journals and collections of essays

 Poems Invited for dec 2025 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 48th Issue

This edited volume extends the project initiated by the Korean Studies 2025 special section “Feminist Korean Studies,” which deployed feminist critique across digital media, popular culture, legal discourse, public health, neoliberalism, and postcoloniality. Building on that foundation, the volume invites interdisciplinary, interregional, and bilingual feminist scholarship to address pressing global and regional developments: the rise of right-wing authoritarianism, intensified anti-feminist backlash in South Korea, and the persistent marginalization of feminist discourse in Anglophone Korean Studies. 

Shakespeare is one of the inventors of the category of the human as many modern and contemporary cultures know it. Even his most monstrous and otherworldly creations have a detectable human side. The critical tradition of Shakespeare has already established that these characters are to be read as reflections of certain psychological aspects and repressed characteristics of the main characters of his plays, as allegorical representations of emotions, principles or beliefs, as codification of ethnic and sexual differences, etc. Thanks to this tradition, focusing on the human side of these characters has become the norm. It happens almost intuitively as soon as a critic or scholar starts their analysis of these characters.

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

George Orwell, 1984

Call for Papers: Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration

Special Issue: 'Emotions and Emotionality: The Multi-Affects of the Global South'

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration#call-for-papers

Special Issue co-guest editors:

Issue 105 of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic:

Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)

Guest Editors: Oliver Case, Evelyn Malinowski, Teresa Prudente

Please submit article proposals of approximately 300 words by 1st December 2025

Final article drafts (no more than 2500 words including Works Cited) will be due by 15 May 2026

Please send submissions to: panoramicwoolf@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Companion to International Comics Studies (Intellect Books)

Edited by Julia Round, Shambhavi Singh and Eszter Szép 

Deadline for chapter proposals: 31 January 2026 

Deadline for first draft chapters: 1 April 2027 

Reading and Writing Highways in the West

A special issue of Western American Literature

Guest edited by Surabhi Balachander and Lauren White

We are now accepting submissions for Issue IV (Spring 2026)!

The Student Journal of Asian Studies at USC (SJAS @ USC) is a student-run academic journal supported by the USC East Asian Studies Center to help publish undergraduate and graduate work in various disciplines surrounding Asian Studies from around the world. Our goal is to establish an interdisciplinary atmosphere for student researchers on the rise to share their works and contribute to scholarship in Asian Studies.

Call For Papers: 

Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies 

Series 4, No. 1, General Issue

2026

(New) Beginnings

Thoughts associated with beginnings often include excitement, anticipation, and a sense of possibility, alongside potential anxiety, uncertainty, and a hint of the unknown. Beginnings can be viewed as a fresh start, a new chapter, or a chance to rebuild, while also acknowledging the potential messiness and challenges that come with starting something new. 

Vulnerable Bodies:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century History, Literature, and Culture

Edited Volume

Call for Contributions

Miriam Läpple, PhD (University of Koblenz)

Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (University of Koblenz)

Call for Papers

Online Symposium 

“Hindu Approaches to Dialogue”

Date: 18 and 19 April 2026

Network of Hinduism in Dialogue is organising an interdisciplinary online symposium to encourage and explore research focused on dialogue in the Hindu traditions. The keynote speaker will be Diwakar Acharya, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford. 

Petrocultures is a sub-discipline in the humanities which contends with the ways fossil fuels shape interpersonal, social and cultural lives. Despite the field’s rapid expansion, there has been little concentrated work to date on the relationship between energy culture and popular music. What Stephanie LeMenager calls the ‘aesthetics of petroleum’ holds a particularly strong resonance with music cultures. Understanding the ways oil culture has structured ways of life requires attention to the music that exemplifies, glamorises and critiques petromodernity.

Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2025

Under consideration with a major academic press

Following the Eisner Award–winning success of The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), we are now curating a second volume to extend, deepen, and diversify queer comics scholarship.