Text and Thought: Volume 1 No. 2: Call for Papers

2026-08-15
CFP Text and Thought
TEXT AND THOUGHT An Interdisciplinary Journal on Literature and Philosophy CALL FOR PAPERS Volume 1, Issue 2 — December 2026

Theme: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of Thought

Text and Thought invites original research articles for Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2026). The journal welcomes theoretically informed and interdisciplinary studies engaging with the complex relationship between literature, philosophy, culture, and human thought.

We invite scholarly contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Literature and Philosophy

  • Literary Theory and Critical Thought

  • Existentialism and Literature

  • Phenomenology and Literary Studies

  • Ethics, Literature, and Philosophy

  • Aesthetics and Literary Representation

  • Poststructuralism and Deconstruction

  • Structuralism and Poststructuralism

  • Marxism and Literary Studies

  • Psychoanalysis and Literature

  • Language, Meaning, and Interpretation

  • Hermeneutics and Reader-Response

  • Literature, Politics, and Ideology

  • Literature and the Question of the Self

  • Memory, History, and Cultural Thought

  • Posthumanism and Philosophical Thought

  • Ecocriticism and Environmental Philosophy

  • Technology, Science, and the Humanities

  • Comparative Literature and Philosophical Traditions

  • Indian Philosophy and Literature

  • Western and Eastern Philosophical Traditions

  • Contemporary philosophical approaches to literary texts

Submission Guidelines

Submission: Full Papers Only — No Separate Abstract Required
Last Date for Submission: 20 October 2026
Issue: Volume 1, Issue 2
Publication: December 2026

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers prepared according to the journal's submission guidelines.

Submit Your Manuscript

All submissions must be made through the journal's online submission portal.

Please submit your full paper directly through the submission portal. Separate abstract submissions are not required.

We particularly welcome theoretically rigorous and interdisciplinary contributions that bring literature into productive dialogue with philosophy and other fields of intellectual inquiry.

Text and Thought
An Interdisciplinary Journal on Literature and Philosophy