Calls for Contributions

Humanities Bulletin Journal Submission Deadline: April 25, 2021 Vol. 4, No. 1 – May, 2021

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts. This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new ...

SPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the West

The Mark Twain Annual will commemorate the sesquicentennial of Roughing It in 2022 with a special issue devoted to Mark Twain and the West. The Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine Twain’s relationship to all aspects of the American West.

This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s work as:

• Western regionalist writing • Twain and indigenous peoples • Twain and immigrant populations • Commentary on the American frontier • Twain and domestic travel • Twain’s Western journalism • The West as ...

becoming-Feral is a creative research publication which aims to investigate the complex relationships between human/other-animals and the shifting categories of wild/feral/domestic, set within landscapes constantly being altered by global transformations of climate and capitalism. We are interested in exploring reciprocal and responsive multispecies reactions to the act of becoming-Feral.

becoming-Feral will curate a prismatic and multifaceted perspective on our understandings of other-animals and their ‘wildness’ through the form of a bestiarum vocabulum (book of beasts). We invite creative contributions from anyone: zoologists; scholars; researchers; ...

Special Issue of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies

Guest Editor: Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad

This special issue of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies invites scholars in the environmental and energy humanities, media studies, film studies, musicology, sound studies, and cultural studies to probe climate change and environmental degradation from the visual and sound perspectives and their intersection. We are particularly interested in how various visual and sound media, including film, TV, theater, art, and music, address the problem of the invisibility of the ...

Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry is currently open for entries to our 2021 Undergraduate Poetry Contest, and will remain so until March 1. Students currently enrolled in undergraduate studies are invited to send us their best single poem of up to 70 lines that is backcountry infused and inspired. There is no fee to submit, and winners will receive cash prizes.

We are also open for general submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. Previously published is welcome. The deadline for general submissions ...

“Pastoralism is a species of cultural equipment that western thought has for more than two millennia been unable to do without” (Lawrence Buell, 1995).

Since its very beginning, Ecocriticism – and its so-called four “waves” – has highlighted the inextricable entanglement of the pastoral with Western perceptions, representations and conceptualizations of the environment (Buell 1995; 2005; Slovic 2010). The recent emergence and multiplication of analytical perspectives, theories, and neologisms related to this subject, including the ‘post-pastoral’ (Gifford, 1999), the ‘postmodern pastoral’ (Corey and Waldrep 2012), and the ...

Collaborating for a better world: Wales Arts Review seeks contributors for newly launched environment section

The climate crisis is the most urgent issue of our time – Wales Arts Review hopes to spotlight trailblazing art, research & science with new collaborators.

Wales Arts Review has been a home for high quality critical writing and arts coverage since 2012. The destruction of the natural world is the most urgent issue of our times. The ambition of the new Wales Arts Review Environment section is to give ...

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism Editors: Kenneth K Brandt and Karin M Danielsson

Call for proposals.

At the end of the 19th century, American authors such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London were influenced by new advances in science—notably the idea of evolution. Nature and the nonhuman were crucial for these writers, whom scholars most often group under the rubric of American literary naturalists. Traditional scholarship on American literary naturalism has closely attended to various environmental pressures in urban and wilderness ...

Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry, the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads, seeks poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art for Volume 3, to be published in June 2021. Our submission window is October 1 to January 1. We welcome previously published work and don’t charge submission fees.

We will also be sponsoring an Undergraduate Student Poetry Contest, with submissions open from January 1 to March 1. It’s a no-fee contest, with cash awards for winners.

Before submitting, ...

Post Green: Literature, Culture, and Environment Edited by Murali Sivaramakrishnan and Animesh Roy

One of the central concerns of modern environmentalism in the West, especially in environmental humanities has been a greater preoccupation and a consequent move toward postmaterialist values. Literary environmentalism in the West arose out of a desire toward a posthumanist understanding of the earth, an exploration of how literature and literary criticism could be a potent tool for or against environmental change. Despite Glotfelty and Buell’s noble intentions, the lacuna inherent within ...