cfp: MELUS conference

The call for papers for the MELUS conference, "Ethnic Transformation in the Self and the City," is available online: http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus/.

Proposals due: Dec. 21, 2009
Conference dates: Apr. 8-11, 2010
Location: The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

cfp: Asian American Studies national conference

The call for papers for the 2010 AAAS conference, "Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century," is available online: http://www.aaastudies.org/2010/call/index.php.

Proposals due: Nov. 15, 2009
Conference dates: April 7-11, 2010
Location: Austin, TX

Walter Lim talk -- 9/24/09

The Asian American Studies Program is pleased to present:

Dr. Walter S. H. Lim

“Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore—notes from a comparative perspective”

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
311 Denney Hall

After receiving his PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada), Walter S. H. Lim taught at Hiram College (Ohio) before moving on to the National University of Singapore, where he is presently Deputy Head (Literature) in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr. Lim teaches English Renaissance Literature and Asian American Literature, and has published articles on such diverse topics as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Asian American Literature. He is the author of two books: The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (University of Delaware Press, 1998) and John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (University of Delaware Press, 2006). He is also co-editor with Debra Johanyak (University of Akron Wayne College) of a volume of essays, The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, forthcoming in 2010 from Palgrave Macmillan. For more information, visit http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllimw/.