Please join us in congratulating this year’s CAALS Essay Prize winner Nancy Carranza for her piece, “The Violent Inheritance of Empire: Narrating and Navigating Contested Psychic and Physical Spaces in Peter Bacho’s Entrys“! The award committee, which is made up of CAALS board members, sent us the message below: The committee felt that this is a sharp paper with solid argumentation and …
Category: Essay Prize
2019 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 or CAALS-sponsored panel. If you are a student who presented on a 2019 CAALS panel at AAAS or on any 2019 ALA panel and …
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 …
CFP: Asian American Transgressive Texts, ALA 2009
American Literature Association 2009 – Boston, MA – May 21-24, 2009 “Asian American Transgressive Texts†The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) is sponsoring a panel at the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in Boston on “transgressive textsâ€â€”writings in which the author’s identity does not match the identity of the text in question. For …