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Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pm
Chloe Ashbridge (Newcastle University) and Owain Burrell (Warwick University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and material register in working-class writing, which has been read since the 1930s as failing to experiment, relying on realism without meaningful engagement with questions of literary form. This view has been challenged by literary scholars, who have demonstrated that formal experimentation did exist, though not in ways that comfortably align with the usual reading of middle-class modernism (Clarke Working Class Writing, 2018).

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature 7/2026

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Gendered Violence

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:58pm
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)

 

CFP Tiphys #1.Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 5:18am
Tiphys. Uomini e culture nel Mediterraneo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP Tiphys #1, Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

Editor: Massimo Cultraro (CNR-ISPC), Giancarlo Germanà Bozza (Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo)

Deadline per l’invio dei contributi: 30 giugno 2025

La complessa storia dell’Egeo tra la fine del II e gli inizi del I millennio a.C. è segnata dal passaggio da strutture socio-politiche centralizzate e gerarchiche, identificate nel modello del palazzo miceneo, a comunità sul territorio che si riorganizzano in centri abitati di nuova formazione.

VOLUME 18 of Katherine Mansfield Studies: Katherine Mansfield's Men

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 18 OF Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S MEN
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2025
‘Everything must ring like elizabethan english and like those gentlemen I always seem to be
mentioning ‘the Poets’. There is a light upon them especially upon the elizabethans and our
‘special’ set – Keats, W.W. Coleridge Shelley De Quincey and Co. […] Those are the people
with whom I want to live – those are the men I feel are our brothers’. (Letter to John

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2025: Katherine Mansfield's Men

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

 The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
Dr. Andrew Harrison
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
Kathleen Jones
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
Dr. Martin Griffiths
Author and Musician

Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Angela Sweigart-Gallagher
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest

 

Edited by:

Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University (asweigart@stlawu.edu )

Victoria P. Lantz, Associate Professor of Theatre, Sam Houston State University (vicky.lantz@gmail.com)

  

We invite scholars to contribute to a forthcoming book, Abortion Performances: Staging and Protesting Reproductive Pasts, Presents, and Futures.

Edited Volume - Media in Transition:The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Alfonso Hegde, Sangita Shresthova, Henry Jenkins, William Uricchio, University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Media in Transition: The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine 

Edited by: Sangita Shresthova and Alfonso Hegde

Call for Submissions

 

Is artificial intelligence inevitable? Will it usher in a new era of creativity? Will it actually completely automate away all human creativity? How much agency do we have over AI? Is this the death of the author? Is this the end of original creative expression as we know it?  

Jewish Film and New Media Deserving New/Renewed Consideration

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The international journal Jewish Film and New Media is currently seeking article-length manuscripts on international cinema, television, or other new media (e.g. YouTube videos, photographs, graphic novels) about or made by Jews. Of particular interest is consideration of texts deserving new or renewed consideration.

Submissions should be 8,000-10,0000 words in length following Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Notes should appear at the end of the essay, in the same font size as the text, and double spaced.

Deadline for consideration in upcoming issues is September 1, 2025.

Languages of the Future – Think Pieces

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 12:16pm
UCL – Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

Call for Papers - Following the recent success of our 'Languages of the Future' conference, we are delighted to announce a call for papers for a special issue of UCL online journal Think Pieces: https://thinkpieces-review.co.uk/

Think Pieces provides a host of different format opportunities. We are inviting academic essays of up to 3,000 words, but are also open to more create pieces such as narrative non-fiction and poetry. 

Adaptation and Terry Pratchett--Essay Collection

updated: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 3:07pm
Anne Hiebert Alton & William C. Spruiell
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on Adaptation and the work of Terry Pratchett. The book proposal will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan or Bloomsbury Academic’s Perspectives on Fantasy series in the Spring of 2026. 

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 11:58am
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.

Critical Thinking and Writing

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Friday, June 6, 2025 - 9:21am
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing has moved to a rolling publication model and is now inviting submissions for Volume 13 (2025). DH publishes a range of scholarly work--from research articles to notes--on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about DH, please visit the journal at the WAC Clearinghouse of Colorado State University: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Refocus: The Films of Leos Carax

updated: 
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 6:49am
James Slaymaker (Trinity College Dublin), Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Across a career spanning over 40 years, French-born filmmaker Leos Carax has firmly established himself as one of the most unique and innovative voices in modern European cinema. After a period writing criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma while he was still a teenager, Carax released his debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984) at age 23 to international acclaim. Carax followed up on this early promise with the futuristic neo-noir Mauvais Sang (1986), the romantic drama Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), and the Herman Melville adaptation Pola X (1999).

50th Anniversary of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A New Collection of Essays

updated: 
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 5:31pm
Jericho Williams / University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time to celebrate Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary. 

It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.

Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre  ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World

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

Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

Last date of submission: July 12, 2025

 

“Everyone belongs to everyone else.”

ADE Bulletin Special Issue on Succession Planning

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
ADE Bulletin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

ADE Bulletin Special Issue on Succession Planning: Call for Papers

Timeline:

  • Abstracts due 9/1/2025

  • Essays due 8/2026

Teaching Social Justice in the World Literature Classroom: An edited collection on the theory and practice of teaching world literary texts with a focus on social justice

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:38pm
Department of English, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

Editors: 

Dr. Manzur Alam and Dr. Tanja Stampfl 

Contact Emails: malam@uiwtx.edu; stampfl@uiwtx.edu

Important Dates:

  • Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 20th, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 30th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for the full articles and case studies: January 10th, 2026

Overview:

M-C-M: Marx-Commodity-Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 9:57am
George Kovalenko (New York University) & Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CFP: M-C-M: Marx-Commodity-Modernism
Modernism/modernity Print+ Cluster

Editors: George Kovalenko (New York University) & Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University)

Abstracts due: 31 August 2025
Full papers due: 28 February 2026

We seek proposals for original essays that analyze the relationship between modernist artistic forms and the commodity form for a proposed peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity's Print+ platform. 

WILLIAM JAMES STUDIES: CALL FOR PAPERS

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:33pm
William James Studies / William James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call For PapersThe William James Society and its peer-reviewed journal William James Studies invite article submissions from scholars with diverse interests and approaches to the life and work of William James. We are particularly interested in articles that reflect William James’s work (psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, etc.) as it intersects with modern concerns and interpretive contexts. The William James Society is a multidisciplinary professional society that supports the study of, and communication about, the life and work of James and his ongoing influence in the many fields to which he contributed. William James Studies can be found on several subscription databases, including the Modern Language Association.

Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 3:06am
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a nationally diverse group of contributors from countries worldwide.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have over 40 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

Holocaust Memory in Central Europe

updated: 
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 9:06am
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The “Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project team at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and the editorial team of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series invite you to submit articles for 2/2026 thematic edition.

“Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project is funded under Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV).

The topic of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 2/2026 is: "Holocaust Memory in Central Europe".

Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:45pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Papers

Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption

PopCRN – The Popular Culture Network invites scholars to explore the diverse representations of childhood in popular culture at a virtual symposium to be held online on 30 April – 1 May 2026.

From dolls and board games to digital playgrounds and interactive media, the concept of play has been a defining aspect of childhood across cultures and historical periods. Popular culture has both shaped and been shaped by children’s play, reflecting broader societal values, anxieties, and technological advancements.

Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 33 (2025)

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 3:41pm
College English Association, Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Mid-Atlantic Review seeks scholarly articles, position papers, short fiction, poems, and pedagogical reflections for its Special 2025 Issue focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the span of a year or two, generative AI has posed unprecedented challenges to and opportunities for higher education, the humanities, and the arts. Intellectual, pedagogical, and artistic engagement with this emerging technology is vital in our current world and this issue of The Mid-Atlantic Review encourages such engagement. We are also looking for original photographs or artwork related to the Mid-Atlantic region. Ethically produced AI art related to the Mid-Atlantic region would be of particular interest for this issue.

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