Presidential Roundtable
“Indigeneity and Comparative Literature”
Comparative Literature has never taken indigeneity seriously, even though the encounter between the old and the new worlds was instrumental to the origin of its formation as a discipline. This forum gathers together several leading indigenous literary scholars across the Pacific to examine the much neglected relationship between indigeneity and Comparative Literature.
Moderator: Shu-mei Shih, UCLA, ACLA President 2022
Panelists:
- Paelabang Danapan (Ta-chuan Sun), Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng-chih University “Casual but Productive Alliance: The Issue of Literary Creativity in Comparative Literature”
- Alice Te Punga Somerville, Maori and Indigenous Studies, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Chadwick Allen, English Department, University of Washington, USA
