general announcements

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture 2.0

updated: 
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:21am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, In association with University of Toronto, Canada; University of Northampton UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of York, England
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on 

Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture 2.0

 

Date: 15th-19th December 2025

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future

updated: 
Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:17am
Victor Monnin and Alison Laurence
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 10, 2026

We invite submissions for Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future, an edited collection that explores extinct animal parks real, imagined, unrealized, or yet to be. Our goal is to bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine parks across time and space, across fact and fiction. We seek to understand how these projects, which reconstitute and enclose long-extinct life forms, intersect with histories of science, capitalism, imperialism, environmental change, and more.

Call for Full Chapters: The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

updated: 
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 5:39pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Call for FULL Chapters:

 

Update: The manuscript is nearly finished however some of the planned chapters have fallen through. I need a replacement chapter, possibly two, in short order. Please review the CFC details below and contact me with any questions: maureenfadem@gmail.com

The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht, CUNY

 

This is a call for chapters for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY’S DECEMBER 2025 ISSUE

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:43pm
Literature Today
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY’S DECEMBER 2025 ISSUE

Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/
Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2025

 


 Theme: “Offline: Reclaiming Presence in a Hyperconnected World”

We are more connected than ever—yet so many of us feel unseen, unheard, or strangely alone.

 

Call for Manuscripts: Digital Defoe

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:42pm
Digital Defoe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

Turkish Cinema: Special Call for Papers, Issue 11.1 (Sprıng 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:11pm
Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 2, 2026

Special Call for Papers, Issue 11.1 (Sprıng 2026)

For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ)

Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past”

updated: 
Friday, October 3, 2025 - 3:24pm
Department of English and American Studies, University of Salzburg
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 2, 2026

 

Call for Papers and Workshops: “History up for Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past” 

1-2 July 2026, University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies, UniparkNonntal 

Conference within the Framework of the Salzburg Conferences on English Literature and Culture (SEC) 

Organisers: Dorothea Flothow, Julia Hartinger, Sarah Herbe, Christopher Herzog, Eva-Maria Kubin, Markus Oppolzer, and Elisabeth Schober 

 

Midwest Winter Workshop 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 10:04am
Indiana University Bloomington
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 8, 2025

Call for Papers

Midwest Winter Workshop 2026

Rhetoric Program

Indiana University Bloomington

Friday, February 6th – Saturday, February 7th, 2026


 

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.  

 

CFP: Colonial Afterlives: Public Art and the Trans-Pacific World - Public Art Dialogue Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, September 29, 2025 - 11:26am
Public Art Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

This special issue of Public Art Dialogue invites scholarly contributions (research articles, short essays, and artists’ projects) that examine the enduring visual, spatial, and ideological legacies of colonialism in public spaces across the Pacific world. It seeks to explore how imperial legacies forged transoceanic connections that continue to shape the public sphere through means including but not limited to monuments, architecture, civic rituals, theater, dance, street art, and performative acts.

Irish Exceptionalism

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:32pm
SOFEIR (French Society of Irish Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Ireland has often been held to be somehow exceptional, an island on the edge of Europe whose historical, social and cultural trajectories have at times led it to diverge in surprising ways from both its nearest neighbour, Great Britain, and the wider world. This perception of Irish exceptionalism has long played a role in how the island has been understood both within and beyond its borders.

Matrifocal Narratives in Indian Fiction

updated: 
Friday, September 26, 2025 - 1:32pm
Proposed for Routledge/ Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Call for Book Chapters

Proposed for Routledge/ Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

Seeking submissions for a co-edited collection entitled:

Matrifocal Narratives in Indian Fiction

Co-Editors: Sushree Routray, Rashmi Gaur, and Rahul K. Gairola

 

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture, April 8-11, 2026

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

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2026 national conference to be held April 8-11, 2026, in Atlanta, GA at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

Tragedy and Resistance

updated: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 3:46pm
Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 30, 2026

Tragedy and Resistance, 16-17 April, 2026

 Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin (https://lfbrecht.de/) 

Keynote Speakers:

Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Trends, Methods and Challenges

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:10am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 18, 2025

                                                                             Graduate Research Meet

                                                                                     11th Edition

                              Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Trends, Methods and Challenges

 

Concept Note:

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.

The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Vilnius University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Journal LiteratūraVilnius University

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust 

 

 

 

Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion’d welcome and undoubted blest.
Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.

 

CFP - International Conference on "Living Ethically in the 21st Century" (December 10-11, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 25, 2025

                                                                                Tattva Journal of Philosophy

                                                                                                     And

                                                         Department of English and Cultural Studies, Central Campus

                                                                 CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India

                                                                                                Organizes 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Mini Plays Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue
Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Deadline      December 15, 2025  
Format:       1-Minute Plays and Monologues  
Length:       Maximum one page (A4 size)  
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.comWebsite: 

The curtain didn’t close. The letter was never sent. The apology… still unspoken.

Mini Plays Review invites you to explore the weight of what’s left hanging — the stories suspended mid-air, the emotions caught in the throat, the promises half-made and paths not taken.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 'SNOWFALL AND STARLIGHT': A Christmas Haiku Anthology

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

                                                                      CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SNOWFALL AND STARLIGHT: A Christmas Haiku Anthology

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Deadline: November 28, 2025

Publication Date: December 5, 2025

Adapting Thackeray

updated: 
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:02am
Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 19, 2026

Special Issue, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Call for Papers: 

Adapting Thackeray 

 

The Velvet Light Trap - 98 - Media Futures

updated: 
Friday, September 19, 2025 - 2:58pm
The Velvet Light Trap
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 12, 2025

CFP: Media Futures The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 98 (to be published Fall 2026) Special Issue Theme: Media have always been a tool for us to imagine our possible futures. Dystopias, utopias, robotic dominance or human climate catastrophe, media help humanity play out the hopes, dreams, or nightmares of what’s to come. Scholarship on media futures has often focused on representations of the future, but also on how cultural and technological changes have shaped and are shaping everything from media production, creative labor, distribution, and audience reception. Algorithmic engines that shape taste help to determine what individuals choose to watch, A.I.

Call for panelists -- What is Research? Religious Studies Methods and Theory

updated: 
Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 5:36pm
Jacques Parker (University of California, Santa Barbara)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

[CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS AS OF NOW] -- please reach jacquesparker@ucsb.edu with questions.

This CfP is for a panel on religious studies and related fields for the upcoming 2026 What is Research? conference at University of Oregon, Portland (23–25 April 2026).  

Bureaucratic Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 10:22am
Alexandra Irimia (University of Bonn), Jonathan Foster (Stockholm University)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Bureaucratic Modernism

Edited by Alexandra Irimia and Jonathan Foster

Both modernist literature and modern bureaucracy reshaped how societies imagined authority, individuality, and the written word. Modernist authors not only depicted bureaucracy—they absorbed and transformed its textual forms, procedural rhythms, and rationalized aesthetics. This volume takes that convergence as its starting point, asking how the rise of administrative culture in the early twentieth century influenced modernist style, and how modernist experimentation in turn reframed the experience of bureaucracy.

Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Smut" and "Lore"

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 3:26pm
Digital Literary Cultures (DLC+)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

In 2025-2026, Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture will host two virtual mini-conferences consisting of four thematically-linked keywords actively shaping digital literary culture in the very online, very present moment. We are working at the bleeding edge of culture, and these mini-conferences are designed to be intimate, safe, and collaborative spaces to think with others about what we see emerging, as it is emerging.

Regenerating General Education

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:07am
NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In an era defined by rapid social, technological, and environmental change, the concept of (Re)generation offers a vital framework for reimagining general education. This panel invites scholars, educators, and academic leaders to explore how the principles of (Re)generation can revitalize curricula, pedagogy, and institutional practices in ways that not only respond to the challenges of the present but also prepare us for the future.

Pages