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.”
Category: Announcements
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 …