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Call for ProposalsEthos in Contemporary Contexts: Authority, Identity, and Trust in Contemporary RhetoricEdited, Academic Collection
Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026
Please send 250-500-word abstracts & CVs to Roya Biggie, Knox College (royabiggie@gmail.com ) and Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland (danicasavonick@gmail.com ).
TITLE: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Emancipatory Activities at the Crossroads of Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the MLA Committee on Higher Education Practices (HEP) seeks paper proposals regarding contemplation, design, and/or implementation of emancipatory activities in literature, language, and writing classrooms.
Topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) the following:
Call for Papers:
Panel Title: Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Location: MLA National Conference, Los Angeles, California
Date: January 7-10, 2027
Panel Hosts: Dr. Jeff Birkenstein and Dr. Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College (Centralia, Washington)
Proposal Deadline: March 22, 2026
The Challenge
We're excited to announce that the DIY Methods Conference is back for another year! Pitches are due by April 20th, 2026. Please don't hesitate to email us (annepasek@trentu.ca and trentwintermeier@utexas.edu) if you have any questions.
Call for Papers:
DEADLINE EXTENDED
Writing the Truth through a Fictional Lens:
Comparing Sinophone and Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Products
Edited by Chi Sum Garfield LAU, Kelly Kar Yue CHAN and Chi Chun CHAN
Call for Papers - Fall 2026 Issue
The Dragon Lode Journal, a peer reviewed publication through the International Literacy Association, is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2026. The Dragon Lode is dedicated to literacy, language arts, and the teaching of reading and writing.
We seek original, unpublished work that engages with contemporary issues and questions, genre studies, literary theory, and research related to children’s literature and reading. Submissions may address (but are not limited to):
We invite you to participate at the 19th annual Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes summer conference:
NFEAP 2026 - Mythologies
First Call for Papers
The 2026 NFEAP summer conference will take place on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th of June 2026 at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway.
The theme for the 2026 conference is Mythologies.
Call for Papers
University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture
April 2-3, 2027
“What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture”
Keynote Speaker
SUSAN STEWART
(Princeton University)
2/15/26 - 4/30/26: Subs are open forIssue #9: Collaborations!We are seeking both poetry and art.There are no theme / subject restrictions.
5th IRW Theme: “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance.”
Submission Deadline (250-word abstracts in English or Spanish): March 21, 2026
Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/IRW-Submissions
The Planning Committee for the 5th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making.
We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.
The intersection of Rhetoric and Communication continues to attract the interest of many scholars, particularly within the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The scope of analysis is wide-ranging, encompassing literature and culture, language studies and advertising, communication studies and politics, among other domains.
This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures?
MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme!
The call for papers is now open for the second volume of CJHS, scheduled for publication in December 2026.
Submission period:
January 1 to June 30, 2026
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review.
Event: University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ Praxis Conference
Theme: Writing With
Date: Fri May 29, 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States (University of Washington, Seattle campus)
CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 13, 11:59pm PST
We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ sixth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the University of Washing, Seattle campus on Friday, May 29th, 2026.
CALL FOR PAPERSTeaching Authentic Thinking in the Age of AI: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice
Editors: Trent M. Kays, PhD (Augusta University); Rosita Scerbo, PhD (Georgia State University); and Stefanie Sevcik, PhD (Mercer University)
THE PROBLEM
Students carry ChatGPT in their pockets. They can generate competent essays in seconds. Traditional assignments become trivial to automate.
How should we teach?
PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED
Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held in person on FAU’s Boca Raton campus on Saturday, April 4, 2026.
This conference is completely free for presenters and attendees. We invite undergraduate and graduate students from all institutions, as well as independent scholars, educators, and creatives, to explore the theme of “(Re)memory” through both academic and creative work.
Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!
Call for Papers
Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching
The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.
Jürgen Habermas suggested that it is through communicative action, that is reasoned and open discourse, that we transmit, change, and recreate cultural knowledge, and that in so-doing we can achieve mutual understanding.
Communicative action and communicative rationality are self-reflexive dialogues through which we can learn from others, question dominant paradigms, and advocate for cultural change.
The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, photographs and visual art related to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and creative writing related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. The Mid-Atlantic Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and available to scholars through the EBSCO and ProQuest Literature databases.
Call for Papers:
I am pleased to share a call for chapter proposals for an edited collection currently in development titled Black Feminist Practices and AI in the Composition Classroom: Memoir, Pedagogy, and Futures. This volume invites scholars, teachers, and practitioners to explore how Black Feminist rhetorical traditions can guide ethical, humanizing, and culturally responsive uses of artificial intelligence in writing instruction.
USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers
(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent
April 10th and 11th, 2026
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 23RD!!
Bridges and Borders: Material Actualities
March 19-21, 2026 | Proposals Due by FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom
Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.
CONTACT: bridgesandborders@andrew.cmu.edu
We are pleased to announce the CFP for a special 2026 issue of Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) on Art & Engagement as Critical Response (300 word proposal deadline: 1/16/26). In the spirit of recognizing the ongoing precarities of higher education–both internal (neoliberalism, systemic institutional inequities) and external (crisis of public confidence in U.S. universities/colleges, threats to academic freedom), we invite proposals for a special issue of ALRA on art and engagement as critical response to the invisibility, illegibility, and silencing faced by much of the academic labor force.
Call for Abstracts for Special Issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly Maternal Rhetorics: Deconstructing Expectations of Mother/Woman/ParenthoodCo-editors: Anna D'Orazio (University of Cincinnati), Wendy Sharer (East Carolina University), and Jurrita Williams (University of Alabama) In a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, then-Senate candidate and now-Vice President JD Vance criticized the Democratic Party “for becoming anti-family and anti-child.” He stated, “It's just a basic fact—you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]—the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children….How does it make sense that we’ve
The 2026 Benedict College International Multidisciplinary Conference (2026 BCIMC)
Thursday and Friday, April 23-24, 2026, at 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Sponsored by the School of Communication, Arts, and Social Sciences (CASS)
CONFERENCE WEBSITE
https://benedict.edu/bciimc
CONFERENCE FORMAT
Hybrid
In-Person and Virtual
CONFERENCE VENUE
Benedict College
Dr. David H. Swinton Campus Center
1616 Oak Street
Columbia, SC 29204
CONFERENCE THEME
The Age of Artificial Intelligence Across Academic Disciplines
Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by English graduate students at California State University, Long Beach, is now seeking submissions for its twentieth volume. Our journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers concerned with literature of all genres and periods or current issues in the field of rhetoric and composition. We also accept submissions from other areas including but not limited to: Comparative World Literature, Medieval Studies, Translation Studies, and Gender & Women’s Studies. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only graduate and undergraduate student work will be considered.
Austerity
April 10-11, 2026
The 2026 edition of the Equinoxes graduate student conference at Brown University
Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
1-3 July 2026
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Hull