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Reviews for Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:06pm
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.

Veleni Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Poison in Italian Literature, Culture, and Language

updated: 
Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:05pm
Istanbul University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

This edited volume aims to explore the concept of veleno, that is poison, in its material and symbolic
dimensions, examining how it functions as a cultural construct and/or a discursive category within
Italian literature—considered in dialogue with cultural practices and discursive uses of language—
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
Across Italian cultural history, poison operates on a threshold between pharmakon (in its Derridean
sense) and toxin, between language that heals or contaminates, between scientific knowledge and
moral accountability. Far from being confined to medical or chemical meanings, poison emerges as a

EXTENDED DEADLINE Conference: New European Trends in Ecocriticism and Climate Change Literatures

updated: 
Monday, February 2, 2026 - 9:05am
University of Limerick
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Call for Papers

New European Trends in Ecocriticism and Climate Change Literatures

Conference Dates: 28-29 May 2026
Venue: Centre for European Studies (CEUROS), University of Limerick
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026

Conference Overview

European literary and cultural studies are witnessing a significant shift as climate change reshapes how texts imagine and articulate human–environment relations. This conference focuses on new ecocritical directions emerging within European contexts, including innovative theoretical approaches, evolving narrative forms, and the growing integration of environmental justice into cultural analysis.

Sign-up for a Society for the Study of Unconventional Prose Fiction from the US, 1950-2001.

updated: 
Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:05pm
Society for the Study of Unconventional Prose Fiction from the US, 1950-2001.
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Call for interest (sign-up below) in a Society for the Study of Unconventional Prose Fiction from the US, 1950-2001.

 We're creating a scholarly society for studying unconventional US fiction from the era usually called "postmodern" - sign up here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_n10FmXmaJ1fNmIfzTlozM7udW4RgEMZcpWu4lGWIzs/ - and see below for more details...