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Bodies in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition for Scholarly Journal

updated: 
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 9:11am
Watermark (California State University, Long Beach)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 2, 2026

Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by English graduate students at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking submissions for its twentieth volume. Our journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods or current issues in the field of rhetoric and composition. We also accept submissions from other areas including but not limited to: Comparative World Literature, Medieval Studies, Translation Studies, and Gender & Women’s Studies. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only graduate and undergraduate student work will be considered.

CFP for the Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

updated: 
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 9:05am
Lara Karpenko, Carroll University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 9, 2026

WANT TO PUBLISH YOUR SCHOLARLY WORK?

  • The Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (JURH) is looking for excellent undergraduate essays.

 

WHAT IS JURH?

Memory Activism Across the Lusophone World: (Im)Possibilities of Decolonial Practice

updated: 
Friday, December 12, 2025 - 9:04am
Special Issue - Portuguese Studies Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Focusing on the past decade – particularly the summer of 2020 and its aftermath, which witnessed an unprecedented wave of iconoclastic acts against monuments and statues linked to colonialism, white supremacy, and slavery, alongside renewed calls for the decolonisation of museums and urban toponyms – much of the subsequent scholarly attention in English has centred on developments in the Anglophone world.

Madness in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 - 8:58am
Laura Nicosia/Salem Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 9, 2026

For Critical Insights volume under contract:

Madness in Literature

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: January 9, 2026

Call for Papers-Conventions and Subversions in Sino-Western Theatrical Settings

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 9:05pm
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Papers:

 

Conventions and Subversions in Sino-Western Theatrical Settings

 

Edited by Kelly Kar Yue CHAN, Chi Sum Garfield LAU and Chi Chun CHAN

 

We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume that contains 8-10 chapters of research articles which represent the efforts from both members of the academia and practitioners of theatre to sustain the tradition of Sino-Western theatrics, while demonstrating the evolving aspects of contemporary performances under the inexorable trends of digitalization and globalization.

 

Theoretical Inquiries, Critical Dialogues I–II (April 2026 & April 2027)

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:09pm
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies invites submissions for its 10th issue (April 2026) and 12th issue (April 2027), dedicated to the twin special issues “Theoretical Inquiries, Critical Dialogues I–II.”

These issues welcome original research articles that explore classical or contemporary literary theories, modes of interpretation, textual analysis, narrative studies, world literature, comparative approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Prioritizing conceptual depth and metaphorical dynamism, Nesir seeks contributions that move beyond descriptive analysis of a single work, period, or national context. We encourage articles that:

Queering food in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:09pm
Sohni Chakrabarti University of St Andrews
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Queering food in the 21st Century

Call for submissions to the Fall/Winter 2026 issue of Études Irlandaises

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:09pm
Études Irlandaises, the Irish Studies journal of France
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / ÉTUDES IRLANDAISES (French Journal of Irish Studies)

Fall/Winter 2026 issue

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1st, 2026

The Editorial Board of Études Irlandaises  is currently seeking submissions for its Fall/Winter 2026 issue.

Fragility and Fluidity of Identity: The Social Construction of Self and Racial Bigotry in Mohsin Hamid’s “The Last White Man” (2022)

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:09pm
Zainab Sajjad
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 8, 2025

Generally, the notion of identity is misinterpreted to be something concrete or even an inherited attribute and hence resistant to changes. However, as we delve deeper into the idea of self and the factors that constitute it, a fact becomes evident: that an individual’s identity is in fact not very rigid but rather fluid and dynamic in nature. A number of societal factors influence the construction of the character that an individual identifies themselves with. Through a close textual analysis of The Last White Man (2022) by Mohsin Hamid, this paper aims to explore the concept of identity in contrast to its conventional definition of something unalterable, and rather look at it as an idea that is constantly in motion.

Women and the Body: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology – Volume (forthcoming) The edited volume Women and the Body will appear as part of the peer-reviewed book series Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology, published by

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:09pm
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 30, 2026

Women and the Body: Interdisciplinary PerspectivesInterdisciplinary Studies on Philology – Volume (forthcoming)

The edited volume Women and the Body will appear as part of the peer-reviewed book series Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology, published by Maurer Press (Germany). The series explores cutting-edge research across literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, philosophy, and related fields, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and theoretically innovative approaches.

CFP: 2026 IAEP Meeting (Online)

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:09pm
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY “REWIRING ECOLOGIES: GROWTH, DEGROWTH, AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURES” Thirtieth Annual Meeting 21–23 May 2026 ONLINE ONLY

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2026 online annual meeting. To reduce the
environmental impact of our environmental philosophy, we hold conferences in-person/hybrid in
odd-numbered years, and fully remotely in even-numbered years.

Resist to Exist: Life Writing, Democracy, and Conceivable Futures--XIV IABA World Conf.

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:08pm
International Auto/Biogrpahy Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 30, 2026

Call for papers

XIV Global IABA Conference 2026

International Auto/Biography Association

 

RESIST TO EXIST:

Life writing, democracy, and conceivable futures

State University of Bahia (UNEB)

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

July 21-24, 2026

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS--January 30, 2026

 

Call for Papers - What Future for Spaces of Integration?

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:08pm
Association of European Studies - Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Journal “Temas de Integração”

2026 – n.º 46

30th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

 

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2026 - 16th Annual Conference

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pm
Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2026

16th Annual Conference

 

Systems and Entanglement

 

July 16th-17th 2026

University of Liverpool and Online

 

Nobody lives everywhere; everybody lives somewhere. Nothing is connected to everything; everything is connected to something.

(Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene)

42nd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pm
PsyArt & University of Essex, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

We are pleased to announce that the 42nd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts will be held at University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, England, UK, June 23-June 26, 2026. The University of Essex, with three campuses, was founded as a research university by public charter in 1965, and is one of the original plate glass universities. With a commitment to academic excellence and diversity, The University of Essex’s Colchester campus is “a world in one place,” home to 15,000 students from over 130 countries.

Otherness: Essays and Studies - Spring 2026

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pm
Centre for Studies in Otherness
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

The peer-reviewed e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2026 general issue.

Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that examine, in as many ways as possible, the concepts of otherness and alterity.  We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study.

RMMLA 2026 – Call for Papers
：Asian Drama and Performance Panel

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pm
RMMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

RMMLA 2026 – Call for Papers
Asian Drama and Performance Panel
 
REVOLUTIONARY BODIES
Staging Thought and Affect on the Asian Stage
How do bodies on Asian stages think, feel, and make worlds?
This panel explores the performing body as a site where concepts are articulated and affects are distributed. Inspired by Emily Wilcox’s Revolutionary Bodies and theoretical work by Bruno Latour, Rita Felski, Susan Leigh Foster, André Lepecki, among others, we consider the body not as a mute vehicle for meaning, but as an interface that negotiates power, history, and desire.

Liminality: Spaces, Forms, and Contexts

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:07pm
Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 12, 2025

“The beyond is not a new horizon, but a sense of the transition that takes place in the interstices” — Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (1994)

 

Austerity/L'Austerité — Equinoxes Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:04pm
Brown University French and Francophone Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

 

Austerity 

April 10-11, 2026 

 The 2026 edition of the Equinoxes graduate student conference at Brown University 

The Digital Sphere: Identity, Bodies, and Critical Perspectives in Social Media

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 1:00pm
Jamia Millia Islamia
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Communication in the age of digital spaces has transformed rapidly. The advent of social media platforms has led to a transition in the manner and extent of information circulation online, making communication a more collaborative and democratised form of participation. Participatory culture, as defined by Henry Jenkins, is a space that enables the audience to become active participants rather than passive consumers of the texts. The meaning of participation especially evolves with the exposure to social media platforms that allow individual members to find a space for their expression.

Emerging Voices – Testing Ideas in Research on Hong Kong (Postgraduate Lightning Talks)

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 12:50pm
Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 27, 2026

Call for Papers

Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks

Theme: Emerging Voices – Testing Ideas in Research on Hong Kong

Date: 5-6 June 2026 (online)

The Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages (HKCAL) Research Network invites submissions for Spark: HKCAL Postgraduate Lightning Talks, to be held on 12-13 June 2026.

the engine(idling Issue 8: Collage

updated: 
Monday, December 8, 2025 - 12:50pm
the engine(idling
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

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Special Sub Call!Issue 8’s theme is: CollageOpen: Dec 1, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2026

 

                                                                             Seeking Poetry and artworks!

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We’re inviting you to take scissors to much of our Archive!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society at ALA 2026

updated: 
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 4:19pm
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 19, 2026

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society will host two panels at the 37th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 20-23, 2026 in Chicago. We invite proposals for presentations on any aspect of Gilman’s life and work.

Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:

  • Gilman and the Female Gothic
  • Gilman and Xenofeminism
  • Gilman and First Wave Feminism
  • Gilman and Medicine / the Health Humanities
  • Gilman and Utopianism
  • Gilman and Evolutionary Science
  • Gilman and Religion
  • Gilman and Queer Culture

Ecocriticism in German Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 8:58am
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Ecocriticism in German Narratives
Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

 

About the Series

The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology (Istanbul University Press) explores intersections of German literature, culture, and society with broader interdisciplinary fields.

Human-Animal Studies and Literary Animal Studies in German Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 8:58am
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Human-Animal Studies and Literary Animal Studies in German Narratives
Book Series: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology

 

About the Series

The book series Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology (Istanbul University Press) explores intersections of German literature, culture, and society with broader interdisciplinary fields.

Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 8:58am
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives
Third volume of the book series: Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology

About the Series

Interdisciplinary Studies on Philology brings together research that bridges literary studies with adjacent human and social sciences.

  • Volume I: Mythological Motifs in Narratives (published)
  • Volume II: Redefining Communication in Posthuman Age (published)
  • Volume III: Utopia, Dystopia, and Heterotopia in Narratives (planned)

Aim and Scope

Discourses '26, Mount Carmel College

updated: 
Friday, December 5, 2025 - 6:50am
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore - Department of Communication Skills & Department of History
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

 

THE DEPARTMENTS OF 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND HISTORY

Mount Carmel College, Autonomous present 

 

DISCOURSES '26

on FOOD, HISTORY AND MIGRATION 

 

Date: 21st and 22nd of January, 2026

Venue: PJEC 1, Mount Carmel College, Autonomous, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 

 

Please note: Discourses '26 will be taking place at Mount Carmel College Autonomous, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It is mandatory for all participants to conduct their presentations, offline, at the venue itself. Kindly ensure the same.

 

CONCEPT NOTE  

PCA/ACA 2026 Joint Panel - Neurodivergence and Fandom FINAL DEADLINE

updated: 
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:41pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Neurodivergence and Fandom

The Neurodivergent Studies area and the Fandom Studies area are excited to announce a joint panel on Neurodivergence in Fandom! Neurodivergence can have a big impact on the ways that people interact with popular culture, and this can be seen in the ways that neurodivergent folks approach fandom. This panel seeks to understand different approaches or experiences when it comes to neurodivergence in/and fandom!

Some possible topics include:

PCA/ACA 2026 - Neurodivergent Studies - Special Topics FINAL DEADLINE

updated: 
Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 1:40pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

“Neurodivergent just means a brain that diverges.” – Kassiane Asasumasu, Radical Neurodivergence Speaking

The first year of Neurodivergent Studies at the PCA, in New Orleans in 2025, showed that there was marked interest in developing this field and expanding conversations. Neurodivergent Studies, a field that has long been relegated to more scientific study, is ready to move into different spaces as we start conversations about how neurodivergent approaches to popular culture, fandom, academia, and our own experiences can shape the way we approach the world.

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