We invite the CAALS community to join us July 9-10, 2021 for a free virtual conference on Asian American literature and literary studies. This synchronous conference, to be held via Zoom, will feature: four scholarly panels addressing current themes in Asian American literature and literary studies; three “Book Conversation” panels celebrating new books, each featuring …
Category: Announcements
CAALS@AAAS 2021: Unsettled Fictions I & II, April 8–9, 2021
The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies is pleased to present a double panel at the upcoming Association for Asian American Studies conference. “Unsettled Fictions I & II: Reassessing the Solidarities of Asian American Literature” will be held on April 8–9, 2021 via Zoom. Details are below. Unsettled Fictions I: Reassessing the Solidarities of Asian …
Congratulations to 2018 CAALS Essay Prize Winners!
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2018 CAALS Essay Prize: Kai Hang Cheang, Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Riverside, “The Textual Remediation of the Visual in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel: Toward an Ethic of Representing a Collective Asian American History” and Yuan Ding, Ph.D. candidate at University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, “The …
2018 CAALS Essay Prize: Call for Submissions/Nominations
The CAALS Essay Prize, established in 2013, is an annual award for the best paper on Asian American literature written by a graduate (or undergraduate) student and presented at any ALA panel or CAALS-sponsored panel. If you are a student who presented on a 2018 CAALS panel at AAAS or at any ALA panel and …
Announcing the 2015 CAALS Essay Prize winner
CAALS congratulates Kai Hang Cheang (UC Riverside) on winning the second annual CAALS graduate student essay prize! He won for his paper “Writing Oneself into Being: the Affect and Aesthetics of Jane Jeong Trenka’s Adoption Autobiographies.”
Announcing the inaugural CAALS Essay Prize
CAALS ESSAY PRIZE Due Date: May 9, 2014 Starting this year, CAALS will be launching an annual book prize for the best paper on Asian American literary studies written by a graduate student/doctoral candidate (or, should the occasion arise, an undergraduate student) and presented at any ALA panel. Papers must be submitted electronically by May …
Prageeta Sharma
A short excerpt of Prageeta Sharma (poet and professor at the University of Montana) reading from her new collection, Undergloom. (Warning: The volume is very, very low.)