Call for Proposals for AmLit - American Literatures (Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025)

Call for Proposals for AmLit – American Literatures

We invite proposals from prospective guest editors interested in curating a special issue for
AmLit – American Literatures, a Diamond Open Access journal dedicated to publishing
cutting-edge scholarship on contemporary developments in American literatures. AmLit
serves as a platform for both established and emerging scholars, fostering discussions on how
literary texts from North, Central, and South America engage with and narrativize cultural
shifts such as digitization, migration, globalization, trans- and interculturality, as well as
visuality and intermediality.

We welcome proposals for special issues featuring five high-quality essays, alongside potential
book reviews. Contributions should engage with fictional, non-fictional, and graphic texts
within the fields of U.S. American, Canadian, and Latin American literary studies. The
journal’s methodological orientation spans a broad spectrum of literary theories, including but
not limited to:
• African American & Ethnic Studies
• Gender, Feminist & Queer Theory
• Marxist Theory
• New Historicism
• Postcolonial Studies
• Sociolinguistics
• Structuralism and Poststructuralism
• Visuality & Intermediality

Proposal Guidelines

Please submit a detailed proposal (400–500 words) that outlines the thematic scope and
scholarly significance of your special issue. In addition, include the following information:

1. Project Status
o Have any contributions already been secured (for example, from a
conference, workshop, or research network)?
o Or will you issue a new Call for Papers to recruit contributors?

2. Submission Format
o Fully Developed Issue
Provide a 400–500-word issue abstract and individual 250-word abstracts for
each planned essay—all combined in a single document.
o New Project
Provide a 400–500-word abstract for the overall issue plus a draft Call for
Papers.

Potential Topics

We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
• New Materialism & Material Studies
• Affect Studies
• Digital Studies
• Adaptation Studies & Generic Transformations
• Queer & Disability Studies – ‘Failure’
• Class & Poverty Studies
• (Post-)Nation, Home, and/or Migration
• Transnational & Transcultural Studies
• Graphic Narratives
• Critical Regionalism
• (Post-)Race Studies
• The New Right & Christianity Revisited

Submission Details

Please send your proposal along with:
• A CV and short bio of the guest editor(s)
• A list of potential contributors (if applicable)

Your proposal should arrive as one PDF (or Word) file containing all elements above.

Submissions should be sent to amlit-journal@uni-graz.at by Monday, September 15, 2025.

For more information, visit www.amlit.eu.

We look forward to your submissions!

The Editorial Team of AmLit – American Literatures