CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Black Queer Representations. Desire, Afro-Fabulation, and
Dreaming of Freedom
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33696.html
In this panel at the MLA 2027 convention (Los Angeles, CA,
from 7 to 10 January 2027), we explore afro-fabulation in envisioning desire as
a path to freedom for Black queer subjects, those whom GerShun Avilez (2020)
terms “injury-bound.” More broadly, we seek papers that ask how desire
generates alternative frameworks for reading the aesthetics of Black and queer
visuality and the coterminous risk of hypervisibility. This panel invites
20-minute papers that explore the strategies, performances, and imaginings of
Black queer desire and subjectivity within and beyond visual and/or digital
media, literature, or the historical archive.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 14, 2026
Lizette London, Emory University (lvlondo@emory.edu)
Nigel Lezama, Toronto Metropolitan University
(nlezama@torontomu.ca)
The Promises of Monsters: Those Haunting Feminist
Speculative Fiction
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33661.html
This panel explores the promises and provocations of
monstrous and ghostly figures in feminist and queer speculative fiction,
focusing on gendered human and nonhuman bodies. We are particularly interested
in how monsters articulate socially ingrained fears and anxieties about women,
queer communities, and the nonhuman world, as well as the desires and
apprehensions they evoke toward the impossible, the fantastic, or the
supernatural. Contributors might consider how these monstrous imaginings shape,
challenge, or expand the category of “us,” offering critical insights into who
is included, who is excluded, and on what grounds. By interrogating these
entanglements, the panel seeks to illuminate how feminist and queer speculative
fiction uses the figure of the monster to question normative assumptions, open
new imaginative possibilities, and rethink the ethical and social stakes of
inclusion, otherness, and coexistence.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 14, 2026
Ezgi Hamzacebi, Ozyegin University
(ezgi.hamzacebi@ozyegin.edu.tr)
Reconsidering Posthumanist Critique: Subjecthoods in
Artistic and Cultural Practices
https://asap17.exordo.com/submissions/panels/public/30/view
Panel at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the
Present annual conference
October 15–17, 2026, University of Wisconsin
What bearing does posthumanist critique continue to have in
our present moment, when humanist personhood, along with its co-constitutive
dehumanizations, seems to be so boldly rearing its ugly head? What are the
possibilities in naming that which may move us beyond posthumanist critique—to
propose, structure, or otherwise illustrate subjecthoods? Can posthumanism, as
a capacious theoretical framework, enable innovative assembly and response to
urgent political demands, allowing us to “get together” but not relinquishing
ethical forms of autonomous agency? In response to these questions, this panel
invites reconsiderations of posthumanist critique in present artistic and
cultural practices.
To apply, please either 1) send a 200-word abstract and
brief bio to Madalen Claire Benson (mcbenson@ucsc.edu) and Jacob Zhicheng Zhang
(jacobzhicheng.zhang@mail.utoronto.ca) or 2) submit via the link indicated in
this CfP by April 13, 2026. Graduate students and independent
scholars are encouraged to apply.
Why It Matters:
Teaching Empathy, Critical Thinking, and Civil Discourse across the Humanities
and Social Sciences
August 17–20, 2026,
Zoom
H-Net is excited to
announce Why It Matters: Teaching Empathy, Critical Thinking, and Civil
Discourse across the Humanities and Social Sciences will be the theme for the
fifth annual H-Net Teaching Conference. This year’s theme emphasizes the
importance of the humanities and social sciences in building the knowledge,
skills, and abilities that support civil discourse, which is a foundation of
functional democracies. In addition to civil discourse, this year’s theme
focuses on using the humanities and social sciences to build understanding and
connections through empathy and critical thinking.
Contact Email bjcartwright@utep.edu
Summer Research Institute 2026
https://libguides.bgsu.edu/sri2026/call
June 22–26, 2026
Whether you’re writing a book, revising a dissertation
chapter, building a new course, launching a new project, or diving into a
fandom archive, you are welcome here!
Spend a week working with the Browne Popular Culture Library
and the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, two nationally recognized
collections that support distinctive research in popular culture and music.
Both repositories will be available for in-depth research during the Institute,
offering access to comic books, sound recordings, fanzines, publicity
materials, scripts and screenplays, archival manuscripts, magazines and other
primary sources supporting a wide range of interdisciplinary research.
Apply by March 31, 2026.
Summer Research Institute 2026
https://libguides.bgsu.edu/sri2026/call
June 22–26, 2026
Whether you’re writing a book, revising a dissertation
chapter, building a new course, launching a new project, or diving into a
fandom archive, you are welcome here!
Spend a week working with the Browne Popular Culture Library
and the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, two nationally recognized
collections that support distinctive research in popular culture and music.
Both repositories will be available for in-depth research during the Institute,
offering access to comic books, sound recordings, fanzines, publicity
materials, scripts and screenplays, archival manuscripts, magazines and other
primary sources supporting a wide range of interdisciplinary research.
Apply by March 31, 2026.
Western Literature Association Conference
https://westernlit.org/wla-conference-2026/
https://westernlit.org/wla-conference-2026/
Eugene, Oregon, from August 26–29
WLA 2026 welcomes proposals on any aspect of literary and
cultural productions of the “American West” (broadly conceived and
complicated). We also encourage proposals for papers, panels, roundtables,
lightning rounds, structured conversations, and other formats.
Deadline for Submissions: March 31, 2026
Email Kirby Brown at wlaconference2026@westernlit.org.
Voces Oral History Summer Institute at the University of
Texas at Austin
https://voces.moody.utexas.edu/summer-institute
June 1-5, 2026
This workshop is for faculty and graduate students wishing
to use oral history in research and teaching. This weeklong institute will be
helpful to the beginner, intermediate and advanced scholar. Instructors have
created oral history projects, published widely using oral history, and are
leaders in oral history publishing and teaching. Participants meet in break-out
groups with the institute directors to workshop their own plans and ideas.
The deadline to apply is Friday, March 27, 2026 at noon CST.
PUBLICATIONS
Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The American Research Handbook on Diversity, Equity &
Inclusion, an edited scholarly volume that examines the evolving role of
diversity, equity, and inclusion within American democracy and educational
institutions. The Women’s Experience section seeks rigorous, thoughtful, and
evidence-based analyses that examine gender equity, intersectionality, and the
evolving role(s) of women in society at the present moment.
In our specific climate, when reproductive rights are being
rolled back, fields dominated by women are being “deprofessionalized,” women’s
and gender studies programs are being targeted, trad wives and diet culture are
going viral, submissions are invited that explore how women are coping with,
countering, and/or shaping discourses about women and gender.
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026
The Women’s Experience queries to Michele Ren
mren2@radford.edu<mailto:mren2@radford.edu>. If folks
would like to contribute to other sections of the Handbook, please contact
James Bridgeforth at bridgeforth@vt.edu<mailto:bridgeforth@vt.edu> for section
editor contact information.
The Politics of Ableism: Gender, Sexuality, and
Disability in Literature and Media
Critical essays are invited for a book on Disability and
Gender that explores the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality
across literary texts, cultural practices, and media representations. It
particularly focuses on the representation, construction, and negotiation of
gendered experiences and sexuality in the lives of the people with
disabilities. This book seeks to examine how sexuality and gendered identities
are negotiated within disability narratives and visual cultures. It aims to move
beyond reductive tropes and explore the complexity of embodied experience,
intimacy, desire, consent, reproduction, care, vulnerability, and
relationality.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01 June 2026
Contact Email disability.gender@gmail.com
Call for News and Events Submissions – Siren! Magazine
https://penn.manifoldapp.org/journals/siren
Siren! Magazine is a transnational student-led feminist
magazine dedicated to amplifying voices, knowledges, and practices that are
often submerged within dominant media and cultural ecosystems. Our inaugural
issue, “Resurfacing feminist voices,” will be launched as an intervention into
the noise of contemporary media culture, resisting silencing, challenging
hegemonic narratives, and reclaiming communication as a key site for care,
solidarity, and transformation. To accompany our first issue, alongside scholarly
submissions, Siren! Magazine invites news, announcements, and short reports
about events, initiatives, and cultural interventions related to submerged
knowledges, practices, and forms of collective resistance.
Please send your submission by email to
asc-sirenmagazine@asc.upenn.edu with the subject line: “Siren! News &
Events Submission – Inaugural Issue”
Deadline: March 30, 2026
Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, Truth, and Resilience
Within Indigenous Communities
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9804
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume
titled Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, Truth, and Resilience Within
Indigenous Communities. Across global contexts, Indigenous communities
continue to confront the layered consequences of land dispossession, forced
assimilation, cultural suppression, environmental destruction, and systemic
inequities. Yet alongside trauma exists profound resilience—expressed through
story, ceremony, language revitalization, artistic expression, community
mobilization, and intergenerational renewal.
Proposals Submission Deadline: May 3, 2026
email: robin.throne@gmail.com
Thinking with Things: Narrative, Culture, and Material
Politics
Even though questions of matter and materiality have long
informed humanistic thought, recent years have witnessed a renewed and
intensified engagement with “materiality” across the humanities and social
sciences. This resurgence responds to a range of contemporary
challenges—environmental instability, planetary disruption, digital
overdetermination, infrastructural fragility, and the erosion of
anthropocentric exceptionalism—all of which have reshaped how we understand
what it means to be human in a more-than-human world. We invite contributions
that engage with themes such as materiality and narrative form; objects and
material culture; literature, cinema, and visual culture; affect and
embodiment; ecological and planetary imaginaries; everyday life and capitalist
circulation; ethics and material relations; transmedia storytelling;
human/nonhuman interfaces; urban space and spatial materialities; temporality,
ruin, and breakdown; archives and material traces; digital media and
technological assemblages; and object-oriented ontology, among others.
Abstracts of approximately 300 words, along with a brief bio
(100–150 words), should be sent to thinkingthings.project@gmail.com by May 30,
2026.
Contact Email thinkingthings.project@gmail.com
Black Ecocriticism
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dPgTnquHeNFI4orcStuINWomu1scunNa7rS5wvLAfVg/edit?tab=t.0
African American Review invites proposals for an upcoming
special issue entitled Meditations on the Black Garden. The emerging field of
Black Ecologies–along with a new wave of African American gardening literature
by writers like Camille Dungy and Ross Gay–suggest that the time has come for a more expansive
investigation of the garden’s significance in African American literature and
culture. In addition to works that address the garden in holistic terms,
possible topics include soil, plants, roots, germination, historical methods of
cultivation, health humanities in relation to gardens, eco-poetry, tensions
within and across urban, rural, and regional imaginings of the garden,
reimagining growing spaces in slavery’s afterlives, and class issues that
explore the economics of gardens. We welcome papers dealing with Black-authored
literature from any time period that utilize a wide range of methodologies that
shed light on how contemporary articulations of ecocriticism might be applied
to African American literary scholarship.
Preliminary abstracts of no more than 500 words are due May
1, 2026 to AARBlackgardensSI@gmail.com.
The Utopia of Non-Ableism: Gender, Sexuality, and
Disability in Literature and Media
Critical essays are invited for a book on Disability and
Gender that explores the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality
across literary texts, cultural practices, and media representations. It
particularly focuses on the representation, construction, and negotiation of
gendered experiences and sexuality in the lives of the people with
disabilities. This book seeks to examine how sexuality and gendered identities
are negotiated within disability narratives and visual cultures. It aims to
move beyond reductive tropes and explore the complexity of embodied experience,
intimacy, desire, consent, reproduction, care, vulnerability, and
relationality.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01 June 2026
Contact Email disability.gender@gmail.com
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice – Special issues
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-writing-in-creative-practice#call-for-papers
Maternal writing in/as creative practice
This issue aims to address what it means to write from the
position of the maternal as part of a creative practice and how ‘maternal
thinking’ (Ruddick, 1989) impacts on current debates within creative practice
about care, reciprocity, labour and time. Adopting an expanded notion of the
maternal, which reaches beyond biological understandings to include
non-biological maternal subjectivities, we invite contributions that engage
with the many and varied ways in which writing in/as creative practice can be
understood as a new way to think the maternal. What does maternal thinking do
to writing within the context of art and design practice and pedagogy? What is
it to write not about the maternal in art and design practice, but from the
maternal?
Please send 5000-6000-word articles, or other forms of
contribution, to Clare.Johnson@uwe.ac.uk by 1 May 2026
Methods & Approaches of Writing for the Performance
Studies Stage
Writing is not only a means of representing performance; it
is one of the primary methods by which performance is made, shaped, rehearsed,
and realized. This special issue seeks contributions that explore the methods
and approaches of writing that enable, affect, and constitute live performance
across our stages. Rather than writing about performance as metaphorical or
discursive, this issue positions writing as a practical, creative, and
methodological practice integral to theatrical and staged performance-making.
Submissions due by 15 December 2026.
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the Study of Women,
Gender, and Sexuality
https://apply.interfolio.com/182227
The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at
Smith College invites applications for a one-year, benefits eligible
postdoctoral teaching fellowship with a
specialty in Transgender Studies. A Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies or a relevant field is expected by the time of appointment.
Review of applications will begin on March 16, 2026.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Postdoctoral-Fellowship%2C-College-of-Arts-&-Sciences/101570-en_US
The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of
Cincinnati (UC) is pleased to announce a search for a 2026–28 Taft Postdoctoral
Fellow. Scholars who received or will receive their PhD between May 2021 and
June 2026. The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide emergent,
interdisciplinary scholars with time to further their work in a
cross-disciplinary setting, mentoring from faculty members in their fields, and
opportunities to develop public-facing programming related to their research.
We are particularly interested in scholars whose work can speak to our 2026–27
theme “Counter,” which explores questions of quantification, representation,
and opposition, asking what kinds of accounting the current moment demands, as well
as reflections and responses to what the humanities are up against.
We will begin reviewing applications on March 31, 2026, and
continue until the position is filled.
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES
Short-Term Fellowships and Travel to Collection Grants
https://gilcrease.org/helmerich-center/research-fellowships/
https://gilcrease.org/helmerich-center/travel-collections-grants/
The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American
Research at Gilcrease Museum offers funding opportunities to support
in-residence research projects within the Gilcrease Museum Library and Archives
housed at the center. The collections contain roughly 100,000 rare books,
documents, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and more. Spanning from the 15th
through the 21st centuries, the collection documents the broad histories of the
Americas, with particular strengths in the experiences of America’s Indigenous
peoples, Native language materials, European colonization, Mexican Inquisition
records, and the American West. Researchers are also encouraged to research
materials relevant to their project at McFarlin Library Special Collections (on
The University of Tulsa campus), holding collections related to British, Irish,
and American modernist literature, as well as World War I, Native American
history and culture, and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Short-Term Research Fellowships (Due: March 31, 2026)
Travel to Collections Grants (Applications will be
considered all year until funds are exhausted)
email: hcarlibrary@utulsa.edu
Montana State University's Distinctive Collections Travel
and Access Award
https://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/news-and-events/dcta-award.html
The award is intended to defray the costs of either travel
to Bozeman to conduct research; to facilitate digitization of portions of a
collection to allow a researcher to work remotely; or a mix of the two.
Recipients may be academics (including graduate students) or independent
scholars who are residents of the United States. We are unable to pay for any
costs above the award amount. Through a collaborative effort of the Ivan Doig
Center for the Study of the Lands & Peoples of the North American West, the
Archives and Special Collections (ASC) department of the MSU Library, and the
Friends of MSU Library , Montana State University offers a $3,000 annual award
to facilitate research into collections held by ASC.
Davidson Family Fellowship in American Art
https://www.cartermuseum.org/research-carter/fellowships
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art invites applications
for the 2026–2027 Davidson Family Fellowship. The Fellowship provides support
for scholars holding a PhD (or equivalent) or PhD candidates to work on
research projects in American art that advance scholarship by connecting with
objects in the Carter’s permanent collection. The stipend rate is $5,000 per
month for a minimum one-month to a maximum four-month period of full-time
research at the Museum. During their stay, fellows will actively participate in
the scholarly life of the Museum, and at the end of their appointment they are
asked to present research progress in the form of a lecture or roundtable
discussion.
The application deadline is June 30, 2026, for a fellowship
to begin on or after October 1, 2026
Contact Email research@cartermuseum.org
EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
CONFERENCES
Empowering Future Educators: Student-Created Content and
Open Pedagogy Practices in Social Studies Teacher Preparation
Mar 25, 2026 03:00 PM
This presentation explores the transformative potential of
open pedagogy in preparing future history and social studies educators. It
highlights a sustained librarian–faculty partnership between Dr. Brad
Cartwright, UTEP History Department and Tessy
Torres, UTEP’s OER Librarian, whose collaboration has shaped the
integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) and open practices within
teacher education.
Contact Email bjcartwright@utep.edu
The Salem Witch Trials and the Digital Archive
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2717719516894/WN_ZInNdssjSz-R6atCVOPlkQ#/registration
Mar 25, 2026 12:00 PM in Central Time
By far, the records related to the Salem witch trials are
the most viewed resource in the New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH) digital
archive. The original manuscripts in the Salem Witchcraft Trials Records, 1692
collection were digitized as part of the NEHH project with our project
partners, the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. These documents,
which had not previously been digitized and were not available online, were
found in the Phillips Library’s collection in 2017 by members of the CLA and
Phillips Library staff. Join NEHH Project Director Tricia Peone and Dan Lipcan
for a conversation about digitizing records of the Salem witch trials and their
ongoing interest to researchers and the public.
Author Spotlight with the Alabama Literary Review
https://spectrum.troy.edu/alr/events.htm
March 30-April 1, online
Join our free online sessions to hear creative readings by
authors whose works of prose and poetry were published in the most recent issue
of the Alabama Literary Review. Each session will have a question-and-answer
segment for audience members who would like to ask our authors about their
works, their writing strategies, or the publishing process.
Indigenous Resistance and the Colonialism of our Times
https://events.uvic.ca/humanities/event/106160-indigenous-resistance-the-colonialism-of-our
March 31, 3:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Dr. Nick Estes (Enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux
Tribe), Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the
Lansdowne Lecture for Critical Encounters, on Indigenous Resistance and the
Colonialism of Our Times. Estes is the author of the award-winning book Our
History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the
Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (2019), which places the
Indigenous-led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline into historical
context. He co-edited with Jaskiran Dhillon Standing
with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (2019), which
draws together more than thirty contributors, including leaders, scholars, and
activists of the Standing Rock movement, for a reflection of Indigenous history
and politics and on the movement’s significance.
Contact Email dirchc@uvic.ca
Open-Access Platform
for Faculty to Design AI
Teach Anything, https://www.teachanything.ai, is a platform that enables professors
to use its open-source LLMs (such as Mistral and Llama) to design and deploy AI
applications for education. All apps created on the platform are permanently
free and open access. They are easily sharable. Students do not need to login,
and their privacy is fully protected.
Contact admin@teachanything.ai or Professor Alexa Alice Joubin,
ajoubin@gwu.edu, if you have any questions.
The Scholarly Kitchen
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/about/
The mission of the
Society for Scholarly Publishing is “[t]o advance scholarly publishing and
communication, and the professional development of its members through
education, collaboration, and networking.” The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated
and independent blog aimed to help fulfill this mission by bringing together
differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presenting them openly.
Check out the recent
guest post, “Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University
Press Perspective”!
