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Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
Chicago, IL, October 29-31, 2026
I am creating a panel for the OAH 2027 conference in San Francisco. Its focus will be women's engagement with the lived and natural environment, indigeneity, and ecofeminism. My paper will also include women's photography from México and the U.S. in the 19th century. I am open to any theory or topics while maintaining a focus on women and the environment. I'm presenting at OAH 2026 in Philly if you'd want to meet up and chat about 2027. tmorgan@ccp.edu
Conference dates: December 10-11, 2026
Location: University of Verona, Verona (Italy) – hybrid
Organiser: Prof. Emanuel Stelzer (emanuel.stelzer@univr.it)
Conference Dates - Nov. 12th to 15th
Location: Seattle, Washington (USA)
Hospitality is often understood as an act of welcome, yet it also raises complex questions about boundaries, authority, and belonging. Drawing on the philosophical framework of Jacques Derrida—who describes hospitality as a tension between openness to the stranger and the conditions that regulate entry—this panel invites proposals that explore how hospitality functions as a pedagogical framework for teaching reading, writing, and interpretation. Proposals may explore hospitality through literary analysis, composition pedagogy, rhetorical theory, cultural studies, or interdisciplinary approaches.
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Research Scholar’s National Conference CFP – 22nd and 23rd April 2026
New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Motherhoods around the World in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
The Ninth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2026Conference Date: Friday, June 5, 2026Conference Location: The Westin Pittsburgh1000 Penn AvenuePittsburgh, PA 1522and via HopinConference Website: https://www.stokercon.com/Stokercon 2026 will be the tenth anniversary of Stokercon, and the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is delighted to be a part of this banner year.
Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Distinctly Canadian Voices in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.
We invite new submissions that explore the representations of Canada and Canadians in fields as diverse as literature, film, television, visual art, and other media, both in Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
250-500 worded abstracts to be sent to the session organisers at:
The journal Korpusgermanistik invites submissions for its June 2026 issue. The journal provides an international platform for research across the full spectrum of German Studies, including linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, and media studies.
All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.
Important Dates
Submission
Authors are kindly asked to submit their full manuscripts via the journal’s online submission system:
Please ensure that your manuscript follows the author guidelines available on the journal website.
Special note for the contributors:
Please focus on the text that represents migration from the Global South to the Global North.
The text under consideration should be published after 2000, though it can focus on migration that happened at any time in history.
Please take a minimum of one and a maximum of two migration/refugee narratives for analysis.
Please mention within the abstract the theoretical background clearly that one wants to apply.
The text under consideration should be either written in English or translated into English.
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
Call for Papers: Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference
The Critical Femininities Network invites abstracts from scholars, researchers, activists, and artists for the sixth annual Critical Femininities Conference on the theme of ‘Temporalities.’ The conference will take place virtually on August 7 - 9, 2026.
CFP: ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING IN TRANS LIVES
Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2026
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:
CREATIVE WRITING EDITOR
Duties Include:
Coordinating the peer review process for creative writing submissions to the journal. The Creative Writing Editor would liaise with authors who submit to the journal, would pass their submissions on to peer reviewers, and would return reviewers' comments to the authors.
Attending collective meetings on a regular basis (now Thursday 12:30 PM EST) - meetings are held every week during production, then move to every other week afterward
Preferred Qualifications:
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following role:
Proofreader
Duties include:
Proofreading all material to be published in the journal. This includes scholarly articles, book and media reviews, event coverage, and other material. Note that proofreading is restricted to correcting errors of grammar, punctuation, citation, and phrasing - the Proofreader will not be reviewing or altering the content of the submitted material (this is covered in the peer review process).
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.
Call for Papers: Contemporary Approaches to Film Noir (#MLA27)
Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 Convention
Los Angeles, CA
7–10 January 2027
Film noir has evolved far beyond its mid-century origins, and has become a versatile and vital site for representing and intervening into contemporary realities. In preparation for an MLA 2027 special session proposal, this panel seeks papers that investigate noir films with cutting-edge approaches. We invite papers that engage with the following topics, including, but are not limited to:
Femspec seeks a guest peer reviewer to review an article submission about the television series The Orville.
Qualifications:
1. The applicant has watched the series.
2. The applicant possesses an MA or PhD in English, Women's and Gender Studies, or a related field, or is an advanced graduate student pursuing a degree in one of these fields.
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.
In the light of girl-centric third-wave feminism and critical regionalism, contemporary American and Canadian literary and cultural texts present innovative girlhoods enabling expansive and emancipatory processes. Please submit an abstract (250 words) and a short bionote.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026
Mercedes Albert-Llacer, Universitat Jaume I (mllacer@uji.es)
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33899.html
This sessions welcomes 300-word abstracts that actively engage the ways that Black-girl centered literature (novel, poetry, media, etc.) reimagines modes of resistance, resilience, and world-making through historical and modern definitions of freedom and emancipation.
This panel explores the promises and provocations of monstrous and ghostly figures in feminist and queer speculative fiction, focusing on gendered human and nonhuman bodies. We are particularly interested in how monsters articulate socially ingrained fears and anxieties about women, queer communities, and the nonhuman world, as well as the desires and apprehensions they evoke toward the impossible, the fantastic, or the supernatural. Contributors might consider how these monstrous imaginings shape, challenge, or expand the category of “us,” offering critical insights into who is included, who is excluded, and on what grounds.
The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Duties include:
Collating and formatting content for each new issue of the journal. Liaising with the journal's editor and other volunteer collective members to make changes to the issue's content and layout until the end of each issue's production period.
FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:
Website Editor
Duties include:
Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current issue of the journal
This online panel seeks proposals that examine how humor, irony, and formal games use linguistic misbehavior to create new emotional landscapes, construct gendered subjectivities, and challenge traditional hierarchies across global literatures.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to Dr. Haihong Yang (hyang@udel.edu) by March 15th.
Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism
deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026
full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD
contact email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
In 1974, Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in Le féminisme ou la mort, foregrounding the intertwined domination of women and nature and calling for the liberation of both from systems of exploitation. Since its emergence, ecofeminism has inspired scholars and activists across disciplines and global contexts.
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance.
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