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"Generations and Generational Time in the United States During the Long Nineteenth Century"
Lille University, June 12-13, 2025
Call for Papers
Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.
Call for Papers, African American Literature at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.561.7500
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on African American Literature for our 54th annual conference in Philadelphia, March 27-29, 2025.
Conference Theme: Freedom
Crip and Queer Intimacies
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters)
(Issue 16, 2026)
University of Lodz, Poland
Co-Editors of the issue:
Kateřina Kolářová, PhD (Charles University)
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, PhD (University of Lodz)
Call for Book Chapters
Routledge Handbook
Globalising Indian Home: Translation, Migration, Gender, and Identity
About the Book
The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963).
Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, memoirs, poetry, young adult literature) and take any contemporary critical approach. We are especially interested in papers investigating the canonicity process, the literary networks to which Scott belonged, or the role of disability in her career, but all topics will be considered. Scott participated in various and major literary currents during her writing life, including Imagism, naturalism, and modernism, and she had a variety of literary mentors, including Lola Ridge, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, and Jean Rhys, among others.
Dragons in Fiction
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons in fiction will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Tolkien and War! is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!
We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
War in Europe
War in Middle-earth
War and Tolkien's poetry
Heroic battle poetry
War and Tolkien's English
War in the films/Tv shows
Gender/Sexuality and War
Psychology and War
Religion and War
Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture certainly publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.
Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
Concept Note:
Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.
For a generation, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise was emblematic of heroism, fighting against adversity, and inclusion of outsiders. This is why Rowling’s arguable alignment of herself, in 2020 and since, with transphobic and trans-exclusionary rhetoric felt like such a betrayal to many of her readers, prompting a revaluation of her work and what it means to them now. With the co-edited collection Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter, we intend for contributors to explore the matter of what we collectively do with Harry Potter in the wake of its creator’s very public turn. Some readers have favored a careful delineation between author and work; others have regretfully concluded that no such delineation is possible.
Sponsored by the Center for Research & Study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, this graduate student conference is organized by the joint effort of students within the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Department of Performance Studies, and Department of Art & Public Policy. Together, we seek to consider where camps and fires may operate as systems, symbols, and metaphors to allow ways of approaching history and nations as kempt and unkempt by time and space.
To face climate change is, in part, to grapple with a narrowing range of possible futures. Thus, we find that reproduction itself is up for interrogation, reimagination, and revision. This panel explores precisely these shifts in thought by inviting papers that consider environmental crisis through the lens of sex and gender studies. As invoked by the panel’s title, the trope of Mother Nature exemplifies the powerful role that gender has historically played in environmental cultures. And although Mother Nature has undergone successive waves of critique, human norms of gender and sexuality continue to inflect ecological discourse.
Call for Proposals
Masculinities and Men’s Studies
(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)
National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference
April 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, LA
Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:
“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century
Eudora Welty Society International Conference
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle
Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard
Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others
through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).
Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (NCGS) is published three times a year—spring, fall and a specially-themed summer issue—and accepts both scholarly articles and book reviews year-round. We welcome articles of 5,000-8,000 words on gender studies and British literature, art, and culture during the long nineteenth century. Submissions should conform to the most recent MLA Handbook and must include a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. Submissions must not have been previously published, in whole or in part, either in print or online.
Family Fictions
Generations and Genealogies in European Culture
15- 17. 05. 2025, KU Leuven
Keynotes:
Prof. Stefan Willer (Humboldt University)
Prof. David Amigoni (Keele University)
Dr. Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Columbia University’s French Graduate Student Association (FGSA) invites graduate students from all disciplines to submit abstracts for our upcoming conference on the theme of (Re)conciliation? The conference will take place January 30-31, 2025, at Columbia’s Maison Française in New York City, with a keynote address from French-Moroccan author and scholar Kaoutar Harchi.
New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology This edited collection is interested in the intersections of feminism, American politics, and popular culture. Right now, as feminism in general is forced to shift back to a focus on reproductive rights, the fourth wave is being splintered into those prioritizing this issue and those still focused on empowerment, intersectionality, and other issues original to the fourth wave. As more and more strains of feminism emerge, how might we understand their origins and place them in conversation with each other? Is feminism finally intersectional? If not, how do we get there?
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship
In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?
“In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking. / Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.” This epigraph begins Chris Jenks’ 2003 work Transgression, exemplifying the sense in which acts of transgression can have real, tangible, palpable effects on society. Jenks defines “transgression” as violating, infringing upon, or going beyond the limits set by a boundary or convention (2). Transgressive fiction, then, is the genre of literature that depicts various acts of boundary-crossing in order to analyze and criticize them for the purpose of reflecting upon the ideological constructions that its characters react against or wholly reject.
RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (AISNA) seeks contributions for its n. 36 issue (September 2025) for both its General and Special Sections.
Full papers for the General Section, on any aspect of American Studies, should be submitted by January 31st, 2025, using our OJS portal, at rsa.aisna.net (which includes full submission and stylesheet details).
The Blue Age of Comics Book
Call for Proposals
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025
Edited by Adrienne Resha and Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero
We are seeking essay submissions pertaining to Henry James’s early stories and criticism, to be published by Vernon press. The working title of the collection is Writing as Revenge. We define James’s “early period” as anything he wrote up to The Portrait of a Lady. Please submit an abstract by October 31, 2024.
Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Special Issue: ‘Dolls, Dolls, Dolls’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers
Guest Editor: Frank New, Massey University, New Zealand
SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.
SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked.
SEXTANT features the work of students, activists, artists, and researchers, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.
Now accepting submissions for Volume 2, Issue 2.
A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to literary and artistic ghosts. After all, ghosts are profoundly literary figures; like poetics, they are defined by their repetitions and returns, and constantly referring to something else, though failing to fully represent it. However, ghosts are not any literary figures. They are haunting, and although they have a strong presence they come into life in place of something absent. Moreover, in their haunting presence, they are signalling “repressed or unresolved social violence” (Gordon, 2008).