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Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:40pm
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

 

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 

Estimated Publication Date: February 2026

 

Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

Publish your work on single, unmarried, widowed, asexual, queer or otherwise celibate Irish actvists, authors, characters, or collaborative networks, in an open-access journal with NO charge to the author!

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays. Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.

THEME

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement 

SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 12:25am
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

MMLA-African American Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

The African American Literature Permanent Section of the Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from potential panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Informed by this year’s conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this section is calling for scholarly work that ties literature written by Black Americans to concepts of hope and its relationship to artistic production. Potential questions to address include, but are in no way limited to: How have representations of hope in Black American literature shifted across the centuries? What do depictions of hope look like when it has been disrupted or challenged?

Call for Papers - Special Issue: The Marriage Plot, 'Post'-Marriage

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Studies in the Novel
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In a 2023 piece in the London Review of Books,Maylin Hays asks,“In the post-marriage era, what happens to the marriage plot?” Despite being in the midst of this alleged “post-marriage era,” conversations about marriage seem to be animating public discourse more than ever—from wildly popular “trad wife” influencers on social media, to the increasing frequency of conversations about gendered household labor in marriage self-help books like Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play (2019) and Kate Mangino’s Equal Partners (2022), to the recent rise in divorce memoirs like Lyz Lenz’s This American Ex-Wife (2024).

Queer Palimpsests

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference 2025 in San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstract

Queer palimpsests are texts from which queerness has been erased – but only on the surface. Scholars, therefore, are invited to reinvestigate these texts and their underlying queerness. This project includes books, movies, songs, fashion, artifacts, architecture, archives… a queer excavation in order to indicate the traces, specters, echoes, or presences of the past that remain even as many past narrative elements, structures, or tropes are forgotten.

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Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 23, 2025

 

Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen 

Saturday 21st June 2025 

Falmouth University 

This freein-person symposium will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of Bonkbusters, Soap Operas and Made-for-TV Melodramas. 

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (Journal Special Issue CFP)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th issue of Currents, on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

 

 

‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

 

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (online conference for early career scholars)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online young researchers’ conference to be held on 22 May 2025 and the journal issue (Currents No 11) on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

  ‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’

~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

PAMLA: Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 Annual Conference

We invite paper proposals for an accpetd panel titled “Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia,” to be held at the 2025 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in San Francisco (November 20–23, 2025), complementing the broader conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

This panel explores how non-normative experiences of embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and memory practices intersect with acts of resistance across diverse Asian contexts. We invite submissions that examine these themes across Asia and its diasporas. 

The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics: Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Linda Roland Danil
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.

Call for Book Chapters: Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction (Edited Collection of Essays)

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Aswathi Velayathikode Anand
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025

Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025

Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)

Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in

 

Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)

Women in French Sessions at SAMLA 2025

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
Women in French
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

1.“Femmes écrivains à la croisée des savoirs / Women Writers at The Crossroads of Knowledge” 

 

Resistance and Defiance in Francophone World(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Midwest Modern Language Conference - French Cultural Issues Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025. 

Them Among Us: No Nation for the Less Equals

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:24am
Debajyoti Biswas
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)

Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi

 

The Spectral Haunting of Empire: Afterlives in the Colonial Present

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
2025 National Women's Studies Annual Conference: An Honour Song: Feminist Struggles, Feminist Victories
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives 

Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.

Fashion, Modeling, and Embodiment Panel at NWSA

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
National Women's Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

This panel calls for papers that examine theories and histories of the body alongside histories of fashion and modeling. In what ways do contemporary fashion studies or modeling studies build on or depart from foundational texts that interrogate the body? How do fashion and modeling embody or resist ableism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other forms of oppression that are mediated through the body? This panel is particularly interested in the role of the model, expansively defined as fashion modeling, artist's modeling, instagram modeling or other forms of model-like roles and embodied performances.

“Hope for Voice and Gender” Conference Panel

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Hye Hyon Kim/ MMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

2025 MMLA theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives"

Gender Studies

 

Panel Title “Hope for Voice and Gender” – Virtual Panel

 

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential,

flooding, eroding, quiet, steady, filling the earth, collecting in hidden springs.

When it rains, when we love, new life grows.

—Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (232)

 

Multiverse Convention LEARN Track Call for Submissions

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Multiverse Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

Multiverse Convention LEARN Track Call for Submissions

Event Date & Location: October 17 - October 19, 2025 at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 2, 2025

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention Organization

Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME:

MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism [DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 29]

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 12:55pm
Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025

This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little ReviewThe Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.

MLA 2026 Convention Panel Session - American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health Matters

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:35pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention will be held from January 8 to January 11 in Toronto. The past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, but there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel session is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond. It also draws attention to health humanities. Some questions the panel addresses include: what are some ways literary and cultural texts broaden our understanding of health, mortality, grief, and wellness or living life well?

Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Maitrayee Roychoudhury
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The conference, "Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century" will be held on 28-29 August 2025 at the School of English, University of St Andrews, and is supported by funding from the British Association for Victorian Studies.

CFP: IUO JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
Department of English, Igbinedion University, Nigeria
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English, Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, invites quality articles for inclusion in Volume 2 of the June/July and November/December editions of IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies. The journal publishes articles and compositions written in English and French in all areas of English Language and Literature, including African and non-African Studies, Canonical, Contemporary, and Comparative Studies, Linguistics Studies, Theatre Arts, Film/Home Video, conference proceedings, editorials, book reviews, interviews, creative works, and sketches. IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies is an online periodical which allows free and unrestricted access to its published material.

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