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Call for Papers (Volume 3, Issue 1) - 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:46pm
Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (eISSN: 3048-8575)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies invites scholarly contributions for its annual issue exploring the profound significance of plants to human culture, literature, history, and thought. We seek essays that examine the complex relationships between humans and botanical life from arts, humanities, and social science perspectives.

            Plant blindness remains a significant challenge in cultural representation and environmental awareness. This perceptual tendency causes us to overlook plants in favour of animal life. Yet botanical life constitutes the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. Plants remain central to human survival, economy, and imagination.

Dolls and Dollhouses - Horror Homeroom Special Issue #10

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:46pm
Dawn Keetley / Horror Homeroom
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Steeped in the primal discomfort of the uncanny, dolls and the houses they inhabit are an especially fluid and perennially creepy motif within popular culture. Revealing historical and on-going tensions between what it means to be human and what it means to only perform those attributes, these remnants of childhood carry with them specific cultural messaging that has been particularly fertile ground for the horror genre.

For special issue #10 (spring 2026) of Horror Homeroom, we’re diving into the world of creepy dollhouses and their inhabitants. We’re interested in abstracts about the dolls and dollhouses of horror - or of horror adjacent narratives (thrillers, mysteries, science fiction etc.). 

CFP for the 2026 Remote Intersectional Studies Conference at SC State

updated: 
Thursday, January 8, 2026 - 4:19pm
South Carolina State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 27, 2026

The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for 20-minute individual papers, panels of 3–4 presenters, roundtable discussions, and creative performances or multimedia presentations for the 2026 SC State Intersectional Studies Remote Conference (ISC), which will be held on Friday, March 27, 2026 via Zoom. In addition to proposals from faculty affiliated with higher education institutions, we welcome proposals from independent scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students from all fields and disciplines. 

Matter of the Porous

updated: 
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:45pm
Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

This conference seeks to critically investigate the potentials and pitfalls of the "material

turn" through the medium of sound. We invite submissions that test, challenge, or refine

materialist theories by examining the "acoustic state": from the state of matter in

vibration, the political State's governance of the sonic realm to the affect of the social.

The recent "material turn" challenges us to reconsider the foundations of the

humanities, the production of the voice, [anti/]biography of bodies (human or

non-human; musical or otherwise), embodiment and the social and politicized