Listings below are maintained by the ACLA Secretariat. To submit a call for papers for review, use the Submit a Call for Papers form. The Secretariat reviews each submission and publishes accepted CFPs to this list.
Alif 48: Literature Beyond Borders: Festschrift in Honor of Ferial Ghazoul
Submission deadline: January 5, 2027 Abstract deadline: October 1, 2026 Article submission deadline: May 1, 2027 Publication: Spring 2028 Following decades of a trailblazing career in liter…
Untameable Texts: The Eternal Return of Indigenous Cosmogonies and Their Myths
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026 Event: NeMLA 58th Annual Conference Event dates: March 6-9, 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS — NeMLA 2027 Seminar Salve Regina University, Newport, RI | March 6–9, 202…
Can Literary Criticism Break Free of the Silos Trap — and Carry Literature Along?
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026 Event: NeMLA 58th Annual Conference Event dates: March 6-9, 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS — NeMLA 2027 Seminar Salve Regina University, Newport, RI | March 6–9, 202…
Multilingual Self-Writing and Intertextuality (Plurilinguisme littéraire, n°2)
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026 Plurilinguisme littéraire is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access annual journal published digitally. It is devoted to the study of literary writi…
Call for Participation: Confessions of Bad Taste
Submission deadline: October 15, 2026 Event: Workshop: Confessions of Bad Taste. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Guilty Pleasures Event dates: June 2-4, 2027 Performances of shamelessness and me…
1977-2027: The Public Burning at 50. Fiction, History, Politics – Robert Coover’s Legacy
Submission deadline: October 1, 2026 Event dates: 10-11 June 2027 The year 2027 will mark the 50th anniversary of the controversial publication of Robert Coover’s The Public Burning. Both to celebr…