twentieth century and beyond

Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 7:39am
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova, Ankara University, Turkey/ Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević, University of Prishtina, Kosovo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Call for Papers

Philip K. Dick at 100: Fiction, Philosophy, and Cultural Afterlives

Edited Volume (Centenary Collection)

Editors:
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ercan Gürova
Ankara University, Turkey

Prof. dr Mladen Jakovljević
University of Prishtina, Kosovo

 

“Under consideration for publication by a reputable international academic publisher.”

 

Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures

updated: 
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 2:11am
English Academy Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures

Special issue of English Academy Review (Taylor and Francis)


Link: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/narratives-of-resistan...

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India
goutamkarmakar@uohyd.ac.in

BRAIN Focus Series

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
CHARM (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

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.

Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:58am
Beyond Postmemory Research Project (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These ‘trauma ecologies’ pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call ‘environmental postmemory.’

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

Proposed Dates: 1-2 May 2026

Proposed Venue: SRM University, Sikkim

Organized by: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)

Gabriel García Márquez, born in Columbia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.

MLA 2027: The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Patrick Vincent
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

We invite papers on the literature of the Arctic. Especially welcome are proposals on texts and authors that connect the Arctic to contemporary issues of extractivism, securitization, and imperialism. Please send a 250-word abstract and short bio.

Hemingway and Disability

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:57am
Hemingway Society for 2027 MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
Los Angeles
JANUARY 7-10, 2027

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

 

Hemingway and Disability

 

[Edited Volume] Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
Nicholas Spengler / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Papers: Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture

War leaves lasting marks not only on people and communities, but also on the natural world that witnesses, and endures, its violence. Long after the fighting has stopped, landscapes shaped by destruction remain living archives, bearing the aftereffects of conflict: damaged forests, polluted rivers and seas, and disrupted ecosystems that continue to hold its traces. These "trauma ecologies" pass on the legacy of war from one generation to the next, forming what we call "environmental postmemory."

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 8:50am
Department of English, Netrokona University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Deadline extended

Concorde: Literary, Linguistic and Sustainability Studies International Conference

Date: 22-23 April, 2026

Venue: Department of English, Netrokona University, Netrokona, Bangladesh

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Dr Anirudra Thapa, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professor Dr Shamsad Mortuza, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professor Dr Shaila Sultana, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

DLC+ | "Slop" and "Nostalgia" – Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 1:45pm
Digital Literary Cultures (DLC+)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture: “Slop” and “Nostalgia”

May 14th, 2026

Virtual Mini-Conference

https://dlcplus.org/ 

 

DLC+ is excited to announce the second installment of its Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shaping digital literary culture. 

 

Literary Representations of Co-Existence

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Literary Representations of Co-Existence 

 

Conference location: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia

 

Keynote speakers: Mark Bould (University of the West of England Bristol) in-person

                               Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sydney) online

 

Conference dates: Sept 3-5, 2026

 

Conference fee: 75 Euros for the fully employed, 50 Euros for students and those not fully employed

 

Send abstracts of 200 words, and a short biography, to bwillems@ffst.hr by May 1, 2026

 

Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Anuario de Letras Modernas

Convocatoria

Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI

 

Editores invitados:

Mario Alfonso Álvarez Domínguez

Universidad de Lille – Universidad Paris Nanterre

 

Odette de Siena Cortés London

José Alfredo Valerio Luna

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

 

What Academic Novels Can Teach Us About Leadership: A Roundtable

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:11pm
Samuel Cohen/Association of Departments of English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 9, 2026

This session will be devoted to academic novels and academic administration. Panelists will consider what these novels (as well as television and films centered in academia) have to say about how higher education institutions are run, and what we might learn about how—and how not—to run them. Equally interested in literary studies (genre, form, representation) and Critical University Studies (history, politics, current events).

Stories and histories of power

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:59am
université de Caen Normandie, France
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Stories and histories of power, 24-25 Septembre 2026.

 Confirmed Keynote speaker : Peter Boxall

 

Based on the premise that any account is the result of a re-ordered selection in facts which is the mark of the power of the author and/or the institution or cultural group they stand for., this conference will examine factual and fictional narratives of power in the English-speaking world.

MLA 2027 - Nabokov, Freedom, and Anti-Authoritarianism

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 11:38am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):  

 

Nabokov, Freedom, and Anti-Authoritarianism

MLA 2027 - Nabokov in the '70s / Nabokov's Afterlife

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:40am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles):  

 

 Nabokov in the ‘70s / Nabokov’s Afterlife

Online Panel MLA 2027: “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”: Testimony and Resistance in Atwood’s Works

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 9:55am
Margaret Atwood Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel on testimony and resistance in Margaret Atwood’s work. In keeping with the MLA 2027 presidential theme, this panel welcomes papers that examine how Atwood’s narratives represent coercion and constraint while also tracing the risk and agency at stake in claiming liberatory space. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

 

• Testimony, witnessing, and the politics of voice

• Surveillance, secrecy, confession, and the archive

• Gendered power, reproductive politics, and bodily autonomy

• Critical reception and adaptation

 

Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Negotiating with the Dead”: Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural in Atwood’s Works

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 9:55am
Margaret Atwood Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Margaret Atwood Society invites paper proposals for an online panel focusing on how Atwood’s writing engages religious and spiritual practices and the supernatural. We welcome proposals that consider how Atwood’s works mobilize the sacred, the ritual, the metaphysical, and/or the ghostly as vehicles for meaning-making, ethical reflection, and narrative strategy. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

 

·       Religion as ideology

·       Spirituality and folk belief outside institutional frameworks

·       Myth, ritual, and cosmology

·       Scriptural and prophetic discursive modes

·       Haunting, spectrality, and divided subjectivity

The Works of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne

updated: 
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 10:34am
Geoffrey Lokke
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 27, 2026

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 

I am seeking short (3,500-word) chapters for The Works of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, which will be an edited volume dedicated to Didion and Dunne’s lives in film.

 

The American couple were a prolific and popular screenwriting team despite being much better known for their respective novels, memoirs, and journalism. Accordingly, the volume will take into account both their produced and many unproduced screenplays—the latter of which are held in Didion and Dunne’s papers at the New York Public Library.

 

SETI and the Cosmic Turn in the Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 5:07am
Oxford Literary Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Oxford Literary Review 49.2: SETI and the Cosmic Turn in the Environmental Humanities, Edited by Timothy Clark and Philippe Lynes

OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. OLR 49.2, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in late 2027, is planned to direct the journal’s distinctive mode of enquiry on the philosophy, culture and assumptions of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/olr

MLA 2027 Special Session | Fast Cars, Slow Violence: Automobility Beyond the Individual

updated: 
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 2:11pm
Ben Jamieson Stanley
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

We invite papers on automobility and/or transportation infrastructure in any aspect of literary and cultural studies. We are particularly interested in exploring how representations of vehicles address questions of social and environmental justice.

This is a proposed special session for the 2027 MLA convention in Los Angeles, 7-10 January. We plan to hold the session in person.

Please email abstract (250 words) and author bio (100 words) by March 3 to both organizers:

Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy, Northwestern University (gnarayan@u.northwestern.edu )Ben Jamieson Stanley, University of Delaware (bstanley@udel.edu )

The Body and Anatomy

updated: 
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 2:10pm
Art and Public Sphere
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

CFP: The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics 

 

Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere 

 

Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Reviews Editor for The London Journal

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 2:32pm
The London Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Call for Expressions of Interest: Book Reviews Editor for The London Journal

 

The London Journal is seeking expressions of interest for the role of Joint Book Reviews Editor.

 

This role will cover the period from roughly 1800 to the present, joining Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval and early modern periods. The Book Reviews Editors are full members of the Editorial Board.

 

Conrad and Reading

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 2:31pm
Modern Language Association/Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Papers on Joseph Conrad and reading, including close reading, book culture, intertextuality, Conrad’s own reading, Conrad’s global readers, and the challenges of reading Conrad in the age of artificial intelligence. This is one of several planned panels for the Joseph Conrad Society of America Allied Organization at the Modern Language Association Convention in January 2027. Email 300 word proposals and a 100-word biography to Jana Giles, giles@ulm.edu. Deadline: March 15, 2026.

For further information and to see the call posted on the MLA website, see: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html.

Conrad Adapted: Cinematic and Otherwise

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 2:31pm
Modern Language Association/Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Papers, delivered in English, on adaptations of works by Joseph Conrad, in any form and language, including film, television, games, opera, theatre, musical compositions, and graphic novels. This is the planned guaranteed session for the Joseph Conrad Society of America Allied Organization at the Modern Language Association Convention in January 2027. Email 300 word proposals and a 100-word biography to Jana Giles, giles@ulm.edu. Deadline: March 15, 2026.

For further information and to see the call posted on the MLA website, see: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/index.html.

 

 

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