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 …
Category: Announcements
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.)
Welcome!
We are currently re-vamping the site and re-organizing all the pages and information. Please feel free to bookmark the main page and come back for more updates! For the 2009 ALA conference, CAALS will be organizing panels on the following topics: – Author-focused panel on Jhumpa Lahiri (chaired by Betsy Huang) – Neglected writers (chaired …