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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.”
11th TAELS conference — Home-Making: Reinventing Home in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Submissions open through June 30, 2026 for the 11th TAELS conference, Sousse, Tunisia, November 20–21, 2026.
TRANS- special issue on “Playful/ludic literature”
Submissions open through June 15, 2026 for a special issue of journal TRANS- on playful/ludic literature.
From Letterform to Literary Site — Princeton conference on Korean textual objects
Submissions open through June 15, 2026 for “From Letterform to Literary Site: The Material Lives of Korean Textual Objects,” Princeton, November 6–7, 2026.
Edited collection — “Invisibility & The Raft of Hope” (Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man at 75)
Submissions open May 4–June 15, 2026 for an edited collection on the 75th anniversary of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.