Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.

If you’re attending the 2017 MLA convention, please check out the following sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American:

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

Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian A…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:

41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement

Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:

41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement

Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]

<div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]