Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST): 2026 Fall Issue: Science Fiction and the American Imagination.
Deadline for full-text submissions: 15 July 2026.
Edited by: Dr. Firuze Güzel
Publication presentation
The guest editor of this themed issue of the Journal of American Studies of Turkey seeks original, previously unpublished manuscripts that examine science fiction novels, short stories, collections, films, TV series, as well as games, comics, and graphic novels, within the American context. Aside from the keywords given below, interdisciplinary and comparative studies of SF literature and media alongside analyses by sub-genre, era, or author are also welcome to be included in this issue.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical and Critical Discussions of the SF Genre
- Posthumanist, Transhumanist, Metahumanist, and Antihumanist Discourses
- Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interactions
- Techno-Scientific Dystopias/Utopias
- Gender and Body Politics
- Representations of Race and Ethnicity
- Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurisms, and Latinx Futurism
- Constructions of Religion and Belief Systems
- Philosophical Dimensions / Thought Experiments
- Moral and Ethical Quandaries
- Envisioning the Other: Robots, Aliens, Monsters, etc.
- Ideology, Politics, and Governmental Control
- Postapocalyptic Narrations and Precarity
- Cyberpunk and Its Offshoots
- Space Opera, Space as Frontier, and Space Colonization
- Climate Fiction and Environmental Concerns
- Space, Architecture, and Urbanism
- History as Future / Future as Present
Contact details
Correspondence should be directed to: Dr. Firuze Güzel, Guest Editor
firuzeguzel@yahoo.com iruze.guzel@ege.edu.tr
For general questions or problems about JAST, please contact Dr. Nisa Harika Güzel Köşker, Editor-in-Chief nkosker@ankara.edu.tr
(Posted 22 January 2026)
Eco-narratives Across Human and More-Than-Human Realms: Bridging Nature-Culture Divide. Issue number and theme: Peter Lang Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment.
Deadline for contributions: 30 August 2026.
Edited by: Dario Martinelli, Katarzyna Machtyl, Inna Livytska, Nicola Zengiaro
Publication presentation
The idea for this special issue originated from a collaboration among scholars in narratology, cultural anthropology, and biosemiotics during a series of academic events held at the Justus Liebig International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture in January 2026. Inspired by the interdisciplinary dialogue on culture–nature relations, animal agency, and eco-narratives, the discussions revealed the need for a broader exchange between narratologists, philosophers, anthropologists, and biosemioticians. Consequently, this special issue will undertake interdisciplinary research on eco-narration (Stibbe 2024), subjectivity, and agency across human and non-human landscapes (Petrilli, Ponzio 2024) by integrating perspectives from zoosemiotics, biosemiotics, ecosemiotics, cultural anthropology, embodied narratology, and the emerging field of biosemiotic literary (eco)criticism. Its broader aim is to advance a more nuanced conceptualization of eco-narration and agency within the contemporary paradigm of the “Numanities” (Martinelli 2016), which rethinks the role of the humanities in addressing ecological and societal challenges.
We argue that ecosemiotics, biosemiotics, and cultural anthropology provide important methodological extensions to literary approaches to meaning-making, as they expand the understanding of semiosis beyond human communication to encompass entire ecosystems and embodied forms of perception. Together with ecostylistics, these approaches complement ecocriticism and environmental humanities by offering new ways of conceptualizing human and non-human agency, interspecies communication, and environmental meaning-making. At the same time, narratology can benefit from biosemiotic concepts such as umwelt, habit, zoosemiotic modeling, and eco-field theory, which enable richer analyses of interactions between humans, animals, plants, and landscapes in literary and artistic narratives. This special issue therefore invites contributions that critically explore human and non-human agencies in fictional and artistic eco-narratives through interdisciplinary methodologies combining ecosemiotics, biosemiotics, zoosemiotics, embodied narratology, enactivism, 4E/5E cognition, ecocriticism, and environmental anthropology.
The topics may include but are not limited to:
- Biosemiotic literary criticism and the limits of anthropocentrism
- Habit, semiosis, and meaning-making in narrative systems
- Peircean semiotics and environmental narrativity
- Ecosemiotics as method in literary and cultural analysis
- Zoosemiotic perspectives on plants in fiction and art
- Semiotic mediation between human and nonhuman realms
- Econarration and the semiotics of more-than-human worlds
- Narrative agency beyond humans: animals, plants, and ecosystems
- Interspecies storytelling and narrative mediation
- Narrative ecologies and distributed agency
- Ecological storyworlds and embodiment
- Ecofields, umwelt, narrative landscapes and spaces.
Timeline (of the publication process)
- Abstract deadline: 30 August 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2026
- Full chapters submission: 1 December 2026
Website address: 
https://www.peterlang.com/series/slku 
Contact details
- Dr. Inna Livytska Inna.Livytska@anglistik.uni-giessen.de
- Dr. Katarzyna Machtyl machtylk@amu.edu.pl
CFP
For further details, please check the original call inserted below.
Special Issue Econarratives(Posted 20 July 2026)
Alizés. Issue 47 (2027): Discursive Resistance in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Public Discourse.
Deadline for contributions: 1 September 2026.
Edited by: Talal Hochard (University of Reunion Island) and Zuzana Fonioková (Masaryk University).
Publication presentation
Alizés is a peer-reviewed academic journal which specialises in Anglophone studies (literature, cultural and historical studies, linguistics and language pedagogy). Founded in 1991, it has been published online by Presses Universitaires Indianocéaniques (PUI) since 2023. This call for papers is for Issue 47, which is scheduled for publication at the end of 2027.
We use the term discursive resistance broadly to name the many ways in which literature and other narrative practices push back against hegemonic discourses and dominant cultural narratives that exploit these instabilities, establishing systems of constraint and justifying social inequalities. Works that manifest this quality may offer retellings of official histories that have systematically silenced dissenting and marginal voices. In the context of what has been called the “postsecular” condition, they may reactivate spiritual dimensions of society through ritual and neo-religious practices. They may challenge prevailing norms or cultural misrepresentation by foregrounding non-normativity and alterity, however these concepts are understood, especially in opposition to mainstream culture, homogeneity, and conformism. They may contest climate-sceptic discourses that cast doubt around environmental crisis. Finally, they may expose the constructedness of discourses that present themselves as transparent reports of fact, thereby destabilizing relations between speaker, text, and reader.
We are especially interested in works that engage the contemporary moment. While many of the questions raised here have a long history, the twenty-first century has reshaped them in ways that deserve specific attention. This is particularly important given our aim to investigate possible links between discursive resistance and the aforementioned recent developments. We invite submissions that critically engage with contemporary Anglophone writing across a wide range of genres and media: the novel, life writing, autofiction, poetry, drama, the essay, comics, narrative nonfiction, and hybrid forms. We also welcome work that proposes new theoretical frameworks for thinking about discursive resistance in the present.
Timeline (of the publication process)
- Abstract submission deadline (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words): September 1, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2026
- Full draft papers submission: February 15, 2027
- Final papers submission: June 30, 2027
Website address:
https://alizes.univ-reunion.fr/510
Contact details:
CFP
For further details, please check the original call inserted below.
(Posted 4 July 2026)
Er(r)go or Kultura Współczesna: 2nd issue of 2029; Plastic/Plasticity.
Deadline for contributions: abstracts: 10 September 2026 | articles: 10 September 2027.
Edited by: Anna Foltyniak-Pękala and Sławomir Konkol
Publication presentation
In his book The Plastic Turn (Cornell UP, 2022), Ranjan Ghosh proposes the concept of material-aesthetic as a way of reading literature through the lens of plastic and, conversely, understanding plastic as an aesthetic and philosophical category. Ghosh traces the emergence of synthetic polymers along the same historical trajectory as Western literary modernism, demonstrating that plastic and modern literature co-create each other. Ghosh’s project, however, does not encompass the context of the Eastern Bloc—a space where plastic was a completely different symbol. The proposed issue fills this gap, situating the literature of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) within the broader constellation of the peripheries of chemical modernization.
In Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century, plastics were synonymous with modernity and the “Western style” amidst an economy of scarcity. This creates an inverted ideological tension compared to the West: there, plastic symbolized consumer abundance; here, it symbolized a substitute for that abundance, a dream of it, a prosthesis of modernity. This tension is the issue’s original contribution to the international debate.
The issue’s title deliberately plays on three registers: material (synthetic substance), philosophical (the plasticity of the subject, neuroplasticity, Christine Malabou’s concept), and aesthetic (plasticity as art, plastic literature according to Ghosh). This broadening of the conceptual framework allows the issue to engage in a dialogue (even a critical one) with Ghosh’s project, but not to replicate it.
Timeline of the publication process;
- abstracts collected by September 10, 2026;
- proposal presented to Er(r)go by mid-September, to Kultura Współczesna in October 2026;
- articles collected by September 2027;
- publication in 2029
Contact details: kult_liter@ubb.edu.pl
(Posted 20 July 2026)
Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies. Vol. 6 (2027).
Deadline for contributions: 15 September 2026.
Publisher: Faculty of Letters, Ege University Press
Editor: Dr. Begüm Tuğlu Atamer, Department of English Language and Literature, Ege University
Publication presentation
Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies (E-ISSN 2822-3020) welcomes research articles and reviews related to all subjects in the field of English Language and Literature. The journal is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal which offers open access to all. The scope of the journal covers theoretical, critical and thematic contexts regarding English Studies, including English literature, linguistics, translation, cultural studies, and all other related subjects. Authors must submit their original research articles via Dergipark starting from July 1 until the deadline on September 15, annually.
Copyright (CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)
Website
Overtones Ege Journal of English Studies Home
Contact details
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Letters
Ege University
Bornova, İzmir, Türkiye
35040
E-mail: overtonesege@gmail.com
CFP
For further details, please check the original call and stylesheet inserted below.
(Posted 4 July 2026)