Welcome to the CAALS 2022 Virtual Conference
Friday, June 10 – Saturday, June 11
(All Times EST)
Hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara
Welcome Message By Conference Co-Chairs
Thank you for joining the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) for our second Virtual Conference, June 10-11, 2022! We welcome one and all to this now not-so-new platform. Please see our full schedule of events below.
CAALS is the only national and international scholarly society for the study of Asian American literature, culture, and arts. We strive to be a supportive community of warm professionalism for scholars, writers, teachers, and students. We also maintain a lively Facebook community of academics and non-academics who wish to discuss and learn about Asian American literature. Learn more at our website: caals.org.
The Virtual Conference includes 3 Scholarly Panels and 5 Book Conversations. Scholarly Panels each feature three original scholarly or creative presentations on a topic of interest in Asian American literary studies. All Scholarly Panels make original contributions to the field of literary studies and include time for audience discussion. Book Conversations are a new session format intended to highlight new books by CAALS community members and to provide mentorship to emerging scholars and creative writers on book publishing. Each Book Conversation features recent authors/editors and a respected moderator conversing informally and with plenty of time for audience discussion.
Warmest thanks to our panel chairs/moderators, presenters, and featured authors for their brilliant contributions; and to our fellow Conference Organizing Committee members, for their generous labor. A special thank you to Swati Rana for hosting this year’s event, to Mary-Kim Arnold for help with the website, and to Joey Kim for promoting the event via twitter.
We look forward to the rich discussions this conference is sure to begin. If you’re new to CAALS, we hope you’ll join us for many more gatherings and conversations to come.
Timothy K. August & Aline Lo
CAALS Co-Chairs
Day 1: Friday June 10, 2022
11:45 aM — CAALS Co-Chair Welcome
12:00 pM — Book Conversation
- Gina Apostol, author of Bibliolepsy (Soho Press, 2022)
- Discussant: Paul Nadal (Princeton University) and Alden Sajor Marte-Wood (Rice University)
This panel is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Effron Center for the Study of America and Rice University’s Chao Center for Asian Studies
2:00 pM — Book Conversation
- Mai-Linh K. Hong (University of California, Merced), Chrissy Yee Lau (California State University, Monterey Bay), and Preeti Sharma (California State University, Long Beach), editors of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021) *30% off coupon code (if purchased from UC Press): 21W2240
- Christine Kitano (Ithaca College) and Alycia Pirmohamed (University of Edinburgh), editors of, and Swati Rana (University of California, Santa Barbara), contributor to They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2022)
- Moderator: Aline Lo (Colorado College)
4:00 pm — Scholarly Panel
Environments, Experts and Frontiers
- Julia Lee (University of California, Irvine), The Asian American Neo-frontier Narrative
- Hyo Kyung Woo (Edwards Waters University), Creating an “Oriental Yankee”: Kang Younghil’s East Goes West and the Role of “Chinamen”
- Julia Harvey (University of Indianapolis), “Not-one, Not-two. Not Same. Not Different”: Buddhist Philosophy and Rejection of an Anthropocentric Ecology in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
- Chair: Julia Lee (University of California, Irvine)
6:00 pm — Book Conversation
- Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With A Gun (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2021)
- Leland Cheuk, author of No Good Very Bad Asian (Conscious & Responsible Press, 2021
- Moderator: Hilda H. Ma (Saint Mary’s College of California)
This panel is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies and the English Department’s American Cultures and Global Contexts Center (ACGCC) at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Day 2: Saturday, June 11, 2022
12:00 pm — Book Conversation
- erin Khuê Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities (Temple University Press, 2021)
- James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority (Temple University Press, 2021)
- Moderator: Erica Kanesaka (Brown University)
2:00 pm — Scholarly Panel
CAALS Emerging Scholars Panel
- Justine Trinh (Washington State University), Left Behind and Nowhere to Go: Runaways and Parental Disownment in Little Sister Left Behind and Miles from Nowhere
- Katherine Xiong (Brown University), Plastic Humanity: Human/Asian Biomaterial and Plastic Commodity Circulation in “Peeling Off” by Lin Hsin-hui
- Chair: Rei Magosaki (Chapman University)
4:00 pm — Book Conversation
- Erin Suzuki (University of California, San Diego), author of Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple University Press, 2021)
- Heidi Kim (University of North Carolina), author of Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative (Temple University Press, 2021)
- Moderator: Karen Siu (Rice University)
6:00 pm — Scholarly Panel
Embodiment and Beyond
- Nancy Carranza (University of California, Riverside), The Violent Inheritance of Empire: Narrating and Navigating Contested Psychic and Physical Spaces in Peter Bacho’s Entrys
- Leah Milne (University of Indianapolis), Marginalized Motherhood in Asian American Literature
- Maile Aihua Young (University of California, Santa Barbara), Machine, Cyborg, Virus: Poetics Beyond Embodiment
- Chair: Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University)