Sally Forth, Sad Girl! (Novel-In-Progress)
Prof. Sally Wen Mao will present on Sally Forth, Sad Girl!, a novel-in-progress following a Chinese American poet living in an artist residency in Shanghai.
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Destigmatizing Poverty: The Cost of Living Documentary, Narrative Change, and Organizing
This presentation examines survey results from three screenings of The Cost of Living (2023, Sixty First Productions), a documentary highlighting the financial struggles of three families in Flushing.
Chinese, English, Spanish: Writing a Third Literature of the Americas
This trilingual program consists of an exciting panel discussion and a reading of selected works in English, Chinese, and Spanish by some of the editors and contributors to this special volume of Amerasia Journal (available at a special booksigning price during the program).
Education: Challenges & Perspectives – Workshop 2A: Teaching of English to Immigrants
Inspired by the educational reform ushered in at the state and city levels, and the rapid increase of Asian population, making it the third largest minority group behind Hispanic and African Americans, the conference would like to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the new Asian immigrants.
Using -wa in Japanese and in English
One of the most difficult tasks of teaching Japanese to English speakers is the explanation of wa. Linguists are always trying to find systematic or consistent ways of explaining what something means. For those who don’t speak Japanese, wa is a sentence particle that goes on the topic of the sentence, telling someone what is … Read more