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Call for Chapters: Phantom of the Paradise Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 12:25pm
Sean Woodard
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Deadline Extended!


Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Chapter Drafts Deadline: December 15, 2025

Essays sought for a peer-reviewed edited collection focused on Brian De Palma’s film, Phantom of the Paradise.

Call for Chapters: Bengali Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - 1:58pm
Madhumita Roy and Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Chapters: Edited collection of essays on Bengali periodicals in the long nineteenth century

The editors, Dr Madhumita Roy and Mr Soumyarup Bhattacharjee, are inviting abstracts for proposed chapters in a collection of essays on Bengali periodicals and the construction(s) of the “bhadrasamaj” in the long nineteenth century.

FRAME 38.2 “Paper Pills: A Medical Humanities Issue”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 5:25pm
FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Special Issue on Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.

Epitaphs Magazine Issue 2

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
Epitaphs
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

Submission call:  

https://epitaphs-magazine.weebly.com/

For the second issue of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme: 

Beaten Hearts. 

The theme can be understood as literally or as figuratively as needed. We encourage contributors to think about the many meanings of hearts within a Gothic/Horror context. Works can relate to:  

Special Issue of Porn Studies: Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of Shannon Bell

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:02pm
Kyler Chittick and Ela Przybylo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Porn Studies

 

Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of

Shannon Bell

 

300-word abstract and a bio by April 15, 2025

 

Porn Studies invites submissions for a special issue honouring the intellectual legacy of Shannon

Bell (Professor of Politics, York University)—a brazen feminist scholar whose work has

redefined feminist political theory, cyberpolitics, and sexuality studies. From her radical

Routledge Studies on Edward Albee and American Theatre

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:57am
Michael Y. Bennett (Book Series Editor)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 14, 2028

The Edward Albee Society is proud of the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.

The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.

 

Currently, two books are in production:

--David A. Crespy and Les Gray, eds. Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatres, 1950s-1970s: Albee and his Contemporaries, forthcoming 2025.

--John P. Bray, Jack Gelber: Consider This, forthcoming 2025.

 

Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:56am
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism”

 

“The European conquerors are the first who are not merely after subjugation and economic exploitation, but the means of production itself, by ripping the land from underneath the feet of the native population.” – Rosa Luxemburg, “The Dissolution of Primitive Communism”

 

CELJ 2024 Virtual Conference: Open Dialogues April 4–5, 2025, from 2-6pm ET (Live)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

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

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:32am
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue 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.

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 4:00am
Mohsen HAMLI
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

 

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:01am
Religion and the Arts Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Religion and the Arts is issuing a call for papers on the theme “Buddhism and Literary Nonfiction” for a special issue to be published in March, 2026. We are looking articles on the topic of Buddhism and literary nonfiction: including memoir, biography, the essay,  literary and art criticism, the diary, the handbook, and the sermon or dharma talk. Articles should be roughly 5,000-10,000 words long. Color and black and white Images are also welcome, and should be 300 dpi for the size they are to be reproduced for photography/ 600 for linework.

 

Articles are due 1 September 2025.  For inquiries, please contact James Najarian, editor, at relarts@bc.edu

 

Articles on American Literary Archives / Bibliography

updated: 
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:43am
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP) Extended Deadline
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP), a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2025 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. We also welcome proposals for our "Prospects" series in which scholars forecast future developments (and identify scholarly gaps) in the study of major authors.

Instructions for submissions may be found @ http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_rals.html

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:39pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

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.

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing [Call for Chapters for an edited volume]

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:38pm
University of Bridgeport - Bridgeport, CT
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing

We are seeking short, first-person narratives (2,000-3,000 words) from college instructors in any discipline who use writing activities and assignments in ways that foster engagement, enhance learning, and stimulate creativity.  We are compiling a book of stories that affirm the educational value of human writing at a time when more of our writing is being done for us by generative AI.        

Ecocritical perspectives on literature and other media

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Istanbul University & Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.

[HCIS_CFP] Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (special issues - Quantum Applications)

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

HCIS Journal (2025 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

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Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

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Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:35pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

 

English version below

 

La colección Terror. Estudios críticos, dirigida por Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns y localizada en la Universidad de Cádiz (España)busca manuscrito (monografia o colección editada) para año 2026/2027. Las propuestas y los manuscritos deben ser en español. Estamos interesados en un estudio académico (no meramente divulgativo) sobre los films de terror de Jacinto Molina (más conocido como Paul Naschy) realizados en España durante la década de oro del “Fantaterror” (1967-1976). Interesadas/os por favor mandar propuesta junto con CV completo al  email de la colección: coleccion.terror@uca.es hasta el 30 de marzo 2025.

 

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:30pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

Modernity in Translation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Journal: Encounters in translation
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Modernity in Translation

 

Guest Editors

Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA

 

Journal: Encounters in translation – Rencontres en traduction

Diamond open access:
free for authors, free for readers

 

Languages of submission

Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors

           

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EXTENDED DEADLINE - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 10:29am
Zachary Sheldon, Baylor University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Working Title - Planet Flanagan: Essays on the Netflix Series of Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan has steadily made a significant name for himself in horror, garnering praise for his originality in films such as Oculus (2013) and Hush (2016), and further critical acclaim for works like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017) and especially his adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep (2019).

Telangana Journal of Higher Education

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 5:33am
Telangana Council of Higher Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Inaugural Issue Theme: Technology and Higher Education

The Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE), published by the Telangana Council of Higher Education (TGCHE), Government of Telangana, invites submissions for its inaugural issue, focusing on “Technology and Higher Education.” This issue aims to discuss the transformative role of technology in reshaping the practices, policies, and experiences within higher education. With a focus on the Indian context and a global outlook, the journal seeks contributions that examine innovative approaches, critical challenges, and forward-thinking strategies in the integration of technology across diverse areas of higher education.

Gendered returns and encounters between Africa and the Black diaspora

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Nalini Mohabir / Concordia University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 23, 2025

In 2019, Ghana hosted the Year of Return, emphasizing roots tourism, diaspora resettlement and reunification, as well as development. Similarly, there is a growing message of diasporic return in Benin, as in other West African countries, articulated through various initiatives, policies, and cultural movements. We are interested in a feminist analyses of returns and encounters between the Black diaspora and those on the continent.

Samuel Beckett and the Tragic

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:19am
Samuel Beckett Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Please note that the French version of the CFP is available after the English one.
Veuillez noter que la version française de l’appel à contributions est disponible après celle en anglais.

Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A) Special issue

The Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), in collaboration with the refereed bilingual journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A), invites abstract submissions for a special issue on Samuel Beckett and the Tragic.

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:18am
Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network

Call for papers

Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch

 

Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2025

Edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Jean-Yves Heurtebise,
Kuang-chi Hong, and Li-hsin Hsu

 

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