journals and collections of essays

Editors: Elise Boxer (Dakota), University of South Dakota and Travis Franks, Utah State University, Department of English

This is the last call to submit abstracts for the Bodies of Culture: Somaesthetic Explorations conference, taking place at Florida Atlantic University on November 6–7, 2026.

Abstract submission deadline: August 18, 2026

We welcome proposals from scholars and practitioners across the humanities, social sciences, medical humanities, and the arts. Selected papers may be considered for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics or an edited volume in Brill's Studies in Somaesthetics series.

Since September of 2025 the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University has housed a new publication called The Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB), available at http://www.pghrev.com

Edited by author and Public Humanities Lecturer Ed Simon, PRoB is a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication is similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. Currently we are particularly interested in analysis that intersects with breaking news that can be produced by scholars quickly.

Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/B781Q58SAM

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Literature will collect essays addressing the reception, influence, adaptation, or incorporation of literature from the Greco–Roman world into later theatre, film, and television. The Greeks and Romans pioneered a wide range of performed literary styles like tragic and comic drama, or epic and lyric poetry, as well as developing extensive mythic story networks and what we now recognize as formal histories, etc. Some of these works remain among the most influential and beloved writings ever produced by humanity.

WANT TO EDIT AN ISSUE OF A JOURNAL?

• The Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities (JURH) is looking for guest editors for our Summer 2027 issue.

WHAT IS JURH?

• JURH is an annual journal that provides a national forum to showcase the best in undergraduate Humanities research. Click here to learn more about JURH.

• JURH is governed by a board of nationally recognized scholars and overseen by Dr. Lara Karpenko, Professor of English, and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Carroll University and Dr. Lauri Dietz, Executive Director, Center for Faculty Development, Loyola University, Chicago.

Editors Introduction:

While John Carpenter’s Halloween catapulted the slasher subgenre to the front of popular culture, Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) cemented the formula with a higher body count and an increased focus on sex, violence, and gore. Alongside Black Christmas, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Halloween, the Friday the 13th series helped establish many of the conventions that fans are now accustomed to, and its first sequel introduced an iconic killer with Jason Voorhees. The success of the original film led to a franchise comprised of twelve theatrical films as of 2026, in addition to a short film released in 2025 and a 2026 television series.

Call for Chapters

Architectures of Deceit: Fraud, Imposture, and Deception in Contemporary Screen Culture

(under consideration byEdinburgh University Press)

A Writer’s Palette: Colour in Late Modernist Literature 

Special Issue CfP for Textual Practice 

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities is a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

Hindutva and Capitalism in Contemporary India

This peer-reviewed fast-track collection seeks to publish innovative approaches to teaching Aphra Behn’s work, building on existing critical and pedagogical scholarship.

We do invite essays on Behn’s most-taught work, Oroonoko, but we aim particularly to give sustained attention to the full range of her literary life, and are especially interested in proposals about works that have been shown to be amenable to modern undergraduate teaching: the plays, the shorter fiction, the poems.

This is the second call for papers for the edited volume tentatively titled ‘Visual Propaganda in an Era of Instability’. Based on distinct case studies explored in a wide range of book chapters, the main objective of the volume is to analyse the role of the image in driving public opinion and perception. The first call for papers generated a strong response and resulted in a number of high-quality contributions. During the review process, however, it became clear that several important dimensions of contemporary visual propaganda remained underrepresented. To address these gaps, we are issuing a second call for papers and expanding the historical timeframe under consideration from 2020 onwards to 2014 onwards.  

CALL FOR PAPERSBetter MenHealing Masculinity and Dismantling Patriarchy From Within

What would it mean for a man to come home to himself?

Not the patriarchal self shaped by silence and performance, but the divine masculine. Patriarchy teaches men that strength has no needs, that manhood means enduring and providing. What does it look like to reclaim a masculine self that knows how to grieve and how to celebrate, how to ask for help and how to offer it, how to listen and how to share?

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century," edited by Melanie Hack (University of Bergen) and Lisa Waddington (University of Maastricht).

• Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 December 2026
• Submission of Full Papers: 1-15 May 2027
• Publication of the Issue: June/December 2027

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