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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 1:17pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:32am
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New ssue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 9:31am
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:14am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

MLA26: Milton's Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for a sponsored panel at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada. Papers (15 minutes in length) should examine Milton’s writings through a lens of adaptation studies, media studies, or reception studies, or their appropriation (social, legal, or political). Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The Sun Also Rises at 100

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:22am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

TORONTO
JANUARY 8-11, 2026

The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor a panel at the upcoming MLA Conference:

The Sun Also Rises at 100

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Marketing & the American Market

updated: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 6:02am
Richard Nowell, FAMU (The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Hi folks,

I hope everyone is happy and well.

 

I would like to announce that I am putting together a new edited collection on horror film promotion in the US. At present, I am sketching out a due date for chapter submissions of January 2027, but obviously this can only really be provisional at this point. For the record, once a line-up is in place, I will be approaching Anthem Press about including the book in its "Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema", of which I am a board member.

 

Selling Scary Movies: Horror Film Promotion & the American Market

Edited by Richard Nowell

 

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:39pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

CFP - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature , vol. 6/2025

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 11:52am
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

10×10 Research Grants on Photobook History - 2025

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 12:05pm
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its ongoing photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.

Worlds Beyond: 48th Annual Williamson Lectureship

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Theme: Worlds Beyond

The Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) invites scholars, academics, and researchers to submit abstracts for academic papers and/or proposals for panel presentations focused on the intersection of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and hybrid genres) with the evolving notion of the (post)human. The theme for this year's Lectureship is "Worlds Beyond” with distinguished guest of honor Darcie Little Badger, the Locus, Nebula, Ignyte, and Newberry Honor Award winning author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth. The event will also feature several other speculative fiction authors.  

English Literature since 1900

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature since 1900. Proposals may explore Trans-Atlantic artists, or artists whose works were influenced by their English territory residency, as well as those artists of the British literary canon. Please submit a proposal no longer than 250-300 words to Dr. Krista Rascoe at krista.rascoe@tccd.edu by April 1st. 

UCL Artists' Books Symposium: Structures/Infrastructures

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:39am
Killian Beashel / University College London (UCL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

This symposium, due to be held on 9th June 2025, proposes to investigate the formal or informal infrastructures and networks which sustain (or, perhaps, inhibit) the production, preservation, curation, distribution and analysis of artists’ books in Britain now. We are actively seeking contributions not just from academics and doctoral students working in the field, but from all those involved in the artists’ books and small press ecosystem, from retailers to publishers to librarians to artists. This symposium is supported by a grant from the Association for Art History.

Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures (Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:37am
Tampere University, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Zurich
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

‘With the tremendous acceleration of life, mind and eye have become accustomed to seeing and judging partially or inaccurately, and everyone is like the traveller who gets to know a land and its people from a railway carriage.’ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)

We are inviting proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on the aesthetics of the railway. Taking place on two trains from Vienna to Bucharest and from Bucharest to Istanbul, the conference will itself be a mobile experience.

Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:35am
TC Religion and Literature forum -- MLA Convention 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet(2010), religious values—and religious speech—have contributed enormously to justice throughout history, including movements for abolition, civil rights, decolonization, and more recently, calls to redress environmental damage as in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.

Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:34am
TC Religion and Literature Forum -- MLA Convention January 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the Transdiscipinary Connections Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA debate institutional responses to the Gaza genocide, we seek to amplify scholarship in our transdisciplinary field that bears witness to the struggle for just peace and Palestinian liberation. 

 

Please submit 250-word proposal and CV by Mary 15, 2025 to Cynthia Wallace, forum chair: cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca.

Global Transmedial Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:47pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Global Transmedial Modernism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)

Telangana Journal of Higher Education

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 5:33am
Telangana Council of Higher Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Inaugural Issue Theme: Technology and Higher Education

The Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE), published by the Telangana Council of Higher Education (TGCHE), Government of Telangana, invites submissions for its inaugural issue, focusing on “Technology and Higher Education.” This issue aims to discuss the transformative role of technology in reshaping the practices, policies, and experiences within higher education. With a focus on the Indian context and a global outlook, the journal seeks contributions that examine innovative approaches, critical challenges, and forward-thinking strategies in the integration of technology across diverse areas of higher education.

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:38am
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

Texas Woman's University Book Series: Call for Book Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Texas Woman's University Book Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Calling all authors: The Texas Woman's University book series is an interdisciplinary book series that explores innovative knowledge, creativity, and discoveries shaped by women and women's experiences in fields such as the arts, sciences, spirituality, religion, politics, business, education, the military, health sciences, and community services.

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:37am
Northeastern University, London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

 

The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Saturday 25 October 2025

Northeastern University, London

 

Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.

MLA 2026 / Guaranteed Session Mapping the Futures of Children’s Literature Scholarship: Where Do We Go from Here (DEADLINE MARCH 5, 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:17am
Gabrielle (Brie) Owen on behalf of GS Children's and Young Adult Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

Chapter about Monsters that can control human minds

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 8:24am
Nizar Zouidi/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 - 2:24am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Proposed Panel for ASA 2025: "Tourism and Self-Help Culture"

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 4:54pm
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

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