Amazing to see this issue published! Co heats to @keeblearin.bsky.social Alice Bennett @melissaschuh.bsky.social & @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social
16.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A reminder that Foundation is publishing a special autumn issue on pulp sf to mark the centenary of Amazing Stories. We'd love to have your essays (the deadline is potentially negotiable). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
27.01.2026 10:14 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The first article in our collection 'Gaming & the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Last of Us' is out! Bob Yeates deftly critiques the biopolitics of race in #TLOU. It will be followed by work on objects, muscles, infrastructure, linguistic landscapes, and more! 🧟♀️ Congrats Bob👏🏼
28.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Kate, can't wait to read the other articles!
29.01.2026 17:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Only one so far, but more to come!
27.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Someone said that zombie stories — as opposed to vampire stories — do well when a society is grappling with xenophobia. The other — someone less than human — who poses a danger by just existing in your vicinity. The danger is that they will eat you and spread their contagion.
15.01.2026 16:48 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Call for Posters at CCLS2026
📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026:
Do you have a research idea for a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, a tool demo, or an interesting error analysis or negative results to discuss?
Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference!
jcls.io/site/ccls202...
15.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Calls for Contributors – The American Literature Association
New Call for Contributors now posted! “Heredity”: A Special Issue of _American Quarterly_. Abstracts due by December 15th, 2025. See full details at americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/calls-...
18.11.2025 20:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pale orange flyer with red lettering that reads "Confronting Race and Racism in the Post-Apocalyptic American City (pre-print) by Robert Yeates"
Survival after the end of the world: This #ResearchSpotlight faces race, racism, and resilience in the post-apocalyptic cityscape. Explore the new horror emerging from the ruins. 🏙️⚡
works.hcommons.org/records/j8jn...
16.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
20.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 34 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 3
cfp | call for papers
Latest cfp - special (autumn 2026) issue of Foundation on pulp sf. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
22.08.2025 08:52 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
26.08.2025 10:52 — 👍 52 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 3
Today was challenging at work, but then I learned my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction is on the website & ready for pre-order! You can see the contents!
I really hope people find this useful in the classroom, but also just enjoy exploring the stories—& poems! @broadviewpress.bsky.social #SFF
31.07.2025 23:10 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
Against the game: Sid Meier’s Civilization and vernacular theories of language | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Against the game: Sid Meier’s Civilization and vernacular theories of language
So on Friday @languageinsociety.bsky.social published my new article, Against the Game! It explores toponymic politics in one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time, asking how Civilization players engage with coloniality & placenames 🧵 #Sociolinguistics #PopCulture buff.ly/PiQVW50
10.06.2025 17:30 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
10.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 3
Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors
Deadline: 1st August 2025
Find out more and how to apply: bit.ly/SFFTV-CFE-25
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social @horrorlex.bsky.social
28.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 6 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em>
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...
📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025
C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings.
More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/
13.03.2025 08:25 — 👍 15 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
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Call for papers: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference
The University of Miami, Coral Gables
Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies
October 8-11, 2025
More information available in the link: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
17.03.2025 16:30 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Why can’t we get enough of post-apocalyptic shows like ‘Paradise,’ ‘Fallout,’ and ‘Silo’? Just look around you.
R.E.M. once sang: “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” For buzzy bunker-based
Matthew Leggatt, a senior lecturer in English and American literature @uniwinchester.bsky.social spoke to New York–based news website Business Insider about how the state of world politics explains the success of post-apocalyptic TV shows like Paradise. Read the article here tinyurl.com/2jd3nyvt
06.03.2025 09:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN)
10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling
Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...
28.01.2025 07:10 — 👍 13 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2
On the right, an image from the film THE FEAST showing the enigmatic main character, a young woman with long brown hair, in close-up with blood streaked on her face, turned up toward the sky.
The latest Imaginaire issue is packed with post-horror! Essays on A24 hegemony, Jordan Peele, THE FEAST, MIDSOMMAR, HAGAZUSSA, HIS HOUSE + more. Mostly in English, certains en français. Entirely #openaccess. Ed. Vincent Jaunas @universitereims.bsky.social #horror
doi.org/10.34929/ima...
25.11.2024 14:58 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
History PhD. Defender of Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
CRSF, the speculative fiction conference @liverpooluni.bsky.social✨️
#CRSF2026 16th - 17th July 2026 👽
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Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
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History postdoc in Turin, works on race, policy, and education in the German Enlightenment.
Has strong feelings about the periodization of the 18thC. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
Institut de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales spécialisé dans l’étude des civilisations de l’Asie.
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Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
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University of Kent
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