CFP Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (8/15/2026)

Call for Submissions: Journal of Medieval Worlds (Relaunch Issue)

Posted on February 9, 2026

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-submissions-journal-of-medieval-worlds-relaunch-issue/

Call for Submissions: Journal of Medieval Worlds Special Issue: Fragments I: Putting the Worlds Back Together (Spring 2027) 

Submission Type: Short Essays & Critical Responses (1,000–3,000 words)

The Journal of Medieval Worlds is relaunching with a special issue dedicated to the “fragment” as a critical lens. We invite submissions of short-form essays that address the evolving landscape of Medieval Studies, with an emphasis on race, gender, sexuality, decolonization, and the Global Middle Ages.

This is a unique opportunity to publish shorter, critically engaged work that reflects on:

• Archival Fragments: How do we build history from residue and partial objects?
• Professional Fragmentation: The experience of the “Lone Medievalist” or contingent faculty.
• Global Perspectives: How the Global Middle Ages has shifted pedagogical and scholarly approaches.

Submission Deadline: August 15. 

Full Call for Submissions: Here. 

Send manuscripts to: JMW_editorial@ucpress.edu 

Journal Details: https://online.ucpress.edu/jmw.

CFP Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue (3/31/2026)

Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue

deadline for submissions:
March 31, 2026

full name / name of organization:
The So What/Arthuriana

contact email:
thesowhatpub@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/07/sports-medievalism-tsw-special-issue

In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when they record a particularly impressive jump, race, throw, indicating a raise in the competition stakes, a nod to their fellow competitors that they are the champion to beat. In the 2001 movie A Knight’s Tale, jousting enthusiasts are depicted like modern day sports fans, with Ulrich’s friends even singing a football chant in the pub.



The So What welcomes proposals for short (1500-3000 words), public-facing pieces engaging with sport and the medieval, with a planned online publication of early 2027. We welcome pieces that are critical, creative, or pedagogical and topics that engage with the relationship between sporting culture and medieval aesthetic, whether that’s through the use of the medieval in modern sports or sporting teams, the medieval history of a sport, or reenactment of medieval sporting competitions, and so on. We welcome a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to:

• The use of medieval imagery in sporting culture/teams;
• The revival of medieval sports or activities in the modern era;
• The development/history of medieval sports and sporting competitions;
• Depictions of medieval sport in media and popular culture;
• The use of ‘medieval’ phrases and language in sport commentary and discourse.

Please send us your proposals by March 31, 2026. Style and submission guides are available on our site. Proposals and questions can be emailed to issue editor, Mairi Stirling Hill, at: mairi.hill@unimelb.edu.au



You can also view the CFP online here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3ajj-fN02ozhR4eRXZzDz2ma-cfPqSB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111283483144674200251&rtpof=true&sd=true%C2%A0.



Last updated February 7, 2026

CFP ‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages (2/3/2025; Spec Issue Messengers from the Stars)

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 8, 2025 [updated]

deadline for submissions:
February 3, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Messengers from the Stars

contact email:
mfts.journal@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/07/22/messengers-from-the-stars-on-science-fiction-and-fantasy-no-8-2025-updated

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by Science fiction and Fantasy. The 2025 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages

Traditionally distinguished by the presence of supernatural or magical elements, otherworldly settings, epic quests and archetypal characters, Fantasy fiction has been an incredibly popular genre since its inception. Indeed, as highlighted by scholars like John Clute, much of world fiction “has been described, at one time or another, as fantasy” (337). Although Fantasy is sometimes perceived as a form of escapism and at other times as a legitimate fictional realm with its own internal logic, the influence of the Middle Ages has remained a constant element in the construction of Fantasy worlds. From the use of folklore, myths, medieval legends and sagas, different contemporary authors look to the past as a source of inspiration, adapting, transforming and rewriting narratives to not only suit contemporary tastes and ideals but also to mirror present-day anxieties and fears. The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie, Marion Zimmer Bradley or Juliet Marillier, among others, are good examples of how the Middle Ages have served to fire the imagination.

Bearing this in mind and acknowledging that Fantasy continues to expand and develop, offering a diverse array of narratives as well as endless possibilities for storytelling and creative exploration, in this number we are especially interested in how Fantasy fiction uses the medieval past to create storylines that resonate with contemporary audiences across geographic, linguistic, cultural and political boundaries. We consider Fantasy in broader terms, including literature, cinema, television, comics/graphic novels, video games, music, etc., and are especially interested in submissions that expand the fields of knowledge and landscapes represented in the journal.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Arthuriana in Fantasy;
• Female Agency in Medieval Fantasy;
• Fantasy and the Global Middle Ages;
• Heroism and Monstrosity in Fantasy;
• Medieval Emotions in the Fantasy Genre;
• Medieval Spaces and Places in Fantasy;
• Medievalism, Neomedievalism and Fantasy;
• (Mis)Perceptions of the “Medieval” and the “Middle Ages” in Works of Fantasy;
• Which Middle Ages is it? – Identity in Fantasy.

Submissions, between 4000 and 6000 words in English, must be sent to mfts.journal@gmail.com by February 3, 2025. The authors will be notified by the end of March, 2025.

In addition, you can propose a book or film review. We welcome book and film reviews on current science fiction and fantasy research and PhD dissertations. Reviews should be between 500 to 1,000 words. Longer reviews, e.g. dealing with more than one book, must be agreed upon with the Editorial Board.

Books available for review:

Kotsko, Adam. LATE STAR TREK: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era. University of Minnesota Press, 2025. ISBN 978-1-5179-1910-8
Lapoujade, David. Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick. Trans. by Erik Beranek. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5179-1461-5.

If you wish to review a title which is not in the list, then please email the Editors directly with your suggestion, as we do consider all requests for recent and forthcoming titles, especially from publishers already listed. If the book or film you wish to review is more than 3 years old, then you would need to demonstrate its significance to its field for it to be considered.

All submissions must follow the journal’s guidelines available here: https://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/submission-guid....


Last updated January 14, 2025

CFP Medievalism in Theory / Medievalism in Politics (Studies in Medievalism 35; 6/1/2025)

Sharing on behalf of the editor:

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXV

MEDIEVALISM IN THEORY

At one time or another, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and many other stars of late twentieth- or early twenty-first-century theory built at least a portion of their approach on medieval examples. Indeed, quite a few of those scholars, such as Umberto Eco and Hans Jauss, began their career as students of the Middle Ages. We are therefore invited to ask why medievalism played such a prominent role in these developments. Of all the possible past and/or imaginary milieux on which these approaches could have been built, why the Middle Ages? And to the degree that these scholars have referenced specific aspects of that era, why did they do so? What did those particular references bring to theory and how have they impacted its development? Moreover, how has that development commented on those references and perhaps on the Middle Ages as a whole, not to mention Medieval Studies and Medievalism Studies? How has it informed our understanding of what we study and what we do? Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent in English and Word to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu by 1 June 2025, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. (Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

MEDIEVALISM IN POLITICS

Owing to multiple inquiries inspired by current wars and/or forthcoming elections, a new short-essay section has been added to SIM 35. As noted in previous CFPs and their results for SIM 29-31, professional politicians have often invoked the Middle Ages to justify their actions. But they are far from alone, for many of their constituents have also deployed medievalism for political purposes. Indeed, much of medievalism, not to mention the study of it, has revolved around politics of one kind or another. Thus, in addition to 3,000-word essays on medievalism “in theory” and to longer articles of 6,000-12,000 words on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, Studies in Medievalism is seeking 3,000-word essays (including notes) on post-medieval ways the Middle Ages have been referenced for political gain. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent in English and Word to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu by 1 June 2025, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. (Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

CFP Fantasy and the Middle Ages (Special Issue of Messengers from the Stars; 2/2/2025)

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 8, 2025

deadline for submissions:
February 3, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Messengers from the Stars

contact email:
mfts.journal@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/07/22/messengers-from-the-stars-on-science-fiction-and-fantasy-no-8-2025.

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by Science fiction and Fantasy. The 2025 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages

Traditionally distinguished by the presence of supernatural or magical elements, otherworldly settings, epic quests and archetypal characters, Fantasy fiction has been an incredibly popular genre since its inception. Indeed, as highlighted by scholars like John Clute, much of world fiction “has been described, at one time or another, as fantasy” (337). Although Fantasy is sometimes perceived as a form of escapism and at other times as a legitimate fictional realm with its own internal logic, the influence of the Middle Ages has remained a constant element in the construction of Fantasy worlds. From the use of folklore, myths, medieval legends and sagas, different contemporary authors look to the past as a source of inspiration, adapting, transforming and rewriting narratives to not only suit contemporary tastes and ideals but also to mirror present-day anxieties and fears. The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Joe Abercrombie, Marion Zimmer Bradley or Juliet Marillier, among others, are good examples of how the Middle Ages have served to fire the imagination.

Bearing this in mind and acknowledging that Fantasy continues to expand and develop, offering a diverse array of narratives as well as endless possibilities for storytelling and creative exploration, in this number we are especially interested in how Fantasy fiction uses the medieval past to create storylines that resonate with contemporary audiences across geographic, linguistic, cultural and political boundaries. We consider Fantasy in broader terms, including literature, cinema, television, comics/graphic novels, video games, music, etc., and are especially interested in submissions that expand the fields of knowledge and landscapes represented in the journal.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Arthuriana in Fantasy;
• Female Agency in Medieval Fantasy;
• Fantasy and the Global Middle Ages;
• Heroism and Monstrosity in Fantasy;
• Medieval Emotions in the Fantasy Genre;
• Medieval Spaces and Places in Fantasy;
• Medievalism, Neomedievalism and Fantasy;
• (Mis)Perceptions of the “Medieval” and the “Middle Ages” in Works of Fantasy;
• Which Middle Ages is it? – Identity in Fantasy.

Submissions, between 4000 and 6000 words in English, must be sent to mfts.journal@gmail.com by February 3, 2025. The authors will be notified by the end of March, 2025.

In addition, you can propose a book or film review. We welcome book and film reviews on current science fiction and fantasy research and PhD dissertations. Reviews should be between 500 to 1,000 words. Longer reviews, e.g. dealing with more than one book, must be agreed upon with the Editorial Board.

Books available for review:Carroll, Jordan S. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5179-1708-1.
Lapoujade, David. Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick. Trans. by Erik Beranek. University of Minnesota Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-5179-1461-5.

If you wish to review a title which is not in the list, then please email the Editors directly with your suggestion, as we do consider all requests for recent and forthcoming titles, especially from publishers already listed. If the book or film you wish to review is more than 3 years old, then you would need to demonstrate its significance to its field for it to be considered.

All submissions must follow the journal’s guidelines available here: https://messengersfromthestars.letras.ulisboa.pt/journal/submission-guidelines.


Last updated July 22, 2024

CFP J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Literature (9/15/2024; Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly)

J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Literature

deadline for submissions: September 15, 2024

full name / name of organization: Children's Literature Association Quarterly

contact email: jtthomas@sdsu.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/06/20/jrr-tolkien-children%E2%80%99s-literature

CFP: J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Lit

A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Guest Editor

San Diego State University



The deadline for submissions to this special issue is September 13, 2024.

J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for his seminal fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. Even his renowned children’s book, The Hobbit, is primarily considered an “Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings” (a sentiment often rehearsed on the covers of most paperback editions of the work). This special issue of the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, however, asks us to put aside The Lord of the Rings and focus instead on those works that might be called “minor”—and specifically those works made for minors: Tolkien’s unfortunately neglected children’s books (including The Hobbit, Letters from Father Christmas, Mr. Bliss, and Roverandom) as well as his playful visual art and many children’s poems (a good number of the latter eventually published in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil). Of course, we’re especially interested in scholarship and criticism exploring the first edition of The Hobbit, a novel that, while borrowing some names from Tolkien’s inchoate Silmarillion and Lost Tales, was originally conceived and published as a children’s story set outside of the mythos that he would eventually fold into the revised second edition and its influential sequel. Additionally, we’re hoping for scholarship and criticism treating Tolkien’s folk and fairy tales (such as “Leaf by Niggle” and Smith of Wootton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham and “The Sellic Spell”), those marginal texts resting on the borders between children’s literature and faerie.

Finally, we are curious to see scholarship examining Tolkien’s conception(s) of childhood and the influence children’s literature and “the rhetoric of childhood” have had on Tolkien’s writings (see Lois Kuznets’ “Tolkien and the Rhetoric of Childhood”). What a wonder to receive a piece placing Edward Wyke-Smith’s The Marvellous Land of Snergs in conversation with Roverandom and/or Mr. Bliss. That is, we encourage submissions investigating the question of influence—especially on Tolkien’s conception of children’s literature (including his thoughts on illustration and book design, both practical and theoretical). One can imagine critical reappraisals of the first edition of The Hobbit in relation to the work of Lewis Carroll, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, William Morris, Edith Nesbit, or even Snorri Sturluson (among many others).

Which is to say, we are not looking for work that engages The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion (as published), or the wider Legendarium informing both (including, for the most part, Christopher Tolkien’s magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth).

All theoretical approaches are welcomed, as are works that challenge the conventions of the scholarly essay: collaborative pieces; works that blur the line between the personal essay and academic paper; performance works; interviews; comics; short plays; essays in verse; short papers (notes and queries) or micro essays; really, the sky’s the limit. However, we do suggest that formally innovative and unconventional submissions make clear—perhaps in a short preface—how their form informs or illuminates the arguments being made.

That said, traditional academic articles submitted for publication should shoot for approximately 20-30 pages and conform to MLA style. We follow the bibliographical format specified in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook, omitting the designations “Print” and “Web,” but including URLs when appropriate. Please send completed essays by e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format to chlaquarterly@cmich.edu & jtthomas@sdsu.edu. In your subject line, flag your message with Tolkien Special Issue. Submissions should follow the ChLAQ submission guidelines found at https://www.childlitassn.org/chla-quarterly. (Note: please anonymize the essay itself—that is, remove words and phrases that clearly identify the author[s]—so we can immediately send the work to peer reviewers.)

Last updated June 24, 2024

CFP Studies in Medievalism 35: Medievalism in Theory (6/1/2025)

Sharing on behalf of the editor:

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXV: MEDIEVALISM IN THEORY

At one time or another, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and many other stars of late twentieth- or early twenty-first-century theory built at least a portion of their approach on medieval examples. Indeed, quite a few of those scholars, such as Umberto Eco and Hans Jauss, began their career as students of the Middle Ages. We are therefore invited to ask why medievalism played such a prominent role in these developments. Of all the possible past and/or imaginary milieux on which these approaches could have been built, why the Middle Ages? And to the degree that these scholars have referenced specific aspects of that era, why did they do so? What did those particular references bring to theory and how have they impacted its development? Moreover, how has that development commented on those references and perhaps on the Middle Ages as a whole, not to mention Medieval Studies and Medievalism Studies? How has it informed our understanding of what we study and what we do? 

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent in English and Word to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu by 1 June 2025, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. 

(Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

REMINDER Tribal Medievalisms (Studies in Medievalism 34) (06/01/2024)

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIV: TRIBAL MEDIEVALISMS

Traditional applications of the word “tribal” in medievalism studies and elsewhere in academia have recently come under intense criticism and sometimes been censored. Yet, in broader cultural contexts, the term seems to be gaining ever greater currency as a synonym for group identity, particularly of a partisan nature. In that regard, what relevance does it have for medievalism? For medievalism studies? Does it accurately capture the way one or more communities within those fields are perceived by their own members and/or others? How, if at all, do these newer applications apply to the traditional uses of the term? How does the word relate to practices among medievalists, by medievalists with regard to their medieval sources, by scholars of medievalism with regard to their subjects, and among scholars of medievalism? 

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. 

Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2024, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. 

Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

CFP Tribal Medievalisms (6/1/2024)

Posted on behalf of the organizer:

CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXIV:

TRIBAL MEDIEVALISMS

Traditional applications of the word “tribal” in medievalism studies and elsewhere in academia have recently come under intense criticism and sometimes been censored. Yet, in broader cultural contexts, the term seems to be gaining ever greater currency as a synonym for group identity, particularly of a partisan nature. In that regard, what relevance does it have for medievalism? For medievalism studies? Does it accurately capture the way one or more communities within those fields are perceived by their own members and/or others? How, if at all, do these newer applications apply to the traditional uses of the term? How does the word relate to practices among medievalists, by medievalists with regard to their medieval sources, by scholars of medievalism with regard to their subjects, and among scholars of medievalism? 

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2024, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. 

(Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

CFP Edited Volume: The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South (proposals 6/1/2023)

Edited Volume: The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Alexandra Cook

contact email:
acook@ua.edu


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/01/30/edited-volume-the-middle-ages-and-its-cultural-afterlives-in-the-american-south

We invite contributions to an edited collection titled The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South.

The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives in the American South seeks to address, firstly, the role that ideas of the European middle ages have played among native and indigenous, white, black, and Americans from past and present immigrant communities, particularly in the U.S. South; and secondly, the ways in which the South’s relationship to the middle ages has not only played a key role in shaping America’s perception of this period but also shaped an often racially-charged academic study of the middle ages. It seeks to address these lines of inquiry in essays that interrogate architecture and monuments, texts, curricula, material culture, film, media, and videogames.

Consequently, this collection aims to bring together scholars who specialize in a variety of field and area specializations, including, Southern Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American Studies, and Medieval Studies in order to reconsider how scholarship within these disciplines may be reshaped when put into conversation with one another.

Please submit your abstract by June 1, 2023 to

Alex Cook acook@ua.edu

Donna Beth Ellard Donna.ellard@du.edu

Cassander Smith clsmith17@ua.edu

with the subject line “The Middle Ages and Its Cultural Afterlives.”



Last updated February 2, 2023

CFP Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum (Spec Issue of Speculum) (proposals by 12/1/2023)

Call for Proposals – Speculations: The Centennial Issue of Speculum

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Chris

Source: https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-proposals-speculations-the-centennial-issue-of-speculum/

Speculations
The Centennial Issue of Speculum
January 2026

The centenary of a scholarly journal offers the opportunity to recognize, reflect on, and reimagine scholarly methods and objects, including canonicity and the discursive possibilities of scholarship; the boundaries, borders and spaces that define our disciplines; the genres and taxonomies that shape our work.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Speculum, we aim to commemorate the journal by raising questions about the methods and parameters of our study in a prospective rather than retrospective manner. What might the future of medieval studies look like? What might the place of this journal in that future be? The volume focuses on the future of the journal and the field it helps to define by inviting a wide breadth of scholarship that can collectively speculate about how we can take medieval studies into the future. But of course those living in the medieval world broadly considered speculated on their future as well. How was the future conceived in the past and what might those past reflections about the future, and about the condition of futurity generally, have to teach us as we consider recent shifts in our field and a shifting institutional context.

The format of the centennial volume will model the kind of contributions we seek: instead of 4-5 long form articles, we plan to publish 50 short essays (of approximately 3000 words each) in an attempt to represent a broader range of voices, perspectives, methodologies, and areas of study. We welcome traditional essays as well as innovative forms of research and reflection (pedagogical speculations, creative or dialogic writing, speculative history, etc.).

We invite contributions that speculate on the past and future of scholarly work in medieval studies. We particularly welcome essays that address gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and that use comparative and interdisciplinary methods and that address at least one of the following questions:

• What kinds of methods and theoretical models shape our work and will orient us in the future?
• How might we call on more inclusive and expansive understandings of the Middle Ages in light of the global turn and critical reappraisals of periodization.
• What histories do we examine, what histories do we obscure, and what criteria will most productively guide our examination of histories in the future?
• How have scholarly understandings of medieval historicity and temporality shaped the parameters of our inquiry, and how might we critically engage these accounts?

Proposals of 300 words should be sent to speculations@themedievalacademy.org by December 1, 2023.

Speculations editorial collective

Mohamad Ballan
Peggy McCracken
Cecily Hilsdale
Katherine Jansen
Sierra Lomuto
Cord J. Whitaker

CFP "Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions (Spec Issue postmedieval) (2/28/2023 proposals)

"Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions

deadline for submissions:
February 28, 2023

full name / name of organization:
postmedieval / guest editors Rebecca Menmuir and Hannah Armstrong

contact email:
r.menmuir@qmul.ac.uk

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/02/forging-the-medieval-in-institutions-call-for-special-issue-contributions.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: “FORGING THE MEDIEVAL” IN INSTITUTIONS

Proposals for short essays (c. 3500-8000 words) are warmly welcomed, on the topic of “forging the medieval” in institutions. In galleries, museums, schools, universities, libraries, archives, or other institutions, how is the medieval past forged? How is it created and curated, presented and (mis)represented, through the institution’s objects and the concept of the institution itself?



About the contribution and cluster:

This contribution will feature in a forthcoming issue of postmedieval, which has been accepted for publication. The issue is an essay cluster on the topic of “Medieval Forgeries / Forging the Medieval”. The cluster as a whole brings together medieval forgeries (i.e. those created during the medieval period) and forgeries of the medieval (i.e. works produced after the Middle Ages which seek to ‘forge’ the medieval in some way). All other contributions have been confirmed, and range from forged medieval documents to an examination of how Arthurian myth-making takes place at archaeological sites. Final contributions will be due in May 2023.



Proposals might include, but are not limited to:

• The various meanings of the word “forge” in the context of institutions;
• Particular objects in institutions which are inauthentic, or which contribute to the forging of the medieval past in some way;
• The role of the institution in forging the medieval past;
• Collections in institutions related to the medieval: their history and role in forging the medieval;
• Current debates about fakes and issues of authenticity and truth, with some focus on the medieval period;
• Pedagogy and forging the medieval;
• Institutions and access to the medieval.

About the journal:

postmedieval welcomes experimental scholarship (for instance, dialogues or experiments in scholarly form) as well as ‘traditional’ scholarly articles. It also aims to ‘[reach] across disciplines, language traditions, locales, modes of inquiry, and levels of access’ (http://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41280). As such, the essay cluster is broad in its geographical and chronological scope, with representatives from across academic disciplines. Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome to propose a contribution, regardless of background.



Submission details:

Please send a short (c. 200 word) abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the guest editors: Rebecca Menmuir (r.menmuir@qmul.ac.uk) and Hannah Armstrong (hannah.armstrong@york.ac.uk). The deadline for proposals is February 28, 2023.




Last updated February 10, 2023

CFP En(Gender)ing Medievalism: Studies in Medievalism 33 (6/1/2023)

From the International Society for the Study of Medievalism blog:

CFP: Studies in Medievalism XXXIII—EN(GENDER)ING MEDIEVALISM
Posted on September 3, 2022 by postmedievalist


From Sir Walter Scott’s chivalrous knights and damsels in distress, through George R. R. Martin’s bestial lords and serpentine queens, medievalism is often quite sexist. Sometimes these biases are defended as originating in the Middle Ages themselves, or at least being true to what is known about them. But do these prejudices actually represent medieval practices and/or perceptions? To what degree is that knowable and does it matter? What about inevitable (albeit perhaps small) differences in those approaches, in their application, and among the contexts in which they are deployed? How, if at all, might medievalism have initiated or at least shaped broader perceptions of gender? How have perceptions about gender shaped medievalism? What role, if any, has been played by ambiguities in the definitions of gender and of medievalism, particularly as the latter relates to the Middle Ages? Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also 3,000-word essays that respond to one or more of these questions. Applicants are encouraged to give particular examples, but submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2023, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. (Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

CFP Disney and the Middle Ages (collection) (7/15/2022)

Disney and the Middle Ages

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/06/06/disney-and-the-middle-ages

deadline for submissions:
July 15, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Christina M. Carlson, Mariah L. Cooper, and Joshua Parks

contact email:
disneymedievalvolume@gmail.com



Call for Papers

Edited Volume on Disney and the Middle Ages



We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on medievalism in Disney media for Brepols’ new series Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo. The Walt Disney Company's films, theme parks, and merchandise are full of people, places, and things coded as “medieval,” and because Disney's medievalism is often coded as white and Christian, it is especially relevant to medieval studies' ongoing struggle with white supremacy within and outside the field.



We encourage authors to consider the role of the Walt Disney Company in shaping popular perceptions of the Middle Ages, as well as the function of medievalism in Disney’s ideological projects. How does Disney’s medievalist media represent gender, race, religion, disability, and other features of medieval life? What do those representations reveal about modern life as seen and shaped by Disney?



We welcome submissions from a wide variety of disciplines including literary studies, history, religious studies, gender studies, musicology, art history, and film studies. Critical perspectives such as ecocriticism, animal studies, queer theory, critical race studies, disability studies, material culture, and postcolonial theory are also encouraged. In addition, we welcome submissions from non-medievalist scholars with expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century media and culture.



Proposals of 300 to 500 words should be submitted by email to disneymedievalvolume@gmail.com by Friday July 15, 2022. We aim to notify authors about accepted submissions by September 1, 2022. We have been invited to submit this collection for publication in Brepols’ new series Reinterpreting the Middle Ages: From Medieval to Neo.



Please write to the above email address with any questions, or contact Christina M. Carlson (cmcarlson@iona.edu), Mariah Cooper (mlcooper@mun.ca), and/or Joshua Parks (joshua.t.parks@gmail.com).


We look forward to hearing from you.



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CFP Journal of the Wooden O (next issue deadline 10/14/2022)

CFP - Journal of the Wooden O

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/05/16/cfp-journal-of-the-wooden-o

deadline for submissions:
October 14, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain/Journal of the Wooden O

contact email:
woodeno@suu.edu



The Journal of the Wooden O is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. It is published annually by Southern Utah University Press in connection with the Gerald R. Sherratt Library and the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

The editors invite papers on any topic related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

Articles published in the Journal of the Wooden O are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, World Shakespeare Bibliography and appear full-text in EBSCO Academic Search Premiere.

Selected papers from the annual Wooden O Symposium are also considered for publication.

SUBMISSIONS: Manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. Manuscript submissions should generally be between 3000-7000 words in length. Complete submission guidelines as well as the JWO Style Sheet may be found here. The deadline for submission is October 14, 2022. Authors should include all of the following information on a separate page with their submission:

Author’s name
Manuscript title
Mailing address
Email address
Daytime phone number

Submit electronic copy to: woodeno@suu.edu (Only .doc, .docx or .rtf files will be accepted.)

For more information, contact:

Journal of the Wooden O

c/o Southern Utah University Press

351 W. University Blvd.

Cedar City, UT 84720

435.586.1955

woodeno@suu.edu



Last updated May 17, 2022

CFP Updated - Medievalism in Play (Spec Issue of Studies in Medievalism) (8/1/2022)

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED: Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in Play

Posted on June 4, 2022 by postmedievalist

Reposted from the ISSM site: https://medievalisms.org/call-for-papers-extended-studies-in-medievalism-xxxii-medievalism-in-play/

 

Deadline Extended to August 1, 2022

From Renaissance satires of courtly love, through Victorian jousts, to Arthurian video games, medievalism has often been central to play, and play has often been central to medievalism. Sometimes the Middle Ages serve as mere background or framework for play that would not change in other contexts. But frequently play is refracted through medievalism (and/or vice- versa) in such a way as to comment specifically on the Middle Ages, the interpreter’s circumstances, the purpose of play, and/or on medievalism. Studies in Medievalism, a peer- reviewed print and on-line publication, is therefore seeking essays of approximately 3,000 words (including notes) on the intersection of medievalism and play. How have the Middle Ages been adapted to one or more particular instances of postmedieval play? Why was that context selected above all other possibilities? What does that choice say about the Middle Ages, the interpreter, the interpreter’s circumstances, about play, and/or about medievalism? Where does play fit with the study of medievalism? In responding to these and related questions, contributors are invited to give particular examples, but their submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by August 1, 2022 should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. (Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

Open Call: Quidditas – Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

Quidditas – Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

source: https://www.rmmra.org/quidditas-journal-of-the-rocky-mountain-medieval-and-renaissance-association/

Current and past publications are held at:

http://humanities.byu.edu/rmmra



Quidditas, the annual, online journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association invites submissions from all aspects of medieval and Renaissance or early modern disciplines: literature, history, art, music, philosophy, religion, languages, rhetoric, Islamic and New World cultures, global regions and comparative and interdisciplinary studies. Articles appearing in Quidditas are abstracted and indexed in MLA, Historical Abstracts, Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index, America: History and Life, EBSCOhost, and Oxbridge Standard Periodical Directory, and Ex Libris has designated Quidditas as a peer-reviewed journal in its SFX Knowledgebase. Our online format enables us to publish extensive illustrations. Since there is no subscription fee, the journal is easily available from any computer. Authors will be informed about the disposition of all manuscripts within three months of receipt.

Quidditas features a “Notes” section for short articles pertaining to factual research, bibliographical and/or archival matters, corrections and suggestions, pedagogy and other matters pertaining to the research and teaching of Medieval and Renaissance disciplines. Our “Reviews” section seeks longer Review of Literature essays and short “Texts and Teaching” reviews of individual textbooks and other published materials that instructors have found especially valuable in teaching courses in Medieval and Renaissance disciplines.

Membership in the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association is not required for submission or publication.

Guidelines for Submission

Please submit your article manuscript, Note, or Review electronically in MS Word (.doc or .docx) to the appropriate editor below. Use The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). The author’s name must not appear within the text. All articles, Notes, and Reviews must include a short abstract (200 words maximum) before the main text, and a bibliography of works cited at the end. A cover letter with the author’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and manuscript title must accompany all submissions.

Documentation: Quidditas uses footnotes. No endnotes or parenthetical citations, please.

Since submissions must include a full bibliography, footnotes, including the first footnote reference, should use abbreviated author, title, and page. For example:

Bibliographical entry—Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

First and subsequent footnotes—Nirenberg, Communities of Violence, 22-24.

Do not use ibid. Subsequent references to the same work should continue the use of abbreviated author, title and page number.


Please send submissions for Articles and Notes to:

Professor James H. Forse, Editor

quidditas_editor@yahoo.com

Please send submissions for Reviews section to:

Professor Ginger Smoak, Associate Editor

ginger.smoak@utah.edu

CFP Many Ghosts of Hamlet (3/15/2022; Spec Issue of Theory and Practice in English Studies Journal )

Many Ghosts of Hamlet

deadline for submissions: March 15, 2022

full name / name of organization: Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University

contact email: thepes@phil.muni.cz

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/01/26/many-ghosts-of-hamlet

Many Ghosts of Hamlet

Special Issue of Theory and Practice in English Studies Journal 11/1 (Spring 2022)

Issue Editor: Anna Mikyšková (Masaryk University)

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play with unprecedented cultural currency and has influenced generations of people from all walks of life. Oceans of ink have been spilled in analyses of Hamlet and its story has been redefined, reshaped and reconceptualized in all ways and languages imaginable. Since new meanings are constantly being assigned to the play, the aim of this issue is to collect recent diverse perspectives on Hamlet’s afterlives, reimaginations and cultural experiences shaped by the story of the Danish prince. We hope to show the variability and relevance of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy and the scope of the cultural influence of the many ghosts of Hamlet.

We welcome articles which address (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Hamlet in performance,
• Hamlet in translation,
• adaptations and appropriations of Hamlet,
• echoes of Hamlet in works of art and popular culture,
• reception of Hamlet in non-Anglophone cultures,
• experiences of theatre professionals with Hamlet,
• Hamlet in modern society and its relevance for current social phenomena,
• Hamlet in education curricula.

Please submit paper proposals of no more than 300 words by 15th March 2022. The deadline for article submission is 30th April 2022, the expected length being between 3,000 and 6,000 words. See our publication guidelines for more information. We also welcome contributions by postgraduate students and early-career researchers.

The proposals are to be sent to thepes@phil.muni.cz.


Last updated February 1, 2022

CFP Studies in Medievalism 32 (6/1/2022)

 CALL FOR PAPERS: STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXII: MEDIEVALISM IN PLAY

Posted on September 22, 2021 

Source: https://medievalisms.org/call-for-papers-studies-in-medievalism-xxxii-medievalism-in-play/

From Renaissance satires of courtly love, through Victorian jousts, to Arthurian video games, medievalism has often been central to play, and play has often been central to medievalism. Sometimes the Middle Ages serve as mere background or framework for play that would not change in other contexts. But frequently play is refracted through medievalism (and/or vice-versa) in such a way as to comment specifically on the Middle Ages, the interpreter’s circumstances, the purpose of play, and/or on medievalism. Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is therefore seeking not only feature articles of 6,000-12,000 words (including notes) on any postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages, but also essays of approximately 3,000 words (including notes) on the intersection of medievalism and play. How have the Middle Ages been adapted to one or more particular instances of postmedieval play? Why was that context selected above all other possibilities? What does that choice say about the Middle Ages, the interpreter, the interpreter’s circumstances, about play, and/or about medievalism? Where does play fit with the study of medievalism? In responding to these and related questions, contributors are invited to give particular examples, but their submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso at kfugelso@towson.edu in English and Word by 1 June 2022, should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole. (Note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received and submissions that have not been translated into fluent English will not be considered.)

CFP Political Medievalisms 3 (Spec Issue of Studies in Medievalism, 8/1/2021)

CALL FOR PAPERS
STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXI:
POLITICAL MEDIEVALISM III

From Hitler’s “Third Reich” to Bush’s “crusade” against terrorism, professional politicians have often invoked the Middle Ages to justify their actions. But they are far from alone, for many of their constituents have also deployed medievalism for political purposes, as in condemning impoverished countries for “failing to escape” the Middle Ages. Indeed, much of medievalism, not to mention the study of it, has revolved around politics of one kind or another, as became evident from the unprecedented number of submissions to our two previous volume (XXIX & XXX) on this theme. Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, is therefore once again seeking essays of approximately 3,000 words (including notes) on the intersection of medievalism (studies) and politics. How exactly have professional and amateur politicians misconstrued, mangled, and manipulated the Middle Ages and to what end? How have politics influenced the development of medievalism and/or study of it? In what sense, if any, is it possible to have medievalism (studies) without politics? How might medievalism otherwise be deployed in professional or amateur politics? In responding to these and related questions, contributors are invited to give particular examples, but their submissions, which should be sent to Karl Fugelso (kfugelso@towson.edu) in English and Word by August 1, 2021 (note that priority will be given to papers in the order they are received), should also address the implications of those examples for the discipline as a whole.