world literatures and indigenous studies

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.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
University College London
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Call for Chapters

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World

Editors: Dr Mary Katherine Newman and Dr Rana Banna

 

What counted as evidence in the early modern world? 

How did language itself – spoken, written, translated, or performed – shape conceptions of proof? 

And how did sensory experience lend authority, or uncertainty, to what language claimed as true?

 

Border Crossings in Early Modern England (MLA 2027)

updated: 
Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:51am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Walls, barriers, barricades, borders are lines (real and imaginary) reified to divide, define, and contain, but there are also borderlands and border crossings which necessarily blur and defy arbitrary lines and lead to rethinking notions of belonging and belongings.

 

[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

South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pm
Editors, South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 13, 2026

South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography

 

CFP forTRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:12pm
Chandernagore College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited for the 18th and 19th issues of the peer-reviewed journal of bi-annual frequency: TRIVIUM A Multi disciplinary Journal of Humanities of Chandernagore College. The scope of the journal includes humanities and social sciences, commerce and management without mathematical application.
Guidelines for Submission

Facing Extractivisms: Arts and Literatures. 2nd International Conference. Paris, June, 1-3, 2026. INHA Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Académie du Climat, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis.

updated: 
Friday, February 13, 2026 - 10:09am
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, École Polytechnique, Paris 8, University of Barcelona, University of Lleida.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

Venues:

INHA – Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
Académie du Climat
Université Paris 8 | Vincennes – Saint-Denis

 

Proposals should be sent to: extractivisms2@gmail.com before 30/03/2026

 

Organising Committee: LAE Network (Literatures, Arts, Extractivisms):

Christian Alonso, University of Lleida
David Castañer, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Fortunata Calabro, University of Barcelona
Christian Galdón, École Polytechnique, Paris 8
Alessia Gervasone, University of Barcelona
Benoît Turquety, Université Paris 8

 

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 )

Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions

updated: 
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 2:10pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 2, 2026

We are inviting contributions to our panel "Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions," proposed as a special session for the MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA (January 7-10, 2027).  We welcome papers that draw on conceptions of the global, the translocal, and/or the relational offered by the Global Asias and Francosphères frameworks to examine francophone Asian forms (textual, visual, etc.) and exchanges.

Black Motherhood in the African Diaspora: Narrating Care, Resilience, and Futures

updated: 
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 2:10pm
Casandra Aigbogun / University of Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

Call for Papers — MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)

Black Motherhood in the African Diaspora: Narrating Care, Resilience, and Futures

Across African diasporic literary traditions, Black motherhood emerges as a crucial site through which histories of slavery, empire, migration, and racial capitalism are negotiated and reimagined. Literary representations of motherhood register both the intimate labor of care and the broader structural pressures shaping diasporic life, often producing alternative temporalities, ethical frameworks, and speculative futures.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

updated: 
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 2:10pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 7/2026

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature (e-ISSN: 2719-8111)  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.

MLA 27 - Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy

updated: 
Monday, February 9, 2026 - 2:10pm
Megan Moore / MLA Forum: French Medieval Language and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Call for Participants: Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy
MLA 2027 (Los Angeles)
Forum: French Medieval Language and Literature
Roundtable Session

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564) Call for Papers Vol. XI, Issue 2 (June 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 4:25pm
Postcolonial Interventions
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2026. As the journal enters its eleventh year, we are hoping to continue critical exploration of emerging voices and recent literary creations while remaining mindful of the various threats associated with older imperial aggressions, re-appearing across the globe, fissures within nation states, multiple forms of exclusionary violence and widening inequality and precarity. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 3:49pm
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA
Call for Book Chapters

Theme: Marginalized Identities: Dimensions, Perspectives and Problems

The Research and Development Cell of Loreto College is pleased to announce a call for chapter contributions for an upcoming book publication. The theme of the proposed volume is:

‘Marginalized Identities: Dimensions, Perspectives and Problems’

This publication aims to present interdisciplinary insights into the lived realities, challenges, and representations of marginalized identities across various contexts.

MLA 2027: Filipinx Placemaking (special session)

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 3:48pm
Kathleen DeGuzman, San Francisco State University; Jacqueline Barrios, University of Arizona
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Seeking 250-word proposals that engage with Filipino/a/x placemaking in literature, ecology, media, the arts, and the built environment. Particularly interested in proposals that bring together some combination of urban humanities, Global Asias, and archipelagic thinking.

Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

updated: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026 - 3:48pm
Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics, and art whose focus, settings, or subjects involve colonialism and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the former British Empire.

Brutalism in the Global Novel

updated: 
Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 11:57am
Chandigarh University, Uttar Pradesh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Brutalism in the Global Novel  (https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp

 

  • Guest Editors: Om Prakash Dwivedi, Chandigarh University, India

                                 Madhurima Nayak, Chandigarh University, India

HOME

updated: 
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 - 4:16pm
UCI Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 27, 2026

HOME

UCI Comparative Literature Graduate Conference 2026 

 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Rizvana Bradley and Prof. Samiha Khalil

The infiltration of chaos into any home is not an abrupt occurrence. A fine dust settles on the cracks of wood, sheet folds, window seams, and curtain pleats, waiting for a wind to find its way into the home and liberate the components of scatteredness from their ambush.

Ghazaleh Alizadeh, The House of Edrisis

 

For those who dominate and oppress us benefit most when we have nothing to give our own, when they have so taken from us our dignity, our humanness that we have nothing left, no "homeplace" where we can recover ourselves.

Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire”

updated: 
Monday, February 2, 2026 - 3:30pm
MLA 2027, 17C English LLC
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

“Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” 

 

The Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) is putting together a guaranteed MLA panel for the 2027 Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA, USA (7-10 January) on global early modern environmental crises with a focus on human interactions with the earth tied to imperial pursuits, settler colonialism, conflicts in worldviews, and methods of extraction. We hope to feature scholars with expertise in different linguistic traditions to foster cross-cultural discussions

 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

CFP: Women, Literature and Art in Republican China (For a Special Issue in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 57, nos. 1-8 [TBD], 2028)

updated: 
Monday, February 2, 2026 - 3:29pm
Special Issue Editor(s): Lang Wang and Ying Xiong
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Women, Literature and Art in Republican China

A Special Issue in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 57, nos. 1-8 [TBD], 2028

Abstracts Due: April 1, 2026

Manuscripts Due: October 30, 2026

Special Issue Editor(s): Lang Wang and Ying Xiong

Submissions Portal: par e-mail

 

31st Annual Significations Graduate Student Conference In/Activity

updated: 
Monday, February 2, 2026 - 3:23pm
California State University Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Call For Submissions
31st Annual Significations Graduate Student Conference
California State University, Los Angeles
Department of English

Conference Date: April 24, 2026
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2026

IN/ACTIVITY

Starting from a sense of our own activity as literary and cultural scholars, the organizers of Significations invite graduate students to share their work on the theme of In/Activity. We welcome submissions that interpret, examine, and analyze the theme broadly. Possible topics of discussion can include, but are not limited to, the following:

10×10 Photobooks Research Grants on Photobook History

updated: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 12:27pm
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 23, 2026

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

Information and Submission at: 

https://10x10photobooks.org/research-grants-cycle5-call/

The deadline for submissions for the new cycle of 10×10 research grants is midnight ET 23 March 2026.

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