Please support efforts to establish a Forum for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Literatures, Languages, and Cultures by signing the petition.

Please sign the petition to help establish a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.

Please tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Please note that this Survey and CFP is in addition to the…[Read more]

The Intimacies of Four Continents: Crossing Boundaries, Disciplines, Archives

Engagements with Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Assessments, critiques, possibilities for new approaches, archives, connections. 250 word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2016.

Jeehyun Lim (limj@denison.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)

Black Pacific

Intersections of African, Asian, indigenous diasporas across the Pacific. Literary/cultural mappings and imaginings of cross-racial interaction, settler colonialism, labor migration, militarism, gender and sexuality. Abstract and CV by March 11.

Ira Dworkin (idworkin@tamu.edu) and Martin Joseph Ponce (ponce.8@osu.edu)

Latina/o Indigenous Pacific

Intersections of Latina/o and Indigenous production and identity within, around and through the Pacific Rim. Conversations, re-imaginings and re-formations across shared and divergent spaces and histories.  Abstract and CV by March 11.

Anna Nogar (anogar@unm.edu) and Ruby Tapia (rtapia@umich.edu)

Writing (…[Read more]

The Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!

1.  Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Forum: LLC Asian American
Papers on pedagogical practices and concerns in teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita. 2…[Read more]