ACCL 2019 announcements

ACCL 2019 Announcements

❖ The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) 2019 DATES CONFIRMED

Our next Biennial Conference has been set for July 17-19, 2019. As previously announced, the conference will be held on the campus of Hunan Normal University, in Changsha. Please save the dates! We are currently working to build the conference website quickly, and will make an announcement when it is available. We will also be sending out a formal call for papers soon, with an expected submission deadline in November.

Also of note: we have coordinated our dates with the International Comparative Literature Association, which will be holding their conference in Shenzhen on July 21-25. We do hope that many of our ACCL members will be able to attend both conferences; please see the ICLA website for their own call for papers (which should be posted soon).

❖ ACCL NEW CONSTITUTION RATIFIED

The ACCL new constitution ratification passed a vote of 43-0 in May, 2018. The official version of the new constitution will be made available on the ACCL 2019 website soon.

❖ ACCL 2019 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

In accordance with the governance structure which the new ACCL constitution establishes, four of our former ACCL presidents agreed to join the executive committee. From now until after our 2019 conference, the executive committee is composed of the current ACCL President Daniel Fried, and four former ACCL presidents, i.e. Michelle Yeh, Christopher Lupke, Michel Hockx, and Sheldon Lu.

❖ ACCL OFFICERS APPOINTED

In accordance with our newly-adopted constitution, two new officers have been appointed by the President and ratified by the Executive Committee: Heidi Yu Huang has been appointed Communications Director, and Liang Luo has been appointed Treasurer.

Huang Yu 黄峪 (Heidi) is an associate professor in literary and transcultural studies at The School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University (PRC), where she serves the role of coordinator for the Center for European Studies focusing upon Sino-European encounters. After obtaining her PhD degree in Transcultural Studies from University of Lyon in 2011, she pursued her post-doctoral research in world literature and comparative literature at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include comparative literature, world literature, Chinese literature and culture in global contexts, and cultural translation. Her publications could be found in international peer-reviewed journals including Modern Language Quarterly, Neohelicon, and Critical Arts among others. Heidi is also an engaged translator promoting less known literary texts in world literature.

Liang Luo 罗靓 is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China (Michigan, 2014), and recently published in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 文学与文化, and 電影研究. She is working on two book-length projects, The Humanity of the Non-human: Gender, Media, and Politics in The White Snake, and Joris Ivens, the International Avant-Garde, and Modern China. She has served as a book review editor for The Journal of Asian Studies and is on the board of the European Foundation Joris Ivens and Trans-Humanities (Ewha Institute for the Humanities). At the University of Kentucky, she directs the International Village Living and Learning Program and serves on the Executive Committee of the KFLC, one of the longest-running foreign language and culture conferences in the United States.

Heidi and Liang will serve in their roles until the next ACCL President is elected, following the 2019 conference.

Yunwen Gao yunwenga@usc.edu

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