fan studies and fandom

Call for Papers (CFP) for ISBN Edited Volume Edited Volume Title: Body Politics in Literature

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 1:33pm
Government Arts and Science College, Idappadi
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Call for Papers (CFP) for ISBN Edited Volume
Edited Volume Title: Body Politics in Literature

 

About the Volume

The body in literature is never neutral; it is a site where power is exercised, identities are shaped, and social meanings are constantly negotiated. Rather than viewing the body as a purely biological entity, literary texts reveal it as something produced through cultural norms, political structures, and ideological forces. This edited volume, Body Politics in Literature, aims to investigate how writers across different periods and traditions represent the body as a space of control, conflict, and transformation.

CFP: The Journal of Therapeutic and Applied Geek and Gaming Culture (TAGGC)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:51pm
The Journal of Therapeutic and Applied Geek and Gaming Culture (TAGGC), Geek Therapy
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The Journal of Therapeutic and Applied Geek and Gaming Culture (TAGGC) is a new academic journal for professionals studying the intersections of Geek and Gaming cultures and mental health to share their work. 

 

Pop Culture Studies Journal Special Issue on TOYS!

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

 Contribute to a Special Issue of the Pop Culture Studies Journal on TOYS!

Volume Editor: Jonathan Alexandratos

Abstract: ~500 words due by April 25th to the editor via email at jsalexan@gmail.com.

Overview:

Paper. Film. TV screen. Sound recording. Internet. These are common ways popular culture reaches us. However, while scholarship around comics, movies, TV shows, music, and online media expands, one pop culture area too often remains under-explored: toys.

Video Game and Memory

updated: 
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 - 8:31am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Video Game and Memory

Call for Book Chapters

 

"To live an age, yet remember so little…
 Perhaps I should be thankful?”
 Quirrel, NPC in Hollow Knight (2017)
 

Call for Papers: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:35pm
Journal of Fandom Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 21, 2026

Call for Papers: Journal of Fandom Studies

Special Issue: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’ 

Guest Editors:

Yvonne Gonzales, University of Southern California

Kirsten Crowe, University of Southern California

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies#call-for-papers

CFP: Special issue on Coming of Age on Screen: Youthful Subjectivities in Contemporary Indian Media in CINEJ Cinema Journal

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:35pm
Christ University, Delhi-NCR
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

Coming of Age on Screen: Youthful Subjectivities in Contemporary Indian Media

Guest Editors:

Dr. Shreyansh Jain, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ (Deemed-to-be-University), Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, India.

Dr. Ruchi, School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.

 

Link to the Journal: https://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/announcement/view/6

Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:09pm
Journal of Fandom Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 13, 2026

Since the release of the Canadian-produced streaming TV show Heated Rivalry, the show and its actors have exploded across traditional and social media, prompting wide discussions about sexuality in sports and the female consumption of MM (male/male) romance. Based on the Game Changers novel series by Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry follows the illicit romance between two male hockey players. In the months since, both NHL ticket and queer romance novel sales have skyrocketed; parodies of Heated Rivalry have popped up on SNL and off-Broadway stages.

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) 20256 conference

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:07pm
Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 8, 2026

Call for Proposals

Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2026 (virtual)

October 22-25, 2026


 

THE BOUNDARIES OF FAN STUDIES AND FANDOM

REMINDER: SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES (The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting )

updated: 
Monday, March 2, 2026 - 6:02am
The Superhero Project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The Superhero Project: 10th Global Meeting

SUPERVILLAINS & ANTI-HEROES

Friday 4th to Sunday 6th September 2026

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

 

“I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! No. You… you… complete… me.” – The Joker (The Dark Knight, 2008)

 

Heated Rivalry: The Phenomenon

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:51am
Dr. Anthony Guy Patricia / Concord University, Department of Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

CFP: Heated Rivalry: The Phenomenon

An edited collection of essays on the television series that seduced the world

 

Heated Rivalry appeared simultaneously across screens in Canada, the United States (via HBO Max) and other countries in late November and quickly, if unexpectedly, became a worldwide phenomenon. Audiences were immediately hooked on the story of star hockey prospects Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) and the sexual and romantic relationship that blossoms between them over a span of years.

 

MomoCon 2026 Academic Symposium

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:51am
MomoCon
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

MomoCon 2026 Academic Symposium
May 21-24, 2026
Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, GA)
https://www.momocon.com/
Deadline for Submissions: March 1st, 2026
Contact Email: Susan.Noh@uga.edu
Theme: Content Adaptations From Page to Place
Adaptations have always been a central component of the global anime industry. The franchises
and content that we love are often dependent on vast, ever-expanding webs of adaptations to
continue to provide diverse avenues for consumer engagement.
Historically, media mix has played a key role in popularizing the cultural form of anime and is

Pet Affect Studies Towards Zootopia

updated: 
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - 7:39pm
Nika Mavrody
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 17, 2026

"— and then she makes out with her dog! That's the essay." Speaking of Haraway's Companion Species Manifesto, to which I'm the modest witness, Eileen Myles is too a dog person while the Internet is rather more abuzz with considerations for the feline question... Mammalian largeness is a 'do' to be vegan yet rodents and fish deserve inclusion here. 

Send 200-300 word abstracts speculating on how interspecies intimacy (Giddens 1992) may, could, or should evolve zoos out-of-business with reckonings for affect studies as we deconstruct the 'fandom' paradigm together. 

2026 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 10:35pm
Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 10, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: 15th Annual Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

Friday and Saturday, October 23–24, 2026 (Eastern Time)

In person at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026

Bad Vibes Only: Critique Today

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 5:02pm
The Department Formerly Known as English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

We are currently accepting submissions for Vol. 1.1 of Bad Vibes Only: Critique Today (Summer 2026). 

Founded by a collective of PhD students and affiliated faculty at Brown University, BVO is a forthcoming online independent journal committed to fostering critical conversations about contemporary literature, popular culture, and intellectual production. The publication features essays, reviews, and the occasional work of satire or poetry. Contributors include Nebula and Hugo award winners, Yale Drama Award recipients, and emerging writers. If you’ve got a bone to pick and if you believe that critique is an indispensable complement to artistic, cultural, and intellectual production, then this might be the venue for you. 

MLA 2027 Convention – Literature and Global Popular Music

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 5:02pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 6, 2026

Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to): 

MLA 2027 Convention – Literature and Global Popular Music

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 4:57pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 6, 2026

Literature and Global Popular Music 2027 Modern Language Association Adaptation Forum Call for Papers How does literature travel through global popular music? How do novels, poems, plays, and other literary forms resonate when translated into sound, lyrics, stage performance, music videos, and media circulation across borders?This guaranteed session invites studies of musical adaptations that illuminate the cultural, social, and political resonances of literary works. How do literary forms find new life in global popular music? In what ways do these adaptations reshape questions of identity, memory, translation, and power across national and linguistic boundaries?Possible topics include (but are not limited to): 

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 7

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) - Volume 7

Volume to be published in December of 2026

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce the call for papers for our seventh volume, to be published December 2026.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works exploring anime, manga, and a broad range of related topics, such as methodologies, cosplay, fandoms, adaptations, and more. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach a broad-ranging audience of scholars (both within and beyond the academy) and interested general readers.

Last Call: Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (ACCSFF) CFP

updated: 
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 4:19pm
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

ACCSFF ‘26

                                                                                         Call for Papers

The 2026 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 30-31, 2026, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University, Canada.

This year's author GoH keynote speaker is the Nebula Award winning Premee Mohamed.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

    -studies of individual works and authors;
    -comparative studies;
    -studies that place works in their literary and/or
     cultural contexts.

JAMS@AX26 - Anime Expo Academic Symposium

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 5:42pm
Billy Tringali - JAMS@AX Symposium - Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 27, 2026

JAMS@AX26

Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX26 academic symposium, July 2-5, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. 

The JAMS@AX26 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms.

Call for Papers: ‘Video Games & Horror’

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 2:33pm
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Video Games & Horror’

Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026
Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers

The Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds is excited to announce a call of content for an upcoming Special Issue focused on horror in video games. 

Multiverse Convention 2026 - LEARN Track Call for Submissions

updated: 
Monday, February 2, 2026 - 3:29pm
Kenneth Broome, Jr.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Event Date & Location: October 16th – 18th, 2026, at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 1, 2026

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention

Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME:

Manchester and beyond: Oasis, identity and performance

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 11:33am
Université Rennes 2
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

Manchester and beyond: Oasis, identity and performance.

Call for book chapters

On the occasion of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory’s 30th anniversary and the band’s phenomenal 2025 reunion, multidisciplinary contributions within the fields of cultural studies, literature, history, musicology, linguistics, and political science (among others) are sought for an edited volume examining Oasis’s place in British popular culture. 

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

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 4:18pm
Laura Ribeiro Araújo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Academic Journal: Em Tese (ISSN 1982-0739)
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

Call for Papers: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:28pm
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University) 

Important Dates 

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026

  • Notification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026

  • Full Article Submission: 15 June 2026

  • Peer Review Returned: 1 August 2026

  • Revised Article Submission: 31 August 2026

Call for Submissions: Eye to the Telescope "Paying Tribute"

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Eye to the Telescope
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Call for Submissions

Eye to the Telescope Guest Editor Angela Acosta is accepting poetry submissions for Issue 60, Paying Tribute

 

The Zeitpyramide in Germany gains a new block every decade to mark the passage of time until the year 3183. Will future humans remember this art installation, or will it cease to have any meaning by the next millennium?

Edited Volume on Religion and the X-Men’s Krakoan Age

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:31pm
Editors: Gregory Jones and Daniel Ambord
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the establishment of a post-scarcity and post-mortality mutant homeland on the living island of Krakoa. The Krakoan Age ran from 2019 and 2024 and included more than 500 issues spread across 80 different comic titles. Within this vast body of text, a dizzying plurality of story-types are explored, ranging from gritty police procedurals, to sprawling war stories, to cozy slice-of-life tales. The Krakoan Age stories are also notable in their creative and interesting engagement with religious stories and themes, particularly in series such as Way of X, Legion of X and The Onslaught Revelation.

Women in SFF: Navigating Gender & Genre

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:22pm
Newcastle University - Abi Hockaday & Aparna Sivasankar
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Science Fiction & Fantasy (SFF) continue to offer new ways of considering the relationships between gender and genre. This conference is interested in how women – writers, characters, fans – use, negotiate, and operate in SFF.

We are particularly interested in papers that have an interdisciplinary and/or creative focus. We welcome papers which consider how this operates across multiple forms, including text, film, TV and videogames.

This conference is open to students and researchers at any stage of their career.

Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 11:37am
Dr Matthew Melia / Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Late Bowie: legacy, mortality and the archival impulse

Call for Papers

Kingston University, UK

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