Call for Book Chapters: Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Comparative Literature

In the digital age, the role of scholars in Comparative Literature is being profoundly redefined. The modern researcher is no longer a solitary reader of texts but a collaborator, digital curator, and cultural mediator. As technology accelerates knowledge dissemination, scholars must engage with new modes of authorship, publication, and pedagogy. The democratization of research through open-access platforms and digital archives has expanded the reach of comparative studies. Yet, it also demands critical responsibility—ensuring ethical citation, inclusivity, and intellectual authenticity. Scholars today are challenged to balance humanistic inquiry with digital literacy. This section invites reflective and theoretical contributions on how scholars can adapt to, and shape, the evolving landscape of literary research. How can digital tools be harnessed for comparative scholarship without diluting critical depth? What new forms of mentorship, collaboration, and publication emerge in this ...

The comparative study of themes and images lies at the heart of Comparative Literature. It enables scholars to trace universal motifs—love, exile, identity, resistance, nature—across diverse cultural and linguistic landscapes. Yet, in today’s globalized world, such comparisons acquire new complexity, demanding sensitivity to cultural context, historical background, and ideological nuance. Themes and images serve as connective threads linking literatures of the world. Whether it is the image of the wandering hero in epics or the theme of alienation in modern fiction, these recurring patterns reveal shared human experiences and distinct cultural articulations. This theme welcomes chapters that engage with cross-cultural motifs, archetypes, and metaphors. How do certain images evolve as they move between traditions? How can comparative reading expose both convergence and divergence in cultural meaning? Contributors may also examine interdisciplinary comparisons, exploring how visual, c...