Hemispheric Approaches to Asian American Literature American Literature Association Conference May 21-24, 2009, Boston In her recent essay “Of Hemispheres and Other Spheres,” Kandice Chuh suggests that Asian Americanists explore “that complementary space between Asian American studies, conceived as a ‘national perspective’ that seeks to understand the link between the national and the global, and …

CFP: Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association, 2009 Westin Copley Place—Boston, MA The Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association seeks proposals for several panels at the American Literature Association’s 20th annual conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 21-24, 2009. We are particularly interested …

Theorizing Asian American Fiction (Modern Fiction Studies special issue, 2010) Guest Editors: Stephen Hong Sohn, Paul Lai, and Donald C. Goellnicht Deadline for Submission: 30 January 2009 The topic of this special issue of MFS stems from the exponential growth in Asian American literary production over the past few decades and the ongoing need to …

“Adopting” Asian America This panel will investigate the variety of ways in which Asian America has been “adopted,” especially vis a vis Asian American texts (literature, film, journalism, criticism, commercial imagery, and so on), together with attendant consequences of such “adoptive” relationships. Proposed papers may address such questions as the following: In what sense and …

Marketing Asian American Literature (roundtable)
 American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 22-25, 2008
Standing panel organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies
Proposals due: January 14, 2008 (Monday) The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies invites papers for a roundtable on “Marketing Asian American Literature.” We hope to engage with a variety of people …

Tropics of Asian America: Critical Studies in the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 22-25, 2008
Standing panel organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies
Proposals due: January 14, 2008 The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies invites papers for a panel on the work of Karen Tei Yamashita, …