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Representations of the Body in Early Modern Spanish Art, Science, and Literature

edited by

Silvia Arroyo

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 802 | 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)

Fairy Tales: Visions and Revisions

edited by

Jessica McCort

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 615 | Submission Open

Keywords: fairy tale; myth; revision; children's literature; feminist revision

Swiss Literature and Culture

edited by

Richard McClelland

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 1042 | Submission Open

Keywords: Swiss literature and culture; literary multilingualism; Swissness

Alice Dunbar-Nelson at 150: New Perspectives on the Writer

edited by Tara T. Green

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 676 | Submission Open

Keywords: Alice Dunbar-Nelson; nineteenth-century writers; black journalism; Harlem Renaissance; New Orleans writers; black club women; black queer women writers; racial passing; black women’ s poetry; lesbian/bisexual studies

Uses and Forms of Epistolarity in J.M. Coetzee’s Work

edited by Michela Borzaga

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1554 | Submission Open

Keywords: epistolary Coetzee; epistolary novel and Coetzee’ s writings; epistolary poetics; letters and authorship; letters as literary ‘ events’ ; Coetzee’ s letters and the archive; letters and heterotopic spaces; epistolarity and trauma

Baroque Tragedy: Intersections of Literature and Cinema

edited by

Alice Mikal Craven

submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: Baroque tragedy; cinema; literature; illusion

Literature and Health in the 21st Century

edited by

Anders Juhl Rasmussen

and Anita Wohlmann

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 1031 | Submission Open

Keywords: literature; medical humanities; health humanities; narrative medicine

Horror Genres in Modern Fiction

edited by Rebecca Janicker

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 560 | Submission Open

Keywords: culture; ghosts; Gothic; haunting; horror; media

Telling Tomorrows: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture

edited by Carla Kungl

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 342 | Submission Open

Keywords: detective fiction; popular culture; adaptations; crime fiction

Emotion and Medieval Literature

edited by Elizabeth Elliott and Kate Ash-Irisarri

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 410 | Submission Open

Keywords: later middle ages; literary texts; emotions; medieval textual production

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

Literature and Sound

edited by

Vincent Barletta

and Luca Bacchini

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5057 | Submission Open

Keywords: listening; aurality; ethnography of literacy; phonology; music; modernity

Writing in the Backlash

edited by

Maggie Tonkin

and

Brydie Kosmina

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 561 | Submission Open

Keywords: women’ s writing; feminist literary production; literary representations

Crossing Oceans of Time and Space in Transpacific Asian American Literature

edited by

Marie-Therese C. Sulit

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 402 | Submission Open

Keywords: Asian American literature; Pacific Islander; young adult literature

Spaces of Food Consumption in Children’s and YA Literature

edited by

Alessandro Cabiati

Laura Tosi

and

Rachele Bassan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 78 | 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)

How Has the Outer World Engaged Chinese Literature and Culture?

edited by Robert Kibler

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 561 | Submission Open

Keywords: Chinese influence; global literature; art; music; philosophy; culture

Global, or Local, Political or Not: U.S. Literature in the 21st Century

edited by

Damjana Mraovic-O'Hare

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: contemporary American literature; genres; politics; immigration; nationalism; gender

Space Between: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture

edited by Ramona Fotiade and Andrea Sartori

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7570 | 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

Literary Modernism and the Concept of Freedom

edited by Tim Clarke

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 423 | Submission Open

Keywords: literary modernism; modernity; philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; freedom

Cross-Fertilizations: European Literature and Hollywood Cinema (and Vice Versa)

edited by

Audun Engelstad

and

Andrew Spicer

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 421 | Submission Open

Keywords: European literature; Hollywood cinema; cross-fertilization

Emotions and Affect in Words and Music

edited by

Thomas Gurke

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 376 | Submission Open

Keywords: intermediality; liminality; music; emotions; affect

Sports, Literature and Culture

edited by

Rebeccah "Bess" Dawson

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 361 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport; athlete; star; fandom; spectatorship; nationalism; the body; performance; gender; Germany; athletic aesthetics; transnational sporting identities

New Approaches to Biblical Literary Studies

edited by

Cynthia Scheinberg

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bible; literature; Jewish and Christian scriptures; Jewish– Christian relations; theories of interpretation/hermeneutics; midrash; Biblical allusion; Tanak; old and new testaments

Reading the City: Urban Infrastructure in Literature

edited by Jie Lu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open

Keywords: literary studies; infrastructure; urban modernity

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 245 | 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

Modern Fantasy Writing

edited by

Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 544 | Submission Open

Keywords: fantasy; speculative; medievalism; fairyland; quest; alternative history; the other; fable; secondary world

Media, Cultural Memory and Hauntology

edited by

Keith McDonald

and Robert Edgar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 1078 | 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

The State of LGBTQ Fiction

edited by

Joseph Ortiz

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open

Keywords: LGBTQ studies; LGBTQ fiction; gay and lesbian fiction; queer theory; queer representation

Realism in Chinese Literature: From Classical Roots to Contemporary Expressions

edited by

Xueqing Xu

and Yan Lu

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 520 | Submission Open

Keywords: realism; naturalism; socialist realism; magical realism; neo-realism; Chinese literature; sinophone literature

Imagine Otherwise: 21st Century Multiethnic Speculative Fiction and Narrative Time

edited by

Joanna Davis-McElligatt

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 352 | 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 542 | 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

Marcela Kostihova

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 263 | 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 1274 | Submission Open

Keywords: fairy tales; folklore; mythology; coloniality; national; and transnational identities

American Poetry and Poetics in the World

edited by

Jim Cocola

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 266 | 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 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: Antarctica; polar; literature; arts; ice; environment; climate change

American Popular Culture and Literature

edited by

Elly McCausland

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 159 | 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 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychoanalysis; sociopolitical contents; public humanities

Black Feminist Ecologies

edited by Stefanie K. Dunning

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 789 | 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

Irish Literature and Culture

edited by Robert Brazeau

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: contemporary Irish studies; interdisciplinary methodologies; cultural formations; critical paradigms; twenty-first-century Ireland

Comedy and Platonic Interpretation

edited by Sonja Tanner

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 279 | 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)

War Literature Today: Ecology, Violence, and the Novel

edited by

Mike Hill

submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 216 | 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

Angeliki Tzanetou

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 1122 | Submission Open

Keywords: women in ancient Greek literature; ancient gender studies; women in classics

Voices of Resistance: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Feminist Perspectives in African Literature

edited by

Simone A. James Alexander

submission deadline 31 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: postcolonial; feminist; nationalist; belonging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

The Metamorphosis of the Southern Myth: Rise, Decline, and Beyond

edited by

Bin Lin

submission deadline 1 May 2027 | Viewed by 22 | 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)

Critical Disability Studies and the Fantastic

edited by Jane Tolmie

submission deadline 1 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: critical disability studies; literary and comics criticism; contemporary speculative fiction; Gothic horror

Shakespeare, Gender and Religion

edited by

Thomas Rist

submission deadline 31 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 342 | Submission Open

Keywords: Shakespeare; gender; religion

Rewilding the Humanities

edited by Thomas Nolden

submission deadline 1 Sep 2027 | Viewed by 373 | 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

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