rhetoric and composition

Rhetorical Theory (PAMLA Standing Session)

updated: 
Monday, May 18, 2026 - 8:39pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
Seattle, WA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

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Journal of the Georgia Philological Association

updated: 
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 11:47am
Georgia Philological Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The GPA is accepting submissions for its 2026-2027 volume of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.  Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy will be considered.

 

Please send submissions to Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by Sept. 30, 2026.

 

Please visit our website for more information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php

TYCA-NE Conference: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies

updated: 
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 11:37am
Two-Year College English Association, Northeast Region
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

TYCA Northeast

61st Annual Conference

2026 Call for Proposals

October 2 - 3, 2026

Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square

25 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603

Proposal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Submission Link: https://www.tycanortheast.org/

Conference Theme: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies

Fresh Blood: Undergraduate Perspectives on Horror (free registration)

updated: 
Thursday, May 14, 2026 - 10:52am
Undergraduate Conference on Horror at the University of Rochester
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program, along with the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Rochester are pleased to announce an upcoming undergraduate conference on horror, to be held October 23-25, 2026. The conference will featuring a keynote address by the University of Rochester’s own Jason Middleton, author of numerous articles on horror films, co-editor (with Aviva Briefel) of Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work (U of Texas P, 2023), and a featured expert on the AMC series Eli Roth’s History of Horror.

 

Conference: Indiana College English Association 91st Annual

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:53am
Indiana College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

We invite you to submit scholarly or creative work to the 91st Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association. As a regional affiliate of the College English Association, anyone in our region (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky) is encouraged to participate.

CFP: International Doctoral Conference - Silence(d): Illusory Absences and Denied Presences

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 9:46am
Department FORLILPSI, University of Florence
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL CONFERENCE

SILENCE(D): ILLUSORY ABSENCES AND DENIED PRESENCES

University of Florence (Italy), 26th-27th October 2026

 

Link to the call for papers (in Italian and English): https://www.dottoratolinletcult.unifi.it/upload/sub/News/CallForPapers_Silcenced_UNIFI%20(1).pdf

 

Pedagogy and Praxis - PAMLA November 2026

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Pedagogy and Praxis (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

The Pedagogy and Praxis roundtable will explore all aspects of pedagogy and teaching praxis as experienced or theorized by English, Modern Languages, and Humanities educators. Topics of interest might include:

· Theoretical and practical responses to the rise of large language model/generative AI

· Classroom methods and assignments that foster students’ literary analysis skills and that reduce reliance of AI tools

· Recent trends in higher education and high school teaching of the humanities

· Innovations and emerging research in pedagogy

Mapping Post-Truth across Disciplines

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:33pm
University of Memphis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Call for Proposals: Mapping Post-Truth Across Disciplines Conference

Key Information
Proposals due June 30th, 2026 to posttruthconference@gmail.com
Decision of acceptance communicated by July 15th, end of day

Dates: October 29th-30th, 2026
Location: University of Memphis, specific locations TBD
Fee: TBD

REMINDER: What's the Matter with Description"? Form, Practice, and Material Culture

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:23pm
Martin Brueckner/University of Delaware
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

 

Call for Papers

 

University of Delaware’s 8th 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)

 

Life Writing in the Age of Generative AI: Power, Authorship, and Self-Representation

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 10:01am
PAMLA - 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Abstract:

This panel reexamines life writing in the age of Generative AI, asking who controls the conditions under which individuals narrate their own lives. Submissions reflecting on how AI corporations and Generative AI models are reshaping life writing practices across textual, digital, and visual formats, or on the consequences of such practices for authorship, equity, and cultural power, are especially welcome.

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Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

updated: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 1:02am
5th World Congress on Logic and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

 

Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia

 

The Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 34 (2026)

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 4:30pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

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 published in the last two years, 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 clearly 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: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:53pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Conference October 15th to 17th - Online 

Call for Papers: Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies Area 

Please submit abstracts of 250–400 words and a short 100-word bio to the linked form below.

The Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies area, part of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Fall Online Conference (October 15–17, 2026), features the newly established conference area and Digital Swift Symposium, a curated space for interdisciplinary scholarship on popular music, fandom, gender, authorship, and digital culture.

Writing Home: Where the Power of Place Meets the Page 

updated: 
Monday, April 27, 2026 - 2:04pm
6th Annual Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 8, 2026

Call for Proposals

 

6th Annual Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Radford University  |  Radford, Virginia

 

Conference Theme

Writing Home: Where the Power of Place Meets the Page 

 

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MMLA Antiracism Permanent Section

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:13pm
Cedric Burrows/Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

Archives are not neutral: they tell stories about who counts, whose experiences are remembered, and whose are erased. For centuries, racial hierarchies have shaped the preservation of knowledge, leaving silences where Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized voices should be. The Antiracism Permanent Section of the MMLA invites submissions that move beyond critique, asking how we can reimagine, rebuild, and transform the archive to reflect justice, equity, and shared humanity.We are especially interested in work that explores:

Reading in the Digital Age: R. E. Sterling Havens Writing and Reading Symposium

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:02pm
Department of English/Writing and Reasoning Program, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Reading in the Digital Age: R. E. Sterling Havens Writing and Reading Symposium

Call for Papers – Opens April 6, 2026

Deadline for submissions: May 25, 2026 

Sponsored by: R. E. Sterling Havens Writing and Reading Symposium, September 19, 2026

Writing and Reasoning Program, Department of English

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas 75205

Reading in the Digital Age

Reading is one of the oldest academic practices, and certainly one of the most rapidly changing.

PAMLA 2026: Writing Communities in and Beyond the Classroom (Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 1:46pm
PAMLA, Seattle, Nov 12-15, 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

ROUNDTABLE: Writing Communities in and Beyond the Classroom (PAMLA, Seattle, Nov 12-15, 2026)

Deadline for Proposals: May 15

This roundtable revisits writing as a fundamentally social, collaborative, and democratic act at a time when many writers and students experience it as isolated, pressured, and increasingly mediated by technology. Beyond offering emotional and peer support, writing communities in classrooms, online and social spaces, and professional and informal networks shape how writers see themselves, understand their audience, engage in metacognitive practices, and take creative and intellectual risks.

JMMLA CFP Spring 2027: Computation, Interdisciplinarity, and the Humanities

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:10pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 15, 2027

The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:50pm
Southeastern Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

Samford University

Birmingham, AL

October 22-24, 2026

Submission Deadline:  July 1, 2026

Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026

 

Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University) 

Guest Reviewers: New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:41pm
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Guest Reviewers

​New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise​ to join its international Guest Reviewer pool. Reviewers should have knowledge of contemporary creative writing studies. Some understanding of current critical discussions in Creative Writing Studies, Literary Studies or related fields would be well-received.

​New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.

The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current

MMLA: Scientific Archives After the Third Nature

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 12:40pm
MMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

In her introduction to Science in the Archives (2017), Lorraine Daston explores the way that scientific archives function as “repository” of scientific empiricism (10), a process through which scientists preserve scientific findings. What is occluded in this understanding, Daston explains, is that, when scientists ‘convert’ the natural world into its ‘second nature’—i.e. data—the conditions for that translation are controlled, selective, entangled, slowed, sped up, and digitized (10). Daston’s research helps us to consider how science arbitrarily constructs archivable data at an increasing rate: “more people are manipulating more information in more ways, and all at a tempo that baffles ‘what next?’ predictions” (10).

Praxis Conference: Writing With

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 11:51am
Department of English; University of Washington, Seattle
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

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 (UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16, 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.

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