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The 2025 GMDA Conference on Academic Freedom/Unfreedom in the United States
The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.
W.B. YEATS: DUBLINER30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language
“Time and Disability in Literature”
Guest Edited by Adam Barrows, Professor of English, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canda)
Stephen King and MAGA Dystopia: from The Dead Zone to Holly
This panel welcomes papers about Stephen King antagonists that foreshadow the rise of Trump & MAGA (e.g., Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone), as well as other contemporary American authors and narratives that anticipate or reflect the nation's current dystopic climate and contentious culture wars.
Check out the full cfp via the link below and please spread the word
https://www.nemla.org/convention.html
Happy Summer!
John Wargacki
Eighty years after the end of WWII, questions remain about the adequacy, let alone possibility, of language to convey the "limit-experience." Yoko Ota, writing City of Corpses [shikabane no machi] just days after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, acknowledges that the writer’s challenge is nearly impossible in the face of such an unprecedented weapon. Nevertheless, she still responds to the intense urgency to write.
Black literatures of African and African American authors set in the twentieth century share cross-cultural realities. These continental literatures have explored topics such as segregation, colonialism, post-colonial disillusionment, civil and political underrepresentation, migration, economic recession, capitalism, racism, double consciousness, and others. This panel seeks essays that explore, using a comparative lens, a new perspective of the connections between these two continental Black authors, cultures, and topics.
Submit an abstract between 200-300 words and a 100-word bio through the CFP link. View Session
We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "Respuestas ciudadanas a las crisis en la España del siglo XXI"
Conference Details
57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details.
Modality
In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.
Submissions and Deadline
Zines and STS: The Remix
CFP: Media Futures
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 98 (to be published Fall 2026)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference, November 6 - 8, 2025, Atlanta, GA.
Call for Papers: Forms of Suffering: Literary Tragedy in an Age of Political Violence
This panel seeks to explore the evolving nature of literary tragedy in response to the escalating political violence witnessed across the Globe. We invite submissions that examine how contemporary literature deals with these crises and, in turn, how the tragic genre itself is undergoing transformation.
We are looking for papers that delve into various aspects of this intersection, including but not limited to:
The representation of political violence and its human cost in contemporary tragic narratives.
Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution
The history of gender discrimination and persecution is as ancient as human civilization itself, rooted in societal structures, cultural norms, and institutional practices that have perpetuated inequality. This critical examination seeks to uncover the deeply entrenched dynamics of gender-based oppression, its evolution across epochs, and the persistent struggle for equality.
See for details and submission https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9088
Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France2026 NeMLA ConventionMarch 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B.
In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.
Call for Chapters
Edited Volume on Can I Believe?: Postcolonial Religiosity in the Post-Truth Era
Edited by Fardun Ali Middya & Md Ujan Ahmad
This panel seeks to investigate the intersection of postmodernism and horror cinema in the 21st century, highlighting shifts in themes, the rise of new filmmakers, innovative production techniques, and the ways in which the genre has absorbed and requalified postmodernist conventions. Comparative studies among American, European, and/or non-Western cinema are encouraged.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
27-28 November 2025
International Conference
“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Special issue Call for Papers
Supernatural liminalities in MTV’s Teen Wolf
In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston artistically chooses distinctive forenames and nicknames for her characters, reflecting the uniqueness and diversity of African American culture. Names like Tea Cake, Bootsie, Alphabet, or Sop-de-Bottom are informal name choices that also highlight the difference between the proper white naming conventions and the relaxed naming choices of African Americans in the South.
The call for submissions for the next general issue (2026) of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. The deadline for submissions of full articles for consideration is August 31 2025.
The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international, publishing innovative scholarly research about a broad range of popular culture topics. Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words and referenced using the Harvard style system. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
History is horrifying. For horror creators in the twenty-first century, the terrors of the past have become central to the genre’s regeneration. The increasing diversity of who writes and creates horror has been tightly connected to the genre’s ability to depict otherwise occluded historical terrors. Critics have taken on horror’s relation of past and present as different subgenera, from what Sheri-Marie Harrison calls “the new Black Gothic” to Patricia Stuelke’s “anticapitalist feminist horror.”
CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.
A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture Issue 46.2 (Summer 2026)
Edited by:
Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu
Marc Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu
This panel explores how Latin American comics represent popular spiritualities, racialized bodies, and subaltern knowledge as forms of symbolic regeneration, resistance, and collective healing. Proposals are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Those that particularly highlight subaltern religious, racial, and cultural traditions from the Global South and historically marginalized spiritual experiences will be especially valued. See complete description and submit an abstract here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21924
This seminar explores how structural and symbolic violence operate against marginalized bodies as mechanisms of control and exclusion within the contemporary global order, with particular attention to the Latin American context. From militarized borders and detention centers to the necropolitics of neoliberal disposability, violence is not only physical but also institutional, epistemic, and economic.
Please note: This CFP is for the SAMLA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 6-8, 2025:
This call for papers invites contributors to submit papers for publication in a university press. The anthology will gather analyses focusing on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are seeking works in literature, film, music, art, or any other relevant fields that incorporate elements of the Black past in a broad sense.
NeMLA: March 5 - 8, 2026
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Session Type: Roundtable (this is a hybrid roundtable with in-person and virtual presentations allowed)
Full Call and Submission: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21632
You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.
NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.
Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
57th Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA
at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.
Aldous Huxley, who wrote in the 1930s, is famously remembered for his novels Brave New World and Island as well as for the essays he wrote for William Randolph Hearst. Jerome Meckler’s “Aldous Huxley: Dystopian Essayist of the 1930s.” reviews some of Huxley’s writing.