LLC East Asian: Calls for Papers

Arrival Stories: Migration, Language, and Early East Asian Writing in America
Seeking proposals on early East Asian international student writing in the U.S. before 1950, examini ... See more
Jina Kim, University of Oregon and Chris A. Eng, U of Maryland, College Park
Posted Sunday, February 1, 2026
False Starts, Not-So-Dead-Ends, and Unsung Side Projects: Reconsidering the Act of Creation in East Asian Literary Culture
This panel examines East Asian literary historiography from the standpoint of “incompletion”: consid ... See more
William Hedberg, Arizona State U, Tempe
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2026
Writing within Catastrophe: Weiji, Risk, and the Futures of East Asian and Comparative Literature
From pandemic to climate crisis, catastrophes persist. Reading weiji as risk and possibility, this s ... See more
Christopher M. Lupke, University of Alberta
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
War, Memory, and Haunting in East Asian Literatures
This session explores the relationship between war and literature in East Asia through the lens of m ... See more
Satoru Hashimoto, Johns Hopkins University and Fumiko Joo, Mississippi State U
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026
East Asian Countercultures
Examining East Asian countercultural formations, this session emphasizes both the political valences ... See more
Carlos Rojas, Duke U
Posted Friday, February 27, 2026
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