fan studies and fandom

Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS) Special Edition 2026

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 1:12pm
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 30, 2026

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
Binghamton University’s Special Edition

Colloquially Speaking! Ruminations on the Possibilities of the Field: Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2026

Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/

CSULA Eagle Con 2026 – Neo-Los Angeles

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 5:39pm
California State University Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Join a panel at the 14th annual CSULA Eagle Con!  Eagle Con is an annual event devoted the power and potential of speculative and fantastic media to critique social formations, interrogate subjectivities, and constitute alternative worlds. 

"Live Long and Prosper": 60 Years of Star Trek in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 9:09pm
Popular Culture Research Network PopCRN
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 10, 2026

Call for Conference Papers

"Live Long and Prosper": 60 Years of Star Trek in Popular Culture - 10-11 September 2026

Free and Online

The Popular Culture Research Network, Australia

In September 1966, the first episode of Star Trek aired on American television, introducing audiences to a future shaped by exploration, diplomacy, scientific discovery, and the possibility of social progress beyond the limitations of the present.

Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory--Call for Creative Nonfiction

updated: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 4:36pm
Todd A. Comer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory

This edited collection addresses a major gap in current work focused on Appalachia’s glass industry. We have catalogs and reference books. We have histories focused on class, labor, and gender. We have histories focused on the rise and demise of glass factories. But the human work of meaning, identity, and memory--in the context of Appalachian glass--has yet to be gathered and shared in book form. 

Call for Cunterbury: Chaucer Themed Podcast Seeking Guest Co-Hosts for Canterbury Tales

updated: 
Friday, May 29, 2026 - 8:25pm
Cunterbury Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

 

Cunterbury is a scholarly arts & comedy podcast hosted by three Gen Z academics — A.J. Scott, Alice Fulmer-Zelinka and Shannen Escote — exploring the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer and friends, starting with The Canterbury Tales. In our first season, we are providing witty commentary and voices to discuss the Tales and their pilgrims like you’ve never heard them before. 

International Journal of James Bond Studies, Vol. 10

updated: 
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 - 8:02am
University of Roehampton
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 10.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 10:41am
Professor Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 2, 2026

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2027.

This collection explores how literature and popular music intersect, influence each other, and create new possibilities for artistic expression, and seeks to map the rich terrain where these two cultural forms meet. We will work from broad definitions of both literature and popular music, encompassing work from traditional novels and poetry to digital narratives and graphic novels, from classical and folk sound traditions to electric and contemporary electronic music.

Call for Chapters – Scary Levels: Designing Fear in Games and Interactive Media

updated: 
Friday, May 22, 2026 - 8:13am
Zlatko BUkač
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Space and place continuously serve as sources of inspiration in video games and various other interactive media, within which they have a specific way of representing and operationalizing fear and dread. Interactive works can turn fear into a set of narrative and game design sequences that are problems and solutions for the experience of playing and reading. For example, how to structure attention, limit knowledge, choreograph movement, regulate pace, and distribute safety and danger.

(CFP) Shakespeare Between Text, Stage, and Criticism: (im)permanences

updated: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 - 10:47am
Laura Ribeiro Araújo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Free of taxes! Open Access Journal

Academic Journal: Em Tese (ISSN 1982-0739) OA
Submission format: .doc or .docx, font 12, spacing 1,5, from 10 to 20 pages long.
Submission guidelines: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/about/submissions 
Submission system: OJS 3.0
Journal homepage: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/index
Questions: lauraribaraujo@gmail.com

CFP Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh (8/1/2026)

updated: 
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 11:49am
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area, Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh

Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)

Please submit proposals by 1 August 2026

 

Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2026 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 15-Saturday, October 17, 2026. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/call-for-papers

250-word abstracts are due by June 15, 2026 at 5 pm.

CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Monstrous Area (6/15/2026; Online 10/15-17/2026)

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:32am
Michael Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

CFP NEPCA Monsters & the Montrous Area 2026

 

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) seeks proposals for inclusion in NEPCA’s 2026 annual conference.

 

The event will run as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th, through Saturday, October 17th. Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. The registration fee is expected to be around 50 USD.

 

Star Wars at 50: Forces, Forms, Legacies

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:21pm
Dr Sam Thomas / Durham University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of the film now generally known as Episode IV: A New Hope, the first instalment in the hugely successful Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. As beloved as it is divisive, Star Wars now straddles multiple decades and generations while proliferating across narrative media (novels, comics, games, animation, TV). It provides a series of compelling case studies in the relationship between creativity and commerce, from the foundation of Lucasfilm during the New Hollywood period to the 21st century Disney-era, and it has developed via a complex interplay between cutting-edge technological innovation, nostalgia, and mythmaking.

Elvis Presley and Theology

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:50pm
Integrite: A Journal of Faith and Learning
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Intégrité is a scholarly journal published biannually by the Faith and Learning Committee and the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. Published both online (https://www.mobap.edu/about-mbu/publications/integrite/) and in print, it welcomes essays for a special issue (Fall 2027) on “Elvis Presley and Theology.”

2027 marks the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16, 1977.

The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie: Second and final cfp

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
University of Agder
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

"A Letter to Video Games: The Mechanisms of Emotions"

updated: 
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 7:22am
Konstantina Kliagkona ("KN: F.L.A.ME.S [Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies]"/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 5, 2026

 

Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026

 

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions

 

Tropes of Comics and Manga

updated: 
Saturday, May 2, 2026 - 9:40am
CLOSURE, Kiel University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference

Tropes of Comics and Manga

Kiel, November 19–21, 2026

 

Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:53pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online 

Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area 

Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.

The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.

Welcome to the Buffyverse - Von Lebenden, (Un-)Toten und ungebrochener Relevanz

updated: 
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 2:25pm
Dr. Monika Weiß - Philipss-Universität Marburg
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Die Erstausstrahlung von Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997 auf The WB Television Network jährt sich im kommenden Jahr zum dreißigsten Mal. Die Serie hat die Populär- und Medienkultur der Jahrtausend-wende maßgeblich mitgeprägt und ist zugleich als Referenztext weit über diesen historischen Moment hinaus wirksam geblieben. Ihre anhaltende Relevanz beruht nicht zuletzt auf der ästhetischen und narrativen Verfasstheit: Genre-Hybridität, Intertextualität, ironisch-selbstreflexive Erzählverfahren sowie eine ausgeprägte figurale und narrative Komplexität machen sie noch heute zu einem beliebten Gegenstand kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Auseinandersetzung.

FSNNA Conference: Roundtable Organization

updated: 
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 2:23pm
Fan Studies Network North America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Fan Studies Network North America Conference is currently open for proposal submissions for our October 2026 conference..

 

CFP: General Issue of Mapping the Impossible: Journal of Fantasy Research

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 9:35am
Mapping the Impossible: Journal of Fantasy Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research is pleased to announce an open call for papers on all things fantasy and fantastic!

Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed, graduate student-run, open-access publication supported by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. We publishe on all types of fantasy media! Our issues have included articles on topics from Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita to the Horizon video games. We accept academic articles between 3000 and 5000 words, excluding the bibliography.

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies - SWPACA Summer Salon 2026 (Online)

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 2:35pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2026 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 25-27, 2026

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026 

Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Online Fall Conference 2026

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:52pm
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 15th, to Saturday, October 17th, 2026.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

Call for Additional Chapters- Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:52pm
Tanima Kumari, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Call for Additional Chapters

Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation (Routledge)

Editor: Dr. Tanima Kumari

The proposed edited volume Global Bollywood: Cultural Appropriation, Streaming Media, and the Politics of Representation has received a preliminary expression of interest from Routledge. 

A number of submissions have already been received, and several chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion.

Table of Contents

Part I: Cultural Appropriation and Hybridity

“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars 4-5 May 2027

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 11:01pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

“Feel the Force”: The first 50 years of Star Wars

A PopCRN Conference

Join us for a free virtual conference exploring the Star Wars universe and its enduring cultural impact to be held online from 4th-5th May 2027.

Taylor Swift: Showgirl, Tortured Poet, Lover, Girl Next Door, The Man, Pop Icon

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
PAMLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Exploring the overlapping cultural and literary impacts of Taylor Swift, this session considers her songs, legacy, political endeavors, friendships, feuds, collaborations, and fandom especially through this year's themes of culture, power, and conflict. We ask: What might lively, critical analysis of Taylor Swift offer to cultural and literary studies?

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