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Feminism and Comics Studies
edited by Jane Tolmie
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 2006 | Submission Open
Keywords: comics studies; comics; feminist studies; feminism; reproductive justice; (dis)ability; bodymind; comics and human rights
Evidence Unfolded: Digital Humanities Applications for Provenience, Provenance and Context
edited by and Hirofumi Sugawara
submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 1413 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital humanities; provenance research; provenience; cultural property; interdisciplinary studies; cultural heritage preservation; heritage science; 3D imaging; forgery; museums and archives
Rise of a New World: Postcolonialism and Caribbean Literature
edited by Curdella Forbes and Kezia Page
submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 696 | Submission Open
Keywords: Caribbean literature; postcolonialism; crises of the globalizing present; multiple diasporas; decolonial self-determination; rise of a new world
“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 2024 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open
Keywords: fairy tales; folklore; mythology; coloniality; national; and transnational identities
Franz Kafka in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
edited by Ruth Gross
submission deadline 2 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 744 | Submission Open
Transnational, Intermedial and Computational Perspectives on European Popular Print
edited by Jeroen Salman and Juan Gomis Coloma
submission deadline 6 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open
Keywords: European popular print; popular images; digital humanities approaches
World Mythology and Its Connection to Nature and/or Ecocriticism
edited by
submission deadline 10 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 12573 | Submission Open
Keywords: world mythology; ecocriticism; mythic studies; environmental studies; hero’ s journey/quest
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Child Migration Experiences in Fiction, Film and Visual Art
edited by Odile Heynders
submission deadline 15 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open
Keywords: child migration; displacement; experience; resilience; imagination; fiction; art; film
Global Antiracism submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7628 | Submission Open
Keywords: Black Lives Matter; anti-blackness; critical race theory; afropessimism; racial capitalism; solidarity movements; settler colonialism; indigeneity; decoloniality; antisemitism; Islamophobia; Global South; political economy; libidinal economy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transdisciplinary Humanities)
Music and the Written Word
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6323 | Submission Open
The Effects of Binary Thinking in the Arts and Humanities
edited by Judith Roof
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 618 | Submission Open
Keywords: binary; digital; oppositions; narrative; literature; art
Hybridity and Border Crossings in Contemporary North American Poetry
edited by Ann Keniston
submission deadline 4 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open
Keywords: North American poetry; criticism; hybridity and border crossings
Hölderlin and Poetic Transport
edited by Priscilla Hayden-Roy
submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1696 | Submission Open
Keywords: Friedrich Hö lderlin; German poet; transport; metaphor; translation
Comparative Literature and World Literature: Toward a Global Cultural Community through a New Cosmopolitanism
edited by Anfeng Sheng
submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 8619 | Submission Open
Keywords: comparative literature; world literature(s); global cultural community; new cosmopolitanisms; cultural tolerance; cultural encounters; cultural identity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Sexuality and Literacy in Early Medieval England
edited by Lisa Weston
submission deadline 14 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 826 | Submission Open
Victorian Realism and Crime
edited by Melissa Raines and Sam Saunders
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 2527 | Submission Open
The Interpretation of Fictional Characters in Literary Texts: History of Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Formal Ontologies
edited by Gaia Tomazzoli, Emilio Maria Sanfilippo and Michele Paolini Paoletti
submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 1371 | Submission Open
Keywords: literary characters; literary fiction; literary criticism; fictional objects; formal ontologies; digital humanities; information systems; medieval Italian literature; metaphysics
Law and Literature: Graffiti
edited by Lindsay Stern
submission deadline 8 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 641 | Submission Open
Keywords: law; literature; graffiti; media; writing; performance; law-scratching; cultural techniques
Shakespearean Performance: Contemporary Approaches, Findings, and Practices
edited by Cynthia Lewis
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3395 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transdisciplinary Humanities)
The Power of Superhero Literature: Applying the Lessons of Superheroes to Real Life
edited by Gian S. Pagnucci and Sandra Eckard
submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 597 | Submission Open
Keywords: superheroes; comic books; graphic novels; teaching; film studies; social justice; health and well-being in literature; heroism; problem solving; sidekicks; life lessons
Aqueous Instabilities
edited by Camille Mathieu and
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 645 | Submission Open
Keywords: mississippi river valley basin; art; history; literature; culture; indigenous studies; african-american studies; colonialism in early america; early modern; contemporary
Literature and Sound
edited by Luca Bacchini and Vincent Barletta
submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open
Keywords: listening; aurality; ethnography of literacy; phonology; music; modernity
Imagining the Law: American Literature and Justice
edited by Richard Schur
submission deadline 15 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 399 | Submission Open
Keywords: law; American literary texts; justice
Homes and Homelands: Leaving a Homeland/Creating a Home
edited by Dina Amin
submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 481 | Submission Open
Keywords: hybridity; Arab-American theatre; displacement; liminality; diaspora; the Arab World
Immigration, Displacement, and Cultural Preservation: Maintaining Home Country Culture in the Diaspora
edited by Fadi Skeiker and Myla Skeiker
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 277 | Submission Open
Keywords: migration; literature; diaspora; cultural preservation
Imagining a Decolonial Future through Indigenous Activism
edited by Drew Lopenzina
submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open
Keywords: indigenous studies; indigenous activism; social justice; sovereignty; environmental justice; MMIW; Land Back; Indian boarding schools; Standing Rock
Space Between: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture
edited by Ramona Fotiade and Andrea Sartori
submission deadline 28 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1181 | 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
Scandal and Censorship
edited by Stephan Karschay and Franziska Quabeck
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open
Keywords: scandal; censorship; dissent; silence; articulation; circulation; power; discourse; resonance; deviance; normativity; transgression; private; public; press; literature; law; book bans
Anglophone Riot
edited by Daniel DeWispelare and Victoria Barnett-Woods
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 319 | Submission Open
Keywords: riot; literature; anglophone world
Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Letters
edited by Michela Borzaga
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 239 | 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
Plato as Poet and Dramatist: Literary Readings of the Platonic Dialogues
edited by Jeffrey S. Carnes and Dennis Alley
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open
Keywords: Plato; literary criticism; literary theory; reception; gender; historicism; feminism
Curiosity and Modernity in Early Modern Iberia
edited by Marina Brownlee
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Submission Open
Keywords: curiosity; Early Modern Iberia; encyclopedia; subjectivity; gender; inquisition; voyeurism; novel
The Use and Misuse of Fin-De-Siècle Decadence and Its Imagination
edited by Ikuho Amano
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 517 | Submission Open
Keywords: fin-de-siè cle decadence; late nineteenth-century Europe; aesthetic defiance; literary works; decadent imaginations; sensorial expression; proliferation and longevity
Rebellion and Revolution in African American Literature
edited by and Sharon Lewis
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 344 | Submission Open
Keywords: African American; literature; rebellion; revolution
Bridging Gaps in Critical Queer Genealogies: Transformative Emergent Scholarship in Queer Studies
edited by and Liam Oliver Lair
submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open
Keywords: queer/LGBTQ studies; interdisciplinary focus; queer experiences and narratives
Comparative Jewish Literatures
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open
Keywords: comparative literature; Jewish studies; Jewish writer; sacred text; profane; Talmud; Hebrew bible; kabbalah; Yiddish; Hebrew; national traditions; post-colonial; Global South
Economic Criticism in Literature and Culture
edited by Gayle Rogers
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open
Keywords: economics; literature; culture; media; finance; risk; speculation
Electronic Literature and Game Narratives
edited by Stuart Moulthrop
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open
Keywords: electronic literature; computer games; narrative; digital culture
Female Identity in Spanish Literature and Culture
edited by Sara Muñoz-Muriana
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open
Keywords: female identity and power; women in places and spaces; female corporeality; sexual identities; gender identities
Contemporary Scottish Fiction
edited by Andrew Monnickendam
submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open
Keywords: Alasdair Gray; Scottish culture; postmodern novel; Scottish literature; class; gender and identity politics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Memories of World War II in Norwegian Fiction and Life Writing
edited by Unni Langås
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: Norwegian literature; memory studies; World War II
Italian Studies Today: Global Perspectives
edited by Mara Santi and Guylian Nemegeer
submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open
Keywords: global Italian studies; evolving Italian cultural identity; teaching Italian culture; academic history of Italian studies
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