journals and collections of essays

Special Issue Editors

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan 

Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan 

Plastic / Plasticity

Literature and Culture and the Material of a (Bygone?) Era

Plastic is a defining material of our era. Its properties—plasticity, durability, the ability to imitate any shape, its toxicity, and indecomposability—are also properties of contemporary culture and literature. The proposed thematic issue begins with the premise that plastic can be read simultaneously as a historical substance and as a "theory machine"—a tool for understanding cultural texts and the experience of contemporary times.

"My approach, in this paper, is one of thinking with plastic through its metaphoricity and materiality, its relationality and gestationality; in short, a material mediality.” [R. Gosh]

Special Issue: ‘Cowboy Carter: Reimagining the American West through Fashion, Music and Performance’

Guest editors:

Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Sonya Abrego, Fordham University, USA

Robb Hernández, Fordham University, USA

Call for Chapters

ReFocus: The Films of Gaspar Noé

Edited by Florian Zappe

Edinburgh University Press ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Series Editors: Gary D. Rhodes, Robert Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, Nuno Barradas Jorge

The International Journal of Young Adult Literature is accepting proposals for a guest-edited special section for our 2027 issue (Volume 8). We particularly encourage researchers working beyond Anglo-American young adult literature and/or working outside of the UK and US to submit proposals.

Proposals should be sent to ijyal@roehampton.ac.uk by 31 July 2026. 

Formats: short fiction and creative non-fiction (2,500-3,000 words) and graphic fiction (including comics, textile art, collage art, and or visual narratives of 5-10 pages).

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2026 11:59 p.m. (BST).

About This Call

Tales We Were Told is a forthcoming open access edited collection of creative works on oral storytelling, remembrance, and inherited narratives. 

CFP – “BLACK ESSAYSM: FORMAL EXPERIMENTATIONS IN BLACK CREATIVE/CRITICAL PRACTICES”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 12, no. 1, Spring 2028

Guest editor: Walton Muyumba

Submissions due: January 30, 2027

Special issue on the « Contemporaneities of Indigenous Poetry in the United States »

Edited by Aurore Clavier (U. Paris Cité), Mathilde Louette (U. Paris Cité) and Baptiste Rembert (Sorbonne U.)

ARGUMENT:

Call for Papers: Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture

Special Issue: 'Forms, Limits and Future Directions of Storytelling in Migration Research'

Issue editors: Lena Englund (University of Eastern Finland) and Kaiju Harinen (Migration Institute of Finland, University of Turku)

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/crossings-journal-of-migration-culture#call-for-papers

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

Call for Papers

 Vol. XII, Issue 1 (January 2027) 

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for the January 2027 issue on the theme of Popular Culture and the Rise of the Right.

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) remains a cornerstone of the modernist literary canon. Often celebrated as Woolf’s greatest novel, the plot is set in post-World War I London and revolves around a single day in the life of its protagonist, Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an evening party. Beneath its seemingly simple plot, the novel exemplifies a profound exploration of consciousness, time, and the inner lives of characters through its extensive use of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Although narrated in a third-person omniscient voice, the narrative primarily focuses on the inner consciousness of the characters.

Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for RealityDetails

• When: October 1-3, 2026
• Where: Online
• Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026
• Sponsored by: The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver

Keynote Address: Militarizing the Mind: Cognitive Warfare from the Cold War to the Dark WebJason Ānanda Josephson Storm

How to Be a Global Humanist begins with the tension built into its title. The humanities, as an academic field, emerged through Western histories of learning and the institutions that made those histories legible as scholarship. Yet the practices gathered under that name exceed that narrow genealogy. Across the world, people have made meaning from language and image. They have preserved the past, taught inherited forms of wisdom, and argued over what human life is for. Such work does not need the construct of “the humanities” to authorize it. The better question is what the category reveals about the traditions it encounters, and what it renders difficult to see.