gender studies and sexuality

The Gothic Servant

deadline for submissions: 

September 29, 2026

full name / name of organization: 

NeMLA

contact email: 

nilawren@utica.edu

This conference will take place in person at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, March 6-9, 2027.

Extended deadline: EchoForum 2026 Conference: Disability as Radical Interdisciplinary Practice26–27 November 2026

Organised by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Submission deadline: 10 October 2026

Working languages: English, French, Romanian

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:Petra Kuppers // University of MichiganJonathan Meth // Goldsmiths University of LondonMaria Bucur // Indiana University Bloomington

EchoForum: Conceptual Framework

AATI 2027 University of Puerto Rico, March 5-7, 2027

This panel explores the island as both a place and a figure for thinking about borders, mobility, and belonging. Islands are shaped by movements of arrival and departure,
connection and separation, exchange and exclusion. Linguistic islands, diasporic communities, and bodies marked as other all take shape through this double movement of separation and connection. Islands also name a condition: being set apart, forming a world at the edge of another, connected outward by water rather than enclosed by land.

We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.

Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the DutchCentre for Unusual Collaborations.

Date & Venue

19th – 21st November 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands

The Gothic Servant

deadline for submissions: 

September 29, 2026

contact email: 

nilawren@utica.edu

full name / name of organization: 

NeMLA

Conference will take place March 6-9, 2027 at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island

We would like to invite you to join and contribute to the 2nd Shapeshifters Symposium: Plasticity – Here, There, and Everywhere. This symposium brings together people interested in plasticity from a broad range of perspectives, from the natural and formal sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and art. During the symposium, we hope to further expand the concept of plasticity across disciplines.

Who are we? We are a group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the concept of plasticity, sponsored by the Dutch Centre for Unusual Collaborations.

Date & Venue

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

TITLE: Siri Hustvedt, Gender, and the Critical Medical Humanities

Rationale and Scope

This panel will investigate representations of Korea, Koreanness, and Korean women's bodies and consider how these representations serve as a site for the reproduction of the sexualized and gendered relationship between the US and South Korea. It will also interrogate these racialized bodies as the site for the articulation of trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities or, alternatively, as potential sites of empowerment.

It will consider how Korean nationalism, national unity, and diaspora are complicated by gender and body politics, and how we may envision gaining agency through depictions of the colonized and militarized Korean peninsula and Korean/American women's bodies as represented in literary, film, and other cultural iterations.

This CFP is currently accepting paper proposals for the VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association

Queering the Settler Colony: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian and Australian LiteratureAbstract

The comparative study of Canadian and Australian literature has long demonstrated the value of reading these two settler-colonial traditions alongside one another. Building on the pioneering comparative work of Sneja Gunew, this seminar seeks to extend this dialogue by foregrounding queer identities, sexualities, and non-normative forms of belonging as central categories of comparative inquiry.

Call for Papers | Chronologies 

The Velvet Light Trap, Volume 100 (to be published fall 2027) 

Submission deadline: October 11, 2026 

Abstract

This seminar proposes to examine Italian and Italian American food studies through the comparative frameworks of transnational circulation, intermedial representation, and cultural translation. Rather than approaching food as a stable marker of heritage or authenticity, the seminar treats it as a mobile signifying practice through which texts, images, commodities, and affects travel across linguistic, national, and medial boundaries. Food thus becomes a privileged comparative object: it links literature to film, advertising to visual culture, and national discourse to diasporic rearticulation.

The Visual Cultures of YA Romance: Seeing Desire, Reading Relationships - The International Journal of Young Adult Literature 8/2027

Guest editors:

Dalila Forni (Università dell’Aquila - IT)
Alessandra Mazzini (Università di Bergamo - IT)
Valentina Baeli (Università di Catania - IT)

Graphic Narratives has become part of an expanding literary field, absorbing and redirecting the ideological, formal, and creative energies of contemporary fiction.

(Chute and DeKoven768)

Silences as Resistance in Public Narratives

Silence is generally seen as something to surmount: we break silence; we give voice to silenced stories; we speak out against injustice. But silence can be a powerful mode of expression in its own right. There is a history of silent protest. Silence can reject dominant expectations or refuse to offer up a story for voyeurism, appropriation, or commodification. It can push reader-listeners to listen for something wordless, to play an active role in striving to understand, and simultaneously to recognize the limits of their ability to understand another person’s trauma. Silence is rarely ever singular.