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Christine A. Jones started the topic Fairy Tale Event at the Chichester Center: April 21 in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:12:57 -0400

Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Michelle Anya Anjirbag

Anjirbag examines Disney’s storytelling practices to reveal how the corporation has influenced public understanding of what fairy tales are – and who is allowed to appear within them. From the 1989 animated The Little Mermaid to the 2023 live-action remake sta…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th Special Issue CFP in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:33:11 -0500

“We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th in Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Myth

Humanities Special Issue

SUBMISSION LINK: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/OEHU7S891S

Due June 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Executive Committee for Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales is interested in cre…[Read more]

Christine A. Jones started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Emancipatory Transfiguration in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:58:49 -0500

The Guaranteed Session for 2027 of the GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales Forum takes up the Presidential theme of emancipatory narrative through transfiguration:

Title: Emancipatory Transfiguration
Call for Papers #33753

From ecological degeneration to generative AI, striking change abounds and demands response. We invite papers on myths and…[Read more]

Christine A. Jones started the topic Talks in March and April at the Chichester Centre! in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:50:46 -0500

Tuesday 17 March, 5:30-6:30 p.m. UTC, online (Teams)

Tales for Fairies: Tracing Queer Fairy‑Tale Retellings

Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes

Explore the evolution of queer reinterpretations of the fairy tale across three transformative decades: the first wave of fairy-tale publications for a predominantly gay male readership in the 1990s; a second wav…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic International Society for Folk Narrative Research Event in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:37:42 -0500

This ISFNR Event is open to anyone:

This is a kind reminder that tomorrow, February 18, at 5 p.m. CET, we will present the 19th lecture in the series, given by Lewis Seifert, professor of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA). The lecture is entitled “(Post-) Colonial Folklore Collections as Transcultural T…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic Calling on our members to represent this forum on the Delegate Assembly! in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:52:31 -0500

If you have a vested interest in the presence of folktale and fairy tale at the MLA, the Executive Committee invites you to self-nominate for the role of Delegate to represent the Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale Forum on the Delegate Assembly. This call is open to faculty and graduate students.

Delegates play a crucial role in association…[Read more]

William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 -0500

Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 -0500

Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance”
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts Call for Papers in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:10:13 -0400

(Meta)Cognition
The 47th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 47)
March 18–21, 2026 | Marriott Orlando Airport Lakeside | Orlando, Florida
Guests of Honor: Ted Chiang and Ann Leckie
Guest Scholar: Sherryl Vint
Register Here

Call for Proposals
Submission deadline: Friday, October 31, 2025 [Submit Here]
If cognition is the p…[Read more]

Christine A. Jones started the topic ISFNR, Reykjavík 2026: Nature(s) in Narratives Call for Papers in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:15:23 -0400

The ISFNR Interim conference in 2026 will be held in Reykjavík Iceland, June 13th to 16th. The conference will take place at the main campus of the University of Iceland, a walking distance from the vibrant city centre of Reykjavík. With nearly 24 hours of daylight, and plenty of geothermal pools to soak in, it’s the perfect place to recharge on…[Read more]

Ruchika Jain started the topic Call for Applications–SRF–“Myths and Morality" Project, India in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:47:15 -0400

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (TIET), ACT Centre, and the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS), Patiala, India, invite applications for two Senior Research Fellows (SRFs) on the project “Myths and Morality.” The interdisciplinary project explores the relation between classical Indian myths and moral theories. Myths suc…[Read more]

Linda Badley uploaded the file: REMINDER: Abstracts due 9/15: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive to TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:51:26 -0400

Abstracts (300-400 words) and a short bio are due September 15th, first drafts March 30, 2026, and final drafts October 31, 2026. When needed, deadlines can be extended. Please send abstracts to Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no). For more information, see below:

Nattie Golubov uploaded the file: CFP Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2025-2025 to TC Popular Culture

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:30:00 -0400

The first election of Donald Trump sparked a series of "Rogue" romance anthologies that framed love as resistance, and the romance genre as progressive and inclusive. Looking back after a decade, how has the genre registered and responded to ongoing political contexts--in the United States and elsewhere--of political radicalization, xenophobia,…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic Reimagining the Witch: Feminist Retellings in Maguire's Fiction - ONLINE EVENT in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:15:54 -0400

Reimagining the Witch: Feminist Retellings in Gregory Maguire’s Fiction
Two free online events with César F. Más Sánchez

Please note, the times are in GMT (London, UK) and EDT (New York, USA)

Reading Group: Wicked. Thurs 24 July, 6–7 p.m. GMT
2-3pm EDT
A friendly, social reading group focused on key themes in Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Guided…[Read more]

Christine A. Jones started the topic ISFNR 2026 in Reykjavík, Iceland – Call for Panels in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Sat, 24 May 2025 17:50:59 -0400

Posting on behalf of ISFNR!

The ISFNR Interim conference in 2026 will be held in Reykjavík Iceland, June 13th to 16th. The guiding theme is Nature(s) in Narrative. The conference will take place at the main campus of the University of Iceland, a walking distance from the vibrant city centre of Reykjavík. It is hosted by the department of F…[Read more]

Linda Badley started the topic CFP: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Sun, 11 May 2025 18:35:21 -0400

Jenna Coughlin, Gitte Mose, and I are excited to be co-editing a collection of essays about Future Library. Please consider submitting a proposal and share the attached call with colleagues who may be interested in contributing.

Abigail Heiniger started the topic “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th Folk Narratives CFP in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:38:45 -0400

Dear Colleagues,

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Executive Committee for Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales is interested in creating a Special Issue of Humanities in connection with the guaranteed panel at the 2026 Convention, exploring fairy tales, folklore, mythology, and the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence: “We t…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th in Folk Narratives in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:35:27 -0400

The Guaranteed Session for GSP: Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales for 2026 explores the idea of “we the people” in fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. While foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution tell one story about national identity, diverse storytellers construct the identity of the many in dra…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic JIS Symposium 2025: Lewis and Tolkien: Promise of Christian Fairy Tales in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:06:05 -0400

JIS Symposium 2025 on: “C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: The Promise
of Christian Fairytales.” Pasadena, California, USA, 18 October 2025
(online: Zoom). Call for Papers/Registration on JIS web:
https://www.jis3.org/symposium2025. Deadline for 250-word Abstracts:
April 15, 2025, to: info@jis3.org. Following the conference,
fully-developed papers wil…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic New Open Access Collection edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:19:22 -0500

Announcing:
Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill's new edited collection: Justice in 21st Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Free and Open Access:
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350348295

Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -0500

Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 -0500

Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Abigail Heiniger started the topic CFP: Female and Queer Bodies in Speculative Fiction and Visual Culture in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:17:39 -0500

Hi Everyone!

I’m forwarding this CFP for a collected volume on Female and Queer Bodies in Speculative Fiction and Visual Culture from Dra. María Gil Poisa (she/her/ella), Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana, Universidad de Oviedo.

For further inquiries, please contact the editors at gilmaria@uniovi.es and dma…[Read more]

Abigail Heiniger started the topic Nominations for Executive Committee for 2026-2031 term in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:21:21 -0500

We are currently seeking nominations for the Executive Committee for a term that will begin in 2026. To ensure representation from across our fields of folklore, mythology, and fairy tales, we encourage you to self-nominate for service on the forum’s executive committee. The committee will vote on its newest member at its February meeting.…[Read more]

María Herrera-Sobek replied to the topic Nominations for Executive Committee for 2026-2031 term in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale via email

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:55:59 -0500

Dear Abigail,
Thank you for your email inviting me to self nominate for your group
forum. I would love to self nominate and serve on the Executive Committee
for the forum GS Folklore, Myth and Fairy Tale for the term beginning in
2026. Unfortunately, I do not think I am eligible since the guidelines
state you have to wait seven years before…[Read more]

Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:58:05 -0500

Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -0400

Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:09:45 -0400

CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature -- “Australia And...”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

Peter Leman started the topic ACLA 2025 Session CFP: "World Literature and Disappearance" in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:07:20 -0400

Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group TC Popular Culture

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:13:45 -0400

This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:39:48 -0400

We are seeking papers for our ACLA seminar on Literature, Resource Extraction and Settler Colonialism for the 2025 ACLA conference (held online).

We invite papers that consider literary responses to various forms of resource extraction within settler colonial states. Extraction was and remains central to settler colonial projects around the…[Read more]

Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Postcolonial Studies

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:55:25 -0400

Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:49 -0400

This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:08 -0400

Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:11 -0400

Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group TC Postcolonial Studies

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:07:15 -0400

This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Mon, 27 May 2024 04:09:13 -0400

The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Mon, 27 May 2024 04:08:31 -0400

Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Postcolonial Studies

Sun, 26 May 2024 04:13:30 -0400

Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Sun, 26 May 2024 04:12:50 -0400

Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Postcolonial Studies

Sun, 26 May 2024 04:05:19 -0400

Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Sun, 26 May 2024 04:04:35 -0400

Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Popular Culture

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:28:18 -0400

Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:05:36 -0500

This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

Sarah Benharrech started the topic Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:19:56 -0500

The MLA Forum on Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies- 18th century (CLCS-18) invites you to submit an abstract for the following guaranteed session:

Enlightening Encounters: confronting the invisibility of the non-humans, the less-than-humans and the-more-than humans, in the long 18th century.

This panel invites papers that explore en…[Read more]

Allison Carruth started the topic MLA25 CFPs for Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities Forum in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:25:37 -0500

The Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum EC has submitted three CFPs, one in collaboration with the Caribbean Studies forum to the MLA 2025 CFP submission site.

The calls are below with instructions for how to submit an abstract.

1. Forms of Water, Forms of Life

This panel invites blue humanities perspectives on literary forms,…[Read more]

Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:04:14 -0500

From Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.

This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]

Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:41 -0500

Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:04 -0500

Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:10:19 -0500

Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]