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CFP: Working the frame: comparative approaches to Asian Canadian literature & culture, McMaster University

01/26/2012 CFP No comments

Call for papers
Working the Frame: Comparative Approaches to Asian Canadian Literature & Culture
John Douglas Taylor Conference 2012
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
October 25 & 26, 2012

Call for Papers
The emer­gence of Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture as an iden­ti­fi­able force over the last twenty years is abun­dantly clear: Asian Canadian fic­tion and poetry have won major lit­er­ary prizes, there are sev­eral active Asian Canadian the­atre groups in major cities, and film fes­ti­vals on Asian and Asian Canadian film are held annu­ally. Despite the grow­ing promi­nence of Asian Canadian arts, how­ever, the broad pub­lic per­cep­tion that we are liv­ing in a post-racial or even a post-national world makes it dif­fi­cult to estab­lish insti­tu­tional ground­ing for a field founded on explor­ing racial, eth­nic, and national iden­tity; to date, no uni­ver­sity pro­gram or depart­ment devoted to Asian Canadian Studies has emerged. Yet, as the recent Macleans arti­cle Too Asian? and the strong responses it has gen­er­ated demon­strate, racial iden­tity pol­i­tics are nei­ther obso­lete nor dead, although new pos­si­bil­i­ties for coali­tional oppor­tu­ni­ties have arisen between and among dif­fer­ent racial­ized groups in Canada, and between dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties in the Asian dias­pora. While the pol­i­tics of race and iden­tity have shifted over the last two decades with the turn to dias­pora and transna­tional approaches in crit­i­cal race stud­ies, eth­nic stud­ies, post­colo­nial stud­ies, and cul­tural stud­ies, it is pre­cisely this shift that demands atten­tion to new devel­op­ments in the cir­cu­la­tion of knowl­edge about and the expe­ri­ence of race and nation­al­ity in Canada.

The pur­pose of this con­fer­ence is to explore the cur­rent for­ma­tion and future devel­op­ments of Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture in a comparative/relational frame, exam­in­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties and respon­si­bil­i­ties of coali­tional pol­i­tics and col­lab­o­ra­tive cul­tural pro­duc­tion, as well as the very def­i­n­i­tion of the term Asian Canadian. We invite pro­pos­als that engage with Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture and are espe­cially inter­ested in research that inves­ti­gates cross-cultural rela­tion­ships, col­lab­o­ra­tions, and antag­o­nisms recounted in, enacted by, or in con­ver­sa­tion with Asian Canadian cul­tural prod­ucts.
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CFP: Queering Area Studies, American Comparative Literature Association conference, Brown University

10/27/2011 FYI No comments

Interesting CFP!

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From: H-Net Announcements

Call for papers
Queering Area Studies
American Comparative Literature Association con­fer­ence
March 29-April 1, 2012
Brown University, Providence, RI

Scholars rang­ing from Rey Chow, Miyoshi, and Harootunian have pointed out how area stud­ies emer­gence as col­lab­o­ra­tor with the U.S. state con­tin­ues older European colo­nial struc­tures that nar­rate non-Western nations in devel­op­men­tal terms. In the most ambi­tious revi­sion of area stud­ies, Miyoshi and Harootunian argue that the con­se­quence of area stud­ies as the tool of Cold War man­age­ment means that Euro-America remains the cen­ter of theory-production whereas the non-West are ren­dered as pure fac­tic­ity. In The Creolization of Theory, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih more directly argue that the recent pro­nounce­ment of the death of Theory cor­re­sponds to Theorys con­tin­ual resis­tance to con­sider the rise of eth­nic stud­ies and var­i­ous strands of anti-colonial stud­ies as real the­ory. This leads to a highly effec­tive divi­sion of labor: the the­o­rists do the­ory, while the area stud­ies experts do area. Panelists are invited to the­o­rize the pos­si­bil­ity of think­ing area stud­ies in con­ver­sa­tion with queer the­ory in an attempt to unset­tle these dis­ci­pli­nary divides. Read more

Assistant Professor, Korean Literature, Boston University

09/11/2011 FYI No comments

Boston University
Assistant Professor, Korean Literature

Boston University invites appli­ca­tions for a tenure-track posi­tion in Korean Literature at the Assistant Professor rank, to begin in Fall 2012 (pend­ing bud­getary approval). Area of spe­cial­iza­tion within Korean lit­er­a­ture is open. Familiarity with the debates and approaches of com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture is desir­able, and can­di­dates with schol­arly exper­tise in film stud­ies are also encour­aged to apply. The PhD is required at the time of appoint­ment, as is native or near-native flu­ency in Korean and English. At Boston University, the suc­cess­ful appli­cant will join a vibrant fac­ulty com­mu­nity in East Asian lit­er­a­ture, com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture, and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Asian Studies. She or he will be expected to build on a well-established Korean lan­guage pro­gram to develop a cur­ricu­lum in Korean lit­er­a­ture. There will also be oppor­tu­ni­ties to teach courses in com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Korean stud­ies, or film stud­ies; teach­ing load is two courses per semes­ter. A robust research and pub­li­ca­tion agenda is essential.

Salary com­pet­i­tive and com­men­su­rate with expe­ri­ence. Cover let­ter, cur­ricu­lum vitae, and three con­fi­den­tial let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion should be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cally to Ms. Rebecca Jackson, jacksonr@​bu.​edu; pref­er­ence will be given to appli­ca­tions received by October 1, 2011. Additional mate­ri­als will be requested later from cer­tain appli­cants. Any rec­om­men­da­tions that can­not be sent elec­tron­i­cally may be mailed to Ms. Rebecca Jackson, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Boston University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. www​.bu​.edu/​m​lcl; www​.bu​.edu/​a​s​ian