gender studies and sexuality

Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization.

Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

CFP: Lydia Maria Child Society

American Literature Association Conference in Chicago
20–23 May 2026 at the Palmer House

https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/

Revised Deadline: January 26, 2026

Political Rhetoric and Emotions in the Work of Lydia Maria Child

 SDSU Press Presents

[caption] the journal of visual cultural studies

Issue 001 – “CAPTION THIS”

[caption] emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, the journal stages encounters between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze meets the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, and Stuart Hall. We publish work that refuses to choose between seeing and thinking, between the archive and the avant-garde. 

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most adapted, parodied, and referenced works of Gothic fiction. Even those who have never read the novella know the “story,” or at least the twist: Henry Jekyll becomes Edward Hyde to live a double life, disconnected from societal pressures and expectations. Many, if not all, of these media adaptations add, edit, or remove elements from the story, making it a hybrid narrative, one part Stevenson’s and one part the adapter’s. 

ECOS DEL INTERIOR: POTENCIALIDADES ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS DE LO AFECTIVO EN LA LITERATURA  

Edificio A, Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11 y 12 de mayo de 2026

CFP: Special Issue on Appalachian Animal Studies

To be published in Spring 2027, co-edited by Drs. Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Jessica Cory

Whether it’s the relationships we have with our animal companions, the meat we (may not) eat, or the countless more-than-human species with whom we share this region, animals are important to our lives and to Appalachian spaces.

Call for Chapters for an edited volume titled: Cyborg Voices: Identity, Artistry, and Performance in the Age of AI

Editor: Chloe Kirson-Jones
Publisher: Jenny Stanford publishing distributed through Taylor and Francis/Routledge
Projected Publication: January 2027

Overview

How does the voice change when it becomes digital, disembodied, and co-created with machines?

Call for Papers: 

I am pleased to share a call for chapter proposals for an edited collection currently in development titled Black Feminist Practices and AI in the Composition Classroom: Memoir, Pedagogy, and Futures. This volume invites scholars, teachers, and practitioners to explore how Black Feminist rhetorical traditions can guide ethical, humanizing, and culturally responsive uses of artificial intelligence in writing instruction.

We are pleased to invite participants to a four-day intensive book reading workshop on Antonio Gramsci (online), focused on questions of hegemony, culture, subaltern politics, and political struggle. This workshop brings together students, scholars, researchers, activists, and readers for a sustained and collective engagement with Gramsci’s writings. Written largely under conditions of imprisonment and censorship, Gramsci’s work challenges us to think about power not only as domination, but as consent, culture, and everyday common sense.

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.

Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:

• Gilman and the Female Gothic

• Gilman and Xenofeminism

• Gilman and First Wave Feminism

• Gilman and Medicine / the Health Humanities

• Gilman and Utopianism

• Gilman and Evolutionary Science

• Gilman and Religion

• Gilman and Queer Culture

MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & LETTERS 614 Superior Street, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801 - Fax: 989-463-7970 - michiganacademy@alma.edu Call for Papers Women's & Gender Studies 

INVITATION 2026 conference: Friday, March 27, 2026, virtual conference held via Zoom.

You are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of the paper you wish to present at the conference.

PROCEDURES  Abstract submission deadline is 1/23/26.

Presentations are up to 20 minutes each, followed by discussion.

Undergraduates may present faculty co-authored or sponsored papers (section leaders may require proof that paper/research was reviewed by a faculty sponsor).

Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms 

15-16 October 2026

University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026
Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz

In literary and arts research on socialist worlds, both queer studies and environmental histories have been expanding – yet we still lack approaches that would systematically integrate these strands across global state socialisms. This conference responds to that gap by inviting work that reads queer practices alongside institutional and environmental policies and traces the queer ecological impulses emerging from socialist contexts across the globe.

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley

I am pleased to announce a call for papers for the first edited volume devoted to the Netflix limited series Ripley (Zaillian, 2024). Perspectives on Netflix’s Ripley seeks to explore the myriad ways in which this striking adaptation reimagines Patricia Highsmith’s iconic character for a new era of streaming television. I invite proposals from scholars, practitioners, and critics whose work engages with adaptation, media studies, sexuality, and screen cultures.

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