SALA NEWSLETTER SOUTH ASIAN LITERARY ASSOCIATION An Allied Organization of the MLA WINTER 2010 President's Column 1 2011 SALA Conference Program/ 2-5 Acknowledgment of Thanks SALA MLA Sessions/MLA Sessions of Possi- 6 ble Interest Conference Abstracts 7-16 Invitation from Gayatri Spivak 17 SAR CFP 18 Other CFPs 19-21 "Congratulations to Our Members" Section 22 In Memoria 23-24 New Books of Interest for South Asianists 25-26 Life Memberships 26 SAR and SALA Forms 27 SALA Mission Statement 28 SALA EXECUTIVE BOARD 2010 President: P. S. Chauhan Arcadia University Vice President: Rajender Kaur William Paterson University Secretary: Moumin M. Quazi Tarleton State University Treasurer: Robin Field Kings College Editor, South Asian Review: Kamal Verma University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Editor, SALA Newsletter: Maryse Jayasuriya University of Texas at El Paso EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University Rashmi Bhatnagar, University of Pittsburg Maya Sharma, Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College/CUNY Sharanpal Ruprai, York University EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Associate Editors, South Asian Review: P. S. Chauhan, Arcadia University (Book Reviews) John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University Amritjit Singh, Ohio University (Creative Writing) Web Manager: Moumin M. Quazi, Tarleton State Universi- ty CONFERENCE 2011 CO-CHAIRS Rashmi Bhatnagar, University of Pittsburg Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University VOLUME 34, NO. 2 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO El PASO, TX PRESIDENT'S COLUMN President's Welcome SALA Conference 2011 Welcome to Los Angeles, the home of LA Lakers, and the site of SALA's first conference of the second decade. I am happy to see those who have returned to meet, and to debate, their old friends, and happier to see those who are joining us for the first time. The 2011 Conference co-chairs, Raje Kaur and Rashmi Bhatnagar, have put together a vigorous yet prac- tical schedule, and the Secretary Moumin Quazi and Treasurer Robin Field have done their best to ensure that the logistics of the Conference function smoothly. Now it is our obligation as participants, to see that they do; what is more, it is to our advantage to get the maximum benefit from this meet. Some of you have covered long distances, all of you have sacri- ficed home comforts-and most have done this not, I suppose, just to give a paper but to chalk for yourself an academic track, to build a lasting friendship, or to lay foundations for a collaborative project. It can't be hidden from you that some SALA members are doing some fundamental work on South Asian writers and writing, even as this field of literary studies finds a place in Western curricula. As part of this privileged group, you have all the challenges and the opportunities to con- tribute some basic research tools for the study and assessment of the new English fiction: glosses, indices, bibliographies, biographies, critical stud- ies, compilations of interviews, or of the writers' critical views. If you stay in touch with your homelands, you must be aware how the new English fiction, product mainly of South Asian writers, is transforming the study of English language there,