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PAMLA 2026: Androhorror: New Approaches to Gender in Horror (Roundtable / In-Person) – Deadline 05/15/2026
The following is a cfp for a roundtable session at the forthcoming PAMLA 2026 conference to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, U.S. from Nov 12-15, 2026. Please contact Noah Gallego [email protected] for inquiries. All abstracts must be submitted through the PAMLA portal. The deadline is May 15, 2026 This roundtable invites scholars across the disciplines and different stages in their…
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Festival of Monsters SSAG Allied Session – Deadline 04/08/2026
We are accepting proposals for our allied session at the Festival of Monsters Conference (10/14-10/18, 2026, Santa Cruz, CA). In keeping with the annual theme of “Language,” we are proposing a panel on Monstrous Dialects. Modern adaptations of the zombie myth have a habit of assigning new language and dialect patterns to the undead. In…
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Bodies & Embodiment in Jackson – Deadline 05/21/2026
Shirley Jackson Studies invites proposals exploring the role of the body and embodiment in the works of Shirley Jackson. The bodily experience—fear, appetite, illness, gendered expectations, and the social regulation of bodies—shapes both the psychological and supernatural dimensions of Jackson’s work, which frequently interrogates the boundaries between self and society, mind and body, domestic space and…
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THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ACAS 2026 – Deadline 06/15/2026
The Southern Gothic is not merely a regional offshoot of the Gothic tradition—it is a dynamic cultural mode shaped by the histories, violences, mythologies, and contradictions of the American South. Rooted in hauntings both literal and structural, the Southern Gothic interrogates race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ecology, labor, memory, and the ongoing afterlives of history.…
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To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry – Deadline 03/01/2026
[email protected] Call for abstracts for proposed articles To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry “When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and seek no sympathy from any living creature, and which yet we cannot, or…
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More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify: Women and People of Marginalised Genders in the Gothic – Deadline 3/30/2026
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify: A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 22nd/23rd August 2026 (Online) 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final posthumous works. Often paid scant attention in critical writing on Radcliffe, they challenge a number of common assumptions about Radcliffean form. In doing so, they…
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Popular Culture Review – Deadline Ongoing
Popular Culture Review welcomes compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on popular culture both past and present. We seek to publish research on traditional as well as on emerging forms of popular culture and encourage submissions on underrepresented areas within our field. We publish articles within the journal’s scope on a continuous basis, meaning that journal articles…
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Preternature Journal – Deadline Ongoing
Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, esotericism, demonology, monstrophy, and more, recognizing that the areas of magic, religion,…
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SALEM MEETS THE NOIR 2026 – Deadline 1/16/2026
First Conference on Hispanic Noir in Literature, Television, and CinemaMay 19–21, 2026Salem State UniversitySalem, Massachusetts, USA Salem Meets the Noir 2026 is the first U.S. conference dedicated to Hispanic Noir across literature, TV, and film. This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars, writers, filmmakers, and students to share their interest and passion for the fictional…
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EcoGothic Journeys – Deadline 12/19/2025
Since the early days of gothic writing in Europe, journeying has been at the heart of the genre. Ann Radcliffe’s heroines were transported to faraway castles and abbeys, while Melmoth wandered the earth an outcast and Victor Frankenstein travelled to the Arctic to hunt down his monstrous creation. The fictional vampire, from Lord Ruthven to…