Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press
We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts/Chapters for the third volume of our book series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume invites scholars, researchers, and academics to contribute high-quality chapters focused on ecocritical approaches to literary inquiry. We encourage submissions that engage with the relationship between literature, environment, and ecology, and that interrogate how texts represent, critique, or reshape human–nature relationships.
Contributions may focus on novels, poetry, drama, life writing, speculative fiction, and interdisciplinary or comparative literary studies. The volume welcomes submissions in English, German, Turkish, and Azerbaijani.
Suggested (but not limited to) Research Areas:
Ecocritical Literary Analysis
Contributions are invited across all literary genres—novels, poetry, drama, life writing, and experimental forms—addressing topics such as environmental ethics, ecological consciousness, climate change, urban ecologies, multispecies relations, and representations of nature in literature.
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Exploring how environmental concerns intersect with colonial and neocolonial histories. Submissions may consider extractivism, land dispossession, ecological imperialism, and indigenous or Global South perspectives on sustainability, resistance, and resilience.
Ecofeminism and Gendered Ecologies: Examining how gender, ecology, and power are intertwined in literary texts. Topics may include women’s relationship to land, reproductive justice in ecological crises, care labor, and feminist engagements with environmental justice.
Queer Ecologies in Literature: Investigating how nonnormative sexualities and genders intersect with environmental thought. Contributions may address queer kinship, environmental belonging, speculative futures, and critiques of heteronormative environmental narratives.
Ecology, Disability, and the Body: Analyzing how literature portrays disabled bodies in relation to environmental contexts—such as climate vulnerability, accessibility, survival, and resilience in times of ecological crisis.
Ecocriticism and Genre Studies: Re-examining established genres (such as pastoral, science fiction, climate fiction, horror, or utopia/dystopia) through ecocritical lenses. Focus may include the emergence of “cli-fi” and other forms of speculative eco-literature.
Indigenous and Decolonial Ecologies: Engaging with indigenous storytelling traditions and decolonial literary practices that foreground ecological knowledge, land rights, spiritual ecologies, and cultural resilience in the face of colonial and ecological violence.
Other ecocritical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary literary research is also welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
• Abstract: Minimum 250 words (including a short bio of the scholar)
• Full Chapter Length: Minimum 4,000 words
• Formatting: Times New Roman, APA 6th Edition citation style, justified texts, 1.15-line spacing
• Languages Accepted: English, German, Turkish, and Azerbaijani
Plagiarism and Similarity Policy:
All submissions will be screened using Turnitin. Works with a similarity index above 20% will not be considered. Authors are advised to pre-check their work for originality.
Publication Fee:
A 100 Euro publication fee applies only upon acceptance of the full article. This fee covers processing and publication costs. Authors will receive a complimentary PDF copy of the book once the publication process is complete and the volume is released.
Important Dates:
• Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 September 2025
• Full Chapter Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025
• Estimated Publication Date: January / February 2026
Submission Emails:
Please submit your abstract and full article (once accepted) by attaching it in an email sent to all of the following addresses:
• Dr. Gülşah Kıran Elkoca (Editor): gulsah.k@adu.edu.tr
• Kanan Aghasiyev (Editor, M.A.): kaasiyev@gmail.com
• Prof. Dr. Habib Tekin (Editor): habib.tekin@marmara.edu.tr
We look forward to receiving your original, thought-provoking contributions that engage with contemporary literary discourse through ecocritical, decolonial, and intersectional frameworks.
Publication History:
• Discourse Analysis in Dialogue Interpreting (Volume I)
• Recent Approaches in Humanities (Volume II)
You may reach the publication history of the series at the following link:
https://www.maurer.press/kategorie/bucher/contemporary-studies-on-language-and-literature/
Sincerely,
Editorial Team
Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature