gender studies and sexuality

As the section editor for The Queer Experience, I invite you to submit a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.

The Queer Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender identity, sexuality, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of queer people in society at the present moment.

The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference will be held in person November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington.

The standing Gothic Studies panel welcomes papers on any aspect of Gothic studies across a wide range of periods, media, and cultural contexts. The Gothic has long served as a flexible and transgressive mode through which writers and creators explore fear, desire, memory, identity, and social conflict. From classic literary texts to contemporary film, television, gaming, and digital media, Gothic forms continue to evolve and adapt across cultures and historical moments.

The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.

Some topics of particular interest this year include:

• The homoerotic gaze in media

• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories

• Queer-coded representation in art or literature

The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues around gender, power and, more recently, intersectional aspects of identity. More recent critical engagement with witches and witchcraft reflects a transition, transcending disciplinary boundaries and positioning the witch in line with shifting contemporary debates. This shift moves the witch beyond the symbolic or the individual to consider both the interconnected and disparate nature of the witch. We can, instead, see the witch as a key component in movements of political change, as activist alongside the spiritual expl

For All Which We Inherit: Theorizing about Black Male Social Inheritance Both Directions at Once

Authors: Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University; Mike Browne, Napcast

Under Contract with Peter Lang

See full call here

Project’s Detailed Description

Food is essential to the survival of the living, but its cultural significance does not cease at death. Across South Asia, death and mourning are accompanied by a range of food-related practices: cooking, offering, carrying, abstaining, fasting, feeding, sharing, distributing, refusing, burying, burning, or disposing of food. Meals may be prepared for mourners; particular foods may be offered to the deceased, ancestors, spirits, religious specialists, or members of the community; certain ingredients may be prohibited during mourning; and food may be placed beside the dead, carried to cremation or burial sites, offered at shrines or monasteries, distributed among participants, or consumed collectively as part of commemorative rites.

2027 Association for Asian American Studies Panel Proposal 

Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work in the Shadows of Capitalism

Call for Chapters 

Renewed call for chapter proposals

Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India

(forthcoming in 2027)

The editor is pleased to issue a renewed call for chapter proposals for the edited volume Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India, scheduled for publication in 2027 by an internationally renowned UK-based publishing house. This renewed call has become necessary owing to a few last-minute withdrawals and the non-submission of some previously committed chapters.  

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held the day before the annual conference. The 2027 annual meeting will be held at the University of California, Berkeley from May 27-28.

Discipline

This seminar explores representations of female desire in music, literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done overtly and thought covertly to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?

submit propposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 27.1.  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. Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec

Call for Book Chapters: The Handbook of Witchcraft and Sorcery

Volume Editors:

Assoc. Prof. Cenk Tan (Pamukkale University, Türkiye)

Assoc. Prof. Milena Škobo (Sinergija University, Serbia)

Assoc. Prof. Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi (Karadeniz Technical University, Türkiye)

Assoc. Prof. Oya Bayıltmış Öğütcü (Adıyaman University, Türkiye)

Submission Deadline for Abstracts:  February 1, 2027

In 1892, when authorities arrested Lizzie Borden for the brutal axe-murders of her father and stepmother, America, and specifically Massachusetts, stood at the forefront of the Women's Suffrage Movement. Several of the first conventions, halls, and clubs in support of the movement took place in Lizzie’s home state of Massachusetts. In this paper I will examine how the gender roles and socioeconomic factors of Victorian Massachusetts contributed to Lizzie Borden’s acquittal despite the abundance of circumstantial evidence. I will not argue for Lizzie’s innocence, as I believe she committed the crime, but instead I will present how the gender norms and socioeconomic factors of this era shaped perceptions of criminality and public opinion.