journals and collections of essays

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

Special Issue: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’

Special Issue Guest Editors
Pratibha Mishra
Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu

Deepshikha Sharma

Call for Papers: Horror Studies

Special Issue: 'What Did Get Out Get Us?'

Abstracts due: 31 October 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies#call-for-papers

Call for Abstracts 

K-Pop and Philosophy 

Edited by Catherine M. Robb, Natasha Haddal, and Gah-Kai Leung

The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 

The Graduate Journal of Food Studies invites submissions for a special issue exploring the theme Food as Joy.

Food is and will always be a source of pleasure, celebration, creativity, and connection. This issue seeks contributions that examine the intersections, tensions, and possibilities of food as a source of joy. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and encourage submissions that engage with food's social, cultural, political, environmental, and emotional dimensions.

The figure of the woman traveler has long occupied a distinctive place in the cultural imagination. At once celebrated and contested, she has been represented as explorer, observer, adventurer, ethnographer, journalist, tourist, and pilgrim—but nearly always an antidote to feminine domesticity.

We are currently seeking contributors from across the disciplines for a proposed collection of essays on “the woman traveler.” This volume will explore the enduring and evolving cultural figure across genres and media—from travel writing and photography to film, blogs, Instagram, and TikTok.

Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction: Imagined Communities

Guest editors: Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université) and Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva)

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Eating for a Green Future

Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Contemporary India

Edited by

Dr. Manisha Mohanty (Assistant Professor, S'O'A University & Fulbright-Nehru Fellow)

Dr. Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA Bibliography Fellow, MLA)

Dr. Sonali Das (Assistant Professor, S’O’A University)

Gender and Fragmentation in the Fin de Siècle 

Nineteenth Century Gender Studies Special Issue – Summer 2027

Guest Edited by Emily Waller Singeisen and Ryan Carroll

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ecologies of Tomorrow

Environmental Humanities, Literature, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century

A Two-Day Online International Conference

(7th & 8th October 2026)

Organised by Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (An International Journal of English and Cultural Studies)

in collaboration with

the Department of English, Serampore Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta)

CFP: Football and Performance

Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh

We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance. Theatre and performance studies allow us a unique view towards the ways that sports extend into civic space, politics, and daily life. How can the disciplines of theatre, dance, and performance studies serve as an analytic for sport, generally, and American football, in particular?

Deep Cut Magazine, an independent literary magazine, is seeking academic articles on horror for its inaugural issue, to be published December 2026. Academic work will be published alongside original fiction and reprints (by invitation) in an open-access electronic magazine.

While the focus must be on some element of horror as a genre, the scope of the call is purposefully broad: research may focus on literature, film, popular culture, gender studies, history, and more. Interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged.

Beyond the Ocean: Maritime Infrastructure and Hydro-Narratives of Indians under the Raj (Tentative Title)

Concept Note

The imperial ships of the British Raj bore millions of Indian migrants across waterways just the way Charon ferried souls across the river Styx to an irreversible fate. Nonetheless, the Indians transformed the vicious vessels into spaces of radical rebirth and enduring kinship.

New Perspectives on Creature Features (additional chapters)

Edited by

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

The editors are seeking 750-word abstracts of talks for a symposium at UCLA, February 5, 2027, on “The Great American Novel: A Twenty-First-Century Reckoning.” Early-career scholars as well as tenured faculty are encouraged to apply. Transportation and lodging costs will be provided. While there is a long and thriving history of debates about the GAN, we favor topics and approaches that highlight theoretical and critical concerns that reach beyond the discussion of any single text to consider broader theoretical, political, and aesthetic stakes.  Accepted speakers will be asked to revise and expand their presentations into articles to be considered for publication in a special issue of ALH.