<div dir="auto"><div>I am terribly saddened by this news. So glad the SLA panel will honor her contributions.</div><div dir="auto">Ana Celia Zentella <br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 1:28 PM Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <<a href="mailto:erhoffma@oberlin.edu">erhoffma@oberlin.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>So sorry about this news. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Over the last several weeks, Richard Senghas, Anne Pfister, and
I adapted a panel we had planned
for the upcoming Society for Linguistic Anthropology meeting to focus on honoring
Leila's scholarship and activism. She was aware of this plan and had a chance to review it. The panel abstract is below, and reflects our deep appreciation for her work, collaboration, and mentorship. <br></div><div><br></div><div>We're keeping a presentation slot open to leave time for sharing a
collection of tributes from scholars and collaborators not on the panel.
If anyone would like to send us short written or video-recorded to be shared at the SLA, please feel free to send them to me (ideally by 3/25, but whenever you feel able). </div><div><br></div><div>Condolences to all,</div><div>Erika<br></div><div><br></div><div>Access to and Access Through Sign Languages: A Panel in Honor of <span>Leila</span> Monaghan’s Scholarship and Activism </div>
<br>
For deaf people born into hearing-dominated social contexts in which
speech is prioritized over sign language use, issues surrounding
language and social justice often center on questions of access, such as
equitable access to particular language practices and access through
language practices to resources, roles, and relationships (e.g.,
Friedner 2015; Pfister 2017). Deaf scholarship and activism also invites
us to critically consider when questions of access center on inclusion
in existing institutions and when the work of creating new practices and
modes of belonging is most salient (Clark 2021). <span>Leila</span>
Monaghan’s scholarship and activism addresses both concerns, entailing
collaborative work with deaf activists to draw attention to and
intervene in the ways in which inaccurate language ideologies about the
nature of sign languages can create barriers to language access broadly
(Senghas and Monaghan 2002; Monaghan 2003) and to important existing
institutions and bodies of knowledge, such as public health information
about HIV (Byrd and Monaghan 2018); she also provided some of linguistic
anthropology’s first ethnographic studies of how deaf signers together
build new forms of language and sociality (Monaghan 1996). This panel
honors her work by presenting a collection of papers that consider deaf
socilaity and activism across a wide range of settings. While
illustrating that there are indeed “many ways to be deaf” (Monaghan et.
al., 2003), the papers all address how signer activists have worked to
disrupt and transform audist institutions. Further, the papers explore
how deaf and hearing scholars in linguistic anthropology and related
disciplines (institutions which themselves are deeply grounded in
audism) can participate in that disruption and transformation.<br>
<br>
Byrd, Mark and <span>Leila</span> Monaghan. 2018.
Interpreting Deaf HIV/AIDS: A Dialogue. In, Avineri, Netta, Laura R.
Graham, Eric J. Johnson, Robin Conley Riner, Jonathan Rosa (eds.),
Language and Social Justice in Practice, 128-135. New York: Routledge. <br>
<br>
Clark, John Lee. 2020. Against Access. McSweeney’s Quarterly. 64 Audio Edition. <br>
<br>
Friedner, Michele. 2015. Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India. New Jersey: Routledge.<br>
<br>
Monaghan, <span>Leila</span>. 2003. A World’s Eye View: Deaf Cultures in Global Perspective. In Monaghan, <span>Leila</span>,
Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and Graham H. Turner (eds). 2003.
Many Ways to Be Deaf. International Variation in Deaf Communities, 1-24.
Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press. <br>
<br>
Monaghan, <span>Leila</span>, Constanze Schmaling, Karen
Nakamura, and Graham H. Turner (eds). 2003. Many Ways to Be Deaf.
International Variation in Deaf Communities. Washington DC: Gallaudet
University Press. <br>
<br>
Pfister, Anne. 2017. Forbidden Signs: Deafness and Socialization in a Mexico City. Ethos 45(1): 139-161.<br>
<br>
Senghas, Richard and LeilaMonaghan, 2002. Signs of their Times: Deaf
Communities and the Culture of Language. Annual Review of Anthopology
31: 69-9<br>
<br>
(The panelists include myself, Anne Pfister, Richard Senghas, Caitlin
Coons, Octavian Robinson, and Jennifer Dickinson.) </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM Shana Walton <<a href="mailto:shana.walton@nicholls.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shana.walton@nicholls.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br></blockquote><div>Leila Monaghan, beloved member of the linganth community, passed away this morning in her home just outside of Laramie, Wyoming. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't have any information about her family's plans for a memorial service. I hope this community will want to hold a memorial for her. <br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div>Shana</div><div> <br></div></div></div>
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