Welcome to the homepage for the CAALS 2022 Virtual Conference
Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11
(All Times EST)
Hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara
Day 1: Friday June 10th, 2022
11:45am CAALS Co-Chair Welcome
12pm Book Conversation
Gina Apostol, author of Bibliolepsy (Soho Press, 2022)
(https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673303/bibliolepsy-by-gina-apostol/)
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
2pm 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)
(https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520384002/the-auntie-sewing-squad-guide-to-mask-making-radical-care-and-racial-justice); 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)
(http://blueoakpress.media/they-rise-like-a-wave/)
Moderator: Aline Lo (Colorado College)
4pm 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)
6pm Book Conversation
Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With A Gun (Sagging Meniscus Press,
2021) (https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/hashtag_good_guy_with_a_gun/)
Leland Cheuk, author of No Good Very Bad Asian (Conscious & Responsible
Press, 2021)
(https://www.crpress.org/shop/no-good-very-bad-asian/)
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 11th, 2022
12pm Book Conversation
erin Khuê Ninh, author of Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other
Model Minorities (Temple University Press, 2021)
(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010385)
James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir,
and the Ends of the Model Minority (Temple University Press, 2021)
(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010514)
Moderator: Erica Kanesaka (Brown University)
2pm 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
Janice Yim (Fordham University), Khmerican (in)Verse: How Sokunthary Svay’s
Aspara in New York Counters Practices of Unsettlement
Chair: Rei Magosaki (Chapman University)
4pm Book Conversation
Erin Suzuki (University of California, San Diego), author of Ocean Passages:
Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple University Press, 2021)
(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009883)
Heidi Kim (University of North Carolina), author of Illegal Immigrants/Model
Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative (Temple University
Press, 2021)
(https://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009955)
Moderator: Karen Siu (Rice University)
6pm 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)
7:30pm Closing Remarks