journals and collections of essays

Commentarium: Journal of Humanities Studies, Vol. 2

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 1:00pm
Commentarium: Journal of Humanities Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The call for papers is now open for the second volume of CJHS, scheduled for publication in December 2026.

 

Submission period:

January 1 to June 30, 2026

 

All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.

 

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2026: Placing Katherine Mansfield

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:55pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2026, open to all, on the subject of
Placing Katherine Mansfield

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 19 (2027), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
PROFESSOR JANET M. WILSON
University of Northampton, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
DR CHRIS MOURANT
University of Birmingham, UK
JOHN WOOD
Independent Scholar

Volume 19 of Katherine Mansfield Studies: Placing Katherine Mansfield

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:55pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 19 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
PLACING KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber

Call for Papers: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema'

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:51pm
Film, Fashion & Consumption
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption

Special Issue: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema'

Guest Editor : Danae Ioannou

Submission deadline: 31 August 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers

Ecological, Territorial and Urban Dignity (CEDOUA Journal - Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra)

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:28pm
Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Journal Cedoua

2026 – n.º 52

 

The Cedoua Journal (RevCedoua), published in digital and open-access format, is issued annually by the Centre for Studies on Spatial Planning, Urbanism and the Environment of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. The Journal is dedicated to the publication of original scholarly works of a legal or interdisciplinary nature that reflect advanced research on issues related to spatial planning, urbanism and the environment, contributing to the identification and proposal of solutions to relevant problems in these fields.

The Book City. Literary Geography of Urban Spaces: Inscriptiuons, Circulations and Practices

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:27pm
Caroline MARIE / Université Paris 8
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 27, 2026

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Cruzando Imaginarios: Representaciones culturales entre México y los EE.UU.-- Edited volume

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:03pm
María R. Matz (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell) and María del Mar López Cabrales (Professor, Colorado State University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

La frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos trasciende su mera definición geopolítica. Más allá de ser una simple demarcación territorial, esta línea divisoria se ha convertido en un espacio dinámico y multifacético que encarna la complejidad de las relaciones entre dos naciones con historias entrelazadas. Es un lugar de encuentro y desencuentro, de intercambio y conflicto, de esperanza y desilusión. Es un terreno fértil donde florece una identidad única, ni completamente mexicana ni totalmente estadounidense, sino una vibrante amalgama que desafía las categorías convencionales. La frontera es testigo de historias de migración, de sueños perseguidos y de vidas transformadas con el cruce de dos realidades.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 11:33am
ssence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

 

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies (ISSN: 2822-3950)

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 11:26am
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 10:18am
Nagoya-Gifu JALT (Japan)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.

 

See past issues of our journal here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

 

See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:

https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...

 

Growing Up in Crisis: Caring for Youth in Violent Times

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 9:48am
Zoe Antoinette Eddy, Worcester Polytechnic Institution
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Call for Chapters

Over the past 10–15 years, children, adolescents, and youth worldwide have lived through overlapping emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic; intensified border regimes, migration control, and detention; racialized and colonial state violence; war and occupation; environmental disaster; and the erosion of social and educational safety nets. These crises shape not only early childhood, but also adolescent identity formation, schooling, embodiment, political consciousness, and future-making. 

Ecocritiquing Graphic Narratives: Visual Representations of Nature in Global Comics [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, January 24, 2026 - 1:22pm
Subashish Bhattacharjee, Indrajit Mukherjee, Soumyadeep Chakraborty
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

From Indigenous testimonies about extraction economies to eco-dystopian manga, comics across the world function as powerful visual laboratories for engaging with the natural world. The graphic form—with its unique interplay of word and image, its use of framing, juxtaposition, and sequentiality—stages ecological questions in ways prose often cannot. By dramatizing the temporality of both sudden catastrophes and slow processes of degradation, comics enable us to see environmental crises unfolding across multiple scales of time and space. They ask us to imagine multispecies entanglements, toxic futures, and alternative modes of dwelling, while also foregrounding human complicity in environmental collapse.

 

Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 4:18pm
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 53

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 4:17pm
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is still accepting submissions through April 1st for Volume 53, which will be published later this year. The VIJ is an award-winning scholarly journal of Victorian and Edwardian literary and cultural studies. The VIJ publishes a variety of pieces, including articles, reviews, and rare texts. For further details on the Victorians Institute Journal, visit 

San Diego State University Press Presents [caption]

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 3:55pm
[caption] the jounral of visual cultural studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

 SDSU Press Presents

 

[caption] the journal of visual cultural studies

 

Issue 001 – “CAPTION THIS”

[caption] emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, the journal stages encounters between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze meets the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, and Stuart Hall. We publish work that refuses to choose between seeing and thinking, between the archive and the avant-garde. 

Call for Papers: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 1:28pm
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

Guest Editors: Paweł Frelik (University of Warsaw), Magdalena Kozyra (SWPS University), Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Jagiellonian University) 

Important Dates 

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026

  • Notification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026

  • Full Article Submission: 15 June 2026

  • Peer Review Returned: 1 August 2026

  • Revised Article Submission: 31 August 2026

Performance Between Persistent Post-Truths

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 12:46pm
Daniel Dilliplane / Stetson University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” its Word of the Year, marking a shift towards skepticism of facts and scientific institutions alongside the rising influence of emotion and opinion in shaping public knowledge. In the decade since, we have witnessed the further erosion of consensus truth as multiple constructions of the “real” proliferate throughout divergent media ecosystems, accelerated by emerging technologies and polarizing political orientations towards race, gender, class, and sexuality. 

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures (conference and subsequent edited volume)

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:37pm
Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Global Perestroika and Soviet Literatures

Conference and Subsequent Edited Volume
University of Dresden, March 18–21, 2027

 

Organizers:
Klavdia Smola (Technology University of Dresden)
Naomi Caffee (Reed College)
Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley)

Call for Guest Editors/Guest Edited Special/Themed Issues of The Apollonian

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies has foregrounded special issues as crucial sites for shaping emerging conversations, opening new interdisciplinary pathways, and bringing into visibility critical questions that cut across literature, culture, philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, and posthumanities thinking. Continuing this commitment, we invite proposals from potential guest editors for several forthcoming special issues of the journal as we shift from our recent annual issue format to a bi-annual format in an attempt to revive the previous publication schedule of the journal (2014-2019).

Gender and Supernatural

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:35pm
Early Modern Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Call for Papers 2026

Deadline: February 28th 2026

Theme: Gender and Supernatural

“You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” Macbeth 1.3.46-47

Edited Volume on Religion and the X-Men’s Krakoan Age

updated: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 1:31pm
Editors: Gregory Jones and Daniel Ambord
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Beginning with Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X limited series, the Krakoan Age X-Men stories occur against the backdrop of the establishment of a post-scarcity and post-mortality mutant homeland on the living island of Krakoa. The Krakoan Age ran from 2019 and 2024 and included more than 500 issues spread across 80 different comic titles. Within this vast body of text, a dizzying plurality of story-types are explored, ranging from gritty police procedurals, to sprawling war stories, to cozy slice-of-life tales. The Krakoan Age stories are also notable in their creative and interesting engagement with religious stories and themes, particularly in series such as Way of X, Legion of X and The Onslaught Revelation.

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