Keynote speakers:

Hannah Williams, Reader in the History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
Daniel Foliard, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris Cité

Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks academic essays for a special themed section in Juxta 12: AI and haiku (as well as related poetic forms such as haibun, haiga, senryu, and tanka). Topics may be wide-ranging, including tributes to haijin who have influenced the author’s work by engaging/not engaging AI tools to write in someone else’s style.

Guidelines:

• Full articles: 2,500-10,000 words
• Short explications: 1,000 words
• Interviews: Query the senior editor
• Format: Word document; MLA style; cover page including author’s name, address, contact information, and abstract

Deadline: July 15, 2026

For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book.

Conference Title: Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa

Date: June 4 - 5, 2026

Venue: Zanzibar, Tanzania

Aims & Rationale:

Call for Papers American Literature Association (ALA) 2026, Chicago

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer two panels.

One panel, “Teaching with Humor” will explore, through specific examples, how humor, in its many forms—literary, visual, performative—can enhance the learning process and make it vivid and more engaging. The panel will examine the multiple ways that teachers in disciplines such as literature and other humanities can employ the humor found in literary texts, cartoons, films, songs, memes and media for a richer understanding of the subject matter. 

https://ucgradconference20.wixsite.com/utopian-impulses We are excited to share the CfP for this year’s interdisciplinary graduate student conference at the University of Cincinnati titled Utopian Impulses in the 2020s! We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Laflen will be this year's keynote speaker. See bio below:  "Dr. Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom (Utah State UP 2025).