[Linganth] Leila Monaghan

Thu Feb 24 18:38:06 UTC 2022

Leila Monaghan-- Brooklyner, Bruin, kayaker, signer, fieldworker, scholar,
linganth, historian, academic entrepreneur/ publisher … dynamo, friend and
colleague extraordinaire. We miss you!

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:33 AM 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.
>>
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>>
>> Cyndi Dunn
>>
>> Professor Emerita of Anthropology
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>> 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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>>  *Recent books:*
>> T*elling Stories in the Face of Danger *(2012 Oklahoma UP)
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>> *The Legacy of Dell Hymes* (2015 Indiana)  with AnthonyWebster
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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.
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>> *ELIZABETH KEATING*, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human
>> Dimensions of Organizations
>> 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
>>
>> 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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