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Call for Proposals
Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2026 (virtual)
October 22-25, 2026
THE BOUNDARIES OF FAN STUDIES AND FANDOM
Call for Papers:
Panel Title: Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Location: MLA National Conference, Los Angeles, California
Date: January 7-10, 2027
Panel Hosts: Dr. Jeff Birkenstein and Dr. Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College (Centralia, Washington)
Proposal Deadline: March 22, 2026
The Challenge
Hi all,
See the below CFP for a panel on Pacific early American literature for next year’s MLA. Please circulate to anyone you think might be interested!
Date of conference: 28-29 August, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 July 2026
Online, international, interdisciplinary conference titled:
A Letter to Video Games:The Mechanisms of Emotions
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026
Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.
Conspiracy Theories in the Wake of Disaster
Matthew N. Hannah
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Zachary Loeb
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Purdue University
This cfp is for a proposed seminar at MLA 2027, to be held in Los Angeles from 7 to 10 January 2027. This seminar explores classrooms as sites of care and repair through trauma-informed and inclusive pedagogies and institutional courage, engaging embodiment, memory, and affect as approaches to trauma and learning. Submit a 200-word abstract and bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026
Submit your abstract via email to:
Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University (pozorskia@ccsu.edu ) Aili Pettersson Peeker, University of California, Santa Barbara (aili@writing.ucsb.edu )
Vulnerability has become a key term in contemporary critical theory, ethics, trauma studies, gender studies, disability studies, postcolonial studies, and affect theory. But fiction has long engaged with vulnerability – not necessarily as weakness or exposure, but as a condition of relationality, openness, resistance, and change. From tragic protagonists to marginalized bodies and precarious subjectivities, literary texts have repeatedly returned to fragility, dependency, and risk.
Paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon, the neo-Victorians have a habit of adapting just about everything – and in just about every possible direction. The stories of Victorian poems, novels, plays, operas, paintings, songs, dances, and tableaux vivants are constantly being adapted from one medium to another and then back again not only on film, television, radio, and digital or social media, but also theme parks, historical enactments, and virtual reality experiments. In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different genres or expressions interact.
Guest Editors:
Prof. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Director, Faculty of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Aditya Anshu, Chair, Department of Social Science, Faculty of International Relations, Abu Dhabi University, U.A.E.
Dr. Madhurima Nayak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Chandigarh University Uttar Pradesh, India
National Identities (Taylor and Francis), Scopus Q1
Concept Note
We're excited to announce that the DIY Methods Conference is back for another year! Pitches are due by April 20th, 2026. Please don't hesitate to email us (annepasek@trentu.ca and trentwintermeier@utexas.edu) if you have any questions.
Translating Resistance:
Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity
Funded in part by The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Regional Workshop Fund
Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this two-day workshop, hosted by Binghamton University (SUNY), to be held in New York on October 3–4, 2026.
Call for Paper
The Politics of Ableism: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Literature and Media
Edited by Habib Tekin & Nizara Hazarika
Call for book chapters
Call for Papers
In the Introduction to In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Margaret Atwood makes a clear distinction between science fiction and speculative fiction: the former concerns events that could not happen; the latter draws on developments that could happen or that have already occurred in some historical form. The distinction was publicly contested, including in an exchange with Ursula K. Le Guin, and Atwood insists her terminology was descriptive rather than hierarchical. She places The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) within the speculative category on the grounds that nothing in the novel exceeds documented historical precedent (Atwood 5–6). This conference takes Atwood at her word.