm
Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Stevens and Fiction | American Literature Association 2026 | Chicago, IL | May 2026

 

Digital Futures and Beyond: Emerging Paradigms in English Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 1:48pm
Department of English , HillTop Degree College, Mohana,Gajapati,Odisha,India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Abstracts are invited on, but not limited to, the following sub-themes:

• Digital Transformations in Literary Studies
• Artificial Intelligence and Literary Criticism
• Hybrid Genres, Graphic Narratives, and New Media
• Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
• Trauma, Memory, and Narrative Representation
• Identity, Intersectionality, and Representation
• Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism, and Cultural Identity
• Tribal Literatures, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Forest Ecologies
• Dalit Literatures and Narratives of Marginality
• Language, Multilingualism, and Cultural Diversity
• Translation, Transculturation, and Cross-Cultural Mediation

 

CFP: The University of Cincinnati's Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - 9:38am
University of Cincinnati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We are excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below:  "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).

Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Narratives, and Educational Futures in India and Australia

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:06pm
Centre for Australian Studies, Dept of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

International conference on

Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Narratives, and Educational Futures in India and Australia

to be organised by the Centre for Australian Studies, Dept of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan

in collaboration with Australian Consulate-General, Kolkata

on 20 & 21 January 2026

at The University of Burdwan

Call for Papers

God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas.

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
West of Canon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 16, 2025

God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas.  Learn about the happiest time of the year, and the old men who love nothing better than to shit all over it. From Scrooge to Sherlock Holmes, what’s with confirmed bachelors and Christmas? An irreverent and illuminating romp through 19th Century Victorian Christmas, its origins in older traditions, Oliver Cromwell, how it became an institution worldwide, and how one cantankerous old man really ties the whole thing together!  This lecture will be a rollicking and intellectual hour and thirty minutes WITH a ten minute bathroom break.  Bring your humbugs, we’ll be breaking out the turkey dinners and coals! Ninety minutes of holiday cheer. 

THE HAUNTING OF AMBROSE MANOR: A ONE-OF-A-KIND IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

updated: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 6:11pm
West of Canon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Whether you have a chapbook coming up or want to start a new one, need a seedling idea for a novel or a first draft of a novelette, a play, a series of artistic sketches (note: sub the word writing with art every time we use it,) we have a one of a kind experience to make your writing take shape. A concentrated, transformative, and FUN experience to break your patterns and look at your writing in a different light! Writing does NOT have be a boring, grating “icebreaker” type deal.

34th Conference on British and American Studies: Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 7, 2025 - 3:34pm
West University of Timisoara
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology, West University of Timișoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, on the theme “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture,” which will be held on 14-16 May 2026. 

Science Communication

updated: 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 1:51pm
National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

Communication skills are recognized as an integral component of professional competence in engineering education, complementing technical proficiency. English language educators play a significant role in developing communication skills among engineering students. Nevertheless, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English most often overlook the inclusion of courses on science communication in the curriculum. As a result, research scholars in English who aspire to take up faculty positions in the engineering institutes do not get any formal training in science communication before entering academia. This FDP aims to bridge this gap by equipping English language educators with the skills necessary to become effective science communicators.

Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past”

updated: 
Friday, October 3, 2025 - 3:24pm
Department of English and American Studies, University of Salzburg
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 2, 2026

 

Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past” 

1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, UniparkNonntal 

Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC) 

Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober 

 

The Art of Change: How Women Evolve, Transform, and Remake Themselves in the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 12:26pm
Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

The Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles

Collectif Research and Writing Anthology 2027 Call for Papers

Do you want to forge community and ignite your scholarship? Connect with scholars, activists, artists, and others passionate about the advancement of women? Impact a wider audience? By publishing in Collectif, Mount Saint Mary’s University’s interdisciplinary journal of research, writing, and art, you will reach 50,000 potential readers. To celebrate the issue’s release, The Center for the Advancement of Women will host a salon, where contributors can share their work and connect with the Center community.

2027 Theme and Call

Beyond the Power of Words: Language as a Tool for Radicalization, Subversion, and Social Change

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:31pm
Idaho State University English Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Jürgen Habermas suggested that it is through communicative action, that is reasoned and open discourse, that we transmit, change, and recreate cultural knowledge, and that in so-doing we can achieve mutual understanding. 

Communicative action and communicative rationality are self-reflexive dialogues through which we can learn from others, question dominant paradigms, and advocate for cultural change. 

NeMLA 2026 | Reading as a Political Act: Exploring the Confluence of Literacy and Politics [Roundtable]

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 4:41pm
Daniel C. Charlton / Montana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Reading as a Political Act (Roundtable, NeMLA 2026)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2025

From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).

Call for Articles: The English Record, Critical approaches to teaching justice and joy - English Language Arts

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:34pm
The English Record
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 9, 2026

Call for articles for the English Record's 2026 issue!

How do ELA teachers create moments of joy for their students, their communities, and themselves? How do ELA teachers support learning that centers justice in today’s classrooms, especially in this current political climate? What other questions, insights, and ideas about joy and justice do you have as an ELA teacher? We enthusiastically invite classroom teachers, department leaders, building and district administrators, teacher educators, preservice teachers, and students to submit manuscripts.

More info here: www.nysecteach.org/news/the-english-record/

Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments

updated: 
Thursday, September 4, 2025 - 3:42am
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, HSS Department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

Faculty Development Programme

Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments

 

Organized by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

 

Important Dates

Faculty Development Programme: Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments

updated: 
Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 4:33am
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, HSS Department
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Faculty Development Programme

Translation as Dialogue: Creative License, Crossover and Current Developments

(Hybrid Mode) 

Organized by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

 

Important Dates

Lyrics as Literature: Scholarly Perspectives on Song Lyric Craft

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:39pm
Melissa Talhelm/Southern Connecticut State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The song lyric occupies little space in academia, where it is less studied, less appreciated, and perceived as less-than other kinds of writing. Despite music’s ubiquitous cultural presence, the song lyric—as creative work—suffers from what renown songwriter Jimmy Webb calls a “status problem”: songwriters do not enjoy the same standing as writers of other kinds of traditionally studied literature. The most common way that song lyrics have earned scholarly attention is by conflating the form with the poem. Goldstein’s (1969) The Poetry of Rock is one of the first books to attend to lyrics as poetry.

CFP: Emprical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society

updated: 
Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:36pm
GlobalSouth Publishing House
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Call for Papers: Empirical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society
First Issue – No Article Processing Charges (APC)

We are pleased to announce the launch of Empirical Crossings: Art, Science, and Society, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to fostering scholarly engagement across diverse fields of knowledge. The first issue is scheduled for release next month, and we invite contributions from scholars worldwide. Early-stage researchers and doctoral students are highly welcome. Outstanding master's students' work will also be warmly welcomed to submit.