Editors: Dana Lee Baker and Matthew Mendez Garcia
Publisher: Edward Elger Publishing
Submission deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2027

We invite proposals for entries in an edited academic handbook on the politics of neurodiversity. This volume will bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on neurodiversity as a political, cultural, institutional, legal, and epistemic phenomenon.

American Literature Association: “Music and the American Literary Imagination” Symposium

January 28-30, 2027 in Nashville, Tennessee

CFP: “Sounding the Subject in the Nineteenth Century” 

In her book Bodyminds Reimagined, Sami Schalk asks us “What might it mean to imagine disability differently?” (2) Her work, situated in the exploration of black speculative fiction, engages with (dis)ability studies and black feminism to gesture toward a reimagining of what Margaret Price termed the ‘bodymind’, a concept predicated on “the enmeshment of the mind and body.” (5) How might this enmeshment be understood in the context of chronic conditions, themselves experienced as a direct result of climate change and biomedical violence? Is the planet - made sick by extractive capitalism and anthropogenic action as Shukla, Settee, Lincoln and others claim - now existing in a state of (dis)ability?

Recent scholarship in autobiography and life writing has expanded beyond traditional literary forms to encompass a wide range of practices through which individuals narrate, perform, and negotiate their identities. As scholars such as Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have argued, life writing constitutes not merely the representation of a life but a dynamic process through which identities are constructed, mediated, and made visible within specific social and cultural contexts. Consequently, autobiography has evolved into an interdisciplinary field of inquiry encompassing visual art, graphic narratives, performance, body art, digital media, and other forms of self-representation.