[Linganth] Leila Monaghand

Thu Feb 24 01:39:31 UTC 2022

I too am deeply saddened by Leila's passing. She contributed so much, in so
many different ways. Que en paz descanse.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 4:25 PM Ana Zentella <ana.zentella at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>> --
>> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, she/her/hers
>> Professor of Anthropology
>> Oberlin College
>>
>>
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