journals and collections of essays

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

Special issue on

Gendered Violence

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

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

'Variations of Anglophone Humor Studies'

A Special Issue of Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

Edited by Kamil Chrzczonowicz and Jack Harrison (University of Warsaw, Poland)

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?  

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.

Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume

titled

Ecospirituality in Asia:

Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability

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. 

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/.

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

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

Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

Last date of submission: July 12, 2025

“Everyone belongs to everyone else.”

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:

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.

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".

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.