twentieth century and beyond

Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural

updated: 
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - 8:14pm
Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Call for Chapters
Edited Volume: Rethinking M.R. James: Antiquarianism, Horror, and the Supernatural

Editor: Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council

Introduction

Extended Deadline (June 8, 2026): William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - 1:33pm
Center for Faulkner Studies / Southeast Missouri State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 8, 2026

William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich

A Conference Sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

October 22-24, 2026

(De)Constructing Identities: Inclusive practices of naming

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 12:28pm
University of Verona - Ph.D. Programme in Foreign Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Join the 2026 Graduate Conference at the University of Verona and explore how identities are shaped, challenged, and reimagined through language, literature, and culture.
“(De)Constructing Identities: Inclusive Practices of Naming” invites emerging scholars to engage with some of today’s most urgent debates on inclusion, representation, and power.
From feminist and queer studies to postcolonialism, disability studies, translation, and cultural memory, the conference offers a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.
Participants will investigate how naming practices influence social perception, identity formation, and political discourse across languag

Call for Papers (Rolling Basis)

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:51am
Karto-Teka Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 3, 2027

Call for Papers (Rolling Basis)

Karto-Teka Gdańska

An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Gdańsk and the Pomeranian Philosophical-Theological SocietyKarto-Teka Gdańska invites submissions on an ongoing, rolling basis for future online-first publication.

Founded in 2017Karto-Teka Gdańska is an international, peer-reviewed journal committed to interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities, philosophy, history, theology, cultural studies, and related fields.

Scope and Focus

Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2026 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 15-Saturday, October 17, 2026. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/call-for-papers

250-word abstracts are due by June 15, 2026 at 5 pm.

Making America Healthy Again: Granola, Guns, and the Gynosphere

updated: 
Monday, May 11, 2026 - 11:43am
Matthew Bond, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This panel title borrows from the article "Granola and Guns: The Rise of Conspirituality" hosted on McGill University's Office for Science and Society that attempts to define and locate in American society a perplexing mindset that blends countercultural mystical thinking and conservative paranoia. "Conspirituality," which PennState defines as "a belief system that blends new age spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theorizing," has also been branded the "crunchy-to-fascism" pipeline, demonstrating how an openness to crystal healing, chakra opening, sonic baths, and celestial alignment has led many—often well-to-do white women—towards "Pastel QAnon," anti-vaxx, and an embrace of alt-right beliefs.

Call for Papers for dialog-Special Issue No. 47

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:32pm
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL

Special Issue No. 47

Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts

dialog, a fully peer-reviewed, bi-annual international journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue (No. 47) on “Creative Afterlives of Texts.” The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary research engaging literature, culture, and critical theory.

The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie: Second and final cfp

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:42pm
University of Agder
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Second and Final Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway 29. – 30. September 2026

SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference - Movement and Borderlands

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 11:49am
Engaging Research Across the Humanities (SMU)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 28, 2026

Call for Papers

SMU’s ERAH Graduate Conference

English | History | Anthropology

 

Date: October 10-11, 2026

Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX

Theme: Movement & Borderlands

Submission Deadline: August 28, 2026

Keynotes: Dr. Tim Bowman | Dr. Elda María Román 

 

Tropes of Comics and Manga

updated: 
Saturday, May 2, 2026 - 9:40am
CLOSURE, Kiel University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference

Tropes of Comics and Manga

Kiel, November 19–21, 2026

 

Galway Kinnell at 100 - PAMLA Seattle 2026

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 2:24pm
Dr. Ariana Lyriotakis
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference 

 

2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.

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(Almost) Fifty Years Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:58pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

You are invited to submit a paper proposal to the session "(Almost) Fifty Tears Later: Reception of Octavia Butler's Kindred" at the 123rd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languagae Association (PAMLA) conference in Seatlle, WA from Nov. 12-15, 2026.

 

Literature and the Body: The Relations Between Being and Writing

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:55pm
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Submissions open: June 15, 2026 – August 1, 2026

Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility, and how the body, in turn, discloses and shapes literary meaning.

'Theory Today' workshop w/ Eugenie Brinkema

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 12:53pm
USC
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Spring 2026 'Theory Today' Workshop w. Prof. Eugenie Brinkema

Eugenie Brinkema’s research in film and critical theory focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics in texts ranging from the horror film to gonzo pornography, from the body of films dubbed “New European Extremism” to works of literature and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Forms of Affect (2014) and Life-Destroying Diagrams (2022), among many other essays and articles.   

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The Women’s Experience (The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 11:48am
Michele Ren/Radford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 3, 2026

As the section editor for The Women’s Experience, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions.  

 

The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment. 

The White Rural Experience (The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)

updated: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 11:48am
The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 4, 2026

I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational institutions. I encourage you to invite friends/colleagues outside of the Appalachian region, too.

 

PAMLA 2026 Special Session--Exploring Life Writing as an Avenue for Activism

updated: 
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 2:24pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 24, 2026

The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026. 

 

Entanglements: Postcolonial Horrors - International Summer School

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 10:40am
University of Padua
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

At its third edition, in 2026 the Entanglements summer school is centered on Postcolonial Horrors and aims to explore horror as an aesthetic, political, and epistemological symbol through which postcolonial literatures stage the traumatic memories of colonization, identity tensions, diasporic movements, and the re-emergence of the spectral within global modernities. The goal is to interpret horror not only as a genre, but as a critical and deconstructive tool capable of destabilizing ethnocentric categories of subjectivity, body, sovereignty, and knowledge. 

CFP: General Issue of Mapping the Impossible: Journal of Fantasy Research

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 9:35am
Mapping the Impossible: Journal of Fantasy Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research is pleased to announce an open call for papers on all things fantasy and fantastic!

Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed, graduate student-run, open-access publication supported by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. We publishe on all types of fantasy media! Our issues have included articles on topics from Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita to the Horizon video games. We accept academic articles between 3000 and 5000 words, excluding the bibliography.

"Drama and Resistance" Focus for American Book Review

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 9:35am
American Book Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

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).

Cultural History; PAMLA (November 12-15, 2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 9:34am
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The 123rd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Seattle at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, from Thursday, November 12, to Sunday, November 15, 2026. 

 

Cultural History: 

Tolkien, Barfield, and the Inklings: Questions of Influence

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:38pm
Danny Smitherman/Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

AbstractThis session welcomes contributions on the topic of literary, philosophical, or intellectual influences between any of the members of the Inklings, especially between J.R.R. Tolkien and Owen Barfield, and the robustness of those claims. Verlyn Flieger’s assertion in Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, that the languages of Middle-earth developed just as Barfield says human languages do in real life, is perhaps the model of influence, and is well known, respected, and analyzed. But Flieger's argument remains almost entirely circumstantial.

BRAIN Focus Series

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 3:19pm
Routledge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2030

Designed by Jean-François Vernay, the Routledge Literary BRAIN (Brain-Related Academic Investigations of Narratives) Focus Series combines the language of literary criticism with neurocognitive and health humanities methodologies or explanatory frameworks, providing an innovative way of blending literary analysis with health humanities and neurocognitive approaches.

This exciting BRAIN series is designed to convene conversations across interdisciplinary knowledges, covering all fiction and nonfiction sub-genres such as poetry, drama, novels, short-stories, memoirs, (auto)biographies, essays, etc.

ASAP 26 - Black Breath

updated: 
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 1:16pm
Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

https://asap17.exordo.com/panels/79/contribute/dbf84dd0cbaee432095920794...

 

In her 2018 M Archive: After the End of the World, Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes: “you can have breathing and the reality of the radical black porousness of love (aka black feminist metaphysics aka us all of us, us) or you cannot. there is only both or neither. there is no either or. there is no this or that. there is only all" (7)

Francophone and Hispanophone Fantastic Literature and the Politics of Power - The 123rd Annual PAMLA Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:54pm
Aurore Bissières
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This panel explores how Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures engage structures of power, hierarchy, and authority across diverse historical and cultural contexts. 

From the nineteenth century to the present, Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures have unsettled the boundaries between the real and the impossible. Emerging from interconnected histories shaped by imperial expansion, colonial violence, dictatorship, revolution, and migration, the fantastic operates not only as narrative hesitation, but as a subtle language of power. As theorists such as Tzvetan Todorov and David Roas have shown, ontological uncertainty is never merely aesthetic. It signals deeper crises of authority, perception, and legitimacy. 

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