Guest editors Dawn Keetley, Professor of English and Film, Lehigh University, and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Folklore, Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg, invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Horror Studies on the topic of folk horror. Essays of 6-7,000 words are due by October 3, 2022.
Calls for Submissions
The editors of the online peer-reviewed journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century invite proposals for a collection of essays on the ways in which contemporary art and heritage practices have been engaging with forms of nineteenth-century immersive spectacle. Proposals are due by March 1, 2022.
The Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University is inviting proposals for a one-day colloquium on July 1, 2022. Submissions are due by February 28, 2022.
Jared L. Schmidt is the new editor of the AFS New Directions in Folklore Section’s online, peer-reviewed journal, New Directions in Folklore. The section and the journal are dedicated to pushing the envelope of scholarship in the exploration of contemporary culture.
Queen’s University Belfast’s American Studies Association (ASA) is seeking submissions for “Theirstory”: An Online Conference on American LGBTQIA+ Scholarship and Activism, on Monday February 28, 2022. Submissions are due by February 7, 2022 at 5pm. The month of February has long been
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is seeking proposals for presentations, posters, and panels for its 56th annual conference to be held virtually from May 18-21, 2022. Proposals are due by January 31, 2022.
The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways. Applications are due March 1.
The Louisiana Folklore Society seeks papers, presentations, panel proposals, and creative works related to or inspired by the theme of “Waterlore” for its annual meeting, to be held April 1-2, 2022 at the Teche Center for the Arts in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
The journal Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) is seeking submissions for an issue called "Poetics of the Travelling Self: Discursive Formations and Purposiveness of Travel." Submissions are due by January 31, 2022.
The Ohio State University Comparative Studies Department seeks submissions for a spring graduate conference to be held on May 13th-14th, 2022. Proposals are due by February 28, 2022.