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Comparative Literature and World Literature: Toward a Global Cultural Community through a New Cosmopolitanism

edited by Anfeng Sheng

submission deadline 1 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 615 | 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)

African American Children's Literature

edited by

Neal Lester

submission deadline 19 Aug 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 21263 | Submission Open

Keywords: children’ s literature; race; United States literature; intersectionality; childism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

Re-imagining Classical Monsters

edited by

Phillip Zapkin

submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2785 | Submission Open

Keywords: monsters; horror; adaptation; reception; literature; art; film; television; theatre; drama

Early Modern Literature and the Mediterranean Slave Trade

edited by

Christopher Ivic

submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1186 | Submission Open

Depiction of Good and Evil in Fairytales

edited by

Katherine Elkins

submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 971 | Submission Open

Keywords: shapes of stories; comparative literature; computational humanities; philosophy and literature

The Central American Novel in the Twenty-First Century, 2000–2020

edited by

Raquel Patricia Chiquillo

submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5276 | Submission Open

Keywords: Central American literature; novel; narrative; contemporary; Latin American literature; 21st Century

Law and Literature: Graffiti

edited by Lindsay Stern

submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 449 | Submission Open

Keywords: law; literature; graffiti; media; writing; performance; law-scratching; cultural techniques

Religious Narratives and Devotional Practices in Early Modern Art: New Research Orientations

edited by

Ricardo De Mambro Santos

submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 439 | Submission Open

Keywords: religious narratives— early modern art; devotional practices; renaissance mysticism and art; baroque art and architecture; postcolonialism and art; gender identity and religion; art and spirituality; symbols in renaissance visual culture

Franz Kafka in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

edited by Ruth Gross

submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open

Victorian Realism and Crime

edited by Melissa Raines and Sam Saunders

submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 2138 | Submission Open

The Effects of Binary Thinking in the Arts and Humanities

edited by Judith Roof

submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 362 | Submission Open

Keywords: binary; digital; oppositions; narrative; literature; art

Legacy of Gothic Tradition in Horror Fiction

edited by

Sharon Gallagher

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 888 | Submission Open

The Eighteenth-Century Novel and History

edited by Flavio Gregori

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 436 | 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 231 | 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

Eco-Rebels with a Cause: Representations and Explorations of Politics and Activism in Children's and YA Literature

edited by

Nina Goga

and Lykke Guanio-Uluru

submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 996 | Submission Open

Keywords: aesthetics; ethics; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; environment; the posthuman; Anthropocene

Islamic Art and Architecture in Europe

edited by

María Marcos Cobaleda

submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 513 | 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)

Hölderlin and Poetic Transport

edited by Priscilla Hayden-Roy

submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 381 | Submission Open

Keywords: Friedrich Hö lderlin; German poet; transport; metaphor; translation

Godzilla at 70: The Giant Monster’s Legacy in Global Popular Culture

edited by

Steve Rawle

submission deadline 3 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 853 | 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)

Imagining the Law: American Literature and Justice

edited by Richard Schur

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 247 | Submission Open

Keywords: law; American literary texts; justice

Baroque Tragedy and the Cinema

edited by

Alice Mikal Craven

submission deadline 17 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 212 | 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 1542 | 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

Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo

and Hirofumi Sugawara

submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 1286 | 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 354 | Submission Open

Keywords: Caribbean literature; postcolonialism; crises of the globalizing present; multiple diasporas; decolonial self-determination; rise of a new world

Transnational, Intermedial and Computational Perspectives on European Popular Print

edited by Jeroen Salman and Juan Gomis Coloma

submission deadline 6 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open

Keywords: European popular print; popular images; digital humanities approaches

World Mythology and Its Connection to Nature and/or Ecocriticism

edited by

Rachel McCoppin

submission deadline 10 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10695 | 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 177 | Submission Open

Keywords: child migration; displacement; experience; resilience; imagination; fiction; art; film

Global Antiracism

edited by

Jeffrey R. Di Leo

and

Zahi Zalloua

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5650 | 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

Gillian Dooley

submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3457 | Submission Open

Hybridity and Border Crossings in Contemporary North American Poetry

edited by Ann Keniston

submission deadline 4 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 102 | 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 728 | 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 603 | Submission Open

Keywords: literary characters; literary fiction; literary criticism; fictional objects; formal ontologies; digital humanities; information systems; medieval Italian literature; metaphysics

Shakespearean Performance: Contemporary Approaches, Findings, and Practices

edited by Cynthia Lewis

submission deadline 31 Mar 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1920 | 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 357 | 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

Linda Chavers

submission deadline 1 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 531 | Submission Open

Keywords: mississippi river valley basin; art; history; literature; culture; indigenous studies; african-american studies; colonialism in early america; early modern; contemporary

Homes and Homelands: Leaving a Homeland/Creating a Home

edited by Dina Amin

submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 381 | 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 105 | 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 54 | 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 332 | 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 183 | Submission Open

Keywords: riot; literature; anglophone world

Reading J. M. Coetzee’s Letters

edited by Michela Borzaga

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 120 | 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

Comparative Jewish Literatures

edited by

Kitty Millet

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: comparative literature; Jewish studies; Jewish writer; sacred text; profane; Talmud; Hebrew bible; kabbalah; Yiddish; Hebrew; national traditions; post-colonial; Global South

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