[Linganth] Leila Monaghan

Fri Feb 25 15:50:22 UTC 2022

With everyone's permission, I will collect these posts and forward them to
Claire (her sister) and Bob, her husband.

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Like most of us, Leila's family was only peripherally aware of her academic
family. They are so touched, and perhaps surprised, by how much love there
is in this academic community. Leila told me so often that Linganth was a
type of family for her. A home. I think Leila had a sort of power to create
community with the force of her affection - and her persistence. I remember
those early Linganth gatherings she would organize back in the mid 90s. The
first year or two only a handful of people showed up. But it didn't matter.
She looked out at an SLA gathering and saw a community of people trying to
talk about something they found important. She loved this community.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 4:32 PM Janina Fenigsen <jfenigsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> A terrible loss and lovely memories of a wonderful person for all of us
> who knew Leila. Thank you, Judy, for capturing her absence-presence so
> well. Yes, her light will shine on.
>
> janina
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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:28 PM Judith Pine <pinej at wwu.edu> wrote:
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>> I know will see her out of the corner of my eye at Boulder, shining
>> brightly.  I am **so** very glad she was at Penn for SLA 2018! I am
>> convinced that I would not be connected to SLA in any meaningful way if it
>> were not for Leila and as we remember her the light shines on.
>>
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>>    - Judy
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>> *From:* Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *Kate Riley
>> *Sent:* 24 February 2022 10:53
>> *To:* Bonnie Urciuoli <burciuol at hamilton.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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>> It is so wonderful to see this outpouring of care and appreciation for
>> all Leila did for so many of us over so many years.  Yes, that smile!
>>
>> Thanks to Erika and all for putting the panel together so we'll have a
>> chance to remember her together...though I bet she would have also called
>> us to dinner!
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>> Kate
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>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:33 PM Bonnie Urciuoli <burciuol at hamilton.edu>
>> wrote:
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>> Leila was amazing, she did so much for so many in so many ways.
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>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:23 PM Cyndi Dunn <cyndi.dunn at outlook.com>
>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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,
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>> Paul
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>> Paul V. Kroskrity
>> Professor of Anthropology
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 341 Haines Hall  -   Box 951553
>> University of California, Los Angeles
>> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553
>> Ph. 310 825-6237
>> E.    paulvk at ucla.edu
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>> Topic: Paul Kroskrity's Open Office Hour
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>>  *Recent books:*
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>> T*elling Stories in the Face of Danger *(2012 Oklahoma UP)
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>> *Engaging Native American Publics *(2017 Routledge) with Barbra Meek.
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>> *The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race *(2020 Oxford) with H.Samy
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>>  *UCLA acknowledges the Tongva peoples as the traditional
>> land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands). As a
>> land grant institution, we pay our respects
>> to Honuukvetam (Ancestors), 'Ahiihirom (Elders),
>> and 'eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.*
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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.
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>> Elizabeth
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>> *ELIZABETH KEATING*, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human
>> Dimensions of Organizations
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>> The University of Texas at Austin | Department of Anthropology |
>> 512-471-8518
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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
>>
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>> So sorry about this news.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Condolences to all,
>>
>> Erika
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>> 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.
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>>     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.
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>>     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.)
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>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM Shana Walton <shana.walton at nicholls.edu>
>> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Leila Monaghan, beloved member of the linganth community, passed away
>> this morning in her home just outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>>
>> Shana
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>> Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, she/her/hers
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