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Re-imagining Classical Monsters
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4733 | Submission Open
Keywords: monsters; horror; adaptation; reception; literature; art; film; television; theatre; drama
Legacy of Gothic Tradition in Horror Fiction
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1824 | Submission Open
The Eighteenth-Century Novel and History
edited by Flavio Gregori
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1163 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing: New Directions
edited by Zoe Kinsley
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 358 | Submission Open
Keywords: blue humanities; travel and environmental change; the “ more-than-human” ; vertical; slow; or micro-travel; travel and the senses; travel and disability; travel and the body; travel and conflict; travel and revolution; forced journeys; travel accounts in verse or image; traveler perspectives
Comparative Literature and World Literature: Toward a Global Cultural Community through a New Cosmopolitanism
edited by Anfeng Sheng
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4031 | 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)
Hölderlin and Poetic Transport
edited by Priscilla Hayden-Roy
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1377 | Submission Open
Keywords: Friedrich Hö lderlin; German poet; transport; metaphor; translation
Eco-Rebels with a Cause: Representations and Explorations of Politics and Activism in Children's and YA Literature
edited by and Lykke Guanio-Uluru
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 1172 | Submission Open
Keywords: aesthetics; ethics; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; environment; the posthuman; Anthropocene
Islamic Art and Architecture in Europe submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 575 | Submission Open
Keywords: Islamic art; Islamic architecture; artistic transfers; Europe; Al-Andalus; Ottomans; Fatimids; Norman Sicily; Mudejar art; Orientalism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cultural Studies & Critical Theory in the Humanities)
Godzilla at 70: The Giant Monster’s Legacy in Global Popular Culture
edited by
submission deadline 3 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 1134 | Submission Open
Keywords: monsters; kaijū; giants; dinosaurs; Godzilla; disaster; climate change; film; television; comics; literature; video games; globalisation; popular culture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Cultural Studies & Critical Theory in the Humanities)
African American Children's Literature
edited by
submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 25709 | Submission Open
Keywords: children’ s literature; race; United States literature; intersectionality; childism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Imagining the Law: American Literature and Justice
edited by Richard Schur
submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 315 | Submission Open
Keywords: law; American literary texts; justice
Baroque Tragedy and the Cinema
edited by
submission deadline 17 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open
Keywords: baroque; tragedy; illusion; cinema; film theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Film, Television, and Media Studies in the Humanities)
Feminism and Comics Studies
edited by Jane Tolmie
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 1770 | 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 1350 | 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 510 | Submission Open
Keywords: Caribbean literature; postcolonialism; crises of the globalizing present; multiple diasporas; decolonial self-determination; rise of a new world
Franz Kafka in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
edited by Ruth Gross
submission deadline 2 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 597 | 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 159 | 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 11759 | 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 242 | Submission Open
Keywords: child migration; displacement; experience; resilience; imagination; fiction; art; film
Global Antiracism submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6478 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4715 | Submission Open
The Effects of Binary Thinking in the Arts and Humanities
edited by Judith Roof
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 533 | 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 158 | Submission Open
Keywords: North American poetry; criticism; hybridity and border crossings
Sexuality and Literacy in Early Medieval England
edited by Lisa Weston
submission deadline 14 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 789 | 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 1038 | 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 574 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2254 | 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 465 | 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 604 | 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 102 | Submission Open
Keywords: listening; aurality; ethnography of literacy; phonology; music; modernity
Homes and Homelands: Leaving a Homeland/Creating a Home
edited by Dina Amin
submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 436 | 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 203 | 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 117 | 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 | Viewed by 448 | 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
Anglophone Riot
edited by Daniel DeWispelare and Victoria Barnett-Woods
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 252 | Submission Open
Keywords: riot; literature; anglophone world
Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Letters
edited by Michela Borzaga
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 188 | 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
Scandal and Censorship
edited by Stephan Karschay and Franziska Quabeck
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open
Keywords: scandal; censorship; dissent; silence; articulation; circulation; power; discourse; resonance; deviance; normativity; transgression; private; public; press; literature; law; book bans
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 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: Plato; literary criticism; literary theory; reception; gender; historicism; feminism
The Use and Misuse of Fin-De-Siècle Decadence and Its Imagination
edited by Ikuho Amano
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 372 | 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 260 | Submission Open
Keywords: African American; literature; rebellion; revolution
Comparative Jewish Literatures
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 182 | 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 115 | Submission Open
Keywords: economics; literature; culture; media; finance; risk; speculation
Remembering the Reproductive Body: Narratives of Historical Transmission, Eugenics, and Epigenetics
edited by Alys Eve Weinbaum and Julia Wurr
submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open
Keywords: reproductive body; reproductive studies; cultural memory; slavery; post/colonialism; settler colonialism; social reproduction theory; historical transmission; eugenics; epigenetics
Electronic Literature and Game Narratives
edited by Stuart Moulthrop
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 183 | 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 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: female identity and power; women in places and spaces; female corporeality; sexual identities; gender identities
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