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 …
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CAALS@ALA 2019 Program Now Available: May 24-25, Boston
Please join us for this year’s annual meeting, CAALS@ALA 2019, to take place Friday & Saturday, May 24 & 25, 2019 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. As a sponsoring society of the American Literature Association, CAALS meets at the ALA Annual Conference. Preliminary Program Friday 5/24 8:10–9:30 / Session 7-F / Essex NC(In)Visible: …
CAALS Panels at AAAS 2019
Please join CAALS for two linked panels, Fugitive Bodies I & II, at the Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting in Madison, WI this week. Both panels will be held Friday, April 26, 2019 at the Madison Concourse Hotel. Details below the poster. Fugitive Bodies I: Anomalous Embodiments in Asian American Cultural Productions, 10:00–11:30 …
CFPs for CAALS Panels at 2019 American Literature Association Meeting
The next American Literature Association (ALA) annual conference will be held May 23–26, 2019, in Boston, MA. Below are calls for papers for the five panels sponsored by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), which also holds its annual business meeting at ALA. Please note that if your proposal is accepted and you …
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 …
CAALS CFPs for AAAS 2019
Please consider submitting a paper proposal for one of our two CAALS-organized panels for AAAS 2019 (April 25–27, 2019, in Madison, WI)! Panel Title: Racial Ambiguity and Racial Passing: Reading the Ungovernable Body in Mixed-Race Asian American Literature Chair: Roberta Wolfson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo In her book Partly Colored: Asian Americans …
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 …