twentieth century and beyond

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2025

November 6-8, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female empowerment (cis- and transgender women) in literary and cinematic horror from 2010 to the present. The issue will showcase horror media (literature, films, television, and gaming) created by women. An intersectional approach should be applied to analyses, stressing categories of race, gender, sexuality, class and/or age in submissions. While we are interested in submissions focused on various forms of horror media, we are eager to receive submissions that foreground literary texts.

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?

The Department of Popular Culture and the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, are proud to announce the Soap Operas in Popular Culture Conference.

We are seeking presentations by graduate students, academics, television industry professionals, longtime viewers and fans interested in the study of Soap Operas as an iconic Popular Culture format.

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

This panel seeks to consider representations of amnesia, memory loss, dementia, and forgetting in late 20th- and 21st-century cultural productions, as well as representations of people, entities, and/or cultural phenomena that disrupt the possibility of remembering and representing the past.

The panel welcomes submissions relating to the conference theme of “Palimpsest: Memory and Oblivion” as well as those related more broadly to issues of memory, remembering, and loss. Such representations may focus on subjective experiences, or deal with issues of cultural memory, continuity, and tradition.

Film Production in the 21st Century
16th International Small Cinemas Conference

October 13-15, 2025
Lodz, Poland 

This panel explores Michael Leong’s recent association between “documental” poetry—poetry that draws on and/or revises official or invented documents—and explorations of memory broadly construed, including forgotten historical events, the plight of unrepresented people(s), and the psychological and/or physiological workings of memory itself. How do such works define memory? To what extent are the workings of memory affirmed in these works? To what extent are processes of remembering obstructed, disrupted, or fragmented?

Modernist Studies in the 21st century has rigorously adapted itself to bridge the gap between the narrowly periodized referent of “modernism” and the much broader range of literary-critical interests that the term encompasses. This trend is heralded by Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s 2008 call for a spatio-temporally and “vertically” expanded “New Modernist Studies,” and it reaches its logical extreme in Susan Stanford Friedman’s Planetary Modernisms (2015), which locates discrete modernisms both throughout and beyond the scope of recorded human history.

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025

Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY) 
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward? 

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors, composed by writers in the US, or address American life are all welcome.  

CFP for Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies 2025

Deadline for Submissions: essays (6,500 words) due 30/06/25, book reviews (2,000 words) due 31/07/25.

JWLS 2025 Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact

The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies seeks articles for its 2025 issue. 

Articles that centre the broad themes of 'Collaboration, Influence, Impact' are particularly welcome. Articles (c.6,500 words inclusive of Bibliography) should be formatted using MLA, with in-text citations.

Special Issue: AppleTV+ and Science Fiction 

Guest Editors: Burcu Kuheylan, Milt Moise, Nicholas Orlando

contact email: projectscifi.appletv@gmail.com

EXTENDED DEADLINE—Abstracts due May 21, 2025 

In this special issue of the journal, editors seek scholarly articles that contextualize and critique AppleTV+ and its production of science fiction television against the tumultuous Zeitgeist of post-2016.   

(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

12-13th December 2025

Call for papers