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Extended Deadline — Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 7:00am
WG Pearson
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Bloomsbury - Trans Studies Book Series

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

Transgender Entanglements: The shape and limits of transgender

Edited by Levi C. R. Hord and Wendy Gay Pearson

The incoherence of “transgender” as a category is both a feature and

a bug. As an umbrella category, its boundaries are sometimes

deliberately fuzzy, and sometimes vague enough to cannibalize

everything that approaches them. As the field of Transgender

Studies approaches its adolescence, with several decades of

scholarship now behind us, it is crucial to turn to a mainstay of

feminist thought and employ self-critique about the category of

MLA 2027: Feeding Motherhood: Food, Care, and Power in Hispanic and Lusophone Contexts

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 7:00am
Faith Blackhurst, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 2, 2026

Seeking 250-word proposals examining feeding and nourishment as maternal practices that shape care, embodiment, and power, through literary, cultural, and medical humanities approaches in contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone contexts. Deadline: March 2

Lyric Media

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 7:00am
MLA 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

Seeking papers exploring how media forms (methods of inscription, technologies of reproducing text, sound, and image, digital platforms, archives, social media, AI, and beyond) shape the production, circulation, and reception of lyric.

250-word abstract, brief bio and CV by March 20, 2026: nskillma@iu.edu 

Ecopoetic Forms

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 7:00am
MLA 2027
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

Seeking submissions exploring the formal contours of ecopoetics across time, cultural traditions, and media environments.

250-word abstract, brief bio and CV by March 20, 2026. 

Nikki Skillman, Indiana University-Bloomington

nskillma@iu.edu

4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood (ELLME'26)

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:57am
Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network (ELLME)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2026

Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Pedagogy and Department of English and American Studies of the University of Gdańsk, Poland, in cooperation with ELLMEnet (Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network), are proud to welcome researchers from all over the world to contribute to our 4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood.

MLA 2027 CfP: Academic Freedom without Tenure

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:52am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Roundtable considering pressing academic freedom challenges and potential strategies from and for those without tenure protections, especially staff, contingent faculty, lecturers, professional and clinical track faculty, and grad students. ~200-word abstracts, ~100-word bios.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Patrick Lawrence, University of South Carolina Lancaster (pslawren@mailbox.sc.edu)

MLA 2027 CfP: Positive Solutions for Crumbling Academic Freedoms, Rights and Disappearing Programs and Positions

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:52am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

This roundtable considers positive solutions in the face of disappearing positions and programs, and declining academic freedoms. Successful approaches to reversing this trend desired. We must work together to resist. ~200-word abstracts. ~100-word bios.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

E. Nicole Meyer, Augusta U (nimeyer@augusta.edu)