Call for Papers Literariness Journal

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 16, 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. 2, Issue 1 (December 2026)
https://LiterarinessJournal.org

Full paper deadline: 15 November 2026

Literariness Journal is pleased to invite original research articles for its First Anniversary Issue (Vol. 2, Issue 1), December 2026.

Marking the completion of our first year of publication, this issue welcomes scholarly contributions across literature, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, digital humanities, and interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities.

We seek original and unpublished research that offers critical, theoretically grounded, and innovative perspectives on literary and cultural texts, emerging intellectual debates, and contemporary developments in the humanities. Contributions that engage with new methodologies, evolving cultural forms, emerging technologies, and underexplored areas of literary and cultural inquiry are particularly encouraged.

The journal welcomes submissions from scholars at all stages of academic research and invites contributions that expand, challenge, or reimagine existing approaches to literary and cultural studies. Submissions addressing significant emerging areas of inquiry beyond the themes listed below are equally welcome.

Themes and Topics

Digital humanities, computational literary studies, distant reading, and data-driven criticism
Biopolitics, necropolitics, power, governance, surveillance, and contemporary cultural formations
Food studies, culinary cultures, fashion, dress, material culture, and everyday life
Urban cultures, spatial humanities, architecture, cities, and the politics of place
Public humanities, community scholarship, cultural institutions, and new modes of knowledge dissemination
Posthumanism, transhumanism, monster theory, and non-human subjectivities
Artificial worlds, synthetic realities, virtual existence, and simulated identities
Caste, Dalit and Adivasi studies, Indigenous literatures, and marginalized epistemologies
AI, authorship, machine creativity, and the future of literary production
Attention economies, creator cultures, influencer culture, and mediated self-fashioning
Meme cultures, internet humor, participatory cultures, and vernacular creativity
Queer studies, trans studies, queer temporalities, and non-normative identities
Generative AI, algorithmic cultures, language models, and human–machine collaboration
AI ethics, algorithmic bias, automation, and the politics of technological power
Climate anxiety, eco-grief, emotional ecologies, and climate affect
Environmental justice, ecological displacement, and climate migration
Eco-criticism, climate fiction, eco-cinema, and environmental storytelling
Blue humanities, oceanic imaginaries, and hydrocolonial studies
Animal studies, multispecies ethics, and more-than-human humanities
Solarpunk, hopepunk, dystopian imaginaries, and alternative ecological futures
Speculative criticism, futurity studies, science fiction, and technological imaginaries
Digital literature, electronic textuality, hypertext, and new forms of reading and writing
Digital activism, networked publics, online resistance, and counter-publics
Platform cultures, surveillance, privacy, data politics, and digital citizenship
Misinformation, deepfakes, post-truth cultures, and the politics of authenticity
Digital intimacy, parasociality, online communities, and mediated relationships
Gaming narratives, interactive storytelling, player agency, and virtual worlds
Streaming cultures, OTT narratives, binge spectatorship, and changing screen cultures
Adaptation, transmedia storytelling, remediation, and media convergence
Cinema and literary studies: dialogue, influence, and intermediality
Film theory, spectatorship, visual culture, and cinematic representation
Contemporary cinema, independent cinema, world cinema, and alternative film cultures
Documentary cinema, archival film, testimony, and cultures of witnessing
Popular cinema, genre cultures, celebrity, stardom, and mass spectatorship
K-pop, global fandoms, fan cultures, popular music, and transnational youth cultures
Literary theory, critical theory, and new directions in contemporary criticism
Comparative literature, world literature, transnational literary cultures, and literary circulation
Contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, graphic narratives, and emerging literary forms
Genre studies, popular literature, crime fiction, romance, horror, fantasy, and speculative fiction
Life writing, autobiography, memoir, testimony, and self-narration
Gender, sexuality, embodiment, masculinities, femininities, and changing social identities
Disability studies, neurodivergence, crip theory, accessibility, and disability aesthetics
Body studies, fat studies, beauty cultures, reproductive politics, and mediated embodiment
Health humanities, illness narratives, mental health, care ethics, and cultures of vulnerability
Trauma, memory, affect, grief, and contemporary cultures of remembrance
Archives, counter-archives, cultural memory, heritage, and the politics of preservation
Diaspora, migration, exile, borders, refugee narratives, and transnational belonging
Decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, epistemic justice, and the politics of knowledge
Slow scholarship, academic precarity, open-access publishing, research ethics, and the future of scholarly communication