[Linganth] Leila Monaghan

Thu Feb 24 00:50:07 UTC 2022

Thank you Erika - What a lovely panel.
I'm hoping to be able to attend - and selfishly crossing my fingers that it
might also be virtual:)

I wanted to add that in addition to her scholarship, Leila walked the walk.
Even while ill, knowing the critical lack of accessible information, she
created a facebook page open to the Deaf community where COVID 19
information was available in various signed languages.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/107269675111/

And on a personal note, not only was she a deep thinker and a gentle
loving person, she was very generous in supporting newer scholars, and
offered me space to present at my first AAA conference.

I hold her dearly, as do you all.

Kind virtual hugs in her memory and condolences to her family and all who
care about her,

Stephanie

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:28 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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