[Linganth] Leila Monaghand

[Ana Zentella]

I am terribly saddened by this  news. So glad the SLA panel will honor her
contributions.
Ana Celia Zentella

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 1:28 PM Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <erhoffma at oberlin.edu>
wrote:

> So sorry about this news.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Condolences to all,
> Erika
>
> Access to and Access Through Sign Languages: A Panel in Honor of Leila
> Monaghan’s Scholarship and Activism
>
> 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). Leila 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.
>
>     Byrd, Mark and Leila 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.
>
>     Clark, John Lee. 2020. Against Access. McSweeney’s Quarterly. 64 Audio
> Edition.
>
>     Friedner, Michele. 2015. Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India. New
> Jersey: Routledge.
>
>     Monaghan, Leila. 2003. A World’s Eye View: Deaf Cultures in Global
> Perspective. In Monaghan, Leila, 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.
>
>     Monaghan, Leila, 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.
>
>     Pfister, Anne. 2017. Forbidden Signs: Deafness and Socialization in a
> Mexico City. Ethos 45(1): 139-161.
>
>     Senghas, Richard and LeilaMonaghan, 2002. Signs of their Times: Deaf
> Communities and the Culture of Language. Annual Review of Anthopology 31:
> 69-9
>
> (The panelists include myself, Anne Pfister, Richard Senghas, Caitlin
> Coons, Octavian Robinson, and Jennifer Dickinson.)
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM Shana Walton <shana.walton at nicholls.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>>
>> Leila Monaghan, beloved member of the linganth community, passed away
>> this morning in her home just outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Shana
>>
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> Professor of Anthropology
> Oberlin College
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