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Public Humanities from the Consulting Room to the Street: Politics, Scholarship, and Psychoanalysis
edited by Max Cavitch
submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 656
Keywords: psychoanalysts; Freud; sociopolitical contents; therapeutic achievements; public humanities
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson at 150: New Perspectives on the Writer
edited by Tara T. Green
submission deadline 4 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 498 | 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 1460 | Submission Open
Keywords: African American; literature; rebellion; revolution
Modernist Ecologies in Irish Literature
edited by Eoin Flannery
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 743 | 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 473 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6058 | Submission Open
Keywords: utopia and dystopia; global capitalism; posthuman labor; environment; gender
Comparative Jewish Literatures
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2407 | Submission Open
Keywords: comparative literature; Jewish studies; Jewish writer; sacred text; profane; Talmud; Hebrew bible; kabbalah; Yiddish; Hebrew; national traditions; post-colonial; Global South
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 2218 | Submission Open
Keywords: migration; literature; diaspora; cultural preservation
Uses and Forms of Epistolarity in J.M. Coetzee’s Work
edited by Michela Borzaga
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 950 | 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 589 | Submission Open
Keywords: Plato; literary criticism; literary theory; reception; gender; historicism; feminism
Female Identity in Spanish Literature and Culture
edited by Sara Muñoz-Muriana
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 529 | Submission Open
Keywords: female identity and power; women in places and spaces; female corporeality; sexual identities; gender identities
French Fantasy Literature
edited by Alain Lescart and Anne Berthelot
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open
Keywords: French fantasy literature; French fantasy writers; sub-genres within French fantasy
Gender and Otherness in the Humanities
edited by M A Katritzky, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Jennie E. Owen and Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open
Keywords: gender and otherness in the humanities; literature; art; and performance; classical; medieval; and early-modern; eighteenth-century to modern; asymmetrical dependency; embodied dependencies; representing difference; mythological otherness; monstrous otherness; gendered otherness; social otherness; cultural representations of otherness; literature; drama; performance; and visual arts; polyphemus; foliate heads; monstrous humans; atypically bodied performers; dwarfs and pygmies; large primates in Europe; African slaves in Europe; gendered dependencies; prostitution; servitude; and slavery; religious minorities in Europe; fictional representations of Jewish women; traumascapes; metaphorical depictions of otherness
Italian Studies Today: Global Perspectives
edited by Mara Santi and Guylian Nemegeer
submission deadline 26 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 495 | Submission Open
Keywords: global Italian studies; evolving Italian cultural identity; teaching Italian culture; academic history of Italian studies
Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing
edited by Paul Fagan
submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 1195 | Submission Open
Keywords: queer theory; singles studies; celibacy; 19th and 20th century Ireland  ; Irish women’ s movements and literature; feminist politics
Aqueous Instabilities
edited by Camille Mathieu and
submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 1067 | 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 361 | Submission Open
Keywords: modern Greek literature; trauma; dictatorship
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 180 | 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 1036 | Submission Open
Keywords: Romanticism; geography; empire
Literature and Sound
edited by Vincent Barletta and Luca Bacchini
submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2428 | Submission Open
Keywords: listening; aurality; ethnography of literacy; phonology; music; modernity
Media, Cultural Memory and Hauntology
edited by and Robert Edgar
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 561 | 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 264 | Submission Open
Keywords: fairy tale; myth; revision; children's literature; feminist revision
Irish Literature and Culture
edited by Robert Brazeau
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open
Keywords: contemporary Irish studies; interdisciplinary methodologies; cultural formations; critical paradigms; twenty-first-century Ireland
Innovative, Imaginative, and Inventive: Adventures and Adventurers in Victorian and Edwardian Transportation
edited by Joellen Masters
submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 225 | 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 398 | 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 310 | Submission Open
Keywords: women’ s writing; feminist literary production; literary representations
Swiss Literature and Culture
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 680 | Submission Open
Keywords: Swiss literature and culture; literary multilingualism; Swissness
Literature and Health in the 21st Century
edited by and Anita Wohlmann
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 345 | Submission Open
Keywords: literature; medical humanities; health humanities; narrative medicine
Film and Philosophy
edited by Corin Depper
submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open
Keywords: film-philosophy; Deleuze; phenomenology; eco-philosophy; speculative realism; experimental film
How Has the Outer World Engaged Chinese Literature and Culture?
edited by Robert Kibler
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open
Keywords: Chinese influence; global literature; art; music; philosophy; culture
Horror Genres in Modern Fiction
edited by Rebecca Janicker
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 214 | Submission Open
Keywords: culture; ghosts; Gothic; haunting; horror; media
Imagine Otherwise: 21st Century Multiethnic Speculative Fiction and Narrative Time submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open
Keywords: speculative fiction; temporalities; futurity; history; contemporary literature; Africana; Latinx; indigenous; AAPI; multiethnic writers
Baroque Tragedy: Intersections of Literature and Cinema
edited by
submission deadline 1 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 197 | Submission Open
Keywords: Baroque tragedy; cinema; literature; illusion
Telling Tomorrows: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture
edited by Carla Kungl
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open
Keywords: detective fiction; popular culture; adaptations; crime fiction
Shakespeare, Gender and Religion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 155 | 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 217 | Submission Open
Keywords: later middle ages; literary texts; emotions; medieval textual production
(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)
Crossing Oceans of Time and Space in Transpacific Asian American Literature submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open
Keywords: Asian American literature; Pacific Islander; young adult literature
Black Feminist Ecologies
edited by Stefanie K. Dunning
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 437 | 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
Space Between: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture
edited by Ramona Fotiade and Andrea Sartori
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4669 | 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 236 | Submission Open
Keywords: European literature; Hollywood cinema; cross-fertilization
Sports, Literature and Culture submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: sport; athlete; star; fandom; spectatorship; nationalism; the body; performance; gender; Germany; athletic aesthetics; transnational sporting identities
Literary Modernism and the Concept of Freedom
edited by Tim Clarke
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open
Keywords: literary modernism; modernity; philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; freedom
Emotions and Affect in Words and Music
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open
Keywords: intermediality; liminality; music; emotions; affect
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 81 | 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
Reading the City: Urban Infrastructure in Literature
edited by Jie Lu
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open
Keywords: literary studies; infrastructure; urban modernity
New Approaches to Biblical Literary Studies
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: Bible; literature; Jewish and Christian scriptures; Jewish– Christian relations; theories of interpretation/hermeneutics; midrash; Biblical allusion; Tanak; old and new testaments
Modern Fantasy Writing submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: fantasy; speculative; medievalism; fairyland; quest; alternative history; the other; fable; secondary world
The State of LGBTQ Fiction
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 56 | 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 and Yan Lu
submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 4 | Submission Open
Keywords: realism; Chinese literature; classical foundations; post-mao literature; sinophone perspectives
“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 630 | Submission Open
Keywords: fairy tales; folklore; mythology; coloniality; national; and transnational identities
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