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Keynote Speaker: Prof Soumhya Venkatesan with Lydia Donohue (University of Manchester)
Fantasy has long explored lifeworlds and paradigms outside of societal norms. Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s gender-fluid protagonist, declares, ‘I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.’ World myths, legends, folk tales, and fairy tales are early promoters of gender-fluidity, populated by the likes of Inanna/Ishtar; Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite; androgynous Dionysus; Ardhanarishvara; Ometeotl; Guanyin; cross-dressing thunder and trickster gods; heartsick seafaring maidens disguised as sailors; and the mercurial ontologies of the Fae. In this issue we will explore how gender is portrayed and explored in Fantasy.
The Bachelor’s Degree: Teaching with Reality TV in the Feminist Classroom
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Feminist Pedagogy
Animal Adaptations
We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).
Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory
This edited collection addresses a major gap in current work focused on Appalachia’s glass industry. We have catalogs and reference books. We have histories focused on class, labor, and gender. We have histories focused on the rise and demise of glass factories. But the human work of meaning, identity, and memory--in the context of Appalachian glass--has yet to be gathered and shared in book form.
Climate change is often discussed as an environmental emergency, but its most profound consequences are social, political, economic, and deeply gendered. The climate crisis does not operate in isolation from existing systems of inequality; rather, it intensifies historically entrenched hierarchies of gender, caste, class, race, labour, sexuality, and power. Women and gender minorities, frequently experience climate change not as a distant ecological abstraction but as everyday reality lived through food insecurity, water scarcity, displacement, unpaid labour, agrarian distress, and precarious working conditions.
CFP: History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2026
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026 (at 5 pm EDT)
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 15th – 17th, 2026.
We invite you to submit an abstract and bio by June 17, 2026, to participate in a Modern Language Association (MLA) 2027 seminar, "Queer Literary Studies NOW." Seminar participants will precirculate 1500-word papers on the theme, and we will discuss the papers and the larger theme during the seminar on the first day of the MLA 2027 conference. MLA 2027 will take place in Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. Participants must be MLA members and register for the conference.
Call for Papers
Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT)
Special Issue (Fall 2027)
Contemporary Narratives and Storytelling Cultures
Concept Note
Call for Papers
The Playful Monster
24–25 September 2026
The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 10.
Theorizing Gender, Sex and Sexuality through Speculative Literatures
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions
Editors: Drs. Joshua Horton (Arizona State University) and Sandra Cox (Southeast Missouri State University)
contact emails: jthorto2@asu.edu and scox@semo.edu
Deadlines:
Abstracts (200-300 words) due September 30, 2026 (responses to submitters can be expected about a week after the deadline)
The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.
The 2026 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in late 2027.
This collection explores how literature and popular music intersect, influence each other, and create new possibilities for artistic expression, and seeks to map the rich terrain where these two cultural forms meet. We will work from broad definitions of both literature and popular music, encompassing work from traditional novels and poetry to digital narratives and graphic novels, from classical and folk sound traditions to electric and contemporary electronic music.
Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies
Special Issue: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers
Guest editors
Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Francesca D’Amico Cuthbert, University of Toronto, Canada
Myrtle D. Millares, University of Toronto, Canada
Dennis Howard, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online Thursday, October 15th through Saturday October 17th 2026.
The Triumph of the Therapeutic Revisited: The Politics of Self-Care and Self-Improvement in Contemporary American Culture
Guest editors: Alexandra Bacalu & Dragoș Manea
3rd Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection
How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
This edited collection invites scholars to consider how an episode or series of scripted television (from 2000 to present) has portrayed social media’s power to shape culture—for better and/or for worse.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1640mIIdakTTPDlFTij6sonxPZtCvRJAc/view?u...
Call for Chapters: Strange Tales of Latin(x) America and the Caribbean
EXTENDED CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
The Works of Elaine May
SCREEN STORYTELLERS book series
Bloomsbury Academic
Editor: Jonathan Winchell
New deadline for abstract submissions: June 30, 2026
The proposed edited volume, The Works of Elaine May, has received preliminary interest from the SCREEN STORYTELLERS series editor. Nine chapters have been reviewed and confirmed for inclusion (see below).
I am currently seeking additional chapters on:
Call for book chapters:
Following confirmation of firm interest from Routledge, Anna Batori is seeking contributions for the forthcoming volume ‘Eastern European Genre Cinema: Forms, Histories, and Transnational Circulation’.
Space and place continuously serve as sources of inspiration in video games and various other interactive media, within which they have a specific way of representing and operationalizing fear and dread. Interactive works can turn fear into a set of narrative and game design sequences that are problems and solutions for the experience of playing and reading. For example, how to structure attention, limit knowledge, choreograph movement, regulate pace, and distribute safety and danger.
Call for Papers
Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 14.2
Lands of Fear: Gothic and Horror in Literature, Art, and Culture
I am pleased to announce that registration is open for the 18th annual hybrid conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) on the topic of 'The Victorians and Their Publics'. You can access the VPFA conference registration page here.
Humans have long believed we are distinct from other animals in our rationality, self-consciousness, and use of language. Why, then, do writers, artists, and even scientists so often use anthropomorphism to interpret the behaviors of animals, plants, and even nonliving things such as trains, teapots, and toys? What are the repercussions of this tendency to understand the world in terms of human social and cultural identities?
Call for Papers for the Edited Volume: Visualising Criminality: Crime and Films in the Global South
"Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew": Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney
Disney’s Maleficent (2014), a live-action retelling of their animated classic, Sleeping Beauty (1957), begins with a narrator challenging us to re-see the stories we’ve been told before. The entire movie, in fact, revolves around correcting past perceptions, ones that Disney originally shaped and is now choosing to reshape. Maleficent is just one example of a spate of live-action remakes and other ways Disney has reimagined itself in the twenty-first century. Such reimaginings invite research into how and why Disney feels the need to make us see them anew.
Call for Proposals: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm 2026 PNCA Symposium | October 1–3, 2026 Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University 511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon Free and open to the public
Keynote: Sasha Stiles