journals and collections of essays

Call For Submissions

The editors and editorial board of MLQ: A Journal of Literary History invite submissions of topical, short-form essays on literary history and the crises, clarities, and opportunities of the present moment for an ongoing special series, “Present Tense: Literary History in Our Time.” 

Many Doors to Fantastica: The Neverending Story & the Education of the Imagination

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on The Neverending Story

Edited by Sean C. Hadley, Jeremy Scarbrough, Josh Herring

Dear Colleagues,

Much of the Western world has a rising problem with white nationalists. These white supremacists often co-opt fields like Classics, medievalism, and Norse mythology to support their racist ideologies—twisting these disciplines and repressing or ignoring evidence for the multicultural and multiracial realities of the ancient and medieval world. In terms of Classics, these distortions and appropriations have been documented by an emerging generation of scholars like Donna Zuckerberg, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Curtis Dozier, Sarah Bond, and others. Ancient myth, literature, and symbols continue to pervade modern culture. 

Call for Proposals: Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy

Editors: Caroline Gelmi, UMass Dartmouth and Lizzy LeRud, Georgia Institute of Technology

EXTENDED Proposal deadline: Wednesday December 1, 2021.

A note from the editors about the deadline extension:

We’re so grateful for the many exciting proposals we’ve received so far. Because we’re now inviting additional contributions in a few targeted areas, we’ve extended the deadline to facilitate these new submissions. We’re still happy to accept proposals on a variety of topics (see the original cfp below for a full list of ideas), but we’re especially interested in the following:

EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS: JOURNAL OF SCREEN TRANSLATION STUDIES

Italian Voices, English Texts: Dubbing, Subtitles, and Cross-Cultural (Mis)Communications.

                                  Special Issue with the Journal of International Women’s Studies

On Docility and Volatility: Uncovering Women’s Bodies as Sites of Violence and Resistance in South Asian Literature

Special Issue Editor:

Goutam Karmakar, Barabazar BTM College, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, WB, India

 I am recruiting contributors for a collection of scholarly essays with the working title Starcrossed Century: Astrology in Global Society from World War One to Covid. The book is designed to address the identification of the history of astrology with "premodern" history. The historiography of astrology is very active and intellectually exciting, but it focuses almost entirely on the period before 1800. Yet never have there been more astrological believers and practitioners than today. So far I have committments for two essays, one (by me) on American astrologers and COVID, and one on astrology and identity in the sixties counterculture. I want to avoid too heavy a focus on the Anglophone world (although I would love a serious essay on astrology

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE

​Through the Blue Kaleidoscope—Cinema, Caste, and All that the Screen Does Not Show

​We are pleased to announce the first special issue of All About Ambedkar: A Journal on Theory and Praxis (e-ISSN 2582-9785). The Special Issue will be on Through the Blue Kaleidoscope—Cinema, Caste, and All that the Screen Does Not Show. It will be edited by Arijeet Mandal, Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, India.

Concept Note:

Call for Papers – LEA 11 (2022)

Deadline for submissions: May 8, 2022

Publication: December 2022

LEA is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal based at the University of Florence that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature, linguistics, and philology.

We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for LEA 11 (2022):

Conflict and contrast in language and literature

Call for Papers

The University as a Theater of Culture Wars:

Then and Now

Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies

Edited by Florian Zappe

Becomings and Unbecomings: COVID-19 and New Narrative Trajectories

James Baldwin Review (JBR), an annual peer-reviewed journal, is seeking submissions for its eighth volume. An online, open access publication, James Baldwin Review brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative non-fiction on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. JBR publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin, catalyse explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin’s writing and political activism, and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure.

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (ISSN 0252-8169)Vol. 45, No. 2, Summer 2022
SPECIAL ISSUE - Musical Aesthetics: Historical and Contemporary Issues

“Over the Horizon: Comparative Perspectives on Literature” International Conference

Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with an ISBN.

London/Online: 4-5 June 2022
Conference website: https://comparativeliterature.lcir.co.uk