Manuscripts and Textual Criticism (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

Call for Papers: American Music Special Issue on Vocality in the Americas

Deadline to indicate interest: May 15

Deadline to send preliminary submission information: June 15

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOCALITY IN THE AMERICAS

The editorial team at American Music invites submissions for a special issue exploring vocality in the Americas. Considering vocality as an ontological and epistemological process—a vocal way of knowing the world and of being in the world, constructed intersubjectively by both singers/speakers and listeners—we encourage contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:

Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Kant's Concept of Spontaneity and its Legacy in Later Theories of Subjectivity," edited by Jessica Segesta (University of Palermo, Italy) and Valentina Dafne De Vita (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany).

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**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**

Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic

Issue VI: Unthemed Issue

Deadline for abstracts and pitches: 25th July 2026

‘You cannot adapt to extinction’. —Vanessa Nakate

‘The development of ecocriticism itself can been read as a type of Gothic story. If imagined figuratively as if it were a horror film, the field of ecocriticism is at a point where it is confronting the monster that has been hidden in the basement’. —Tom J. Hillard