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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 19 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
PLACING KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
The Henry James Society
CALL FOR PAPERS
Modern Language Association Convention
7 to 10 January 2027 – Los Angeles, California
The Art of Seeing Wrongly: Evil and Moral Perception in Henry James
“He had no talent for good, but he had a great talent for evil.”
Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization.
Special Issue: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies: Wartime Periodicals
Co-edited by Sarah Cornish, Paula Derdiger, and Amanda Sigler
CFP for a Special Session on "Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Culture"2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles (7-10 January 2027) Proposals sought on the roles of books, print culture or reading in the consolidation of queer identities or communities in Spanish-speaking or Hispanic contexts. Send 200-250-word abstracts and 100-word bios. Submissions in English or Spanish are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University (jzamostny@ksu.edu )
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present
JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026
In 1916, interviewed for the New York Times, the poet-diplomat Robert Underwood Johnson took up the “new movement” in poetry: “There is an intoxication about the way our contemporary poets fling themselves into a dauntless quest for self-expression.” “Alas!,” he went on, “this is just the trouble! For intoxication is no more desirable in poetry than in the household. Intoxication is not the state of mind in which, as Matthew Arnold says, one may ‘see life clearly and see it whole’.”
The Dos Passos Society has extended the deadline for its 2026 biennial conference in Posta do Sol, Madeira, by one week to February 8th. We do hope you will join us in Madeira this May for a celebration of the life and works of one of America's greatest chroniclers of the twentieth century.
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The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2026 biennial conference in Ponta do Sol, Madeira Island, Portugal. The conference will be held at the John Dos Passos Cultural Center in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, the home of the author's Portuguese ancestors.
Call for Papers - Doctoral Conference
Restanza. Linguistic, Literary and Geographical Imageries of Permanence
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara
Pescara, 4-5 June 2026
Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
«Restare, quindi, non è statica come azione,
ma dinamica, non cristallizza il presente ma si permea di futuro»(Teti, 2022: 119).
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint conference, is geographically, culturally, and historically a space between. Known as “Gate City” because of its key position on the rail network, it is not only a midpoint between the state capital, Raleigh, and North Carolina’s biggest city, Charlotte, but also an entrance to the South. At once an integral part of the region and open to the broader world, it has long exemplified the solidarities as well as the divisions that have marked the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Wallace Stevens’s poetry abounds with animals, from the bucks and firecat of “Earthy Anecdote” to the “gold-feathered bird” of “Of Mere Being.” This session invites papers on Stevens’s animals and animal imagery across his oeuvre. How do animals in Stevens’s poems reflect or complicate his sense of human perception, subjectivity, and the environment? In what ways do they trouble distinctions between the human and the nonhuman, the domestic and the wild, the material and the symbolic?
Proposals might consider individual poems or sequences, the wider bestiary of The Collected Poems, or Stevens’s animals in relation to earlier, contemporaneous, or later writers.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
The Anaïs Nin Foundation and Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal are pleased to announce the inaugural Anaïs Nin Essay Prize. We are seeking submissions of scholarly essays centered on the work, influence, relationships, or legacy of Anaïs Nin. Essays should aim to extend the academic conversation around her contributions to literature, art, and culture.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Joyce Studies Annual Call for Papers.
JAMES JOYCE; OR, THE IMITATION MACHINE
The development of Large Language Models (LLM) that can output language resembling human-made work have reinvigorated questions regarding the machine in literary production and scholarship.
Proposing a panel or panels on postmodern-era US Fiction for this year’s American Literature Association Conference, which will happen in Chicago from May 20-23.
Call for Proposals –- Oxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming ALA Conference, to be held in Chicago, May 20th – 23rd.
Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Seventh International Hardy Conference and Festival (Dorchester, Dorset, UK; July 25th—August 1st 2026). Significant Hardy anniversaries in 2026 include the 150th anniversary of The Hand of Ethelberta, the 140th anniversary of The Mayor of Casterbridge, the 120th anniversary of The Dynasts (Part 2), and the 110th anniversary of Selected Poems. Proposals for papers on any of these anniversary texts are especially welcome.
Papers should be planned for delivery times of a maximum of 20 minutes (approximately 2000 words).
CFP: E. E. Cummings Sessions at the American Literature Association’s 37th Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 20-23, 2026
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor a session (or two) at the 2026 American Literature Association conference in Chicago [ https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ ]. We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings’ life and/or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
Lolly Willowes at 100: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Religion, and the Supernatural
IAS Common Ground, University College London, 29-30 May 2026
June 2026 Graduate Symposium on the Work of D.H. Lawrence
The DHLSNA plans to host a day-long symposium for graduate students on 12 June 2026. The symposium will consist of panels of micro-papers (5-7 minutes), a plenary dialogue between a senior Lawrence scholar and graduate student respondents, and an ac/alt-ac professional workshop.
Call for Papers
Following the success of the I International Conference on Gender Studies & Intermedial Narratives (UCM, 2024), this new edition seeks to go further, deeper, and bolder. If last year we worked around the idea of intermediality, this year we want to explore its most visceral and material dimension: how gender is inscribed on, through, and as bodies—and how bodies themselves become texts, interfaces, archives, and narrative machines.We begin with a simple premise: every text is a body, and every body is a text.
NATIONAL SEMINAR ONDigital Futures and Beyond: Emerging Paradigms in English Studies
27 December 2025
Organised by
Department of English, Hill-Top Degree College, Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
Venue: Seminar Hall, Hill-Top Degree College
Website:www.hilltopdegreecollegemohana.edu.in
Invitation
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
September 25th 2026 marks the 400th anniversary of Lancelot Andrewes’ death. It also marks the 100th anniversary of an essay by T. S. Eliot which appeared first in the TLS and was later collected into the volume named after it: For Lancelot Andrewes. This essay instigated modern critical interest in Andrewes’ intellectual and imaginative legacy, and is a significant event not just for sermon studies but for the conjunction of modernism and early modernism, and the influence of the renaissance period on the poets and thinkers of the twentieth century and beyond.
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies invites submissions for its 10th issue (April 2026) and 12th issue (April 2027), dedicated to the twin special issues “Theoretical Inquiries, Critical Dialogues I–II.”
These issues welcome original research articles that explore classical or contemporary literary theories, modes of interpretation, textual analysis, narrative studies, world literature, comparative approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Prioritizing conceptual depth and metaphorical dynamism, Nesir seeks contributions that move beyond descriptive analysis of a single work, period, or national context. We encourage articles that:
Queering food in the 21st Century
THE DEPARTMENTS OF
COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND HISTORY
Mount Carmel College, Autonomous present
DISCOURSES '26
on FOOD, HISTORY AND MIGRATION
Date: 21st and 22nd of January, 2026
Venue: PJEC 1, Mount Carmel College, Autonomous, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Please note: Discourses '26 will be taking place at Mount Carmel College Autonomous, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It is mandatory for all participants to conduct their presentations, offline, at the venue itself. Kindly ensure the same.
CONCEPT NOTE
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is devoting a special issue to Genevieve Taggard, her career and legacy. Given the interdisciplinary nature of Women’s Studies, and the breadth and depth of Taggard’s multi-faceted artistic, cultural, and political undertakings, proposals are sought for essays that demonstrate Taggard’s wide-ranging literary and political legacy and her significance to our present moment.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Weird Genres, Weird Gender
For MSA 2026, Loughborough UK (July 1-4)
I am interested in putting together a panel proposal with scholars working in the spaces of genre fiction in the early/mid 20th century, including romance, science fiction, westerns, horror/occult, detective fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, and children’s fiction, with an eye to representations of gender and sexuality. Analyses that bridge early 20th century genre study with contemporary genre narratives and adaptations are also welcome.
Some possible topics could include
This call is for the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026!
The Sherwood Anderson Society is dedicated to the examination and exploration of the works of Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941). The scholarly interests of this society are, but not exclusively, Anderson’s relationship fellow writers, author’s biography, the Midwest, expatriatism, the fiction of war, cosmopolitanism vs provincialism, urban vs rural, stylistic modernism, and pre and post-industrial United states. Please contact Doug Sheldon at sheldond@uic.edu with any inquiries.
Call For Presentations I: Sherwood Anderson at 150!
Call for Papers from the Carson McCullers Society
American Literature Association Annual Convention, May 20-23, 2026, Chicago, IL
The Short Fiction of Carson McCullers: New Directions in Scholarship