[Linganth] Leila Monaghan

Thu Feb 24 18:30:07 UTC 2022

Leila was amazing, she did so much for so many in so many ways.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:23 PM Cyndi Dunn <cyndi.dunn at outlook.com> wrote:

> I will always be grateful to Leila for starting the original linganth
> listserve in the early 1990s.  It was a wonderful, and at the time unique,
> opportunity for younger scholars to communicate and network. The first time
> I attended an AAA meeting I actually knew people from online, and that made
> it so much easier to approach them in person.
>
> A few years ago, I was at an SLA business meeting/reception and Leila was
> taking photos. I jokingly asked if she was now the SLA photographer. She
> said, "I'm just taking pictures of my friends." I told her, "Leila, your
> friends *are* half of SLA!" I think my estimate may have been low.  She
> will be missed.
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> Cyndi Dunn
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> Professor Emerita of Anthropology
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> University of Northern Iowa
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> *From:* Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf
> of Paul Kroskrity <paulvk at anthro.ucla.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2022 10:38 PM
> *To:* Elizabeth Keating <Elizabeth.Keating at austin.utexas.edu>
> *Cc:* Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (
> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org) <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] Leila Monaghan
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> I need to echo Elizabeth in her expression of sadness and thanks for
> letting us know and for organizing honoring sessions.  Leila’s scholarship,
> activism, and personal warmth, and winning smile will always be personally
> unforgettable.  The world is a darker place without the bright light that
> Leila’s wit, energy, compassion, and intelligence shed on us all.
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> All the best,
>
> Paul
>
> Paul V. Kroskrity
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> On Feb 23, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Elizabeth Keating <
> Elizabeth.Keating at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
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> Sad news. I remember meeting Leila for the first time in graduate school
> at UCLA! She was always a centering presence—scholarship and human caring
> in abundance, and of course her signature smile. I’ll miss her very much,
> she was such an inspiration over the years. Thank you, Shana, for letting
> us know, and thanks to those organizing the panel.
>
> Elizabeth
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> *ELIZABETH KEATING*, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human
> Dimensions of Organizations
> The University of Texas at Austin | Department of Anthropology |
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> *From:* Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 23, 2022 9:27 PM
> *To:* Shana Walton <shana.walton at nicholls.edu>
> *Cc:* Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (
> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org) <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Linganth] Leila Monaghan
>
> 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.
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>     Clark, John Lee. 2020. Against Access. McSweeney’s Quarterly. 64 Audio
> Edition.
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>     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
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> (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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