Call for Papers - Special Issue: Becoming Together. Identity and Community in Contemporary Culture and Literature (vol. 34)

2026-10-27

The Grove is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of vol. 34 (2027), a special issue entitled "Becoming Together. Identity and Community in Contemporary Culture and Literature". This publication will be under the direction of two guest editors: Claudia Martori (Universitat de Barcelona) and Iago Rodríguez-Diéguez (Universidade de Vigo).

Its main aim is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on how contemporary literature, culture and the arts represent, question and reconfigure identities and communities. It also seeks to examine how these forms of selfhood and belonging respond to the ethical, political, and affective challenges of our time. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Gender, sexuality, and the reconfiguration of identity and the subject

  • Queer, trans*, and non-binary identities, communities, and literatures

  • Embodiment, vulnerability, and the politics of the body

  • Kinship, chosen families, and alternative forms of social bonding

  • Sisterhood, female community, and feminist utopias and dystopias

  • Memory, trauma, and the archive: silence, counter-memory, and counter-histories

  • Race, ethnicity, migration, and diasporic communities and belonging

  • Myth, translation, and cultural inheritance as relational practices

  • Postfeminism, popular culture, and the representation of gendered identities

  • Posthumanism, interspecies encounters, and more-than-human communities

  • Literary and cultural responses to ecological and technological change

Research article submissions will be considered only if written in English. They must follow the journal's guidelines and be submitted as anonymised files. The expected article length is between 5000 and 8000 words (including abstracts, keywords, footnotes and references). All articles should be accompanied by a 100–150 word abstract and 6 keywords in both English and Spanish.

When submitting the article, please select the section “Special Issue: Becoming Together” so that your submission is included in this issue.

The deadline for submissions is March 15th, 2027. Any queries can be sent to our guest editors of vol. 34, Claudia Martori (martoriclaudia@gmail.com) and Iago Rodríguez-Diéguez (ago.rodriguez.dieguez@uvigo.gal)