The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) 2008 International Conference
Dates
November 20 — 22, 2008
Venue
Onyang Hot Spring Hotel, Onyang, South Korea
Organizer
ELLAK
Theme
Re-visioning English Studies in Asia
Plenary speakers
* Gauri Viswanathan, professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, US (From Belief to Imagination in Literary History: Literature and Secularism)
* Masako Iino, Professor of history and American studies, Tsuda College, Japan (English Education and Women's Status in Japan in the Meiji Period: Ume Tsuda and Her Dream)
* Wang Shouren, professor of English, Dean of School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, China (English Education in Present-Day China)
* Young-Oak Lee, professor of English, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (English Literature Teaching in Korea)
Topics
* Teaching English Literature in English vs Teaching English Literature in an Asian Language
* ESL/EFL Policies at the National/State Level
* English Literature and Cultural Capital
* Whose Asia? Orientalism and Occidentalism
* Contemporary Asian Literature in English
* English Studies in Asia in the Age of Theory
* Nationalism/Transnationalism in Asia
* Globalization Theories and Literary Studies
* Asian-American Studies in Asia
* Diversifying “English Literature”
* The South Asian Novel in English
* Writing/Mapping Asia: Representing Asia in English Literature
* Effective Pedagogical Strategies to Manage the Asian Classroom
