[Linganth] a memorial site for Leila Monaghan
Ilana Gershon
imgershon at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 16:04:56 UTC 2022
I too feel terribly sad and a bit shellshocked at losing Leila.
If people would like a website filled with memories of Leila, I am happy
to host this on CaMP anthropology.
I am thinking of something like what I organized for Gwen Gordon at
APLA, who also died recently and too soon:
https://polarjournal.org/2022/01/08/remembering-gwendolyn-gordon/
Send me your memories, and I will create this,
Ilana
On 2/25/2022 10:50 AM, Shana Walton wrote:
> With everyone's permission, I will collect these posts and forward
> them to Claire (her sister) and Bob, her husband.
>
> Please let me know if you don't want your post shared.
>
> 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
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:28 PM Judith Pine <pinej at wwu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> * Judy
>
> *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
>
> 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!
>
> Kate
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:33 PM Bonnie Urciuoli
> <burciuol at hamilton.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Cyndi Dunn
>
> Professor Emerita of Anthropology
>
> University of Northern Iowa
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *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
>
> 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.
>
> All the best,
>
> Paul
>
> Paul V. Kroskrity
> Professor of Anthropology
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> On Feb 23, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Elizabeth Keating
> <Elizabeth.Keating at austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> *ELIZABETH KEATING*, Professor of Anthropology &
> Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations
>
> The University of Texas at Austin | Department of
> Anthropology | 512-471-8518
>
> *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.
>
> 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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