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Archival and Bibliographical Studies in American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 11:05am
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Resources for American Literary Study, a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. Founded in 1971, RALS remains the only major scholarly periodical of its kind. Each issue includes, in addition to archival and bibliographical research, related book reviews and a unique “Prospects” essay that identifies new directions in the study of major authors. Our editorial board consists of leading scholars from an array of fields and subfields in American literary study.

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:28am
Dr. Ali Salami, University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (English or Spanish, with focus on the Spanish-speaking world): Polifonía Scholarly Journal

updated: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 9:01pm
Polifonía Scholarly Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Convocatoria POLIFONIA, Revista de estudios hispánicos Volumen XV, Año 2025Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine (el mundo hispanohablante)

El consejo editorial de Polifonía se complace en hacer pública su nueva convocatoria para su decimoquinto volumen, “Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine,” que se publicará de forma electrónica e impresa en el 2025.

NEW DEADLINE: Mad Max Franchise: An Edited Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 9:27am
Sarah Gawronski / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for papers:  Essays for an edited collection about the Mad Max franchise 

Sarah Gawronski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

 

Name / Organization (or Independent Scholar)

Contact info: sarahmgawronski@gmail.com

 

Critical Readings on the Silver Surfer

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 12:22pm
Mike Lemon and Rob Weiner
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Since his debut inFantastic Four #48, the Silver Surfer has become an integral part of Marvel Comic’s sprawlinguniverse. In his six-decade existence, the character has been featured in merchandise and Marvel’s transmedia properties, including cartoons, movies, video games, and podcasts. 
 
While there exists a smattering of academic research on the Silver Surfer, this edited collection welcomes differing perspectives on thischaracter. We welcome contributions from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including comics studies, film and media studies, communication, theology, literary criticism, and so on. 

Speical issue of Tropos on Mimetic Studies. New Steps for the Mimetic TUrn

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu). 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - CINEMA'S FIRST EPICS IN FOCUS

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives

(Edited Volume)

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Hyeryung Hwang/Cross-Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

  • Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
  • Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
  • Publication Date: December, 2026
  • Languages accepted: English
  • Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
  • Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

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Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:18pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.2 - 2025  & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:07pm
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Special Issue Call for Papers: 

Teaching Baldwin / Baldwin as Teacher  

Supernatural Liminalities in MTV's Teen Wolf

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 3:07pm
Supernatural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Special issue Call for Papers

Supernatural liminalities in MTV’s Teen Wolf

UUSN Journal seeks Articles and Book reviews

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:57pm
Unitarian Universalist Studies Network Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The Unitarian Universalist Studies Network – founded in 2021 via a merger of the UU History and Heritage Society and UU Collegium – is committed to encouraging valuable original research done to investigate our UU and liberal religious past and to integrate findings gained from serious exploration of ethics and theology. Our work is informed by our commitment to countering oppression in all of its intersecting forms in the belief that such study will critically challenge our sense of who we have been as a religious movement, and deepen our aspiration to be a just, inclusive, and beloved community as Unitarian Universalists today.

An edited collection on the WNBA

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:56pm
Georgia Munro-Cook, Łukasz Muniowski
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Abstracts are sought for an edited collection on the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Teaching Kate Chopin

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:55pm
Heather Ostman & Quinn Moyer
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Kate Chopin in the Classroom

 

The editors of this essay collection invite 250-word proposals for essays of 5,000 to 7,000 words that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching the fiction, poetry, nonfiction or life of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin in the contemporary classroom. What are effective strategies for high school and/or college-level students? How have you incorporated technology into your teaching of Chopin? What changes have you seen in the reception of your students over the years? For example, do they praise or condemn Edna Pontellier? What might this say about students today?

 

Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and should be no longer than 250 words.

 

Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:55pm
Living in Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Special Issue CFP – Living in Languages
“Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis”
Abstracts due: August 30, 2025
Preliminary drafts due: November 30, 2025
Expected publication: Summer 2026

What happens to the translator in the act of translation?
This special edition of Living in Languages explores translation not only as the movement of
meaning across languages, but as a transformative ontological practice—one that acts upon the
translator, unsettling their assumptions, reconfiguring their relation to the world, and altering
their very being.

PLJ and CCR Seeking Articles

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:43pm
Anaphora Literary Press / Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Cinematic Codes Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.

Call for Abstracts: Religious Emergence and the Sacred in The Legend of Zelda

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:18pm
n/a
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential and enduring franchises in video game history. Zelda has greatly impacted multiple generations of players, and has an extremely loyal and dedicated fanbse.

CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS FOR THE JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR STUDIES OF AUSTRALIA (JEASA) 2025

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:17pm
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR STUDIES OF AUSTRALIA (JEASA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) is looking for book reviews of any recent books (published in the last 5 or 6 years) in the field of Australian studies, including Indigenous Australian studies.

 

In particular, JEASA is looking for reviewers for Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (2024) by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2025) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen. Other review proposals are also very welcome.

 

Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:17pm
Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call For Submission: Interdisciplinary Research on Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability

 

Publisher: Deshbandhu College, University Of Delhi

 

Deadline For submission: 15th July 2025 (11.59 PM IST)

 

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

 

ISSN: 2583-7974 (Online)

 

Deshbandhu Journal Of Social Sciences

 

Theme: Globalisation, Climate and Sustainability: Changing Perspectives and Hypotheses 

 

“December 2025 Issue”

 

FABLES & FIRELIGHT: A SYMPOSIUM ON FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:16pm
La Société Étoilée
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for Papers

Equinox: Volume I: Fables & Firelight
Published by La Société Étoilée 

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2025

In its inaugural issue, Equinox invites submissions on the theme of fables and firelight—that is, the stories we gather around, the myths that shape us, and the flickering interplay between tradition, memory, and imagination. We welcome work that explores folklore, mythology, ancestral knowledge, symbolic systems, oral traditions, and the cultural rituals of storytelling across time. But we also invite broader interpretations: How do stories act as shelter? When do they burn or illuminate? What truths lie within the fantastic?

Special Issue: Global South Gothic

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 2:16pm
The Global South
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

The gothic is a genre of marginalization, foregrounding locales and figures that are ghostly, monstrous, or abandoned. It is no surprise, then, that authors across the Global South, from Akwaeke Emezi to Nick Joaquín to Mariana Enríquez, embrace the gothic when constructing narratives that resist colonialism and its myriad legacies. For this special issue of The Global South, the guest editor is inviting submissions from scholars whose research engages with gothic creators throughout this nebulous region. The gothic is likewise a broad term, and, given the innumerable repercussions of colonization, we welcome contributions from across gothic subgenres—ecological, gendered, neoliberal, or queer, to name a few.

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

updated: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 1:12pm
Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 25, 2025

Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.

THEME

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):

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