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

updated: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026 - 9:25am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 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.

Reading Spells: Fantasy identity politics and the place of the fantasy genre in the 21st century

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 6:03pm
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Student Conference on fantasy in cooperation between the Book Lovers Among Students (BLASt) club and the DnD club (Collegium Draconum) of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań!

We invite submissions on themes of diversity, identity politics, race, gender, and queerness in fantasy. The choice of genre can include fantasy, interactive fantasy, DnD, adaptations, offshoots, and appropriations. 

Reading Spells Conference will take place on January 24th 2026, online via MsTeams. 

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, 2026: Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching

updated: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 3:12pm
English Graduate Organization, North Dakota State University (NDSU)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!

Call for Papers

Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching

The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.

Comics Arts Conference San Diego

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 7, 2026

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 23–26, 2026.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together

FINAL CALL: Conference on the Teaching of Writing: Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems

updated: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 10:32am
University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.

Touching Earth: Queer Ecologies, Ecosexualities, and the Ethics of Relation

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Graduate Conference at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026

“WE ARE THE ECOSEXUALS. The Earth is our lover.”  — Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle, The Ecosex Manifesto

 

The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce our biennial conference, to be held on April 17–18, 2026. We are pleased to host keynote speaker Heather Davis (The New School). 

Gender, NOW! (Hybrid Conference: Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 3, 2026 - 11:58pm
Penn State Graduates in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Our present conjuncture demands urgent engagement with the now of gender. Authoritarian resurgence, border militarization, algorithmic
governance, climate precarity, and uneven recoveries from overlapping pandemics shape how gender is lived, and resisted across diverse contexts: from settler colonial democracies to postcolonial nation-states and stateless territories. Anti-trans legislation, family policing, and reproductive surveillance intensify biopolitical control, while migration regimes, humanitarian aid economies, and asylum adjudication render certain genders and kinship forms precariously provisional.

4th International UTAD Theatre Research Conference: Borders & Boundaries

updated: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:39pm
Turkish Society for Theatre Research - Uluslararası Tiyatro Araştırmaları Derneği
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 10, 2026

4th International UTAD Theatre Research Conference

“Borders & Boundaries”

Hosted by:
Turkish Society for Theatre Research (UTAD), Marmara University, Department of English Language and Literature
Conference Dates: 10-12 September 2026
Venue: Marmara University, İstanbul, Türkiye

 

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

updated: 
Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 11:30am
Shahriyar Mansouri / Shahid Beheshti University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 10, 2026

The Aquatic Presence-Absence in World Literatures

Critical Language and Literary Studies (CLLS) invites original, unpublished research articles for a themed issue to be published in Fall 2026. The theme is examining aquatic presences and absences in world literatures.