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ALitA 2010, Session 8F, Asian American Literature: Ambivalent Precursors

Yuan Shu (Texas Tech), “Rereading Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America in the Age of Globalization”
David Roh (Old Dominion), “Japanese and American Scientific Management: The Construction of Korean Labor in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West”
Benzi Zhang (Chinese U of Hong Kong), “An Ambivalent Precursor in Asian American Drama: Re-reading David Henry Hwang” [withdrawn]
Jeffrey Kim Schroeder (UCLA), “Looking Back at '68: Chuang Hua’s Crossings and the (re)Mapping of the Political”

Response by panel chair Merton Lee (UIUC) Read the rest of this entry »

ALitA 2010, Session 4B, The Varieties of Digital Experience: Digital Scholarship across American Literature

Matt Cohen (UT–Austin), “Digitization and Colonization”
Amy Hungerford (Yale), “Post*45 Goes Digital”
Elizabeth J. Vincelette (Old Dominion), “Methodology, Transparency, and the Digital Archive”
Amanda Gailey (U Nebraska), “Collected Editions and the Canon in the Digital Age”

Gailey moderated because Edward Whitley couldn’t attend. Read the rest of this entry »

ALitA 2010, Session 1A, Mark Twain: The Perils of Biography and Anthology

Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Stanford), “American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain”
Laura Skandera Trombley (Pitzer), “Fighting Ghosts: The Writing of Mark Twain’s Other Woman” [paper withdrawn?]
Michael Shelden (Indiana State), “Mark Twain and Lord Curzon: Imperialism and Twain’s Honorary Degree from Oxford”
Martin Zehr, “Mark Twain and the Chinese: The Celestial Connection”

[I am the only person in this session using a laptop, it seems.] Read the rest of this entry »

Part of O’Reilly’s Tools for Change mini-con, Oct 2009.

Speaker: Matthew Bernius (Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Publishing Lab)

2009 has been a watershed year for ebooks. According to the Association of American Publishers, not only did are year to date ebooks sales up 149.3%, June 2009 saw the highest amount of ebook trade sales so far, $14,000,000 in total. Internationally more than a dozen new ebook readers have been either released or announced, and more are on the way. As Tech consultant and author Geoffrey Moore would put it, the ebook industry is now in the midst of “crossing the chasm,” moving from an audience of early adopters towards mainstream markets.

This presentation will cover the current state of the art in ebooks and ereaders – discussing the technologies currently at play and those coming in the near future. Drawing up lessons from the adoption of other products, the presentation will also discuss trends that may influence the long term development of these technologies.

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