Local Branches
Canada (CAPS)
Chair: Jesse Arseneault
Founded in 1973, the Association was created in response to what was, at this time, identified as the burgeoning field of Commonwealth literature. Today, CAPS brings together critics, scholars, teachers, students, and creative practitioners who share an interest in postcolonial and global literatures and oratures, as well as the versions of English they employ.
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East Africa (EAACLALS)
Chair: Alex Wanjala
Europe (EACLALS)
Chair: Christine Lorre
Founded by Anna Rutherford in 1971, EACLALS was the first regional branch of ACLALS, the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Its purpose is to promote Commonwealth and postcolonial studies in Europe and to encourage exchange between academics, students and writers in Europe and the Anglophone world, notably the Commonwealth.
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India (IACLALS)
Chair: Mohd Asaduddin
IACLALS, the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India (Regd.), is the officially recognized Indian chapter of the international ACLALS . It was instituted in India in 1974. Its objectives are to promote and coordinate Postcolonial / Commonwealth Literature Studies in India, organize seminars and workshops, and arrange lectures by writers and scholars, including international visitors. It also holds an Annual Conference in collaboration with various universities and institutions across India. The international ACLALS began in 1964 with its first conference at the University of Leeds.
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Visit WebsiteSri Lanka (SLACLALS)
Chair: Shashikala Assella
The Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SLACLALS) is a chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS). ACLALS was started in 1964 and accredited to the Commonwealth in 2005. SLACLALS was created in the late 1970s under the guidance of Ashley Halpé , Professor in English at the University of Ceylon at the time, as the Sri Lanka branch of ACLALS
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Visit WebsiteSouth Pacific (SPACLALS)
Chair: Michael Griffiths
SPACLALS is one of the 11 regional chapters of ACLALS. It has a long and distinguished history, beginning with the first SPACLALS conference at the University of Queensland in 1977. It is no exaggeration to say that the Australian impetus toward postcolonial studies began there and then. (Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin – authors of the ground-breaking study, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature (1989) - were all founding members.) It was also at that SPACLALS 1977 conference that the formation of a national association dedicated to the study of Australian Literature was proposed; and the inaugural conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) followed a year later.
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