How might Black fatherhood be understood as an improvisational practice? Across histories of racial capitalism, displacement, surveillance, and social constraint, Black paternal life has often unfolded beyond the frames of patriarchal authority and normative domesticity. In these conditions, fatherhood may be enacted through adaptive, creative, and relational practices that exceed dominant frameworks of masculinity and family.

This roundtable seeks proposals on the challenges and opportunities posed by combining literary studies, community-engagement, and the urban humanities in pedagogy, research, community programming, or any other context. 200-word abstract and 100-word bio.

The Journal of Literature in Language Teaching, the refereed research journal of the Literature in Language Teaching (LiLT) Special Interest Group of JALT (The Japan Association of Language Teaching), invites research articles and research reports on using literature in language classrooms. Submissions from international contexts are accepted based on overall interest and applicability to the journal’s readership. Further details can be found at https://liltsig.org/publications/

 Articles should be written for a general audience of language educators; therefore statistical techniques and specialized terms should be clearly explained.