News and Announcements

The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures announces the ASAIL Emerging Scholars Professional Development Fellowship, which provides travel assistance honoraria of $300 (US) for graduate students and advanced undergraduates to attend and present at professional conferences. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Applicants must provide the following information: a cover letter, CV, and acceptance letter confirming acceptance to present at a professional conference on a topic related to the study of Indigenous literatures and/or languages. Awards will be distributed at the discretion of the ASAIL president and treasurer based on funding availability. Send applications and queries to the current ASAIL president, Patrice Hollrah, at patrice.hollrah@unlv.edu.

A conversation with Lisa Brooks, Michael Elliot, Arnold Krupat, Elvira Pulitano, and Craig Womack took place at Emory University on April 22, 2011. The participants talked about hybridity, sovereignty, and international approaches to Native American literature. No papers were presented, and the panelists concentrated on listening and speaking to each other instead of formal presentations. The resulting dialogue, introduced and followed by written statements from the speakers about the significance of the videotaped discussion, can be viewed by accessing the online journal SouthernSpaces.org; http://southernspaces.org/2011/cosmopolitanism-and-nationalism-native-american-literature-panel-discussion.