I hope this message finds you enjoying a beautiful fall semester! I’m writing because I’m on the search committee for a new position in Chinese Literature at Penn State. Could you help spread the word amongst friends, colleagues, peers, grad students and the like? (Ad below.)

Thanks so much!
Charlotte

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Please note the following panel since it will be of interest to anyone working on East Asia.

“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott

Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!

Monika Dix

Please note the following panel since it will be of interest to some of you.

“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott

Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!

Monika Dix

Hello all!

Information about the schedule for MLA 2017 has begun to circulate. I’ll post the titles, dates, and times for the Premodern Japan panels here. Hope you’ll join us!

#164 “Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere” Thursday 1/5, 7:00-8:15pm, 406 Marriott

#238 “Soundscapes of Premodern Japan” Friday 1/6, 10:15-, 406 Marriott

Also, if you have…[Read more]

<u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>

How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.

Longer abstract:

Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]

The cfp for my panel “The Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia” is posted on the MLA website. I look forward to receiving your submisisons.

Monika Dix

The Japan to 1900 Division of the MLA invites you to submit paper proposals for either of the following panel, which we are planning for the January 2017 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Philadelphia.

Collaborative Session (with the East Asia forum):

Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere

How should we understand the…[Read more]

Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (guaranteed panel) CFP

How do sound imaginaries in literature (the racket of the street and the warbling of birds) represent space? Who hears, listens in, or overhears, and what power do they enjoy in this sonic culture? What constitutes a sacred sound or its profane or transgressive counterpart? What role is…[Read more]

The Japan to 1900 group would like to propose a collaborative panel with the East Asia group, on the topic of

‘Sounding the Pre-Modern Sinosphere’

which would focus on Chinese-language compositions from across Asia (such as kanshi in Japan).

I’ll be interested in your thoughts, and will hope for a ‘go ahead’ from the leadership! 🙂

Charlotte…[Read more]

I would like to propose the following panel for the 2017 MLA:

“Literature as the Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”

I am posting it to see if there is any interest from group members to present on this topic.

Monika Dix

Dear LLC East Asian Executive Committee Members,

On Saturday, January 9, 2016, the LLC EAST ASIAN forum had its business meeting at MLA. The meeting took place from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott in Austin, TX. The following people attended: Ming-Bao Yue (Skype), Michael Emmerich (Skype), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Skype), Charlotte Eubanks,…[Read more]

The second item of business is organizing panel(s) for MLA 2017.

We get 1 guaranteed panel. Jayanthi (your current Secretary) and I (your current Chair) will organize a panel on

“Soundscapes in Pre-modern Japanese Literature.”

CFP to be circulated shortly. (NB: the Japan *from* 1900 forum is also doing their guaranteed panel on sound, and the…[Read more]

For the first time in MLA history, pre-modern Japan has a designated ‘place at the table.’ Thanks, all, for your efforts to help make this vision a reality!

With MLA 2016 just over, it’s time to start preparing for MLA 2017, to be held in Philadelphia. We have a couple of items of business, one of which is to collect nominations (including sel…[Read more]