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 …
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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 …
CAALS Schedule at ALA 2018
The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) is pleased to announce our schedule for this year’s American Literature Association conference, May 24-27, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. The hotel is located at 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA. Questions may be directed to CAALS co-chairs Caroline Kyungah Hong (caroline.hong [at] qc.cuny.edu) or …
CAALS Panels at AAAS 2018
CFPs for CAALS Panels at 2018 American Literature Association Meeting
The next American Literature Association Meeting will be held in San Francisco, CA, May 24–27, 2018. Below are CFPs for the five panels sponsored by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), which will also hold its annual business meeting at the conference. Please note that if your proposal is accepted and you agree …
CAALS CFP for AAAS 2018
Please consider submitting a proposal for the first CAALS-organized AAAS panel! CFP for AAAS 2018 Panel Title: Re-imagining (the) Work in/of Literature Chair: Mark Chiang, University of Illinois at Chicago The resurgence of populism both in the US and abroad has been fueled by widespread skepticism regarding the capacity of free trade and economic globalization …