CALL FOR PAPERS
ACCUTE 2026
Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)
4 – 7 June 2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED: 21 November 2025 28 November 2025
The 2026 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) is now OPEN. We are accepting proposals of 250 words to our General Call for Papers, Member-Organized Panels, Creative Writing Panels, and Joint-Sponsored Panels. Please use the Online Submission Form (NOW CLOSED!) to submit your paper proposal.
You do not need to be an ACCUTE member to propose a paper, but if your paper is accepted, you will need to be a member to register for and attend the conference.
Graduate Students and Contract Faculty who are members of ACCUTE will be eligible for a partial travel reimbursement as funds allow.
GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS
ACCUTE’s General Call welcomes papers in all fields of English studies. Submit no more than one 250-word proposal, including a 50-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form (NOW CLOSED!) by 28 November 2025. NOTE: Members may submit one proposal to the General Call for Papers and one additional proposal to one organized panel call of their choice.
Please contact info.accute@gmail.com if you have any questions about the submission process.
MEMBER-ORGANIZED PANELS
ACCUTE members have developed calls for panels on a broad range of topics. You will find the list of Member-Organized Panels to which you can apply directly in the pages below. Submit your 250-word proposal, including a 50-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form (NOW CLOSED!) by Friday, 21 November 2025 28 November 2025. Please ensure you include the title of the panel to which you are directing your submission. Proposals that are not accepted for inclusion on a Member-Organized Panel will still be considered as part of our General Call for Papers.
CREATIVE WRITING PANELS
Creative Writing Panels are presented in collaboration with the Creative Writing Collective (CWC). Submit your 250-word proposal, including a 50-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form (NOW CLOSED!)by Friday, 21 November 2025 28 November 2025. Please ensure you include the title of the panel to which you are directing your submission. Proposals that are not accepted for inclusion on a Creative Writing Panel will still be considered as part of our General Call for Papers.
JOINT-SPONSORED PANELS
Joint-Sponsored Panels are intended to foster links between ACCUTE and other scholarly associations. Panelists are not required to be ACCUTE members so long as they are members of good standing in the co-sponsoring association, but only ACCUTE members will be eligible for travel funding. Submit your 250-word proposal, including a 50-word abstract and a brief biographical note using our Online Submission Form (NOW CLOSED!) by Friday, 21 November 2025 28 November 2025. Please ensure you include the title of the panel to which you are directing your submission. Proposals that are not accepted for inclusion on a Joint-Sponsored Panel will still be considered as part of our General Call for Papers.
Organized Panel Overview
| Panel Title | Organizer(s) | Panel Type |
| Literature in the Digital Age: Reading, Writing and Reviewing Across Platforms | Aman Grewal | Member-Organized |
| The Long Poem and the Nation-Discourse | Geoffrey Nilson | Member-Organized |
| Beyond Interdisciplinarity | Marisa Bordonaro, Bailey Schaan | Member-Organized |
| Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” in 2026 | Raj Banerjee | Joint-Association (with NASSR) |
| Rethinking Romantic Science | Raj Banerjee | Joint-Association (with NASSR) |
| Transparency and its others in 18th century literature | Marcie Frank | Member-Organized |
| New Writing in a Time of Disorientation | Anna Veprinska, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike | Member-Organized Creative Writing Panel |
| Indigenous Horror: Generic Disruptions | Krista Collier-Jarvis, Naomi Simone Borwein | Member-Organized |
| How Should a Person Be Bored? | Myra Bloom, Erin Wunker | Member-Organized |
| Precarious New Narratives for Contract and College Faculty | Jessi MacEachern, Megan Arnott | Member-Organized Roundtable |
| Urgent Academic Conversations: College and CÉGEP Concerns | Jessi MacEachern | Member-Organized Roundtable |
| Opacity, Agency, and the Subject in Creative Forms | Kendra Guidolin, Ritu Kurien | Member-Organized Creative Writing Roundtable |
| Speculative Renaissance | Kevin Pask | Member-Organized |
| The Literary Critic of Humour, Round Two | Danielle Bobker | Member-Organized |
| Wave Upon Wave: A Poetry Reading & Discussion | Gillian Sze | Member-Organized Creative Writing Panel |
| Poetry of Infrastructure / Poetic Infrastructures | Robert Stacey | Member-Organized |
| AMA and FAQ: Submitting your research to a journal | Mary Chapman, Allan Pero | Member-Organized |
| Nineteenth-Century Activism and Social Justice | Jo Devereux, Taylor Tomko | Joint-Association (with VSAO) |
| Roundtable on Victorian Incubators | Heather Marcovitch, Susan Johnston | Joint-Association Roundtable (with VSAWC) |
| Humour Me: Retelling Stories and Histories | Mohammad (Mo) Sharifi, Kristine Dizon | Member-Organized Roundtable |
| Irrepressibility: Women’s Writing Throughout History | Charlotte Esme Frank, Emily McConkey | Member-Organized |
| R. Murray Schafer: Reassessing His Work and Legacy | Eric Schmaltz, Shannon Brown | Member-Organized |
| Imagining Spatiality in End of the World Narratives | Kirsten Bussière, Marisa Emmanouela Lewis | Member-Organized |
| Montreal in the Cultural Imagination: Mapping a City Through Story and Symbol | Nathalie Cooke, Lorraine York | Member-Organized |
| Narratives of the Unspoken: Trauma, Memory, and Identity | Nafiseh Shajani | Member-Organized |
| The World Remade: Deconstruction and Reconstruction through Language | Kate Sheckler | Member-Organized |
| Teaching, Researching, and Writing Literature in Genocidal Times: Gaza in the Classroom | Aaron Kreuter, Zishad Lak | Joint-Association (with CAPS) |
| Audience Reactions to Shakespeare Then and Now | Alexandra Lukawski, Alice Hinchliffe | Member-Organized |
| Reimagining Canada | Gregory Betts | Member-Organized |
| Worldbuilding as a Political Practice | Brent Ryan Bellamy | Member-Organized |
| Alienation and Identity in Western Canadian Poetry | Solomon Goudsward | Member-Organized |
| Systems Thinking and/in Literature | Jay Ritchie | Member-Organized |
| Literature and the geo-logics of conquest | Brennan McCracken | Member-Organized |
| Forbidden Fiction: Intellectual Freedom, Fear, and Control on the Battleground of Banned Books | Zara Diab | Member-Organized |
| “That sh*t hurted”: Beyond the Limits of Language | Theo Fox, Tamara Frooman | Member-Organized |
| Mental Health in the Creative Writing Classroom | Samantha Annie Bernstein | Member-Organized Creative Writing Panel |
| Self in the Age of Autofiction | Concetta Principe | Member-Organized |
| Decolonizing the Language of AI | Chinelo Ezenwa, Basmah Rahman | Member-Organized Roundtable |
| Writing a Life from the Margins | Titi Aiyegbusi | Member-Organized |
| What is African Feminism? | Chinelo Ezenwa, Deborah Egbekpalu | Joint-Association (with CAAS) |
| Salvage Inventory &/or Inventory Salvage? | Mark McCutcheon, Titi Aiyegbusi | Member-Organized |
| “Special Issues” of Cultural and Critical Production in Canada | Bart Vautour, Marissa Carroll | Member-Organized |
| The Role of Publishing Houses in Shaping Literary Discourse | Tom Halford | Member-Organized |
| How Much Do I Need to Learn About Elves? — Genre in the Creative Writing Workshop | Glenn Clifton | Member-Organized Creative Writing Panel |
| Tuning In to Literary Radio | Michael O’Driscoll, Sean Luyk | Member-Organized |
| The Future of EDI | Mohammad (Mo) Sharifi, Richard Douglas-Chin | Member-Organized Roundtable |
| Marxism vs. Poetry | Paisley Conrad, M.A. King | Member-Organized Roundtable |
| Sound Pedagogy: Listening to Literary Audio in Classrooms and Beyond | Karis Shearer, Klara du Plessis | Member-Organized |
| Gail Scott: Fiction+/Theory | Sarah Burgoyne, Jeff Noh | Member-Organized |
| Medieval Magic | Kathryn Walton, Megan Arnott | Joint-Association (with CSM) |
| Medieval Masculinities | Megan Arnott, Kathryn Walton | Joint-Association (with CSM) |
| Disability and Illness Narratives as Re-worlding | Jorge Vallejos | Member-Organized |
| Pedagogical Powder Kegs: Academic Freedom in an Era of Book Bans | Tina Trigg, Matthew Zantingh | Joint-Association Roundtable (with CLSG) |
| Voices Across Time: Using Student-Led Podcasts to Rediscover Medieval & Early Modern Texts | Lindsay Pereira, Ella Jando-Saul | Joint-Association Roundtable (with TEAMS) |
| Podcasting for Public Medievalism: Between Academic Research, Outreach, and Sound | Lindsay Pereira, Ella Jando-Saul | Joint-Association Roundtable (with TEAMS) |
| Teachers As Investigators in the Age of AI | Rahul Gautham Veliyil Edwin | Member-Organized |
| Speculative Fictions of Sleep and Wellness | Amala Poli, Suvendu Ghatak | Member-Organized |
| Redistributing Presence: Performance, Protest, and Displacement | Waed Hasan, Alice Hinchliffe | Member-Organized |
| Climate Change and the Maximalist Novel | Anjalee Nadarajan | Member-Organized |
| Beyond Binaries: Victorian Literature in Transnational Contexts | Reza Taher-Kermani | Joint-Association (with NAVSA) |
| Ramones at Fifty | Peter Robert Brown | Joint-Association (with CAAS) |
Find full panel descriptions and the complete CFP HERE.
