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Nineteenth-Century Gothic Spiritualisms: Looking Under the Table
edited by S. Brooke Cameron and Rachel M. Friars
submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 992 | Submission Open
Keywords: ghosts; late-Victorian/Edwardian gothic spiritualisms; tarot readings; spirit photography; “ talking boards” (early Ouija boards); the planchette (automatic writing); vacuum tubes (for self-recording)
The Power of Superhero Literature: Applying the Lessons of Superheroes to Real Life
edited by Gian S. Pagnucci and Sandra Eckard
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 1021 | 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
Public Humanities from the Consulting Room to the Street: Politics, Scholarship, and Psychoanalysis
edited by Max Cavitch
submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 545 | Submission Open
Keywords: psychoanalysts; Freud; sociopolitical contents; therapeutic achievements; public humanities
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Anglophone Riot
edited by Daniel DeWispelare and Victoria Barnett-Woods
submission deadline 5 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 583 | Submission Open
Keywords: riot; literature; anglophone world
The Use and Misuse of Fin-De-Siècle Decadence and Its Imagination
edited by Ikuho Amano
submission deadline 29 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 1138 | Submission Open
Keywords: fin-de-siè cle decadence; late nineteenth-century Europe; aesthetic defiance; literary works; decadent imaginations; sensorial expression; proliferation and longevity
Literature and Sound
edited by Vincent Barletta and Luca Bacchini
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1265 | Submission Open
Keywords: listening; aurality; ethnography of literacy; phonology; music; modernity
Electronic Literature and Game Narratives
edited by Stuart Moulthrop
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1150 | 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 310 | 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 303 | 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)
Space Between: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture
edited by Ramona Fotiade and Andrea Sartori
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3295 | 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 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 756 | Submission Open
Keywords: scandal; censorship; dissent; silence; articulation; circulation; power; discourse; resonance; deviance; normativity; transgression; private; public; press; literature; law; book bans
Memories of World War II in Norwegian Fiction and Life Writing
edited by Unni Langås
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1286 | Submission Open
Keywords: Norwegian literature; memory studies; World War II
Turn to the East: Afrofuturism 2.0, African Futurism and Sinofuturism in Speculative Theory, Criticism and Practice
edited by Reynaldo Anderson
submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 514 | Submission Open
Keywords: speculative imagination; Afrofuturism 2.0; decolonizing narratives; black diasporic futures
Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing
edited by Paul Fagan
submission deadline 3 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 710 | Submission Open
Keywords: queer theory; singles studies; celibacy; 19th and 20th century Ireland  ; Irish women’ s movements and literature; feminist politics
Beyond and in the Margins of the Text and Textualities
edited by , Carmen Gómez-Galisteo and Manuel Iglesias-Vázquez
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 977 | Submission Open
Keywords: textuality; interdisciplinary studies; applied humanities; multimodal narratives; transhumanism; transmediality; transtextuality; translinguistics
Cross-Borders and Crossroads—Sharing Cultural Memory and Identity Negotiation in South-Eastern European Narratives submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 186 | Submission Open
Keywords: “ cultural memory” ; post-traumatic “ retrieval” ; cultural borders; South-Eastern European narratives
Alice Dunbar-Nelson at 150: New Perspectives on the Writer
edited by Tara T. Green
submission deadline 4 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 287 | 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
Rebellion and Revolution in African American Literature
edited by and Sharon Lewis
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1125 | Submission Open
Keywords: African American; literature; rebellion; revolution
Modernist Ecologies in Irish Literature
edited by Eoin Flannery
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open
Keywords: modernism; ecocriticism; nonhuman; animal; blue humanities; anthropocene; irish modernism; text-as-ecology
Women Writing Science Fiction: Worlds of Possibility
edited by Ericka A Hoagland
submission deadline 24 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 282 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecofeminism/Cli-Fi; Afro/Africanfuturism; postcolonial science fiction; social justice; posthumanism; the body; digital cultures; technology studies; intersectionality; global science fiction; feminist futures; virtual environments; reproductive futures; care ethics; emerging subgenres
Labor Utopias and Dystopias
edited by Ping Zhu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3244 | Submission Open
Keywords: utopia and dystopia; global capitalism; posthuman labor; environment; gender
Immigration, Displacement, and Cultural Preservation: Maintaining Home Country Culture in the Diaspora
edited by Fadi Skeiker and Myla Skeiker
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1683 | Submission Open
Keywords: migration; literature; diaspora; cultural preservation
Comparative Jewish Literatures
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 818 | Submission Open
Keywords: comparative literature; Jewish studies; Jewish writer; sacred text; profane; Talmud; Hebrew bible; kabbalah; Yiddish; Hebrew; national traditions; post-colonial; Global South
Uses and Forms of Epistolarity in J.M. Coetzee’s Work
edited by Michela Borzaga
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 521 | 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 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 424 | Submission Open
Keywords: Plato; literary criticism; literary theory; reception; gender; historicism; feminism
French Fantasy Literature
edited by Alain Lescart and Anne Berthelot
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open
Keywords: French fantasy literature; French fantasy writers; sub-genres within French fantasy
Italian Studies Today: Global Perspectives
edited by Mara Santi and Guylian Nemegeer
submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open
Keywords: global Italian studies; evolving Italian cultural identity; teaching Italian culture; academic history of Italian studies
Aqueous Instabilities
edited by Camille Mathieu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 891 | Submission Open
Keywords: mississippi river valley basin; art; history; literature; culture; indigenous studies; african-american studies; colonialism in early america; early modern; contemporary
Modern Greek Literature and PTSD
edited by
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open
Keywords: modern Greek literature; trauma; dictatorship
How Has the Outer World Engaged Chinese Literature?
edited by Robert Kibler
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese influence; global literature; art; music; philosophy; culture
New Geographies of Thought: Black and Indigenous Epistemologies and Literary Production in Spanish America
edited by M'bare N'Gom
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 29 | Submission Open
Keywords: Afro-Latin American studies; decolonial thought; indigenous epistemologies
British Romanticism and the Americas
edited by Christopher Stokes
submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 843 | Submission Open
Keywords: Romanticism; geography; empire
Media, Cultural Memory and Hauntology
edited by and Robert Edgar
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 183 | 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
Fairy Tales: Visions and Revisions
edited by
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open
Keywords: fairy tale; myth; revision; children's literature; feminist revision
Innovative, Imaginative, and Inventive: Adventures and Adventurers in Victorian and Edwardian Transportation
edited by Joellen Masters
submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open
Keywords: travel innovation and innovators; invention and inventors; literary genre; the railway; aeronautics; intrepid women; victorian and fin-de-siè cle recreation; transport press; domestic tourism; cosmopolitanism; yachting and tourism; the motorcar; fin-de-siè cle celebrity tourists
Representations of the Body in Early Modern Spanish Art, Science, and Literature
edited by
submission deadline 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 96 | 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)
Writing in the Backlash submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open
Keywords: women’ s writing; feminist literary production; literary representations
Swiss Literature and Culture
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open
Keywords: Swiss literature and culture; literary multilingualism; Swissness
Film and Philosophy
edited by Corin Depper
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open
Keywords: film-philosophy; Deleuze; phenomenology; eco-philosophy; speculative realism; experimental film
Receptions of Women in Ancient Greek Literature
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 465 | Submission Open
Keywords: women in ancient Greek literature; ancient gender studies; women in classics
Baroque Tragedy: Intersections of Literature and Cinema
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open
Keywords: Baroque tragedy; cinema; literature; illusion
Shakespeare, Gender and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open
Keywords: Shakespeare; gender; religion
Emotion and Medieval Literature
edited by Elizabeth Elliott and Kate Ash-Irisarri
submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: later middle ages; literary texts; emotions; medieval textual production
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Black Feminist Ecologies
edited by Stefanie K. Dunning
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 154 | 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
“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 382 | Submission Open
Keywords: fairy tales; folklore; mythology; coloniality; national; and transnational identities
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