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Calls for Papers

(please click on the link for full information, CFP opportunities appear in order of deadline date)  

November 15, 2025 (extended from November 1)
Call for Papers for the upcoming Special Issue (20.2, 2027) of International Research in Children’s Literature, titled: “Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Children’s Literature.” Read the full CFP here.

November 15, 2025
Call for Papers:  The Diaspora Child Strikes Back: Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire. June 11-13, 2026, Camden, NJ  Read the full CFP here.

December 1, 2025
CFP: Reading Girls: Literacy in 19th-Century Girls' Transatlantic Literature and Culture. We are particularly interested in essays that take an intersectional approach. We are also interested in essays that take a pedagogical approach to nineteenth-century girls’ literacy.  Read the full CFP here.

December 1, 2025
Call for Papers: The Sixth International Children’s Literature Symposium (ICLS), Hosted by the University of Antwerp, In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh and Ocean University of China, 25-26 June, 2026.  Read the full CFP here.