Journal of West Indian Literature

For November 2027, we are planning an issue on Caribbean health humanities, edited by Jarrel de Matas and April Shemak, that will explore the connections between Caribbean literature, culture, and health. This special issue aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary bridge between literature and health outcomes to expand our understanding of the socio-cultural and historical dim...

Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars. This issue invites submissions on the myriad manifestations of the “speculative” and “future...

On Nov 7, 2025, the University of Florida is hosting a hybrid symposium on Caribbean children’s literature focusing in particular on the groundbreaking contributions of the Jamaican writer and linguist Jean D’Costa. See link for details. The Journal of West Indian Literature will be publishing a special issue on this topic in April 2026. https://sasc.uflib.ufl.edu/…/revolutio...

IACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India) announces a call for papers for their annual conference in 2026 on the theme of “Food and Food Cultures in the Global South: Aesthetics, Intersections and Mediations.” The conference will be co-hosted from 12–14 February 2026 by the Department of English, Bangalore University, Jnanabharathi Campus...

EACLALS (the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Triennial conference will be held in Turin on 25-29 May 2026 on the topic “Multiple Crises: Conflicts, Crossings, Migrations in Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies”. All conference details can be found on the conference website: https://corep.it/eaclals-conference-2026. All proposals must be submi...