gender studies and sexuality

ESO at SAMLA 97: Non-Traditional Souths

Set writing goals & get feedback!
Applications due: May 25, 2025

NEW DIRECTIONS IN VICTORIAN STUDIES

Ah, May! When writing goals are full of promises to ourselves, and summer is full of time... MVSA Summer Seminars can help you reach that goal, with an end-of-summer draft deadline and feedback in a collaborative and congenial seminar group just as the next academic year is gearing up.

This session invites paper submissions that explore the intersections of queer studies, film, media, and digital culture. In connection with this year’s conference theme, we particularly welcome papers that focus on palimpsestic media: how queer narratives have been remediated through new forms, how queer histories have been reimagined, rewritten, or overwritten in works of film, television, video games, and other forms of new media, broadly defined. Papers addressing other aspects of queer identities, communities, readings, and experiences are also encouraged.

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

For at least the last fifty years, critics, commentators, and celebrity cognoscenti have repeatedly resounded the death knell of camp. First, facing the political crucibles of the queer civil rights and feminist protests of the 1960s and 1970s, gay men, lesbians, and trans folks were supposed to abandon the shameful practice and kill their darlings. Yet, twenty years later, they found camp coming gloriously back into vogue, striking a pose on the ironic drag stages of the queer 1990s. Now, come forward another twenty years, when self-conscious postmodern parody and biting double entendre are the fuel that makes meme culture go, and we are obliged to wonder at camp’s ubiquity and to question its possible utility.

This year’s Latinx Literature and Culture session welcomes paper proposals centering on any aspect of Latinx literary studies, cultural studies, and film or media studies. Topics could include but are not limited to: the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, migrancy and the diaspora, Chicanx/Latinx Feminisms, Queer Latinidades, Translation Studies, Central American and Caribbean studies, Chicanx/Latinx Poetics, and anything else that may broadly fit under the umbrella of Latinx/Chicanx studies. We welcome proposals that maneuver through disciplinary boundaries and thoughtfully engage with a variety of artifacts (theatre, performance, popular culture, children’s literature, memoirs, and autobiographies).

122nd PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

We invite additional chapters for a K-pop reader for publication with Routledge. We especially welcome scholars who can contribute to Part I from global perspectives situated outside the U.S. (particularly in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe), as well as contributors for Parts II and III from wide ranging fields.

The abstract, table of contents for the reader, and submission details can be found below.

Abstract

Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.

Call for Book Chapters: A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity (under contract with Routledge) 

Edited by Nahum N. Welang 

Theme:

Las guerras del cuerpo: ataques, resiliencia, colaboración 
XXXIII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)  June 4-5, 2025
The University of Mississippi (EEUU)
Oxford, MS
Hybrid Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) 

Abstract Deadline: April 19, 2025. Contact:  aegsoxford@gmail.com
​Congress themes: 

Abstract

Any proposals dealing with British literature and culture of the long 19th century are welcome. Of particular interest are proposals focusing on authors or works not typically discussed, and proposals that connect to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion."

Description

While any proposals dealing with British literature and culture from this period are welcome, these topics are of particular interest:

• The remembered and the forgotten

• Photography

• Romantic memory