world literatures and indigenous studies

CITIES IN LITERATURE / LA VILLE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE / ORAŞUL ÎN LITERATURĂ

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 2:59pm
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Invitation to Publish 

in ACTA IASSYENSIA COMPARATIONIS no. 37 (2026)

Thematic issue:CITIES IN LITERATURE  / LA VILLE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE/ ORAŞUL ÎN LITERATURĂ

The deadline for the submission of articles and book reviews (in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish or Italian) is September 01, 2026.

The final decision of the AIC Editorial Board will be passed on before December 15, 2026.

Corrections (if required) and comments by the authors expected between December 15, 2026 and January 15, 2027.

Workshop and Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents - “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.”

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 2:57pm
Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Center for Iberian Historical Studies, and Saint Louis University, Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Workshop and Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents

Title: “Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.”  
 
Location: Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid, Spain (March 11–12, 2027)

Organizers: Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, The Center for Iberian Historical Studies, and Saint Louis University, Madrid.

Our Ruling Classes: Class, Power, Conflict

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 1:47pm
PMLA Spanish and Portuguese
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) session is open to all papers exploring some aspects of Latin American Spanish and Portuguese literature and cultures. It is a dynamic forum for scholarly exchange, collaboration, and engagement with these interconnected regions' rich cultural heritage and diverse perspectives.

We are particularly interested in papers that touch on:

• Contemporary Literature and Culture

• Cultural Studies

• History and Culture

• Literature, Arts, and other Media

• Visual and Performing Arts

• The conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes"

Crossing Borders: Diaspora, Identity, and Belonging in the Digital Age

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 1:47pm
Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 12, 2026

The 21st century has been defined by large-scale global change driven by migration, exile, border reconfigurations, political upheaval, and shifting power dynamics – all of which have profoundly shaped debates surrounding human rights, identity, culture, and belonging. Furthermore, as digital platforms collapse geographic distance and intensify new forms of surveillance, nationalism, and exclusion, diasporic subjects must navigate complex landscapes of memory, language, race, gender, and political belonging.

CFP Ecofeminist Drama

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 4:06am
Isil Sahin Gulter / Firat University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Call for Papers Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures

Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Işıl Şahin Gülter
Under review with the University of Illinois Press

(PAMLA)Affect and Emotion in World Literature (Panel / In-Person)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - 10:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Abstract

This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.

PAMLA 2026 - The Monstrous Multitude (Panel/Special Session)

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 4:38pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.

Spectacle in a Global Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:10pm
Brendan Lanctot / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

this is for an in-personal panel for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference (in-person only), which is taking place in Seattle, WA November 12-15, 2025. 

 

JMMLA CFP Spring 2027: Computation, Interdisciplinarity, and the Humanities

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:10pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 15, 2027

The advancement of artificial intelligence has transformed humanities research and education, deepening computation’s influence on scholarly practice and everyday life. From the early era of “humanities computing” in the 1970s to the rise of “computational humanities” over the past decade, this trajectory highlights the enduring—and expanding—role of computation in shaping inquiry across the humanities. These intersections are especially visible in interdisciplinary work. As T. S. Eliot observes, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The same spirit can illuminate how methods and tools migrate across fields.

Zombie Hierarchies: Power, Class, and Conflict in the Undead Imagination

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:09pm
Rigoberto Gutiérrez Piñón / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This special session invites papers on zombies and the undead as figures through which literature, film, television, games, and popular culture imagine power, hierarchy, and social conflict. In keeping with PAMLA 2026’s theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” this panel explores how zombie narratives dramatize the fragility of social order, the failures of ruling elites, and the tensions between collective survival and unequal power.

Vol. 33 The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:02pm
The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Call for Papers of the academic journal The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies for its following volume is open until May 31, 2026. Volume 33 will be published in December 2026.

The Grove is a peer-reviewed, indexed periodical. Published annually and distributed both nationally and internationally, The Grove is sponsored by the research group HUM-271 of the Regional Andalusian Government, published by the University of Jaén (Spain).

The primary scope of The Grove is literatures in English, critical theory, English language and linguistics, translation, English as a foreign language and cultural studies.

Ruling classes, Power, and Conflict in Global Science Fiction

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:01pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

“Literary texts are not, of course, merely passive conduits. They actively shape what the technologies mean and what the scientific theories signify in cultural contexts […] culture circulates through science no less than science circulates through culture.” (Hayles How We Became Posthuman 21) We can expand this view beyond science and technology. All aspects of human cultures circulate in artistic productions, most notably in prose fiction, and in return, fiction has the potential to influence cultures and to inspire innovations.

Canonical and Noncanonical Forms in Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy and Culture

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:00pm
University of Siedlce, University of the Balearic Islands
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

University of Siedlce

Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies

 

and

 

University of the Balearic Islands

Faculty of Philosophy and Art

 

would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part in the

 

11th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues

in Language and Literature

 

Rebellious Women

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:58pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

The permanent section "Women in Literature" is seeking papers for the MMLA convention held 12-14 November 2026 in Chicago.

Archives are based upon categories, the fundamental one being what is and what is not worth remembering. In literature, rebellious women are also categorized and tend to become exemplars (and are memorialized) or are erased. This panel seeks to complicate what is worth remembering by examining the silences and gaps in what tends to be categorized as “rebellious.” Of particular interest are women in literature who engage in quotidian acts of rebellion, figures who may be rebellious in some ways but traditional in others, and other examples that problematize what might qualify as a “rebellious woman.”

Chenkaantal - Call for papers - Volume 5, Issue 2, May 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:42pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Aims and Scope

Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.

Call for

PJWS Volume – 6, Issue 1, May 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:41pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Aims and Scope of the Journal

Literary Druid - Regular Issue April 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:40pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

 

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

MMLA Permanent Section: Creative Writing III - Short Story

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:40pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

The short story has proven to be fertile ground for writers seeking to interrogate what the act of recording lives and the search for meaning entails, often through imagined renderings of the machineries of archive. In works such as Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel,” Danilo Kis’s “The Encyclopedia of the Dead,” and Ivan Vladislavic’s “The Loss Library,” for example, writers engage with “the forces that govern preservation and erasure” in line with this year’s MMLA convention theme. 

This panel seeks papers that consider how these and other concerns find expression through the short story form.

MLA 2027: Connectivity Across Landscapes: Writing Together With the Natural World

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:39pm
MLA 2027 Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

In the collective global imaginary, humans seemingly write the world in isolation. We dictate the climate, biodiversity, and natural resources but we also control the ways in which the world is perceived through literature. This roundtable considers how literature is a co-constitutive process written through connectivity across time and space, landscapes, species, environments, and voices by humans and more-than-humans.

Conference CFP: William Faulkner and Louise Erdrich

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 1:19pm
Center for Faulkner Studies / Southeast Missouri State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 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

Transgender Studies Book Series Is Seeking Authors and Editors of New Books

updated: 
Sunday, March 22, 2026 - 1:31pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that provide leading-edge scholarship on transgender and nonbinary topics from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences. Bloomsbury’s Gender & Sexuality Studies list pioneers the publishing of innovative scholarly research from the Global South, and from marginalized gender identities and sexualities across global and transnational contexts.

Decolonising the Mind and the Nation: Re-reading Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in the 21st Century

updated: 
Saturday, March 21, 2026 - 12:41pm
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 27, 2026

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as one of the most formidable literary and intellectual voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Novelist, playwright, theorist, memoirist, and advocate of linguistic decolonisation, Ngũgĩ’s work continues to shape debates on coloniality, nationalism, language politics, global capitalism, and epistemic justice.

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

updated: 
Friday, March 20, 2026 - 2:52pm
Global Plant Humanities Network (GPHN)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Call For Papers

The 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination

 

Conference Dates:     8–10 May 2026 (Fri–Sun)

Mode:                         Hybrid (Physical & Virtual)

Host:                           Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Negations and Interruptions as World-building: Tactics of (e)Coresistance Against Capitalism for Human and More-Than-Human Flourishing

updated: 
Friday, March 20, 2026 - 2:34pm
Humanities Institute, University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Under capitalism, we live separated from life. Capital’s extractive colonizing domination keeps us separated from nature, from each other, and from our own bodies, denying us a symbiotic and regenerative relationship with the natural world and with each other. Yet, certain types of bindings are integral to capitalism: capitalism depends on the combination of labour and nature for the production of value; the “emergence of capitalist accumulation and the reproduction of capitalist production” depends on “acts of violent dispossession”, on “tearing Indigenous societies, peasants, and other small-scale, self-sufficient agricultural producers from the source of their livelihood––the land” (Coulthard 2014).

Biblical and Middle Eastern Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:49pm
PAMLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

We invite submissions for a special session at the 2026 PAMLA meeting (Seattle, WA; November 12-15, 2026) on “Biblical and Middle Eastern Literatures.” All papers will be allotted about 20 minutes. Papers must be presented in person.

CFP -- The Sixteenth Century Society, Chicago, IL, October 29-31, 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:44pm
The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies

Chicago, IL, October 29-31, 2026

 

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