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Call for Papers from the Journal of the Louisiana Creole Research Association

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:26pm
Louisiana Creole Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Call for Papers

The Louisiana Creole Research Association invites submissions for its 2025 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture.

Second Call for Proposals: Cosmopolitan Korean Wave Edited Collection

updated: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 11:24pm
Prof. Hazel T. Biana (De La Salle University), Prof. Molly D. Boyd (University of Arkansas) and Prof. Joon Ho Hwang (Ewha Womans University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 9, 2025

We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave

Wanted Series Editors, Volume Editors and Copy Editors

updated: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 10:12am
Rupkatha Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Join us at https://rupkatha.com/books/join

Rupkatha Books is launching as a leading academic publisher dedicated to advancing scholarship by releasing high-quality books. With over 16 years of experience in scholarly publishing, we are committed to offering meticulously curated monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, book series, and high-quality research/survey project reports. We are looking for dynamic editors in various positions. All positions are voluntary at present, and editors may get commissions in the future.

More information:

CFP: Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts

updated: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 10:12am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts. 

Call for Papershttps://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025

Teaching with Taylor: Pedagogical Approaches to Taylor Swift in the 21st Century Classroom

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:48pm
Drs. Kim Hensley Owens and Devori Kimbro
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Taylor Swift is everywhere, it seems, and teachers at all levels have begun to Taylor-tailor their courses to harness her popularity for student learning. At the K-12 level, the TeachersPayTeachers site boasts TS figurative poetry lessons, TS-themed reading comprehension mystery games, TS rhetorical analysis units, and pages more of TS-specific materials (“Taylor Swift”). At the college level, courses devoted explicitly to Taylor Swift are proliferating, from BYU’s political science offering, “Ms.

Edited collection: The Work is Mysterious and Important: Critical Perspectives on Severance

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:48pm
Vera Cuntz-Leng, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg & Ruth Knepel, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The critically acclaimed science fiction series Severance (produced by Ben Stiller and created by Dan Erickson, 2022-) explores the idea of surgically dividing a person’s memories between their work and private lives. It raises many thought-provoking questions, embedded in a rich environment of cultural references and equipped with a distinct visual style, nuanced storytelling, and outstanding performances of its cast. With its second season, it has become the most successful production by Apple TV+ so far and is widely discussed by critics and fans. A large part of the fascination for the series comes from the multitude of possible readings it elicits.

Words of Suffering: Autobiographical Writing and Pain

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:42pm
Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Words of Suffering: Autobiographical Writing and Pain

CFP Soapbox Journal for Cultural Analysis: Between Bodies and Homes

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Soapbox 7.0: call for papers

Between Bodies and Homes

— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —

 

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

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
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.

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:40pm
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present

 

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 

Estimated Publication Date: February 2026

 

Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

Publish your work on single, unmarried, widowed, asexual, queer or otherwise celibate Irish actvists, authors, characters, or collaborative networks, in an open-access journal with NO charge to the author!

Call for Papers: Fafnir 2/2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CfP: Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research - Issue 2/2025ISSN: 2342-2009  Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines. Please see below for details.  Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. It is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR).

Fandom | Cultures | Research - Call for Abstracts (Issue 1/26)

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
FANDOM | CULTURES | RESEARCH
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With the multiplicity of accepted formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers – the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside an editorially reviewed section that may contain data papers (data sets and complementary text), book reviews, conference reports, and interviews. Other creative format suggestions are also welcome. Furthermore, we invite themed guest sections for every issue.

Gothic Literature: Creative Activity, Research, and Pedagogy

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:30pm
Interdisciplinary Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Special Double Issue

Gothic Literature: Creative Activity, Research, and Pedagogy

 

Journal of Dracula Studies

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:25pm
Journal of Dracula Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Journal of Dracula studies is open for submissions for its upcoming 2025 issue. We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in literature including folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics. For our 2025 issue we are especially interested in work looking at F.W. Murnau's 1922 film Nosferatu and its remakes/adaptations, as well as its influence on the legacy of Stoker's work and vampire literature more broadly.Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2, November 2025 Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:24pm
London Academic Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 20, 2025

 

CFP: Humanities Bulletin 8.2November 2025

Special Issue: Reading to Know, Learning to Hear, Engaging in Respect and Love within an Intercultural Frame

 

Editors:  Prof. Dr. Carla Locatelli and Dr. Victor Pricopi

 

Humanities Bulletin, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal in the field of Arts and Humanities, invites submissions of paper proposals for its Special Issue scheduled for November 2025.

Special issue of Brontë Studies: Re-mapping the Brontës

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:24pm
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Inspired by the Brontë Society’s 2025 conference, '"Under an African summer’s sun": Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire', Brontë Studies, the official journal of the Brontë Society, invites the submission of new and original research articles for a Special Issue in 2026 on the Brontës and their real and imagined locations.

Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:16pm
Brontë Studies/Brontë Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Brontë Studies is pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 iteration of the Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize. The prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.

Call for papers: Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

updated: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 12:25am
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

Special IssueGlobal thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

Georgia Philological Association CFP

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 3:52pm
Georgia Philological Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The GPA is accepting submissions for a special edition of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association on the 19th century.  Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy as they relate to the 19th century will be considered.

 

Please send submissions to Nate Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by April 30, 2025.

 

Please visit our website for information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php

Introducing the Privileged Logics Blog: A New Hub for Crucial Conversations

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue. 

(De)Constructions of the Future

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Word and Text
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Articles:

Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, XVI (2026)

Edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus

(De)Constructions of the Future

 

Call for Papers - Special Issue: The Marriage Plot, 'Post'-Marriage

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Studies in the Novel
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In a 2023 piece in the London Review of Books,Maylin Hays asks,“In the post-marriage era, what happens to the marriage plot?” Despite being in the midst of this alleged “post-marriage era,” conversations about marriage seem to be animating public discourse more than ever—from wildly popular “trad wife” influencers on social media, to the increasing frequency of conversations about gendered household labor in marriage self-help books like Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play (2019) and Kate Mangino’s Equal Partners (2022), to the recent rise in divorce memoirs like Lyz Lenz’s This American Ex-Wife (2024).

Caleidoscopio journal, series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Joana Bicacro, Lusófona University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Caleidoscopio invites you to submit papers for its series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: under the topic “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

 

Archives, while carrying out the operation of the gaze, function like a mirror: they point to a spectral exteriority. The archive is of the order of the phantasmagorical and, by definition, they are phantasmatic. This approach points out to what Harun Farocki’s stressed as the definition of a phantom or operational image, images that are built from a non-human perspective, although they call-in human agency.

Why should humans be witnessing and/or scrutinizing images productions? Is that still a need? Are there any ethical or aesthetical motives or meanings to it?

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (Journal Special Issue CFP)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th issue of Currents, on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

 

 

‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

 

Call for Essays and Creative Writing: Mixing Genre, Form, Media

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

A "melange" is a term denoting works of art and literature that combine multiple forms, genres, and/or media. 

The new Princeton publication Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, melanges in translation, and critical essays about melanges. Anyone may submit to Melange - professors, students, and independent scholars alike. 

In Spring 2025, we are publishing both a regular issue and a special issue. For the regular issue, we are looking for prose poetry, essays, visual art, translations, and combinations of the above. For the Special Issue Fantasy Dictionary, we are publishing entries from the Fantasy Dictionary Contest. 

Feeling Contemporary War: How Global Regimes of Sensing and Emotion Facilitate and Resist Military Power

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Amy Gaeta, University of Cambridge & Alex Adams, Independent Scholar
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025

In some ways, war does not change. In others, it is constantly in flux. Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. What is clear is that we must scrutinize the utility of the central binaries that structure our knowledge of war—wartime and peacetime, battlefield and safe zone, innocence and complicity—in order to understand the state of contemporary armed conflict.

First Films and Early Style

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Film Journal, Special Issue Proposal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Film Journal Thematic Issue Proposal: First Films and Early Style

Co-editors: Omid Bagherli and Charline Jao

We are seeking prospective contributers for a special issue of Film Journal on the topic of early style.

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