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English Literature since 1900

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature since 1900. Proposals may explore Trans-Atlantic artists, or artists whose works were influenced by their English territory residency, as well as those artists of the British literary canon. Please submit a proposal no longer than 250-300 words to Dr. Krista Rascoe at krista.rascoe@tccd.edu by April 1st. 

Pedagogies of Falling Apart: A Roundtable Discussion

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 8:10am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

How do we continue to teach in unending crisis? How do we move from neoliberal and ableist expectations of “excellence” and “resilience” to center community and care? How can classrooms make space for what hurts? This roundtable intends to generate a conversation around teaching approaches and strategies faculty are using that attend to their own needs and the needs of their students given ongoing institutional and political turmoil. 

 

Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 3:39am
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

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: 

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture (April 11–13, 2025, Hybrid)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 5:02pm
English Graduate Students' Society (Université de Montréal)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

EGSS/EBSS 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture

Université de Montréal

April 11–13, 2025

 

The English Graduate Students’ Society (soon to become the English and Bidisciplinary Students’ Society) at l’Université de Montréal currently solicits proposals for paper presentations at its 2025 annual conference. The conference theme, “R/evolution,” invites us to considers the frictions and affinities between evolution and revolution, as we trace radical change and gradual transformation in literature and culture.

 

5th Annual GOTH Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

EVENT:             5th Annual GOTH Symposium

DATE:               Thursday 15 to Friday 16 May 2025

ORGANIZERS:    The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities

GUEST PANEL:   The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group

TYPE:                F2F

HOST:               Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts & Humanities

LOCATION:        The Open University, Milton Keynes

THEME:            Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.

CFP DEADLINE: 28 February 2025

NOTIFICATION: 14 March 2025

 

The Witch in American Women's Writing after 1865

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:25am
J. Samaine Lockwood
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

CFP: The Witch in American Women’s Writing after 1865

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference

Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025

Conference website

ASA 2025: Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 4:37pm
Míša Stekl / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

I would like to (co)organize a panel or roundtable 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: 

Martineau Society Conference 2025, Tynemouth, England

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Martineau Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Martineau Society Conference 2025 in Tynemouth, England    06/22/2025-06/25/2025; deadline 04/30/2025

Texas Woman's University Book Series: Call for Book Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Texas Woman's University Book Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Calling all authors: The Texas Woman's University book series is an interdisciplinary book series that explores innovative knowledge, creativity, and discoveries shaped by women and women's experiences in fields such as the arts, sciences, spirituality, religion, politics, business, education, the military, health sciences, and community services.

Gendered returns and encounters between Africa and the Black diaspora

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Nalini Mohabir / Concordia University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 23, 2025

In 2019, Ghana hosted the Year of Return, emphasizing roots tourism, diaspora resettlement and reunification, as well as development. Similarly, there is a growing message of diasporic return in Benin, as in other West African countries, articulated through various initiatives, policies, and cultural movements. We are interested in a feminist analyses of returns and encounters between the Black diaspora and those on the continent.

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Northeastern University, London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

 

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Saturday 25 October 2025

Northeastern University, London

 

Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.

Language : New Productions and New Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present Day

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
GRAPHÉ Laboratory
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

The conference will take place from October 22 to 24, 2025, at Université Jean Monnet, in Saint-Étienne (France). The junior laboratory GRAPHÉ (Research Group on Philological and Human Action through an Epistemological Prism) was founded at Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne in 2024. It aims at conducting an incipient, interdisciplinary study of the ways in which languages influence and are influenced by human actions. After an initial symposium in October 2024 dedicated to the interpenetration of language and politics, we now wish to organize a conference focusing on language in all its newest forms, by confronting it with the latest analytical prisms and methods of study.

MLA 2026 / Guaranteed Session Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here (DEADLINE MARCH 5, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Gabrielle (Brie) Owen on behalf of GS Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:59pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 11:00pm
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:24am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

FRAME 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue”

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:21pm
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Colloque international : Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:56am
Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

La Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca, le Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias et le Master Genre, Sociétés et Cultures organisent un

Colloque international :

Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

Les 22 et 23 mai 2025

 

ARGUMENTAIRE

The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Spelman College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025

 

The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two

currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer

2025. This award will support research and public engagement with Lorde’s papers and

expand scholarship centering the lives and work of Black queer women.

About the Spelman Archives:

 

The primary mission of the Spelman Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make

available for research historically significant documents and other materials which reflect

Modern Language Review

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:13am
Modern Humanities Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature. 

Contributions can take two forms:

CRAFTING LONGEVITY: LITERARY ARTS, AESTHETIC INQUIRIES, AND LEGACIES

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 6:10pm
THE GREGORY J. HAMPTON GRADUATE ENGLISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

'Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing' 26-27 June, Conf. CfP

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
'Practicing Place'/KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing

26th - 27th June 2025 

In the context of new political confrontations, ecological challenges, and heightened social polarizations, conflicts in practices of place are intensifying. Encounters with place across the humanities and social sciences often focus on matters of identification and delineation: that is, on making and doing place. Yet, every emplacement entails displacement. Understanding places as configurations of conflict raises questions on the entanglements of (un)doing that this conference seeks to centre, by exploring de-stabilisation, dis-location, and de-identification as practicing place. 

Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025

Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve

Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga

Crises of the Self, Selves in Crisis: Personal, Collective, and Planetary Narratives across Forms

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self. 

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