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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 Themed Issue (64.1, Winter 2026):
“Reproduction without Bodies, Bodies without Reproduction”
SCMS Panel CFP: Remix in the Age of Generative AI
CALL FOR PAPERSRoundtable: “Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn” (in person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews, in discussing the recent Indigenous turn in medieval studies, asks medievalists to “slow down” their engagement with Indigenous studies, “to be more deliberate, to be thoughtful, and to consider first the ethics of kinship and reciprocity that we owe Indigenous peoples, places, and communities who have labored to craft Indigenous studies as an academic field” (2).
CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potentials for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others.
CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Red Reading the Premodern” (hybrid)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 This panel takes up Cherokee scholar Scott Andrews’ 2018 challenge to interpret (non-Indigenous) literature from Indigenous perspectives, an approach that he labels a 'Red Reading,’ and extends it to premodern texts. Red Reading allows us to reconsider premodern texts, divorcing them from engrained approaches towards a plurality of perspectives.
Being good makes one a target. History rattles off instances of virtuous individuals cracked by circumstance and at the mercy of a world that seeks its own ends apart from a universal pattern anchored in the Divine. Should one register shock, then, at the violence directed at those whose faces reflect the goodness of God, for the world “hated me first” Christ reminds his disciples. No, we cannot feign surprise. Nor can we fail to act. When Mordecai implored Esther to approach the king on pain of death, he did so with the assurance that God would provide regardless of her choice, and yet, he asked her, “... who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such as time as this?” Yes, God will provide, and perhaps we are that provision.
We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'
Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.
Call for Proposals of Monographs and Edited Collections for the new Book Horror Series “Terror: Estudios Críticos” for publication in 2026
Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)
Director: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
(Spanish version below)
Violence in elections is a critical issue that threatens the very fabric of democracy. To address this challenge, we are compiling a comprehensive book titled "Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections." This book aims to explore various strategies, approaches, and techniques that can promote peaceful and harmonious elections, ultimately leading to stronger democracies.
We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners, and experts in the field to contribute chapters to this important publication. The book will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, electoral stakeholders, academics, and anyone interested in fostering democratic harmony and ensuring violence-free elections.
Sub-Themes
The discussion of the Western as a global genre enables the exploration of the multi-directional and multi-layered transnational contexts in which this genre has functioned in the course of its history. The Western circulates across arts and media, encountering narratives that have emerged in diverse geographies and that may appear under different names. Contemporary Westerns dislodge exceptionalist readings of the genre related to Frederick Jackson Turner’s classical “frontier thesis,” focusing on the changing identity of the U.S. West in contexts that transcend clearly defined borders.
Genre and Video Games - Science Fiction
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “science fiction” category of the collection.
Genre and Video Games - Historical Fiction: Global Histories
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “Historical Fiction” category of the collection.
Genre and Video Games - Fantasy
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “fantasy” category of the collection.
Genre and Video Games - Romance
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “romance” category of the collection.
Genre and Video Games - Gothic and Horror
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “Gothic and Horror Fiction” category of the collection.