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Call for Papers
War & Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
Call for Papers
Horror (Literary & Cinematic)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2026 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 25-27, 2026
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 30, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: April 27, 2026
English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers
“Global Queer and Trans Class Relations”
A special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 65, No. 2 (October 2027)
Edited by Matt Brim and Emmanuel David
Submissions due September 1, 2026
Call for Proposals for
Easy and Early Readers in Children’s Literature and Culture: New Approaches to Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers (tentative title)
deadline for submissions:
August 1, 2026
full name / name of organization:
Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University and Annette Wannamaker, Eastern Michigan University
contact email:
Throughout the history of political thought and cultural production, multitudes and mobs that stir up disturbance across the nation, whether revolutionary or reactionary, have frequently been portrayed by the images and metaphors of monstrosity. From the many-headed hydra which was adapted into a political discourse in the early modern age and later revisited by historians such as Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, to contemptuous terms toward the insurrectionists such as swarms or locusts described in Samuel Dolbee’s Locusts of Power, monstrosity and various of dehumanizing terms have long been employed as a signifier through which fears of insurrections are expressed.
The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026.
Please contact Noah Gallego @noahrgallego for inquiries.
All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA submission portal.
The deadline is May 15, 2026
This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their academic career with an interest in horror to undertake critical investigations into specifically male-centered horror media. By “male-centered,” I am referring to texts that spotlight male identity and the male body, cis-, queer, and trans- included, as sites of fear and monstrosity.
We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026.
Paper proposals are due by June 6, 2026.
This edited volume is an offshoot of a panel that I proposed and chaired earlier this year (https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/08/infrastructural-flesh-the-plural-body-in-the-global-city). Due to the stellar response to that CFP, and from the conversations we had around the theme, it was decided that we will plan an edited volume around the theme.
Volume Rationale
Collecting, Collected, Collective:
Working With Hopkins
June 10 to 12, 2027
Proposals due: 26 October 2026
The everlasting debates surrounding the relationship between literature and film as distinct mediums of artistic expression have long fascinated both philosophy and critical theory. While proponents of cinema argue that cinema is superior to other forms of artistic expression, especially literature, in the sense that it has a unique ability to engage emotions, convey abstract concepts in tangible settings, and challenge, what Gilles Deleuze might call, human “sensory-motor” perception through cinematic techniques, others might disagree by saying that cinema is inferior to literature due to its passive nature and over-reliance on immediate sensory experience rather than intellectual abstraction, which is one of the major characteristics of literature.
Ecologies of Kinship: Forms and Genealogies in Anglophone Literatures
Call for Contributions & Online Symposium
8-9 October 2026
Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul
Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
Samford University
Birmingham, AL
October 22-24, 2026
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2026
Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University)
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce the following awards: Research AwardProvides $500 towards the completion of outstanding scholarly work on Emerson and the influence of his ideas. The award supports archival research, costs associated with publishing an article, book, or other project-related expenses. We welcome applications from junior scholars and independent scholars as well as established scholars. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation, and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project description, including, where relevant, a summary of project expenses.
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Across continents, the university is being rewritten in real time — its purposes questioned, its futures renegotiated. We would be delighted if you might enter this conversation in our forthcoming issue, where your work could help shape the terms of debate and extend it in new directions.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Telangana Journal of Higher Education (TJHE)
ISSN 3108-0693; Website: https://tgche.ac.in/telangana-journal-of-higher-education-tjhe/
Volume 2 Number 1 (January–June 2026)
Call for Papers – 2nd International CLOSURE Conference
Tropes of Comics and Manga
Kiel, November 19–21, 2026