Special Sessions: Calls for Papers

Communities of Feeling: Literature, Sociability, and Emotions in the Hispanic World (18th-19th Centuries)
Seeking 200-250-word abstracts on literature, emotions, and sociability in the Hispanic 18th-19th ce ... See more
Ana Fernández-Blázquez, Yale U and Alberto Custodio Romero Vallejo, Universidad de Oviedo
Posted Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Love, Longing and Liberation: Revolutionary Aesthetics in the 21st Century
Send a 250-word abstract on recent/ongoing socio-political revolutions/movements in the Americas, Af ... See more
Arunav Das, U of South Carolina, Columbia and Farhin Faruque, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Rushdie’s Late Style
Seeking presentations that engage Salman Rushdie’s works beyond the “classic corpus” of Midnight’s C ... See more
Hans-Georg Erney, Georgia Southern U
Posted Thursday, December 25, 2025
Sci-Fi in World Cinema and TV: What if...?
Abstracts on a single film or series from a country (not USA) or a cluster of films. All approaches ... See more
Nancy Membrez, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Posted Saturday, December 27, 2025
Black Flesh and Corruption
This panel invites presentations that examine Black flesh as, against, or ante corruption. This pane ... See more
Zay Dale, U of Kansas
Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon at 50
Seeking proposals that offer new approaches to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon in celebration of its ... See more
Jericho Williams, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Posted Sunday, January 4, 2026
Travel Narratives in the French and Francophone World
This session explores French and Francophone travel narratives and fictional ethnography, examining ... See more
Angela Gatto and Sara Ansaloni, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Posted Monday, January 5, 2026
Precarity Reimagined: Working-Class Representation since 2020
Seeking papers on portrayals of working-class life, culture, and identity in recent writing (2020–pr ... See more
Simon Lee, Texas State U
Posted Monday, January 5, 2026
Time in Folklore and Folk Histories
Abstracts (150-200 words) about topics related to the element of time in folklore and folk histories ... See more
Loretta Kim, U of Hong Kong
Posted Monday, January 5, 2026
Picturing Latin America: Propaganda and History in the Age of AI Slop
Seeking 300-word abstracts on illustration and propaganda in Latin America across print media and/or ... See more
Manuela Borzone, Occidental College
Posted Wednesday, January 7, 2026
African Diaspora on French screens: Serializing postcolonial France
Seeking proposals exploring French/Francophone serialized narratives (television/streaming platforms ... See more
Kévin Drif, University of California Berkeley
Posted Thursday, January 8, 2026
Reimagining Francophonie in North America: Language, Literature, Image, Culture
Proposals are sought that examine Francophone North America for its relationality, attentive to ques ... See more
Dr. Claire-Marie Brisson, PhD, Harvard University
Posted Saturday, January 10, 2026
Censorship in Spanish Cinema
This panel examines censorship in Spanish cinema through case studies of censored, altered, or mutil ... See more
Jose Eduardo Villalobos Graillet, Idaho State University
Posted Monday, January 12, 2026
California and Latin America
This session invites 250-word abstract submissions, which explore the transcontinental literary, art ... See more
Jair Jáuregui Torres, U of California, Berkeley
Posted Monday, January 12, 2026
South-Asian Diasporic Poetics of Politics: Transnationalism, Feminism(s), and Resistance
This panel invites scholarship exploring South-Asian diasporic poetics, transnational feminist persp ... See more
Subrata Chandra Mozumder, U of Louisiana, Lafayette
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Performing Gender in American Music
How is gender staged in America? Special interest in the intersection of race and gender, music vide ... See more
Cole Lowman, U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Doing the Thing: Objects Scripting Action in Late Medieval England
This panel invites presentations that examine subject-object relations in late medieval England. Top ... See more
Ryan Randle, Cornell University
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Cultures
Proposals sought on the roles of books, print culture or reading in the consolidation of queer ident ... See more
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State U
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2026
How We Write (About Writing) Now: Black Feminist Literary Studies of the Present
What does Black feminist literary studies mean today? How does/should it respond to the challenges o ... See more
Kendall Dinniene, Southern Methodist University
Posted Sunday, January 18, 2026
Approaches to Teaching the Gateway Course in English
We invite abstracts for ways to reimagine the gateway course to the English major in light of shifti ... See more
Jodi R. Cressman, Dominican University and Sheila C. Bauer-Gatsos, Dominican U
Posted Monday, January 19, 2026
Literary Entanglements: Germany and India
This session invites 250-word abstracts on German & Indian literature as entangled formations shaped ... See more
Sneha Chowdhury, Brown U
Posted Monday, January 19, 2026
Fast Cars, Slow Violence: Automobility Beyond the Individual
We invite papers on automobility and/or transportation infrastructure in any aspect of literary and ... See more
Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy, Northwestern University and Ben Jamieson Stanley, University of Delaware
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Hegel and Literature
Seeking presentations taking Hegel's philosophy as an horizon for interpreting literature in any of ... See more
Adam Kerker, Indiana U, Bloomington
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2026
Feminist Artmaking: Subversive Visual Practices in Iberoamerica
What counts as feminist artmaking? This panel invites scholars and artists to share unconventional a ... See more
Anna Brotman-Krass, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Raquel Parrine, University of Michigan
Posted Friday, January 23, 2026
Posthumanistic Approaches to Asian Diasporic Literary Writings
We welcome proposals that explore technologies, biomedicine, and nonhuman agencies and examine how d ... See more
Yasuko Kase, University of the Ryukyus
Posted Friday, January 23, 2026
Emancipatory Narratives in African Women's Writing
Please send abstracts of 250 words on the theme of emancipatory narratives in African women's writin ... See more
Cheryl Toman, The University of Alabama
Posted Saturday, January 24, 2026
Jorge Luis Borges, religion, philosophy, and esotericism in Eastern and Western contexts
Seekings papers on interpretations of Borges' work that engage with religious, philosophical, and es ... See more
Yijing Zhang, Yale University
Posted Saturday, January 24, 2026
Text and Technologies: Carving out Writing Experiences in AI Age
In responding to AI zeitgeist, I am looking for pedagogical and empirical studies, creative and narr ... See more
Saroj GC, U of Louisville
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2026
Counterstory as Emancipatory Pedagogy in the Age of Gen AI.
I invite 300-word proposals (with a short bio) discussing how counterstory-informed pedagogy creates ... See more
Purna Chandra Bhusal, The University of Texas at El Paso
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2026
Emancipatory Narratives through Place-Based Pedagogy
How does centering humanities classrooms "in place" allow students to create emancipatory, future-or ... See more
Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline C
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Reel Men, Real Trouble: Masculinity in 21st Century Global Cinema
This panel examines configurations of masculinity that have emerged in conjunction with contemporary ... See more
Megha Anwer, Purdue University and Anupama Arora, U of Massachusetts
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Foreshadowing
Does “foreshadowing” name a distinct narrative device? What role does foreshadowing play in differen ... See more
Daniel Hack, University of Michigan
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2026
New Trends in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
This special session invites 200-word proposals on innovative pedagogies in Spanish language, litera ... See more
Jose Eduardo Villalobos Graillet, Idaho State University
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2026
Gendered Mediations in Catalan Publishing and Translation
We invite papers examining how publishing histories, translation practices, and gendered mediations ... See more
Enrique Muñoz-Mantas, University of North Dakota and Laura Vilardell Domenech, Northern Illinois University
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2026
Within Emancipatory Frames: Trends in African Diasporic Migration Literature
This panel examines emerging patterns in African diasporic migration literature that reframe mobilit ... See more
Ibrahim Williams, U of Mississippi, Oxford
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2026
Filipinx Placemaking
Seeking 250-word proposals that engage with Filipino/a/x placemaking in literature, ecology, media, ... See more
Jacqueline Barrios, U of Arizona, Tucson and Kathleen DeGuzman, San Francisco State University
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2026
Latin American Historical Fiction and the Crafting of National Identities
Inviting abstracts (150-200 words) for presentations that explore how Latin American historical fict ... See more
Patricia Andrade, Brigham Young U
Posted Friday, January 30, 2026
From Authority to Algorithm: Authors and Books in the Digital Literary Sphere
Seekings papers that use digital humanities approaches to explore how authors and books circulate in ... See more
Daniel Carrillo Jara, U of North Texas
Posted Saturday, January 31, 2026
Arabic Literature and the Archive: Theory, Method, Practice
This session invites 250-word abstract submissions examining the archive as theory and method in Ara ... See more
Xena Amro, Northwestern University
Posted Sunday, February 1, 2026
Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions
We invite 300-word abstracts that draw on conceptions of the global, the translocal, and/or the rela ... See more
Isabelle Chen, Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. Alan Yeh, PhD, University of California Berkeley
Posted Monday, February 2, 2026
Edited Collections: Tips and Tricks to Successful Publishing
We invite editors of and contributors to edited collections to send us two tips (150 words + brief v ... See more
Brian Croxall, Brigham Young U, UT and Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University
Posted Monday, February 2, 2026
Animal/Nonhuman Ecologies: Reframing Animal Studies for Children's Literature
How does children’s/young adult literature position animals as co-agents of our more-than-human envi ... See more
Sungmey Lee, Korea National Open University(KNOU)
Posted Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Wilde West Coast
The Oscar Wilde Society UK invites 250-word abstracts for 10-minute papers that address connections ... See more
Aaron Eames, independent scholar
Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Chairing a Multidisciplinary Humanities Department
As universities consolidate, multidisciplinary humanities departments will likely increase in quanti ... See more
Douglas G. Dowland, Ohio Northern U and Paul Devlin, US Merchant Marine Acad.
Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Inspired by Thom Andersen’s 2003 documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself, this special session seeks pa ... See more
Sheila Liming, Champlain C and Matthew Lambert, University of Alabama
Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Serendipity in the Archives
Abstracts (250 words) are invited on surprising finds or accidental encounters in textual and materi ... See more
Nicole Lobdell, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2026
World Literature and Cultural Globalization: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics
Email an abstract and CV/bio, imagining Literature and Film as part of emancipatory narratives acros ... See more
Arunav Das, U of South Carolina, Columbia
Posted Sunday, February 8, 2026
James Baldwin's Late Style - UPDATED
James Baldwin Review invites proposals for 15-minute papers in a panel on James Baldwin’s late works ... See more
Kyle Proehl, Washington U in St. Louis
Posted Thursday, February 5, 2026
Feeding Motherhood: Food, Care, and Power in Hispanic and Lusophone Contexts
Seeking 250-word proposals examining feeding and nourishment as maternal practices that shape care, ... See more
Faith Blackhurst, Brigham Young U, UT
Posted Thursday, February 5, 2026
The Civic Humanities: New Approaches to Democratic Futures
Where are the humanities in higher ed initiatives to promote civil discourse and dialogue? Seeking r ... See more
Jen McDaneld, University of Portland and Molly H. Hiro, U of Portland
Posted Friday, February 6, 2026
Gendered Memories, Traumatic Histories, and Emancipatory Narratives in Global Asia
We invite papers that examine literary, visual, and media representations of gendered memory and his ... See more
Anqi Liu, DePauw U and Linshan Jiang, Missouri State U
Posted Friday, February 6, 2026
Love and/as Work in the C19 Novel
We invite 250-word abstracts in English that consider the status of love (as feeling, trope, mytholo ... See more
Lauren Bunce and Arush Pande, Princeton U
Posted Saturday, February 7, 2026
Revisiting Bourdieu in Chinese Literature, Arts, and Cultural Production
Revisit Bourdieu’s theory of the cultural field and examine its applicability and limitations in the ... See more
Renren Yang, The University of British Columbia
Posted Sunday, February 8, 2026
Literary and Cinematic Representations of Carceral Los Angeles
Seeking proposals for presentations on representation of police, prisons, and the carceral state wit ... See more
Jacob DeBrock, U of Mississippi, Oxford
Posted Sunday, February 8, 2026
The Beats in LA
The city of Los Angeles was an important destination for many Beat writers. We invite papers explor ... See more
Erik Mortenson, Lake Michigan C, MI
Posted Sunday, February 8, 2026
Black Motherhood in the African Diaspora: Narrating Care, Resilience, and Futures
This session explores literary representations of Black motherhood in the African diaspora, examinin ... See more
Casandra Aigbogun, University of Georgia
Posted Monday, February 9, 2026
The Ludic Subject: Playfulness, Gender, and the Poetics of Emotion
This online panel seeks proposals that examine how humor, irony, and formal games use linguistic mis ... See more
Haihong Yang, University of Delaware
Posted Monday, February 9, 2026
Psychoanalysis & Globalization/Mondialisation
Seeking 250-word abstracts on work concerning psychoanalysis under “mondialisation” (Apollon) or “gl ... See more
Carolin Huang and Jacob Reimer, University of California, Irvine
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Reading Slavery's Afterlife: On the 21st Century's Neo-Slave Narratives
Seeking up to 250 word abstracts on the politics of slavery's literary and aesthetic representation ... See more
Patrick Teed, U of Toronto
Posted Monday, February 9, 2026
The Arctic Imaginary: Extraction and Empire
Seeking papers on the literature of the Arctic. Especially welcome are proposals on texts and author ... See more
Patrick Vincent, U of California, Riverside
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Empowering Voices at the Crossroads: Ethical Use of AI as a tool for Emancipatory Pedagogy
Submit a 250-word proposal examining how ethical AI can be leveraged as a tool for emancipatory peda ... See more
Ananta Khanal, University of Louisville
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Child Narratives of Violence
Seeking papers on accounts of violence (particularly genocide/war/institutional/state violence) by c ... See more
Mary Gryctko, Baruch C, City U of New York
Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Heidegger and Literature: Reflections on the Centenary of “Being and Time”
This session will address the relationship between Martin Heidegger and European literature from its ... See more
Richard Schumaker, School of Professional Studies, City U of New York
Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Compulsion and Repulsion in Latin American Cultural Production
Seeking 200-word abstracts (+100-word bios) on artworks that engage abjection, disgust, and horror a ... See more
Fernando Valcheff-García, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2026
Contemporary Queer Asian/Asian American Travelers
Explore the queer Asian/Asian American traveler figure in transnational/transpacific travel writings ... See more
Kam Tou Pang, U of Macau
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2026
Embodied Nationalism in 19th and 20th Century Hispanic Studies
Seeking abstracts (~200 words) for presentations that explore how nationalism(s) is embodied in 19th ... See more
Alexis Smith, University of Washington (Seattle) and Adriana Rojas, UCLA
Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Adaptation, Translation and the Migrations of Postcolonial Texts
This session invites 250-word abstracts and a short bio for 15–20 minute papers on translation and a ... See more
Sennur Bakirtas, Ataturk Universitesi
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2026
New Itineraries of Lydia Cabrera’s El monte : Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean
Abstracts exploring El monte’s transnational influence, its contribution to Afrodiasporic spirituali ... See more
Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, Penn State University
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2026
Michael Drayton's Poetry Revisited
Please submit a 250-300 word abstract on Michael Drayton's poetry and a brief biographical sketch. ... See more
William Rampone, South Carolina State University and John Burton, Independent Scholar
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2026
Trauma and Narrative
Seeking papers examining the intersections of trauma and narrative. How does traumatic experience st ... See more
Ally Barber, Southern Methodist U
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026
Literacy Pedagogy and Literary Study
This panel invites historically grounded and theoretically engaged papers that place literacy instru ... See more
Emily Gowen, Harvard University
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026
Introducing Critical Rest Studies
We invite submissions analyzing rest in literature and culture. Panelists might examine how rest, sl ... See more
Vivian Delchamps Wolf, Dominican University of California and Philip Bonanno, Penn State U, University Park
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026
Radical Internationalism and the Aesthetics of Anti-Imperialism in Postcolonial Asia
Aesthetic and political anti-imperialisms across Asia in the 1970s. Submissions on militancy, radica ... See more
John Maerhofer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026
Infrastructure and Culture in Los Angeles
This panel invites papers on literary and cultural approaches to Los Angeles infrastructure, aimed a ... See more
Lauren White, University of Southern California
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2026
World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons
Papers that explore frictions and new horizons emerging from the study of world literature and the G ... See more
Juan Meneses, U of North Carolina, Charlotte
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Anarchism and Science-Fiction
Papers may address the relation between genre SF and anarchist thought such as anti-authoritarian, ( ... See more
Maximilian Gindorf, C of Charleston and Dan Luo, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona
Posted Sunday, February 15, 2026
Imagining the Future in Franco-Italian Aesthetics and Thought (1870–1945)
This panel explores the representations of the future in Italian and French humanities between 1870 ... See more
Daniele Meregalli, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Posted Sunday, February 15, 2026
Classroom Talk and Mutual Trust in Language and Literature Classrooms
Continuing "Let's Talk" session from 2026 meeting. Describe new pathways in classroom conversation i ... See more
David Bleich, U of Rochester
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Anonymity in Literature and Other Artistic Media
How do authors and artists make use of anonymity? Inviting 250–word abstracts on anonymity alongside ... See more
Pamela Weidman and Cole Carvour, University of California Berkeley
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Women Writers
This session invites papers on Anglophone Ottoman and Turkish women writers from the Ottoman period ... See more
Emel Zorluoglu Akbey, Erzurum Technical U
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Podcasting Humanities
What is the role of podcasting in the humanities today? How does making, teaching, and listening to ... See more
Kim Adams, Wheaton College
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Registers of the Domestic in Modern Mexican Culture
How has Mexican culture explored domestic spaces and domesticity in literature, architecture, film, ... See more
Alfonso Fierro, Northwestern University
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Race and Photography in Latin America
This session invites paper abstracts examining race and photographic practices in Latin America, fro ... See more
Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna C
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Age of Aquarius: On Books, Culture, Film of the 1960-70s
This session invites 200-word abstracts from multiple disciplines, united by a focus on the postwar ... See more
Anna Foran, University of Toronto
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
The Death Drive Beyond Freud
Seeking proposals expanding on Freud’s death drive, contributions that challenge or offer a differen ... See more
Daniel Runnels, Texas A&M U, College Station and Jose Luis Suarez Morales, Texas Christian University
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Rendering Madness
This panel seeks papers exploring aesthetic strategies for representing madness and mental and psych ... See more
Danielle Nelson, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Cultural Transformation and Media Reconfiguration in Late Twentieth-Century East Asia
This panel examines transformations of genre, media, and cultural form in late twentieth-century Eas ... See more
Ruoyi Bian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026
“Pointing at the Moon”: Returning to the Scene of Recognition in Sedgwick
This panel revisits Eve Sedgwick’s essay “Pedagogy of Buddhism” in order to constellate Sedgwick’s t ... See more
Miranda Hoegberg and Brenda Wang, U of California, Los Angeles
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026
"Archive as/in Action"
We invite proposals for a roundtable exploring the archive in theory and practice, considering how i ... See more
María Sánchez-Reyes, California State University Long Beach and Anya Wilkening, Florida State U
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Visions and Narratives of Politics from South Asia [Past & Present]
This panel is invested in thinking about the 'political' in South Asia through, and across, 'texts' ... See more
Nisarg Patel, University of Southern California
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2026
Rethinking Green Spain
This roundtable invites proposals (250-word abstract and short bio) interrogating the discursive and ... See more
Eva Alvarez Vazquez, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Luke Bowe, Kenyon C
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2026
Infrastructuring Vulnerability across Borders
Seeking papers examining how infrastructure functions transnationally to produce vulnerability and c ... See more
Nelson Meng, University of Kentucky and Yen Jen Chen, The University of Texas at Austin
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2026
Speculative Fiction and Capitalist Speculation
Speculative fiction offers a site from which to criticize the present and imagine alternative future ... See more
Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara and Liam Lanigan, Governors State University
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2026
The Jewish Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies
Previously neglected Jewish-related perspectives in literary studies are recently coming into view, ... See more
Mark H. Gelber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Posted Friday, February 20, 2026
Literary Studies and the Urban Humanities: Community-Engaged Approaches
This roundtable seeks proposals on the challenges and opportunities posed by combining literary stud ... See more
Ames Cassell Loji, U of California, Los Angeles
Posted Friday, February 20, 2026
Testimony as Emancipation: Solidarity and Agency in Global Resistance Narratives
We invite papers exploring emancipatory narratives that address grassroots resistance, digital activ ... See more
Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm C and Ruma Sinha, Mercer County Community College
Posted Friday, February 20, 2026
The 1927 Knopf Edition of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man at 100
2027 marks the the centennial of the 1927 (non-anonymous) edition of James Weldon Johnson's 1912 nov ... See more
Paul Devlin, US Merchant Marine Acad.
Posted Friday, February 20, 2026
Materialist Feminisms: Nature, Technology, and Reproduction in Global South Literature
This panel invites 250-word abstracts on the literary and cultural production in the Global South th ... See more
Garima Panwar, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Maria Laura Martinelli, University of Utah
Posted Friday, February 20, 2026
Rethinking the Gothic in Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
Seeking 200–250-word abstracts on contemporary reinterpretations of Gothic fiction across literary f ... See more
Selçuk Yazıcı, Ataturk U
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2026
Emancipatory Narratives of AI in Literature
This session examines emancipatory narratives in literature that challenge Big Tech’s framework of A ... See more
Ji Nang Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2026
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves: social geographies of birds as emancipation narratives
Acclaimed poet/writer J. Drew Lanhan intersects birding with Black emancipation narratives. Seeking ... See more
Craig Saper, University of Maryland Baltimore County and Cari Godin, UMBC
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2026
Capitalism of Late Humans: Confronting Extinction
This panel explores capitalism's role in accelerating human extinction. How do late-stage economic s ... See more
Amit Ray, Rochester Institute of Technology
Posted Saturday, February 21, 2026
Binge-Watching Beyond Hollywood: Streaming Television in Languages other than English
This panel seeks proposals that discuss the cultural, linguistic, and/or theoretical implications of ... See more
Nick Phillips, Grinnell C
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2026
Rethinking the "Globe" of Global Modernisms
We invite 250-word abstracts examining the "globe" as a category distinct fromcontemporaneous notion ... See more
Shiben Banerji, University of California, Berkeley and Apala Das, Bilkent U
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2026
Emancipating Spirit
How should we teach soteriological narratives against the backdrop of secular materialism? For this ... See more
Tom Kozlowski and Katherine Ding, U of California, Berkeley
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2026
Draft Aesthetics
We welcome papers from all disciplines that explore the aesthetics emerging from or found in: unfini ... See more
Erag Ramizi and Finn Anderson, Columbia U
Posted Monday, February 23, 2026
Writing Oneself Into Existence: Refugee Narratives and the Poetics of Recognition
Seeking 250-word abstracts on refugee narratives that generate “refugeetude” (Vinh Nguyen) and under ... See more
Megan Butler, University of Washington
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2026
Public Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom
Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classro ... See more
Roya Biggie, Knox C and Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland
Posted Monday, February 23, 2026
The libertines: emancipatory narratives?
This panel seeks to explore libertine writings from the early modern period to the contemporary era, ... See more
Manali Allen, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Monday, February 23, 2026
Institutional Histories of Literary Studies Since 1970
Journals. Publishers. Departments. Conferences. Grants. Theory. Labor. Teaching. Criticism.Research. ... See more
David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon U
Posted Monday, February 23, 2026
The Expanded Text: Music, Performance, and Visuality in Intermedial Literary Practices. Modern and Contemporary Literary Cultures
This session invites papers on intermedial literary practices across music, performance, visual arts ... See more
Elzbieta Grodek, McMaster University and Maria Lujan Figueredo, York University
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Muriel Spark Today
Papers on any aspect of Spark's writing: "Coldness" of her style, Catholicism, Scotland, film adapta ... See more
Richard Allen Kaye, Hunter C, City U of New York
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Generation '08
The effects on PhDs newly minted during the Great Recession: responses and lessons learned, personal ... See more
Sharon O'Dair, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Language Ideologies and the Philosophy of Multilingualism
We invite abstracts exploring how language ideologies understand multilingual abilities/disabilities ... See more
Emeer Hassanpour, University of California Los Angeles
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
War in Ukraine Through Media Studies
The panel will present several innovative approaches to the literature and new media created by Ukra ... See more
Yuliya Ilchuk, Stanford University and Alyssa Virker, Stanford U
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Forced Displacement and Expressions of Emancipation
This panel invites 250-word abstracts on creative and aesthetic expressions of emancipation emerging ... See more
Mohammad Akbar Hosain, Illinois State University
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
The Promises of Monsters: Those Haunting Feminist Speculative Fiction
This panel examines monstrous and ghostly figures in feminist and queer speculative fiction, reveali ... See more
Ezgi Hamzacebi, Ozyegin U
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Decolonising Dualisms: Emancipatory Environmental Narratives Beyond the West
Our panel examines environmental narratives beyond Eurocentric framework, exploring how literature, ... See more
Subarna De, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Trans Emancipatory Narratives: Transition, Identification, Emancipation
This panel seeks papers exploring emancipation in trans narratives broadly defined (memoirs, fiction ... See more
Jordan Tudisco, University of California Berkeley
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Novels of consciousness from modernism to contemporary neurofiction
Consciousness is only accessible from “within,” while the “hard” problem of consciousness and the “e ... See more
Monika Kaup, U of Washington, Seattle
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Emancipatory Languages and Poetics of Liberation: First Books in Ethnic Literatures of the Americas
We are looking for 2 additional presenters. If you published your first book between 2023 and 2026, ... See more
Natalia Villanueva Nieves, Sonoma State U
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Black Queer Representations. Desire, Afro-Fabulation, and Dreaming of Freedom.
In light of Tavia Nyong’o’s Afro-fabulation, we invite papers exploring strategies, performances, an ... See more
Lizette London, Emory U and Nigel Lezama, Toronto Metropolitan U
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Re-thinking Composition Courses: Strategies for getting composition students to leave the classroom ... See more
Jeff Birkenstein and Sharon Mitchler, Centralia C
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Multimodality as Emancipatory Narrative in the Writing Classroom: Theory, Methods, Practices
I invite 300‑word abstracts (with a brief bio) on conceptual, methodological, pedagogical, empirical ... See more
Sanjeev Niraula, The University of Texas at El Paso
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Photography and Writing: Transmedial Practices
Seeking presentations on works combining text and the photographic image, and on approaches that tre ... See more
Inger Flem Soto, University of Southern California
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Black Girl Freedom Songs
This sessions welcomes 300-word abstracts that actively engage the ways that Black-girl centered lit ... See more
Bria Harper, Wofford C
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Kayo Across Borders: Cultures and Histories of “Popular Song” in Korea
This session explores the cultural impact and historical significance of popular songs in Korea. Pro ... See more
Ethan Waddell, U of Colorado, Boulder
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Latinx Literary Temporalities
We seek 250-word abstracts engaging how Latinx literatures create alternative temporalities that shi ... See more
Rebecca Foote, U of California, Los Angeles and Mercedes Trigos, U of California, Irvine
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Literary, Virtual, and AI Characterization
Papers invited on characterization, literary protagonists, and online depictions—including robots, A ... See more
Jiahua Wang, Georgetown U
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Black Narratives of Slavery and Freedom Across Time
Seeking submissions on Black narratives of slavery and freedom across time, contemporary or historic ... See more
Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Healing Beyond Testimony: Reimagining Black Futures after Trauma
Scholarship in Black literary and cultural studies has documented, theorized, and narrated trauma. W ... See more
Paul Mukundi, Morgan State U
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Critical of the New Edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature
CFP requests abstracts of specific examples of changes from the 10th to 11th ed. of the Norton Antho ... See more
Bettina Tate Pedersen, Point Loma Nazarene University and Schuyler Eastin, Point Loma Nazarene University, Department of Literature
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Linguistic and Geographical Liminalities: Chicano and Latin American Gothic
We invite proposals examining how Gothic manifestations in the Chicanx and Latin American contexts v ... See more
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Unspeakable States: Silence, Madness, and Racialized Legibility
We seek papers that interrogate representations of madness and/or silence within multiethnic America ... See more
Rachel Norman, Linfield University
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
Connectivity Across Landscapes: Writing Together With the Natural World
This roundtable invites proposals exploring connectivity and co-writing among humans and more-than-h ... See more
Kate Ostrom, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Jace Jung, University of Michigan
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Mapping American Encounters in the Ottoman World
This panel welcomes papers exploring American encounters in the Ottoman contexts through literary, c ... See more
Esen Kara, Yasar University and Aysegul Avci, Yasar U
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Lyric Media
Seeking papers that explore how media forms (methods of inscription, technologies of reproducing sou ... See more
Nikki Skillman, Indiana U, Bloomington
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Ecopoetic Forms
Seeking submissions exploring the formal contours of ecopoetics across time, cultural traditions, an ... See more
Nikki Skillman, Indiana University
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Teaching the American Literature Survey in Legislatively Troubled Times
Seeking participants for a roundtable on teaching the American literary survey under new legislative ... See more
Gretchen Murphy, The University of Texas at Austin
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Counter-theories
Counter-theories/theories of the counter: counter-mapping, counter-cartographies, counterrevolution, ... See more
Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech U
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Devotion and Deliverance: Piety & Emancipatory Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
Seeking submissions that explore 19thC. American women’s religious writing as a vehicle for social r ... See more
Rachel Kelley, Texas Tech U
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Cartographies of Decolonial Encounter: Narrative, Physical, and Human Geographies
This panel explores cartographies as global reorientations that emerge from various narrative and ae ... See more
Manasvini Rajan and Jade Yeen Onn, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Xenoemancipation: Aliens, Humans, Freedom, Narrative
Seeking 200-250 word abstracts on representations of (extraterrestrial, sociopolitical, embodied) al ... See more
Joanna Davis-McElligatt, U of North Texas
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Emancipatory Narratives and AI: Pedagogy, Bias, and Agency across Disciplines
This session invites 250 to 300 word abstracts for 15-20 minute papers on emancipatory practices add ... See more
Eman Al-Drous, University of Tampa
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Disability and Incarceration
Panel on disability and incarceration in literature and/or culture, drawing from feminist, queer and ... See more
Jesse Waggoner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Emanicpatory Narratives of Toni Morrison and the Arab World
We invite abstracts for an online roundtable on the reception of Toni Morrison in/and the Arab world ... See more
Doaa Omran, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Feroza Jussawalla, The University of New Mexico
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Launching Community-Engaged Writing Courses and Programs
Please send a 250-word abstract focusing on getting started with community-engaged writing projects. ... See more
Kelly Krumrie, New Mexico State University
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Childhood on the page: Print Culture and Education in Latin America
Seeking 200-words abstracts examining how 19th and 20th century Latin American nations actively cons ... See more
Jannet Torres Espinoza, University of California Davis
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
POLÍTICAS DEL DESVÍO: REROUTING POWER(S) IN 20TH CENTURY SPAIN
Seeking 250-word abstracts (and short bios) on how rerouting operated in twentieth-century Spain as ... See more
Francisco Cantero-Soriano, Rutgers University New Brunswick and Sandra Baena-Velázquez, New York University
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Teaching Literature through Role Play
Please send 250 word abstracts on pedogogies for teaching literature using role-play. I am particul ... See more
Linda Mayhew, The University of Texas at Austin
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Women and Emancipatory Narratives Across Media
This in-person panel invites 250-word abstracts that examine women’s narratives, representations, an ... See more
Atousa Kaviani, Binghamton U, State U of New York
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Remembering Differently: Performance, Memory, and Sri Lanka’s Civil War
How do playwrights imagine and stage ways of being, hoping, and memorializing against censorship and ... See more
Sandamini Ranwalage, Skidmore C and Shannon Constantine, Brown U
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Queer, Utopian, and Ludic Temporalities in Eastern European Cultural Memory
We seek papers on temporalities in Post-Soviet culture that are alternative to the “Golden Age Reviv ... See more
Daniil Leiderman, U of Pittsburgh and Mariia Malinovskaia, Stanford U
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Critical AI and South Asian Diaspora
Inviting 250-300 words abstracts focusing on intersections between Critical AI and literary/cultural ... See more
Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Binghamton University
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Women’s Self-Presentations and Body Images: Literary, Media, and Medical Stereotypes
Papers invited on women’s self-presentations and body images, in either literary or online genres—in ... See more
Morgan Gress, Georgetown University
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
Indigenous Literature and Environmental Future
Seeking 200-250 words abstracts about Indigenous Literature (South Asian and North American) that de ... See more
Zunaira Yousaf, Binghamton University
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Critical Girlhoods in Contemporary American and Canadian Literature and Culture
In the light of girl-centric third-wave feminism and critical regionalism, contemporary American and ... See more
Mercedes Albert-Llacer, U Jaume I
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Mathematics and Style in the British Empire
The British empire ran on mathematics. Across navigation, accounting, and cryptography, calculation ... See more
Alexander Sherman, University of Texas at Austin and Jessica Sherrill, U of Texas, Austin
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Korean Literary Studies and Archival Critique as Method.
Papers on periodical circulation in Korean literary history, approaching periodicals as archives and ... See more
JinAeng Choi, Georgetown U and Chris Hanscom, U of California, Los Angeles
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Unfinished Histories: Literary and Cultural Acts of Hope
This session exploring radical hope as an emancipatory and dynamic framework for examining how liter ... See more
Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Kadir Has University
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
On the Move: Mobility and Narrative Agency
This panel explores representations of bodies, space, and movement across disciplinary and methodolo ... See more
Zhexi Yang, Nankai University and Cheng-Fen Chen, National Chengchi University
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
When the Personal is Geopolitical: Revisiting Cold War Literary Production
How did the global ideological conflict between superpowers during the Cold War shape literary produ ... See more
Arthur Redding, York University
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Revoicing Non-Humans through Ecological Translation
We are seeking to explore the notion of non-human voice in translation, examining how the discourse ... See more
Hongyang Ji, University of Alberta
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Reading into Writing under Algorithmic Conditions
This session invites abstracts on incorporating reading into writing classrooms in the age of artifi ... See more
Eman Al-Drous, University of Tampa
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Forms of Togetherness
This panel examines artist-led initiatives that created physical or virtual spaces for dwelling, gen ... See more
Jeronimo Duarte-Riascos, Columbia University
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Simmering Beneath Emancipation: Everyday Affect and Neoliberal Crisis
we welcome papers examing everyday affective registers - hums, lingering intensity - through which s ... See more
Qi Yang, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Artificial Intelligence for Careers and Public Scholarship
Explores AI as an emancipatory tool for career development and public scholarship. Panelists share p ... See more
Araceli Hernández-Laroche, University of South Carolina Upstate
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Christianity in the Contemporary Visual Arts
Interrogative studies of recent visual media (film, television, painting, video game) involving Chri ... See more
Nathaniel McBride, Miami U, Oxford
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Queering Zones of Unrest in Postcolonial South Asia
This session invites 250-word abstracts and a short bio for papers on covert (or overt) queer existe ... See more
Swati Baruah, Georgia State University
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
States of Exception
We welcome literary, cultural, and theoretical engagements with states of exception. How can we prob ... See more
Alexandra S. Moore, Binghamton University and Peter Hitchcock, Baruch C, City U of New York
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Material Memory
How is memory embodied in human and more-than-human matter? We invite submissions that consider the ... See more
Hannah Cole, U of California, Santa Cruz and Pierre-Elliot Caswell, U of Notre Dame
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Literary Petrichor: Conjuring Water Through Memory
We invite abstracts (250 words) from blue/liquid humanities perspectives on water (loss, promises, a ... See more
Paola Yuli, Howard University and Kate Ostrom, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Quechua Literature and Culture: Inter-Relationships with Dominant Colonial, Modern, and Contemporary Cultures
Send 250-word abstracts on Quechua Writing and Art, from the pre-Columbian period to the present, re ... See more
Carlos Riobo, CUNY Graduate Center
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
The Global Reach of Toni Morrison
Calling for 250 word abstracts on Toni Morrison's influence on authors from South Asia, the Middle ... See more
Feroza Jussawalla and Doaa Omran, The University of New Mexico
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Emancipating Antarctica: The Polar Humanities at the Crossroads
With an emphasis on Antarctica, 200-word abstracts sought on how the Polar Humanities demonstrate bo ... See more
Ellen Cressman Frye, William Paterson University of New Jersey
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Reading for the Crop: Agriculture, Agrarian Change and Land Use in Literary and Cultural Studies
We invite proposals for projects that employ literary theoretical and/or cultural studies frameworks ... See more
Abigail Fields, U of Kansas and Amber Bal, University of Michigan
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
A World in a Grain of Sand: William Blake at 200
In honor of the bicentenary of William Blake’s death, this panel invites new scholarship on Blake—hi ... See more
Sarah Weston, Washington U in St. Louis
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Elemental Media & The Global South
250-word abstracts considering the critical affordances of elemental media theory in thinking with a ... See more
Janice Cheon, Yale University and Héctor Hernández, Princeton U
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Mother(s), Movements, and Mobilities
Kindly submit a 300-word abstract and a brief bio on the views of mother(s) with a focus on movement ... See more
Ariana Guzman, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Mind and Form / Forms of Mind [Updated Deadline]
We invite 200-word abstracts for mini-papers exploring how literary genres represent or make manifes ... See more
Valeria Mutc, University of California Davis and Elizabeth Mundell-Perkins, U of Chicago
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Ballads, Broadsides, and the Bible: Teaching Non-Authorial Texts
The study of "non-authorial" texts is a valuable exercise in classroom pedagogy. Students must explo ... See more
Alan Rauch, UNC Charlotte
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026
Marking (Un)Belonging through Language and Literature
Seeking papers that explore issues of (Un)Belonging through language. How does it show up in literat ... See more
Ariana Guzman, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
Posted Sunday, March 1, 2026
Witness, Voice, and Agency: Chinese Poetry as Emancipatory Narrative
We invite abstracts on emancipatory narratives in Chinese poetry across periods, examining how poets ... See more
Fay Feijie Zhen, Arizona State U, Tempe
Posted Sunday, March 1, 2026
Rivers as/against Empire
How do rivers facilitate and/or resist colonial systems and processes? We welcome 250 word abstracts ... See more
Surojit Kayal, University of California, Santa Barbara
Posted Sunday, March 1, 2026
Migration and Surveillance in Contemporary Global Anglophone Literature
How do contemporary global anglophone fiction represent migration and surveillance, and what forms o ... See more
Shohel Rana, U of South Carolina, Columbia
Posted Monday, March 9, 2026
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