general announcements

PhD Open House - Theatre and Performance CUNY Graduate Center

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:23pm
Theatre and Performance Department, CUNY GC
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The CUNY Graduate Center Theatre and Performance department is holding in-person and virtual Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance open houses. Our in-person open house is on Thursday, November 13th at 5:30, and our Zoom open house will be on Tuesday, November 18th at 10am.

This will be a full event with talks from faculty and current students. Email Assistant Program Officer Patricia Goodson at pgoodson@gc.cuny.edu to RSVP and receive Zoom information.

Call for Proposals - Feral Feminisms

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 3:05pm
Feral Feminisms: An Open Access Feminist Online Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Please see this Call for Proposals for an upcoming special issue of Feral Feminisms: 

 https://feralfeminisms.com/cfps/ 

This special issue, “Scrapwork: Foraging Feminist Fragments” will be guest edited by Dr. Amber Moore (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Kaye Hare (University Canada West). 

Irish-American(s and) Periodicals

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:58pm
Research Society for American Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 21, 2025

 

Irish-American(s and) Periodicals

Kirsten McLeod and Tim Lanzendörfer

Sponsored by the Research Society for American Periodicals

 

CFP_Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities_Volume 2, Issue 1 (Open Issue) January 2026

updated: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 2:55pm
Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities (E-ISSN: 3107-488X)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Volume 2, Issue 1 (Open Issue, January 2026) Call for Papers

Extended Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.11.2025

CFP Link: https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%202.1_Jan%202026.pdf

(Note: Kindly ignore the old deadline in the link. Follow the revised extended deadline.)

Announcing the 2026 First Book Institute: Call for Applications

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:32pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 9, 2026

Announcing

The 2026 First Book Institute

May 31-June 6, 2026

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Alfred Hitchcock

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:31pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

NEW Submission Deadline: November 14, 2025

 

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA--DEADLINE EXTENDED!

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:31pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.swpaca.org

EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025

Jack London Society Panels at 2026 American Literature Association Conference

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:28pm
The Jack London Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 26, 2026

In honor of Jack London's 150th birthday anniversary in 2026, paper submissions are invited for the Jack London Society panels at the American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference, May 20-23, 2026,Palmer House 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL. Papers may address any aspect of Jack London studies. Send a 250-to-300 word abstract for a twenty-minute presentation to Kenneth K. Brandt at kbrandt@scad.edu by January 26, 2026. Include a brief biographical sketch and any AV equipment needs.

Utopian Impulses in the 2020s

updated: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 2:56pm
Blake Steinnecker / University of Cincinnati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 19, 2025

Utopian Impulses in the 2020sAn Interdisciplinary Graduate Student ConferenceUniversity of Cincinnati - Friday, February 6th, 2026 Among its political and technological predicaments, America’s 2020s have been a time of steady upheaval, crisis, and change. As we continue to wrestle our way through the agendas, regimes, and big-data systems of this historical moment as teachers, students, and researchers, we recall the utopian thinking of More and Marx, which reminds us “to keep from being blinded by what seems normal — to help us see that what is natural is constructed, not inevitable” (Elbow, p. 83).

The Hidden Faces of Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance (November 28-29, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 6:21pm
Konstantina Kliagkona (KN: Forensic, Literature, Arts & Media Studies/ Independent Researcher, Freelancer EFL, Criminology Teacher, & Offender Profiler)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:

 

The Hidden Faces of Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Abuse, Trauma, and Resistance

Dates of Conference: November 28-29, 2025

 

GENERAL ISSUE (VOL 2 NO 2 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:22pm
Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

General Issue | Rolling Submissions

The Critical Gender Studies Journal / Revista Crítica de Estudios de Género invites submissions for its upcoming general issue. We welcome original research articles, theoretical essays, creative interventions, and reviews that explore the multifaceted dimensions of gender and sexuality across diverse contexts and disciplines.

Femspec - Call for Creative Editor

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:22pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Creative Editor 

 

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks a volunteer editorial collective member starting for 26.1 no later than January 1.

 

Duties include:

 

Attending collective meetings on a regular basis (now Friday 10:30 AM EST)

 

Receiving creative submissions to screen and coordinate peer-review 

 

Seeking creative submissions and reviewers through professional channels and personal networks, and by distribution of brochures at appropriate conferences and to Creative Writing programs

 

Global Indigeneities and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:22pm
Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Call for Papers

Global Indigeneities and Life Narratives: Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

Guest Editor: J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, 

Eric and Wendy Schmidt Professor of Indigenous Studies and Anthropology, Princeton University

Submit: 400-word abstracts to kauanui@princeton.edu by December 1, 2025

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/cbr/publications-productions/biography/calls-fo...

 

The Saul Bellow Society at the American Literature Association 2026 Conference

updated: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3:15pm
The Saul Bellow Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 11, 2026

The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association’s 37th Annual Conference at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, on May 20-23, 2026.  Proposals for papers on Saul Bellow and Chicago are particularly welcome but may address any aspect of Saul Bellow’s work or life, including comparisons with other authors. 

Proposals for presentations should include a title, your name and affiliation, e-mail address, and a short abstract.  The Saul Bellow Society welcomes proposals from established and newer scholars, including graduate students. 

British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 11:52am
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

35TH ANNUAL BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 20-21, 2026
DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

Call for Submissions – The Soliloquist Winter 2026 Issue Theme: “Beneath the Surface”

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52am
The Soliloquist Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Call for Submissions – The Soliloquist Winter 2026 Issue 
Theme: Beneath the Surface 

Winter is a season of stillness—but beneath the frost, roots are reaching, rivers are flowing, and stories are gathering strength.  

For our Winter 2026 issue, The Soliloquist invites poets and writers to explore what lies hidden: the unspoken truths, buried memories, secret longings, submerged identities, and quiet rebellions that shape who we are. We seek work that dives below the obvious, the curated, the polished—into the depths where vulnerability, resilience, and revelation intertwine.  

Where There’s Life: Reading Liberated Futures in Multiethnic Literature

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:51am
MELUS-Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literatures of the United States
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

Call for Papers

The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)

American Literature Association

37th Annual Conference

May 20-23, 2026

Palmer House

17 East Monroe Street

Chicago, IL 60603

 

Panel: Where There’s Life: Reading Liberated Futures in Multiethnic Literature

Call for Papers: Cyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:50am
Amy Lind, Prateek Srivastava, Stephen Bryant, University of Cincinnati
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Call for PapersCyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics

Edited by Amy Lind, Stephen Bryant, and Prateek Srivastava

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2025

33rd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:50am
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 14, 2025

The 33rd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 4-7, 2026) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by November 14, 2025, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. We ask that you please copy your submission to both of us.

Call for Submissions for “Ariel’s Corner” (Miranda e-journal)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:49am
Miranda e-journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Call for Submissions for “Ariel’s Corner” (Miranda e-journal)

 

Submissions for ‘Ariel’s Corner’ section of Miranda e-journal are open.

 

Miranda is a scholarly e-journal focusing on a wide range of social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world and encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of scholarly approaches. A special section, called ‘Ariel’s Corner,’ is dedicated to the arts in the English-speaking world.

 

Call for Proposals - Undergraduate Studies - PCA 2026

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:48am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Undergraduate students are invited to submit a proposal for presentation at the 2026 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. Presentation proposals should consist of a 250-to-300 word abstract or summary of your presentation topic which can include any topic as long as it covers some aspect of popular culture, American culture, or international culture.

Call for Submissions for Undergraduate Research Journal

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:48am
1890: A Journal of Undergraduate Research
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

We are now accepting research articles, scholarly papers, creative writing, artwork, photography, and reviews for our 2025 issue of

1890: A Journal of Undergraduate Research.

 

1890 provides undergraduate students the opportunity to demonstrate their interests and abilities in various disciplines by accepting works of research, creative writing, poetry, reviews, and art.

 

Bob Dylan and the Value of Art in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:43am
University of Southern Denmark
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Bob Dylan and the Value of Art in the 21st Century

5-7 November 2026

University of Southern Denmark

Odense, Denmark

 

[Visual and Material Culture] (CEA 3/26-3/28/2026)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:43am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Special Topics CFP: Visual and Material Culture

CEA 2026/DECLARATIONS

March 26-28, 2026

Hilton Charlotte University Place

 

SUBMISSION  DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2025

 

JOIN US IN THE QUEEN CITY

On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as "a free and independent people."

 

[The Profession] (CEA 3/26-3/28/2026)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:42am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Special Topics CFP: The Profession

CEA 2026/DECLARATIONS

March 26-28, 2026

Hilton Charlotte University Place

 

SUBMISSION  DEADLINE NOVEMBER 1, 2025

 

JOIN US IN THE QUEEN CITY

On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as "a free and independent people."

 

Time of the Wolf (CfP)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:41am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

                                                                             Time of the Wolf:
                                                           Visual/Textual Culture of Ethical Impasse

Call for Submissions: "Hello Godot" – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology (Volume 11)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:40am
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

Call for Submissions: "Hello Godot" – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology (Volume 11)

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

Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com 

Last date of submission: November 28th, 2025

Fresh Words-An International Literary Magazine is inviting submissions for a special one minute play anthology "Hello Godot". 

Submission Guidelines:

1. Theme and Tone

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