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Literature and Sound
edited by and Luca Bacchini
submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7918 | Submission Open
Keywords: listening; aurality; ethnography of literacy; phonology; music; modernity
Writing in the Backlash submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 758 | Submission Open
Keywords: women’s writing; feminist literary production; literary representations
How Has the Outer World Engaged Chinese Literature and Culture?
edited by Robert Kibler
submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 753 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese influence; global literature; art; music; philosophy; culture
Representations of the Body in Early Modern Spanish Art, Science, and Literature
edited by
submission deadline 28 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 1970 | Submission Open
Keywords: nudity in art and literature; the senses and sensory perception; political allegories of the body (i.e., the body politic); the body of Christ, the Eucharist, and transubstantiation; control (or lack of control) of the female body; physical monstrosities and physical ugliness or abjection; non-normative bodies in early modernity; beauty canons; bodily alterations (cosmetics, clothing, etc.) or transformation (disguise/transvestism and its effects on gender)
Space Between: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture
edited by Ramona Fotiade and Andrea Sartori
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9391 | Submission Open
Keywords: avant-garde or post-modernist literary and artistic practices; performance and visual arts; spiritual and philosophical conceptions and emerging cross-cultural phenomena
Cross-Fertilizations: European Literature and Hollywood Cinema (and Vice Versa) submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 558 | Submission Open
Keywords: European literature; Hollywood cinema; cross-fertilization
Sports, Literature and Culture submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 470 | Submission Open
Keywords: sport; athlete; star; fandom; spectatorship; nationalism; the body; performance; gender; Germany; athletic aesthetics; transnational sporting identities
New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry: Unsettling the Literary Tradition
edited by Elizabeth A Petrino
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open
Keywords: nineteenth-century American women’s poetry; women’s writing; materialist approaches; historical poetics; formalism; gender; literary tradition and canon formation; social activism; feminism
Media, Cultural Memory and Hauntology
edited by and Robert Edgar
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4252 | Submission Open
Keywords: cultural memory; hauntology; spectrality; nostalgia; simulacrum; trauma; revisionism; postmodernism; habitus; identity and place; canon formation; retrofuturism; memoir; retro-revivals; reboots and remakes; documentary; the biopic
Literature and Health in the 21st Century
edited by Anita Wohlmann and
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2155 | Submission Open
Keywords: literature; medical humanities; health humanities; narrative medicine
Innovative, Imaginative, and Inventive: Adventures and Adventurers in Victorian and Edwardian Transportation
edited by Joellen Masters
submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 550 | Submission Open
Keywords: travel innovation and innovators; invention and inventors; literary genre; the railway; aeronautics; intrepid women; victorian and fin-de-siècle recreation; transport press; domestic tourism; cosmopolitanism; yachting and tourism; the motorcar; fin-de-siècle celebrity tourists
Imagine Otherwise: 21st Century Multiethnic Speculative Fiction and Narrative Time submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 489 | Submission Open
Keywords: speculative fiction; temporalities; futurity; history; contemporary literature; Africana; Latinx; indigenous; AAPI; multiethnic writers
Film and Philosophy
edited by Corin Depper
submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 796 | Submission Open
Keywords: film-philosophy; Deleuze; phenomenology; eco-philosophy; speculative realism; experimental film
Shakespeare After Democracy―Shakespeare in the Age of New Authoritarianism
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 467 | Submission Open
Keywords: Shakespeare; democracy; performance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
“We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th in Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Myth
edited by Abigail Heiniger, Christine A. Jones, James Deutsch and Liang Luo
submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1527 | Submission Open
Keywords: fairy tales; folklore; mythology; coloniality; national, and transnational identities
Swiss Literature and Culture
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1339 | Submission Open
Keywords: Swiss literature and culture; literary multilingualism; Swissness
American Poetry and Poetics in the World
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 407 | Submission Open
Keywords: American poetry; geocriticism; public humanities; scholarship of teaching and learning; translation studies; world literature
Very Cool! The Literature, Arts, and Culture of Antarctica
edited by Ellen Frye
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 311 | Submission Open
Keywords: Antarctica; polar; literature; arts; ice; environment; climate change
Spaces of Food Consumption in Children’s and YA Literature submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open
Keywords: food; consumption; space; place; children’s literature; young adult; fairy tale
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
American Popular Culture and Literature
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open
Keywords: popular culture; music; media; pedagogy; literature; film; adaptation; genre
Psychoanalysis, Politics and Humanities from the Couch to the Street
edited by Max Cavitch
submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychoanalysis; sociopolitical contents; public humanities
Comedy and Platonic Interpretation
edited by Sonja Tanner
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1436 | Submission Open
Keywords: Platonic dialogues; philosophy and comedy; Socrates and Aristophanes; literary interpretation ; ancient humor
(This special issue belongs to the Section Philosophy and Classics in the Humanities)
Black Feminist Ecologies
edited by Stefanie K. Dunning
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 994 | Submission Open
Keywords: Black women’s nature writing; nature and environmental discourse; discourse on abolition; marronage; the Plantationocene, the Anthropocene, and Black, trans, and queer ecologies
Horror Genres in Modern Fiction
edited by Rebecca Janicker
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 919 | Submission Open
Keywords: culture; ghosts; Gothic; haunting; horror; media
New Approaches to Biblical Literary Studies
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 545 | Submission Open
Keywords: Bible; literature; Jewish and Christian scriptures; Jewish–Christian relations; theories of interpretation/hermeneutics; midrash; Biblical allusion; Tanak; old and new testaments
Irish Literature and Culture
edited by Robert Brazeau
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 431 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary Irish studies; interdisciplinary methodologies; cultural formations; critical paradigms; twenty-first-century Ireland
War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 386 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary war; ecological violence; realism; genre; novel; public sphere; civil society; climate change; climate disaster; Anthropocene
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Receptions of Women in Ancient Greek Literature
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4629 | Submission Open
Keywords: women in ancient Greek literature; ancient gender studies; women in classics
Global, or Local, Political or Not: U.S. Literature in the 21st Century submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary American literature; genres; politics; immigration; nationalism; gender
Voices of Resistance: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Feminist Perspectives in African Literature submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open
Keywords: postcolonial; feminist; nationalist; belonging
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Emotions and Affect in Words and Music
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 570 | Submission Open
Keywords: intermediality; liminality; music; emotions; affect
Telling Tomorrows: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture
edited by Carla Kungl
submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 518 | Submission Open
Keywords: detective fiction; popular culture; adaptations; crime fiction
The Metamorphosis of the Southern Myth: Rise, Decline, and Beyond
edited by
submission deadline 1 May 2027 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open
Keywords: Southern myth; American South; cultural memory; identity; literature; history; regionalism; Southern Renaissance; post-South
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Emotion and Medieval Literature
edited by Elizabeth Elliott and Kate Ash-Irisarri
submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 636 | Submission Open
Keywords: later middle ages; literary texts; emotions; medieval textual production
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Reading the City: Urban Infrastructure in Literature
edited by Jie Lu
submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 477 | Submission Open
Keywords: literary studies; infrastructure; urban modernity
Critical Disability Studies and the Fantastic
edited by Jane Tolmie
submission deadline 1 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open
Keywords: critical disability studies; literary and comics criticism; contemporary speculative fiction; Gothic horror
Shakespeare, Gender and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 475 | Submission Open
Keywords: Shakespeare; gender; religion
Realism in Chinese Literature: From Classical Roots to Contemporary Expressions
edited by and Yan Lu
submission deadline 31 Aug 2027 | Viewed by 702 | Submission Open
Keywords: realism; naturalism; socialist realism; magical realism; neo-realism; Chinese literature; sinophone literature
Crossing Oceans of Time and Space in Transpacific Asian American Literature submission deadline 31 Aug 2027 | Viewed by 588 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian American literature; Pacific Islander; young adult literature
Rewilding the Humanities
edited by Thomas Nolden
submission deadline 1 Sep 2027 | Viewed by 496 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecocriticism; anthropocene; nature in literature; eco-aesthetics; ecofiction; posthumanism; cultural ecology; literary biology; ecofeminism; postcolonial ecocriticism; blue humanities; energy humanities; environmental humanities
Literary Modernism and the Concept of Freedom
edited by Tim Clarke
submission deadline 30 Sep 2027 | Viewed by 579 | Submission Open
Keywords: literary modernism; modernity; philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; freedom
Modern Fantasy Writing submission deadline 1 Oct 2027 | Viewed by 755 | Submission Open
Keywords: fantasy; speculative; medievalism; fairyland; quest; alternative history; the other; fable; secondary world
Crossing Boundaries: Transdisciplinarity in the Humanities submission deadline 31 Oct 2027 | 1 articles | Viewed by 701 | Submission Open
Keywords: transculturality; AI; interdisciplinary
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transdisciplinary Humanities)
Shape-Shifting Narratives Across the Arts: Intermedial Storytelling Across Media submission deadline 30 Nov 2027 | Viewed by 601 | Submission Open
Keywords: intermediality; storytelling; visual culture; adaptation; performance; narrative studies
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