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Theatre Topics Special Issue (July 2027): Dramaturgy as Inquiry
This accepted panel for NeMLA 2027 (March 6-9, 2027. Newport, RI) seeks to investigate works of American drama that engage deeply with other (possibly more canonical) American plays. Engagement is defined broadly and might include subtle evidence of influence, extended allusions, plays within plays, or outright sequels, prequels, and revisions of earlier works. Also welcome are examinations of how American plays appear in pop culture texts like TV shows.
A small number of additional abstracts (on disability in German Literature) are currently being sought for an edited volume to be published by Metzler Publishing House (an imprint of Springer Nature). The volume adopts a comparative approach and examines representations of disability and/or addiction in German-language and Japanese literature. Interested scholars are invited to send a brief abstract or topic proposal as soon as possible to habib.tekin@hotmail.com and hayashih@kansai-u.ac.jp by 2.7.2026.
Call for Papers:
Conference on Multiracial Democracy
University of Notre Dame
Florentina Holzinger & Co: Performing Pleasure, Risk and Rapture
Guest Editors
Dr Charlotte Farrell (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Dr Anna Laura Wieczorek (Mozarteum University, Salzburg)
Special Issue of Contemporary Theatre Review Call for Papers
CFP: German Romantic Humor across the Disciplines (9/30/2026; NeMLA; Sat March 6 - Tuesday March 9, 2027)
To be held at the 2027 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Newport, Rhode Island.
This panel seeks to bring together scholars of literature, philosophy, history, art history, theology, musicology and/or related humanistic disciplines to discuss how humor shaped, and was shaped by, German Romanticism.
European Journal of Media, Art & Photography
ejmap.sk | Indexed in WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) | Q1 in art journals category
April 2-3, 2027
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
Call for Papers
We invite proposals for an anthology about drag in Appalachia. The collection aims to explore drag’s artistry, history, and cultural power. We welcome scholars, performers, and community storytellers whose work illuminates the region’s queer lineages, traditions, politics, creativity, and beyond. We especially invite pieces that examine drag as labor, community care, spiritual practice, historical reclamation, or engagement with Appalachia’s diverse cultural landscapes.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | September 2026 Issue
Theme: Echoes of the Digital Age
This issue explores how human connection, conflict, identity, and memory are being rewritten in a hyper-connected yet deeply isolated world. We are looking for sharp, short scripts that capture the friction between our physical lives and our digital existence.
Subthemes for Submission:
1. Phantom Vibrations: The psychological weight, anxiety, or obsession of waiting for a notification that never comes.
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 83rd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of Tennessee Knoxville and its Marco Institute, to be held from Friday, October 23 to Saturday, October 24, 2026.
The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.
In-Between Wor(l)ds: Liminality, Poetry and Performance
Call for Papers – GNSD Graduate Conference, University of Minnesota
Nov. 6 - 7th, 2026 (in person)
Keynote by Adeena Karasick
Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Special Issue: ‘Dramatherapy with Children and Young People’
Guest Editor
Meabh Ivers, independent dramatherapist
Deadline
Full papers: 20 July 2026
View the full call here>>
Performing Data in Australasia
Performance Paradigm Volume 21
Guest Editors
Mara Davis Johnson (U of Wollongong), Benjamin Laird (Flinders U/Australian Creative Histories and Futures), Sarah Thomasson (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington/U of Queensland), James Wenley (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington).
Call for Papers
EXTENDED CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
The Works of Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS book series
Bloomsbury Academic
Editor: Jonathan Winchell
New deadline for abstract submissions: June 30, 2026
The proposed edited volume, The Works of Elaine May, has received preliminary interest from the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series editor. Nine chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion (see below).
I am currently seeking additional chapters on:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Displaced Dialogues: Performance and Identity in Dalit and Tribal South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
Call for Panel Proposals
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA Philadelphia
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Philadelphia, USA March 11–13, 2027
CFP Deadline: August 15, 2026
RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
68th Annual Conference
“Making the Renaissance Political Body”
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 68th Annual Conference, to be held at California State University, Fullerton on Saturday, September 26th, 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for Papers
Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (JAGS), Open Issue
Editors-in-Chief: Éva Forgács, Benedikt Hjartarson, Cecilia Novero, Sami Sjöberg
Published biannually by Brill
About the Journal
This edited volume explores the interrelations between disability and addiction within Japanese literary literature. By focusing strictly on literary representations—and excluding media studies—this collection aims to examine how embodiment, social normativity, and deviance are negotiated through culturally specific frameworks.
The editors invite contributions for the following four sections
1. Disability in Japanese Literature (3 Articles)
CFP:
Actors, Acting, and Activism: Performing Eugene O’Neill’s Plays
CALL FOR PAPERS
Speculative Embodiment: Dramaturgical Approaches to Subtext in Shakespeare
Special Session | PAMLA 123rd Annual Conference
Conference Dates: November 12–15, 2026
Location: Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St., Seattle, WA 98101
Abstract Deadline: May 25, 2026
Format: In-person only
Session Area: Drama, Theater, and Performance / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officers: Kristen Tregar (Independent Scholar) and Sam Kolodezh (University of California – San Diego)
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Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas
Deadline to indicate interest: May 15
Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS
The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:
Literature/Film Quarterly (LFQ) is an internationally recognized, open-access journal specializing in adaptation studies. Published entirely online, LFQ makes all content freely available to readers worldwide. We publish quarterly and manuscripts often progress from initial submission through peer review to publication in less than one year. 2023 marked our 50th year of continuous publication. Visit our website for current issues, online archives (dating to 2017), and complete submission guidelines: https://lfq.salisbury.edu/
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
The "Animals & Culture" Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association's call for papers for our 2026 virtual conference is live! See our details below (or at https://www.northeastpca.org/conference-areas):
The "Animals & Culture" area explores the complex and multifaceted intersections between animals, animal representations, society, and popular culture.
Guest Editors
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan
Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan
Eric Glover (Yale University) and Michelle Cowin Gibbs (CSULB) invite participants for a working group that takes stock of Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy and impact as a vital yet still underexamined repertoire in theatre, dance, and performance studies.
In conversation with the conference theme’s attention to retrospection and futurity, the group considers how Hurston’s work and that of her successors has been adapted, staged, studied, and taught, while asking what remains unfinished, underdeveloped, and newly possible.
Call For Papers: American Book Review Focus on “Drama and Resistance” I will be guest editing and contributing an introduction that situates a collection on “Drama and Resistance” within the postmodern/post-World War II era for the literary journal American Book Review. The topic is inclusive of contemporary American drama. For this collection, I’ve been asked to solicit 8-10 short essays and book reviews on this topic that are roughly 1,500 words each (or 6/7 pages double-spaced).
JLIC: CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR OPEN ISSUE 2028