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Call for book chapters: Reading as Habitation. In Memoriam Ana-Karina Schneider
Call for Abstracts
Edited Book: Small Museums and Art Galleries in Canada
Editor: Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD
The ground falling from beneath your feet, the cliff’s edge barely holding you aloft, the free fall in open air. Cinematic representations of falling and nearly plummeting from great heights have long been around as an arbiter of suspense and a literal visualization of the classic “cliffhanger,” with origins to such a visual tracing back to the silent film era and actor Harold Lloyd dangling from the hands of a clock in Safety Last! (1923) Falling and dizzying heights have been featured over the years in a variety of forms and often successfully serve as a device to drive the plot forward or signify its climax. We see examples of villains and heroes alike battling on skyscrapers in DC and Marvel universe adaptations.
Mystery / Detective Fiction Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2025
*****Deadline extension till 1 December 2025*****
(In)Secure Fictions: South Asia and 9/11
What happens when the present becomes historical to itself and the contemporary turns into a categorizable literary-historical formation? Is that even possible, that is: can the contemporary ever become historical (to) itself? This special issue seeks to examine the conditions that would allow us to understand the contemporary as a distinct literary period which began in the 1990s—with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of neoliberalism, and the growing sense that postmodern irony had outlived itself—and has now arguably come to an end. Not coincidentally, this was a period of almost uncontested, unipolar US political hegemony on a global scale.
The Kate Chopin International Society is seeking individual proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2026American Literature Association conference in Chicago, Illinois, May 20–23, 2026
The first panel, a roundtable on “Teaching Kate Chopin,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address anyaspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work to today’s students—to students of any kind at any level using any materials or technology in any educational environment anywhere. Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks.
The long nineteenth century was a period marked by industrial revolution, scattered religious beliefs and technological advancements. The Gothic tradition recorded these significant changes through a language of monstrosity, excess, and horror as the Industrial Revolution gained momentum, coal and steam power expanded, and as soon as the British Empire increased its extractive demands on colonized ecologies and laboring bodies. This edited volume proposes a new way of looking at Gothic figures such as vampires, parasites, doubles, and consuming machines in order to examine how such tropes adumbrated the anxieties, ethics, and violences of environmental extraction.
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
Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being:
Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth
2026 Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth
June 4-5, 2026
Co-Keynote Speakers: Lauren Bice, DNP, CRNA and Sheila Lintott, PhD The Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its second international virtual symposium, Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth, a virtual event that will take place online across two half day sessions on June 4th and June 5th, 2026 (to facilitate participation across time zones).
Call for Papers
6th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference
“Radical”
Toronto, Canada
May 15-16, 2026
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.
CFP: International Conference on French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
June 11 & 12, 2026
Keynote: Prof. Sarah Cooper (King’s College London)
Deadline for abstracts: 12/01/2026
Applicants notified of acceptance: 12/02/2026
Call For Chapter Proposals – The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Modernisms
Editors: Ruth Clemens, John Greaney, Maebh Long, Barry Sheils
R. Murray Schafer: Reassessing His Work and Legacy
Eric Schmaltz, Dalhousie University, schmaltzeric@gmail.com Shannon Brown, Dalhousie University, slbrown@dal.ca
“American Shorts 2026” will take place on October 29-31, 2026, at the School of Arts & Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
American Shorts 2026 webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/americanshorts2026
Submission deadline: 10 June, 2026
Conference: 29-31 October, 2026
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université
de Poitiers)
12–14 March 2026
Queer Bibliography in the South:
Space, Place, Community
Athens, GA and online
Queer Bibliography invites proposals for papers considering how gender, sexuality, and textuality intersect with place in the production of queer identity.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, the academy exists in relation to Indigenous people, indigeneity, and structures of settler colonial power. Yet, for many disciplines across the humanities, Indigenous Studies remains marginalized and under-theorized. This symposium invites work that engages the relationality between Indigenous Studies – a discipline grounded in the knowledges, practices, politics, and lives of Indigenous peoples – and other fields, crafts, and disciplines that might see themselves as independent of the concerns of Indigenous peoples and histories. We welcome Indigenous Studies scholars as well as scholars working in connection with any of the historical concerns of Indigenous Studies.
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is calling for papers for its Special Issue “Romancing the Posthuman” focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism.
The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal, has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its December, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.
In 2015, i-D magazine declared the year of the ‘sad girl’ (Thelandersson 2022: 157). In the decade since, portrayals of depressed, anxious, and mentally burdened women have scarcely abated, from the breakout success of Sally Rooney to the emergence of Sad Girl BookTok to Gen Z’s recent rediscovery of Lana Del Rey. Meanwhile, in the academy, subfields such as Affect Theory, Disability Studies, and Madness Studies represent growing areas of interest for increasing numbers of researchers and students.
Call for FULL Chapters:
Update: The manuscript is nearly finished however some of the planned chapters have fallen through. I need a replacement chapter, possibly two, in short order. Please review the CFC details below and contact me with any questions: maureenfadem@gmail.com
The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison
Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht, CUNY
This is a call for chapters for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.
Call for papers:
Philosophy and Literary Genres in the Twentieth CenturyJournal: Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee - Critical Journal of History of Ideas
(https://en.giornalecritico.it/)
Issue editors:
Raffaele Ariano (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan)
Paolo Babbiotti (University of Turin)
Matteo Falomi (Sapienza University of Rome / University of Essex)
18th ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English)
31st August – 4th September 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Call for Contributions to the ESSE Panel "Infrastructures of Feeling: The European City in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media"
Call for Articles - The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power
IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis launches its new issue on the topic The Politics of Emotion: Affect, Identity and Power.
Emotions shape the way individuals and communities navigate their personal and collective lives, influencing decisions, relationships and the structures that govern societies. They are deeply embedded in social, cultural and political contexts, acting as both a personal experience and a force that drives public action.
Editors-in-chief: Inês Fernandes and Teresa Weinholtz
Issue 12 | Speak at Your Own Risk: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship
“When seeking knowledge of a work of art or an art form, it never proves useful to take the receiver into account”: thus begins Walter Benjamin’s foundational essay on the study of translation. This seminar proceeds against Benjamin’s injunction, paring translation studies with recent inquiries into reading practice and readerly attention to ask how modernist writers use translation to modulate readerly difficulty. How do modernist translators adjust difficulty both to safeguard and to enhance the reader’s imagination of an original text from which they are withheld? Do moments of difficulty in translated modernist texts – whether Victorian archaisms in C.K.