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.
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…
Matatu at Forty
Submission deadline: September 30, 2026 Event: Doing African Literary and Cultural Studies: Archival Knowledge, Contemporary Relevance and Future Possibilities Event dates: November 26, 2026 In 2…
Muslim Cultural Production in the Wake of the War on Terror
Submission deadline: September 15, 2026 Call for Chapter Abstracts: Muslim Cultural Production in the Wake of the War on Terror Nearly twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, i…
Call for conference papers: Genre and Genre Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Submission deadline: August 14, 2027 Event: Genre and Genre Fiction in the Twenty-First Century Event dates: May 14-15, 2027 The research team Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures at the University o…
Open Access cluster — Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies (ed. Alexa Alice Joubin)
Rolling submissions for an open-access special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin on virtuality, embodiment, and meaning-making in AI technologies.
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies — “Literature and the Body”
Submissions open through August 1, 2026 for a Nesir special issue, “Literature and the Body: The Relations Between Being and Writing.”