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Call for Papers (CFP)

Inaugural Issue: Vol. 1, Issue 1

Focus of the Inaugural Issue

Dialectic and the Digital: Language, Literature, and Culture in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence - systems capable of producing text, translating languages, composing narratives, generating images, and mimicking human expression across media - has placed the humanities at an unexpected and consequential frontier. This is not merely a technological development; it is a cultural, epistemological, and political event.

For scholars of language, literature, culture, and media, this moment compels a return to foundational questions: What is authorship? What is reading? What does it mean to communicate, to create, to teach - when generative systems can simulate so much of what we once considered distinctly human? And crucially: who benefits, who is displaced, and whose languages, cultures, and knowledges are centered or erased in this process?

This inaugural issue invites contributions that engage seriously and critically with these questions - not from a position of alarm or uncritical enthusiasm, but from the grounded, nuanced, and dialectical perspective that the humanities have always brought to moments of profound transformation. We seek work that moves beyond abstraction and engages with real contexts, lived practices, and meaningful implications - across language, literature, culture, media, and pedagogy.

We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions from scholars, practitioners, and policymakers across the humanities and sciences-including literature, computer science, philosophy, and sociology. We invite a diverse array of scholarly and creative formats, including Research Articles and Critical Essays, as well as Pedagogical Reflections, Digital Project Reports, and Media Reviews.

Possible Areas of Interest

Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Reading and Interpretation

  • How generative AI changes the way we read, analyze, and interpret texts
  • Computational methods and their relationship with traditional literary criticism
  • AI and the literary canon - reproduction, disruption, or reinvention
  • The future of close reading in an age of distant, machine-assisted analysis

Writing, Authorship, and Creativity

  • What generative AI means for authorship, originality, and intellectual ownership
  • Human–AI collaboration in creative and academic writing
  • How genre, style, voice, and narrative form are being reshaped
  • Writing as resistance - human creativity beyond and against the generated

Translation and Multilingualism

  • How generative AI is transforming translation theory and practice
  • The politics of language in AI-driven translation ecosystems
  • Low-resource languages, Indian languages, and the limits of machine translation
  • Code-switching, linguistic hybridity, and what generative systems cannot capture

Media, Culture, and Communication

  • Generative AI and the transformation of journalism, storytelling, and media production
  • Synthetic media, deepfakes, and the crisis of truth and authenticity
  • AI-generated content and its impact on cultural industries and creative economies
  • Visual culture, design, and the aesthetics of the generated
  • How audiences receive, interpret, and resist AI-mediated content

Pedagogy and the Classroom

  • How generative AI is reshaping language teaching, learning, and assessment
  • Classroom experiences, institutional responses, and pedagogical experiments
  • Academic integrity, evaluation, and the challenge of AI-generated student work
  • Reimagining the role of the teacher and the design of curriculum
  • AI literacy as a new imperative in humanities education

Ethics, Power, and Digital Politics

  • Bias, representation, and harm in generative AI systems
  • Data ownership, consent, and the ethics of AI training
  • Digital colonialism, knowledge extraction, and whose voices are centered
  • Misinformation, epistemic harm, and the politics of the generated
  • Towards responsible and ethical use of generative AI in research and practice

Identity and Representation

  • How generative AI represents - and misrepresents - gender, race, caste, class, and culture
  • Marginalized communities, digital exclusion, and the generative divide
  • Postcolonial and feminist critiques of generative technologies
  • Synthetic identities, digital personas, and questions of selfhood

Applied Research and Digital Humanities

  • Hands-on use of generative AI tools in literary, linguistic, and cultural research
  • Digital humanities projects, corpus studies, and experimental methodologies
  • Critical reviews of AI platforms and tools used in humanistic inquiry
  • Archiving, cultural memory, and the generative transformation of heritage
  • Reflective accounts of human–AI collaboration in research and creative practice

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

  • Manuscripts submitted should be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • Manuscripts should be carefully proofread before submission. Manuscripts with any grammatical or typographical errors will not be accepted.
  • Manuscripts should be approximately 3000-5000 words in total length, including tables, figures, and references.
  • Accepted submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process.
  • A manuscript should include an abstract of no more than 300 words and 4-5 key words.
  • Authors are required to provide the following information and files during submission:
    • A blinded manuscript (including tables and figures) without any authors’ names and affiliations in the text. Use proper headings, such as Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, or Conclusion. Do not make a full text without headings.
    • A separate title page containing the title, all authors’ names, affiliations (degree, position, department, institution, and nationality), all authors’ e-mail addresses, the corresponding author’s complete mailing address and telephone number, and brief biographical notes for all authors that describe each author’s research interests. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this title page.
  • Because the review process is anonymous, the author’s name and all materials that could identify the author to the reviewer should be removed from the manuscript and appear only on a separate title page.
  • Manuscript should be double-spaced, Times New Roman style, and 12-point font on A4-size paper with margins of 1 inch (2.54 cm) on all sides.
  • Do not use endnotes. Instead, footnotes are recommended for the explanation of specific terms or related information.
  • Spelling and Punctuation should follow United Kingdom usage.
  • Reference in-text citations and the list should follow APA, 7th edition.
  • Plagiarism Policy: To ensure academic integrity, all manuscripts must have a similarity index of less than 10% (excluding references).
  • The journal does not charge any publication fee or Article Processing Charges (APC).
  • All submissions should be sent via email to confluence@niet.co.in
  • Manuscript submission deadline: 12th June 2026.
  • Publisher: Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida

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