Calls for Contributions

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book on transgender cli-fi and sci-fi. We welcome chapters examining climate fiction and science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. We have confirmed contributors from a dozen countries on six continents.

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than September 1, 2023.

A sampling of confirmed contributors includes:

Call for Paper on “Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation”

Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from academics and writers for publication in an edited volume with ISBN. Authors are requested to strictly follow the submission guidelines mentioned herewith in their papers. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication. The proposed title of the volume which is below, may subject to change:

Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation

Since the study encompasses the whole range of Indian Diaspora literature, the author ...

Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning based at Boston University is currently soliciting essays for a special issue on the intersection of music and the environment. The issue is scheduled for online publication in January 2024. Submissions across all academic disciplines are welcome. We welcome, too, contributions from musicians and individuals working in the music industry. We are particularly interested in the ways musicians, composers, lyricists, and audiences have addressed or responded to environmental concerns. Contributors can focus ...

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“Ecolinguistics: Voices from the Global South” is a ground-breaking collection of articles that delves into the various interests and fields of research associated with ecolinguistics. This book, written by top researchers in the subject, provides a unique viewpoint on how language and ecology meet in the Global South. This book is a crucial resource for anybody interested in the connection between applied linguistics and the natural environment, from questions of decolonization and the promotion of Southern epistemologies to the practical applications of ecolinguistic ...

The Society for the Study of American Travel Writing (SSATW) seeks proposals for a panel on “Wildness and Wilderness in American Travel Writing” at the American Literature Association’s Fall Symposium (October 26-28, 2023, in Santa Fe, New Mexico). Scholarship on any region or era of American Travel Writing is welcome.

The unfamiliar, unexplored, and unsettled places have long captivated the American literary imagination and travel writing. Whether we think of wilderness as sacred, shrinking, imagined, or simulated, how has the spectacle of wildness, in ...

Chapter proposals are invited for Postcolonial Ecofeminist Literature. Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/PostcolonialEcofeministLiteratureProposals no later than June 10, 2023.

This is a volume of literary theory and criticism guided by both postcolonial and ecofeminist insights. To be competitive, proposals must:

Special Issue of Twentieth-Century Literature: Writing (About) Literature While the House Burns Down

As the climate house that allows for what we call “civilization” burns down, business as usual in the Global North keeps on fueling the fire. Indeed, the more climate change is talked about, the more greenhouse gas is emitted into the atmosphere.

As Greta Thunberg famously put it, “They’ve now had 30 years of blah, blah, blah and where has that led us?” Cleary, there is something wrong with the way we ...

Call for Manuscripts for Edited Volume

Working Title: The Ecology and Spirituality of Gardening with Native Plants

Lexington Books (A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc)

Edited by Michael Stephens PhD (Johnson & Wales University)

In Maryland in 2020, a couple successfully filed a complaint against an HOA when it tried to prevent them from keeping their yard as a bee and wildlife friendly habitat. A law, passed in 2021 by the Maryland State Legislature, now limits the power of HOA’s in that state to dispute ...

A New American Vein: Critical Essays on Contemporary Appalachian Literature

Scholarly Collection: Call for Contributions

Editors: Nicole Drewitz-Crockett and Zackary Vernon

Ohio University Press’s release of An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature in 2005 was a watershed moment in regional studies. The first volume of its kind, An American Vein claimed new ground in literary criticism, confirming and coalescing scholarly understandings of major Appalachian literary texts. In doing so, it laid the foundation for additional volumes of criticism to follow. A New American Vein: Critical ...

“Queer Environs” Special Issue for Diacritics, edited by Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymour

Both noun and verb, “environ” points to what’s “out there,” one’s milieu or surrounding world, the assemblage of human and more-than-human beings in which one finds oneself situated, as well as the activity of encircling an area to enclose, circumnavigate, or occupy it. So too, “queer,” as noun and verb, derives its original meaning from space, referring to something that is oblique, slanted, or off-center.

Taking the spatial dimensions at stake in the ...