gender studies and sexuality

Call for Submissions: SPECIAL ANTHOLOGY OF ONE-MINUTE PLAYS & MONOLOGUES ‘REWRITING SHAKESPEARE’ (Volume 2)

updated: 
Monday, September 29, 2025 - 11:53am
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SPECIAL ANTHOLOGY OF ONE-MINUTE PLAYS / MONOLOGUES ‘REWRITING SHAKESPEARE’ (Volume 2) 

Website: Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine - Announcements

Deadline: October 28, 2025

 

FRESH WORDS – An International Literary Magazine is thrilled to announce the call for submissions for Volume 2 of its acclaimed special anthology: ‘Rewriting Shakespeare’—a curated collection of bold, inventive, and contemporary one-minute plays and monologues that reimagine the timeless works of William Shakespeare.  

 

ACLA 2026: Queering the Anthropocene: Radical Ecocritical Perspectives on the End of the World in Global Literature and Media

updated: 
Monday, September 29, 2025 - 10:24am
ACLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

As environmental crises intensify, ecocriticism has emerged as a vital interdisciplinary lens for examining how literature and media represent, challenge, and reimagine human relationships with the natural world. Invested in the idea that, in such times, the center cannot [and should not] hold, this seminar explores how queer ecocritical approaches reveal the de-centering cultural, ethical, and political possibilities embedded in apocalyptic environmental narratives in both literary texts and visual media.

Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming (ACLA 2026)

updated: 
Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 5:45pm
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Convention 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Seminar title: Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

 

Seminar link: https://www.acla.org/seminar/c997c5c5-09fd-4307-ba24-29af11d554d6 

 

Organizers: Clarke Crockett and Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University, USA

 

American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Convention 2026, Montreal, Canada

 

 


 

 

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 2, 2025. Must be submitted through the ACLA portal. 

 

Mirror Worlds (Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, MSSC 2026)

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 6:15pm
Cornell University Medieval Studies Student Colloquium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

 

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.   

-Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye 

  

The Cornell Medieval Studies Program is pleased to announce the 36th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC) in person at Cornell University’s A.D. White House on Saturday February 21, 2026. This year’s theme is “Mirror Worlds.”  

Black Matter(s): Opacity, Relation, Representation - ACLA 2026

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 3:04pm
Matthew Molinaro + Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

In recent decades, Black Studies has witnessed important work on the ways in which the overrepresentation of ‘man’ and the invisibilization of whiteness have functioned in service of a range of im/material violences. Our aesthetic and political investments, therefore, lie in arguments and examples that unsettle the imposed relationalities and the representational economy of what Saidiya Hartman calls the “racial calculus”, Katherine McKittrick considers as the “mathematics of unlivingness” and Christina Sharpe terms the “orthographies of the wake”.

True Crime CFP for Popular Culture Association Annual Conference 2026

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:32pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

PCA True Crime CFP 2026 

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2025 

PCA/ACA will be held from April 8-11th, 2026 in Atlanta, GA 

True Crime typically focuses on investigative journalism used to present a mystery or attempt to understand the psychology of a crime/perpetrator. It may include narratives of a case, victimology, forensics, or analysis of evidence, although each case is different. Much of True Crime focuses on serial killers/killings, although subsets of the genre may delve into topics such as kidnappings, cults, wrongful convictions, advocacy, white-collar crimes, trial proceedings, prevention of crime, survivor stories, or sensationalism/entertainment. 

Queering the Public Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
Elle Lapsen / Interspaces
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Interspaces is an open-access, student-led journal that welcomes submissions in interdisciplinary work and research from inside and outside the proverbial ivory tower of the academic world. Interspaces currently seeks submissions for a special themed section, “Queering the Public Humanities.” The pitch deadline (200 words) is November 1, 2025. The final submission deadline is January 15, 2026. Click the link above to learn more about the theme and submission guidelines.

Masculinities Students' Conference I: Current Issues, Future Directions

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
The Observatory of Masculinities, University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Masculinities Students' Conference I: Current Issues, Future Directions

 

Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities. This event aims to create a space for discussing diverse approaches and complexities of contemporary masculinities and their impact on society. Whether you're a student, researcher, or simply interested in the topic, this conference is the place to learn and exchange ideas.

 

The conference will be held in person. 

 

DATE: Thursday, 11 December 2025

SEXTANT Journal: Call for submissions

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked. 

SEXTANT features the work of researchers, activists, and artists, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.

Now accepting submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2. Deadline for submissions is November 17, 2025.

Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
German Inklings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic
Annual Symposium of the German Inklings Society

“Epochs throw up the monsters they need.”
— China Miéville, “Theses on Monsters”

K-Pop Demon Hunters as Global Phenomenon: Narrative, Performance, and Identity in Transnational Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:02am
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

This is a call for chapter abstracts for an upcoming edited volume exploring the cultural, narrative, musical, and global fandom implications of the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters. The volume will be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series (https://tinyurl.com/rbtm8fve).

 

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area of PCA

updated: 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 12:08pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area

Join us for the 2026 Popular Culture/American Culture Association's National Conference.

Our area provides a home for everything monsters at PCA. We are proud to be the sister area of Vampire Studies who inspired us to create this area for the rest of the monsters. Please join us in exploring the themes, influences, and impact of the monster as a cultural and historical touchstone.

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS) -- Inaugural Issue -- Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 10:22am
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 13, 2025

 

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)

Binghamton University’s Inaugural Issue

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline - December 13th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST

Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/

 

Introduction and Journal Scope:

Jane Austen's Bath Novels

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 4:41pm
Jane Austen Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Through this Call for Papers, the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant at the 2026 JASNA Annual General Meeting (AGM) October 29-November 1, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona.  The Call for Papers forms also include the application for the JASNA New Voices Breakout Speaker grant.

2026 AGM Theme: "Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion." 

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2025

Call for Research Articles for Peer Reviewed Journal

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:07am
The Creative Launcher Perception Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Call for Research Article

For December 2025 Issue

Last date for Research Article Submission is 10th December 2025 for December Issue ,

 

The Creative Launcher

An International, Peer Reviewed Indexed, Refereed Journal in English

 

Indexed in MLA, ERIHPLUS, MIAR, Sherpa Romeo, World cat, Fatcat, Google Scholar, BASE, Crossref, EBSCO, Google Scholar, and World wide acknowledged.

 

Useful in Thesis submission and CAS promotion

Editor-in-chief: Dr. Ram Avadh Prajapati

Connect on WhatsApp +91 9807740808

 

Each article will be published with DOI.

 

Theatre, Performance & Gender

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:03am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel invites papers that engage with aspects of performance, mediated by concepts of gender, in English and Anglophone theatre and drama. The panel is not restricted to any particular period, but preference may be given to proposals that engage with British theatre from 1500 to 1800.

Please submit abstracts through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21738

What's Queer about Latinx Studies Now? due 9/22

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 10:52am
2026 Latino Studies Association (Austin, TX)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 22, 2025

Twenty years ago, David Eng, Jack Halberstam, and the late José Esteban Muñoz asked “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” in a special issue of Social Text. With this question, they invited the field’s overhaul through considerations of race, debates about temporality/futurity, and interrogations of the transnational assemblages that then shaped refugee and migrant life. At the same time the special issue deconstructed the privileged subjects of queer studies, it echoed, furthered, and made space for field-defining works in queer Latinx studies: Muñoz’s Disidentifications (1999), Juana Maria Rodríguez Queer Latinidad (2003), Richard T.

Blacks in Boston - “Combahee River Collective: Race, Space, and Feminist Activism”

updated: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 5:40pm
Boston College African and African Diaspora Studies Program
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 17, 2025

“Blacks in Boston” is a series of conferences conceived of by former Boston College Black

Studies Director Amanda V. Houston. Previous conferences have addressed subjects such as blacks in metropolitan Boston, the struggle for equal education, the relationships between Irish

and black Bostonians, the role of immigrants of African descent in the development, and evolution of Boston’s black communities, and black Bostonians and the media.

CfP | NeMLA 2026 Roundtable| (Re)generative Critiques of Age and Disability in Hispanic and Latinx Cultural Production

updated: 
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 7:38pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA

The emergence of Age and Disability Studies as critical fields of inquiry has paved the way for pioneering work tracing the historical construction of age and disability within cultures, revising cultural artifacts that shape hegemonic discourses of normalcy/difference, and advancing innovative approaches to (re)imagine more inclusive and empathetic ways of social coexistence. Despite the growing body of work within these fields, numerous cultural texts remain underexplored, misunderstood, or in need of what Adrienne Rich (1972) describes as re-vision—a fresh critical examination that infuses the text with new life.

Literary Druid - Regular Issue October 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 7:38pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

 

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

Femspec - Call for Volunteers

updated: 
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 3:35pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

VOLUNTEER POSITION OPENINGS

 

Femspec needs volunteers to fill the following positions:

 

  • Peer Review Coordinator - This person would be in charge of coordinating the scholarly peer review process for the journal. The Coordinator 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.

 

  • Book Review Editor - This person would coordinate book reviews for the journal. The Editor would be in charge of obtaining books to review, distributing books to volunteer reviewers, and coordinating the submission of book reviews.

 

"Loneliness" - 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Friday, September 5, 2025 - 3:00pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom)

25-26 September 2025

Deadline for proposals: 7 September 2025

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 All details: https://www.inmindsupport.com/loneliness-conference

CFP: 

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