Opportunities

Welcome to our opportunities listing, which includes prize and fellowship announcements, calls for submissions to publications and conferences, and more. Because the MLA does not solicit the items listed here and cannot vouch for their reliability, please exercise judgment in responding to them.

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Conferences and Meetings

Congresso de Língua Portuguesa e Culturas Lusófonas da Europa Central e de Leste (Congress of Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures of Central and East Europe)

Congresso de Língua Portuguesa e Culturas Lusófonas da Europa Central . . .

Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture

Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture, 14–15 November . . .

(Re)penser les masculinités modernes (Europe et colonies, XVe-XVIIIe siècle)

(Re)penser les masculinités modernes (Europe et colonies, XVe-XVIIIe siècle), 20–21 . . .

Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand

Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 20–22 Nov. . . .

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Awards and Prizes

Leon Edel Prize

Awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by . . .

Fundación Duques de Soria Award 2026

Endowment: €50,000, aimed at supporting new lines of research. Organized . . .

American Academy in Rome

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: Each year, through a national competition, the Rome Prize is awarded to fifteen emerging artists (working in architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, literature, musical composition, or visual arts) and fifteen scholars (working in…

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Calls for Papers

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

This forthcoming special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (coedited . . .

Journal of Literary Multilingualism

We warmly welcome submissions for open-call issues. These contributions (in . . .

Bloomsbury Handbook to Kurt Vonnegut

Call for proposals for articles and essays to be included . . .

Women and Horror

This special issue of Horror Studies aims to address female . . .

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Grants and Fellowships

Folger Institute

Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create . . .

Folger Institute’s Books in Progress Fellowship

Applications are now open through 15 September for the Folger . . .

Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center, an internationally renowned humanities research library . . .

Hellenic Research Fellowship Program 2025–26, California State Univ., Sacramento

HELLENIC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 2025–26, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIV., SACRAMENTO: The . . .

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