“New Perspectives on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha” Chair: Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin American Literature Association Conference, May 27-30, 2010, San Francisco Standing panel organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies Proposals due: January 1, 2010 Since her death in 1982, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work has moved from avant-garde obscurity to canonical …

“Dialogues of Displacement: Intersections Between the Literary Texts of African and Asian Diaspora(s)” Chair: Trevor Lee, City University of New York (CUNY) “It is from those who have suffered the sentence of history – subjugation, domination, diaspora, displacement – that we learn our most enduring lessons for living and thinking.” – Homi Bhabha, The Location of …

“Asian American Literature: Ambivalent Precursors” Chair: Merton Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign American Literature Association Conference, May 27-30, 2010, San Francisco Standing panel organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies Proposals due: January 1, 2010 The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies invites papers for a panel on critical reevaluations of Asian …