Call for Papers Literariness Journal September 2026 Issue

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on June 5, 2026

📢 Call for Papers
Literariness Journal
A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies
P-ISSN: 3108-1614 | E-ISSN: 3108-172X
Doi.org/10.67147/literariness
Vol. 1, Issue 4 (September 2026)
https://LiterarinessJournal.org

Full paper deadline: 17 August 2026

Literariness Journal invites original research articles for its September 2026 issue (Vol. 1, Issue 4). We welcome submissions from scholars working across literature, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, digital humanities, and interdisciplinary humanities.

Themes

* Climate anxiety, eco-grief, and emotional ecologies
* Public humanities, community engagement, and knowledge dissemination
* Attention economies, distraction cultures, and digital wellbeing
* Slow scholarship, academic precarity, and knowledge politics
* Open-access publishing, scholarly communication, and research ethics
* Influencer culture, micro-celebrity, and social media self-fashioning
* Digital activism, hashtag movements, and networked resistance
* Meme cultures, internet humor, and participatory media
* Gaming narratives, interactive storytelling, and narrative worlds
* Virtual fashion, avatar aesthetics, gaming identities, and digital bodies
* Metaverse cultures, virtual citizenship, and immersive experiences
* Streaming cultures, OTT narratives, and binge spectatorship
* K-pop, transnational fandoms, and global youth cultures
* Adaptation studies, transmedia storytelling, and media convergence
* Monster theory, posthuman bodies, and the non-human turn
* Animal studies, multispecies ethics, and more-than-human humanities
* Speculative criticism, futurity studies, and anticipatory humanities
* Science fiction studies, speculative worlds, and technological imaginaries
* Eco-cinema, climate fiction, and environmental storytelling
* Blue humanities, oceanic imaginaries, and hydrocolonial studies
* Anthropocene studies, extinction narratives, and planetary crises
* Climate migration and environmental displacement narratives
* Solarpunk, hopepunk, and alternative ecological futures
* Asexuality studies, aromantic identities, and emerging intimacies
* Lesbian motherhood, queer kinship, and alternative family structures
* Femme theory, butch identity, queer aesthetics, and queer embodiment
* Trans studies, gender identity, and contemporary gender politics
* Queer temporalities, queer futurities, and non-normative life narratives
* Gender, mental health, neurodivergence, and disability narratives
* Body positivity, fat studies, and media representation
* Menstrual narratives, period politics, menstrual justice, and reproductive discourse
* Health humanities, illness narratives, and medical cultures
* Care ethics, vulnerability studies, and repair cultures
* Trauma studies, memory studies, and affect theory
* Archive studies, memory activism, and counter-archival practices
* Pandemic writing and post-COVID cultural imaginaries
* Diaspora studies, transnational identities, and cultural memory
* Migrant subjectivities, exile, border narratives, and belonging
* Digital diasporas and virtual homelands
* Refugee narratives, statelessness, and humanitarian discourse
* Caste, intersectionality, and subaltern digital publics
* Dalit, Adivasi, and marginalized epistemologies in literature
* Decolonial studies, epistemic justice, and knowledge production
* Food studies, culinary memory, and gastro-criticism
* Fashion, dress, and material culture in literature and media
* Biopolitics, governmentality, and regimes of control
* Necropolitics, sovereignty, and contemporary power formations
* Media propaganda, misinformation, and post-truth cultures
* AI ethics, responsible innovation, and algorithmic accountability
* Synthetic media, deepfakes, and authenticity in digital culture
* AI, authorship, machine creativity, and posthuman writing practices
* Generative AI, algorithmic cultures, and human–machine collaboration
* Translation studies in the age of AI
* Digital humanities and computational literary studies
* Gender and technology, AI cultures, algorithmic bias, and digital inequalities
* Platform capitalism, surveillance cultures, privacy, and digital rights
* Data colonialism, digital governance, and technological citizenship
* Human–AI relationships, emotional AI, and machine companionship
* AI-assisted pedagogy, digital classrooms, and educational technologies
* Innovations in interdisciplinary methodology, pedagogy, and curriculum design