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Division Executive Committees for the 2013 Convention Year

MLA divisions encompass the primary scholarly and professional concerns of the association, with each of the eighty-eight divisions representing a major area of membership interest. Divisions promote scholarly and professional activities within their areas of concern. MLA members have the option of joining up to four divisions. (If you are an MLA member and wish to review or update your division affiliations, please click here.)

Each division is governed by an elected executive committee whose five members serve terms of five convention years. A convention year begins after the close of one convention and continues through the close of the next; it is named for the convention that concludes the year. Listed here are the division executive committees for the 2013 convention year (9 January 2012 through 6 January 2013). The date that follows the name of each executive committee member designates the final convention year of the committee member’s term and, thus, the final January convention that falls within his or her term of service. Unless otherwise noted, the member whose final convention year is 2014 serves as chair for the 2013 convention year, the member whose final convention year is 2015 serves as secretary for the 2013 convention year and as chair for the 2014 convention year, and the member whose final convention year is 2016 serves as secretary for the 2014 convention year and as chair for the 2015 convention year.


AMERICAN LITERATURE

American Literature to 1800 (D017)
Michelle Burnham, 2013
Trish Loughran, 2014
Eric Slauter, 2015
Sean X. Goudie, 2016
Kathleen Donegan, 2017

Nineteenth-Century American Literature (D018)
Lloyd Pratt, 2013 (2013 Ch.)
Samuel Otter, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
Augusta Rohrbach, 2015
Meredith L. McGill, 2016
Ivy Wilson, 2017

Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature (D019)
Stephanie Foote, 2013
Jane F. Thrailkill, 2014
Bradley W. Evans, 2015
Gene Andrew Jarrett, 2016
Dana Seitler, 2017

Twentieth-Century American Literature (D020)
Evie Shockley, 2013
Robert Dale Parker, 2014
William J. Maxwell, 2015
Paula M. L. Moya, 2016
Mark Goble, 2017

Black American Literature and Culture (D076)
Michele Elam, 2013
Ayesha Hardison, 2014
Maryemma Graham, 2015
Sherita L. Johnson, 2016
Dana A. Williams, 2017

American Indian Literatures (D080)
Kathryn W. Shanley, 2013
Channette Romero, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
James H. Cox, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Beth H. Piatote, 2016
Nancy J. Peterson, 2017

Asian American Literature (D082)
Anita Mannur, 2013
Paul Y. Lai, 2014
Timothy Yu, 2015
Allan Isaac, 2016
Julia Lee, 2017

Chicana and Chicano Literature (D084)
Domino Renee Perez, 2013 (2013 Ch.)
Marissa K. López, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
Sandra K. Soto, 2015
Ralph Edward Rodriguez, 2016
Yolanda Padilla, 2017

COMPARATIVE STUDIES

Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature (D001)
Geraldine Heng, 2013
Rita Copeland, 2014
Steven F. Kruger, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
David F. Hult, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
Lynn Ramey, 2017

Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature (D002)
Karen Newman, 2013
Ignacio Navarrete, 2014
Leonard Barkan, 2015
Susanne Lindgren Wofford, 2016
Eric MacPhail, 2017

Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature (D005)
Ruth Mack, 2013
Laura C. Mandell, 2014
Aamir R. Mufti, 2015
Claudia Brodsky, 2016
Helen Thompson, 2017

Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century (D003)
Ian Balfour, 2013
Michal P. Ginsburg, 2014
Sara Guyer, 2015
Barbara Spackman, 2016
Anne-Lise François, 2017

Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature (D004)
John Burt Foster, Jr., 2013
Thomas O. Beebee, 2014
Xiaomei Chen, 2015
Ramón Saldívar, 2016
Olakunle George, 2017

European Literary Relations (D034)
Monique Yaari, 2013
Katerina Clark, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
Paul Michael Lützeler, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Sandra L. Bermann, 2016
Bella P. Brodzki, 2017

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Old English Language and Literature (D021)
Paul Acker, 2013
Stacy S. Klein, 2014
Thomas N. Hall, 2015
Kathleen Davis, 2016
Stephen J. Harris, 2017

Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer (D022)
Andrew Cole, 2013
Glenn Burger, 2014
Eve Salisbury, 2015
Marilynn R. Desmond, 2016
Ruth Evans, 2017

Chaucer (D023)
Emily Rebecca Steiner, 2013
Kellie Robertson, 2014
Holly Crocker, 2015
Kathy M. Lavezzo, 2016
Jessica Rosenfeld, 2017

Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare (D024)
Natasha Korda, 2013
Rebecca Lemon, 2014
Alan Stewart, 2015
Michael L. Witmore, 2016
Graham Hammill, 2017

Shakespeare (D025)
Bruce R. Smith, 2013
Katharine Eisaman Maus, 2014
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]
Mary L. Floyd-Wilson, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
Bradin Cormack, 2017

Seventeenth-Century English Literature (D026)
Margaret Ferguson, 2013
Richard Strier, 2014
Douglas Trevor, 2015
Kristen Elizabeth Poole, 2016
Molly Murray, 2017

Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature (D027)
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]
Catherine Ingrassia, 2014
Albert J. Rivero, 2015
Wolfram Michael Schmidgen, 2016
J. Paul Hunter, 2017

Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature (D028)
Laura J. Rosenthal, 2013
Misty G. Anderson, 2014
William Beatty Warner, 2015
Kevis Goodman, 2016
Deidre Shauna Lynch, 2017

The English Romantic Period (D029)
Celeste Langan, 2013
Kevin Gilmartin, 2014
Maureen Noelle McLane, 2015
Marjorie Levinson, 2016
Miranda Jane Burgess, 2017

The Victorian Period (D030)
Jonah Siegel, 2013
Eileen Gillooly, 2014
Elaine C. Freedgood, 2015
Richard Menke, 2016
William A. Cohen, 2017

Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature (D031)
Mark Wollaeger, 2013
Jesse Matz, 2014
Kate Flint, 2015
Cassandra Laity, 2016
Elizabeth Outka, 2017

Twentieth-Century English Literature (D032)
Paul K. Saint-Amour, 2013
Allan Hepburn, 2014
Susan Stanford Friedman, 2015
Kevin J. H. Dettmar, 2016
Priya Joshi, 2017

English Literature Other Than British and American (D033)
Faith L. Smith, 2013
Mark A. Sanders, 2014
Sanjay Krishnan, 2015
Joseph R. Slaughter, 2016
Jennifer A. Wenzel, 2017

FRENCH LITERATURE

French Medieval Language and Literature (D051)
Sarah Kay, 2013
Sharon Kinoshita, 2014
Cary Howie, 2015
Catherine M. Jones, 2016
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, 2017

Sixteenth-Century French Literature (D052)
Virginia Krause, 2013
David LaGuardia, 2014
Andrea Marie Frisch, 2015
Marcus Keller, 2016
Todd W. Reeser, 2017

Seventeenth-Century French Literature (D053)
Ellen McClure, 2013
Juliette Cherbuliez, 2014
Claire B. Goldstein, 2015
Allison Stedman, 2016
Hélène Bilis, 2017

Eighteenth-Century French Literature (D054)
Julia Abramson, 2013
Mary McAlpin, 2014
Ourida Mostefai, 2015
Joanna Stalnaker, 2016
Pierre N. Saint-Amand, 2017

Nineteenth-Century French Literature (D055)
Elisabeth Ladenson, 2013
Marie-Pierre Le Hir, 2014
Susan McCready, 2015
David F. Bell III, 2016
Cheryl Krueger, 2017

Twentieth-Century French Literature (D056)
Eliane DalMolin, 2013 (2013 Ch.)
Van Kelly, 2014
Scott P. Durham, 2015
Alison S. James, 2016
Danielle Marx-Scouras, 2017

Francophone Literatures and Cultures (D057)
Catherine Perry, 2013
Anne Donadey, 2014
Dominic R. Thomas, 2015
Valérie K. Orlando, 2016
Renée Larrier, 2017

GENRE STUDIES

Drama (D008)
Claire Sponsler, 2013
Daphne A. Brooks, 2014
Tavia Nyong’o, 2015
Brian Eugenio Herrera, 2016
Jody Enders, 2017

Film (D009)
Homay King, 2013
Paul Young, 2014
Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, 2015
Nicholas Sammond, 2016
Siobhan S. Craig, 2017

Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography (D010)
Linda Camarasana, 2013
Susan Lurie, 2014
Brian J. Norman, 2015
Amardeep Singh, 2016
Brian Lennon, 2017

Poetry (D011)
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, 2013
Susan McCabe, 2014
Virginia Jackson, 2015
Heather Dubrow, 2016
Alan Golding, 2017

Prose Fiction (D012)
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]
Alex Woloch, 2014
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, 2015
Wai Chee Dimock, 2016
Mark McGurl, 2017

Literary Criticism (D014)
Michael Cobb, 2013
Marshall Brown, 2014
Rei Terada, 2015
Susan Hegeman, 2016
Kristin Ross, 2017

Methods of Literary Research (D046)
Maura Ives, 2013
Jude V. Nixon, 2014
Robert Markley, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Andrew M. Stauffer, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
James F. English, 2017

Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing (D077)
Thomas R. Smith, 2013
Linda Haverty Rugg, 2014
Julie Rak, 2015
Irene Kacandes, 2016
Rocío G. Davis, 2017

GERMAN LITERATURE

German Literature to 1700 (D058)
Kathryn Starkey, 2013
Bethany Wiggin, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]
Niklaus E. Largier, 2016
Mara R. Wade, 2017

Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature (D059)
Karin A. Wurst, 2013
Birgit Tautz, 2014
Daniel Purdy, 2015
Stefani Engelstein, 2016
Edgar Landgraf, 2017

Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature (D060)
Peter M. McIsaac, 2013
Todd Kontje, 2014
David Pan, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Jocelyne Kolb, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
Anna C. Guillemin, 2017

Twentieth-Century German Literature (D061)
Patrizia C. McBride, 2013
Leslie Morris, 2014
Deniz Göktürk, 2015
Richard Langston, 2016
Eric C. Ames, 2017

HISPANIC LITERATURES

Colonial Latin American Literatures (D078)
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, 2013
Stephanie L. Kirk, 2014
Rolena Adorno, 2015
Anna H. More, 2016
Nicolás Wey-Gómez, 2017

Latin American Literature from Independence to 1900 (D064)
Graciela Montaldo, 2013
Joshua K. Lund, 2014
Gabriela Nouzeilles, 2015
Richard Rosa, 2016
Agnes Ivelisse Lugo-Ortiz, 2017

Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature (D065)
Michelle Clayton, 2013
Hilda Chacón, 2014
Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado, 2015
José Antonio Quiroga, 2016
Marcy Ellen Schwartz, 2017

Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (D067)
Emily C. Francomano, 2013
Montserrat Piera, 2014
Ryan Giles, 2015
Jean Dangler, 2016
Benjamin M. Liu, 2017

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose (D068)
Nieves Romero-Díaz, 2013
Barbara Fuchs, 2014
Steven Wagschal, 2015
Luis F. Avilés, 2016
Enrique García Santo-Tomás, 2017

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama (D071)
Robert M. Shannon, 2013
Baltasar Fra-Molinero, 2014
Barbara Simerka, 2015
José R. Cartagena-Calderón, 2016
María M. Carrión, 2017

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature (D069)
Dale J. Pratt, 2013
Mary L. Coffey, 2014
Michael Iarocci, 2015
Daniel Frost, 2016
Ana M. Hontanilla, 2017

Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature (D070)
Sharon Keefe Ugalde, 2013
Susan Larson, 2014
Susan Martin-Márquez, 2015
Jo Labanyi, 2016
Luisa Elena Delgado, 2017

Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature (D073)
Kathryn Sanchez, 2013
Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey, 2014
Luiz Fernando Valente, 2015
Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira, 2016
Leila Maria Lehnen, 2017

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

Women’s Studies in Language and Literature (D006)
Amelia M. L. Montes, 2013
Jennifer DeVere Brody, 2014
Licia Fiol-Matta, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Susan G. O’Malley, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
Angelita D. Reyes, 2017

Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature (D007)
Kim Martin Long, 2013
Richard T. Rodríguez, 2014
Cheryl A. Higashida, 2015
Amritjit Singh, 2016
Anna Maria Nogar, 2017

Popular Culture (D013)
David R. Shumway, 2013
Silvia Bermúdez, 2014
Hillary L. Chute, 2015
Jeffrey T. Nealon, 2016
John W. Mowitt, 2017

Anthropological Approaches to Literature (D035)
Gauri Viswanathan, 2013
Elsie B. Michie, 2014
Brian T. Edwards, 2015
Regenia Gagnier, 2016
Mary Jean Corbett, 2017

Linguistic Approaches to Literature (D036)
Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino, 2013
Jean-Jacques Thomas, 2014
Claudia Anita Becker, 2015
Monika Fludernik, 2016
Donald E. Hardy, 2017

Philosophical Approaches to Literature (D037)
Gabriela Basterra, 2013
Ann Smock, 2014
Gerhard Richter, 2015
Suzanne Guerlac, 2016
Rebecca Comay, 2017

Psychological Approaches to Literature (D038)
Virginia L. Blum, 2013
Steven Miller, 2014
Kathryn Bond Stockton, 2015
Anna Kornbluh, 2016
Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, 2017

Literature and Religion (D039)
Kevin Hart, 2013
James Najarian, 2014
Susannah Brietz Monta, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Stephen M. Fallon, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
Liam Corley, 2017

Sociological Approaches to Literature (D040)
Enda Duffy, 2013
Jonathan Flatley, 2014
Rita Raley, 2015
Jodi Melamed, 2016
Gina Dent, 2017

Literature and Other Arts (D041)
Amitava Kumar, 2013
Jon McKenzie, 2014
Anke K. Finger, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Eduardo Lujan Cadava, 2016 (2013 Sec.)
Paola L. Cortes-Rocca, 2017

Literature and Science (D072)
Patrick Colm Hogan, 2013
Rebecca Garden, 2014
Stacy Alaimo, 2015
Steven J. Meyer, 2016
Ursula K. Heise, 2017

Children’s Literature (D074)
Jennifer M. Miskec, 2013
Lorinda Beth Cohoon, 2014
Craig Svonkin, 2015
Catherine Tosenberger, 2016
Marah Gubar, 2017

Gay Studies in Language and Literature (D075)
Ricardo L. Ortíz, 2013 (2013 Ch.)
Heather Love, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
Christopher Looby, 2015
Carla A. Freccero, 2016
Ramόn H. Rivera-Servera, 2017

Disability Studies (D085)
Susannah B. Mintz, 2013
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, 2014
David Mitchell, 2015
Susan Jennifer Antebi, 2016
Elizabeth Bearden, 2017

Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture (D086)
Ato Quayson, 2013
John C. Hawley, 2014
Anjali Prabhu, 2015
Vilashini Cooppan, 2016
Bishnupriya Ghosh, 2017

Cognitive Approaches to Literature (D088)
Isabel Jaén-Portillo, 2013
Elizabeth Nixon, 2014
Julien Jacques Simon, 2015
Blakey Vermeule, 2016
Paula E. Leverage, 2017

ITALIAN LITERATURE

Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature (D062)
Christian Moevs, 2013
Bernardo Piciché, 2014
Linda L. Carroll, 2015
Mary A. Watt, 2016
Laura Giannetti, 2017

Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature (D063)
Clorinda Donato, 2013
Marco Arnaudo, 2014
Nathalie Hester, 2015
Irene Zanini-Cordi, 2016
Francesca Luigia Savoia, 2017

Twentieth-Century Italian Literature (D079)
Francesca Parmeggiani, 2013
Dana Renga, 2014
Manuela Marchesini, 2015
John P. Welle, 2016
Francesca Cadel, 2017

LANGUAGE STUDIES

Language and Society (D042)
Don Bialostosky, 2013
Frank Farmer, 2014
Jeff Porter, 2015
Bruce W. Robbins, 2016
Andrea Adolph, 2017

Language Theory (D043)
Roslyn Raney, 2013
Mary Blockley, 2014
Jiyoung Yoon, 2015
Seunghun J. Lee, 2016
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]

Applied Linguistics (D044)
Deborah L. Arteaga, 2013
Virginia M. Scott, 2014
Christina M. Czajkoski, 2015
Sébastien Dubreil, 2016
Lawrence Williams, 2017

Language Change (D045)
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]
Chris P. Pearce, 2014
Chris Palmer, 2015
Margaret A. Noori, 2016
Tara Williams, 2017

History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition (D081)
Wendy Hesford, 2013
Patricia Roberts-Miller, 2014
Michael F. Bernard-Donals, 2015
Janice Fernheimer, 2016
Shevaun E. Watson, 2017

OTHER LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

African Literatures (D015)
Patrick K. Muana, 2013
Alain Lawo-Sukam, 2014
Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, 2015
Neil ten Kortenaar, 2016
Joya F. Uraizee, 2017

Arabic Literature and Culture (D087)
Ibtissam Bouachrine, 2013
Ken Seigneurie, 2014
Christopher Micklethwait, 2015
Suha Kudsieh, 2016
Stephen Sheehi, 2017

East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 (D016)
Joseph R. Allen, 2013
Jiwon Shin, 2014
Joseph Sorensen, 2015
Charlotte Eubanks, 2016
Monika Dix, 2017

East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 (D083)
[position unfilled on 2013 committee]
Doug Slaymaker, 2014
Henry Em, 2015
Melek Ortabasi, 2016
Alexander C. Y. Huang, 2017

Slavic and East European Literatures (D066)
Jessie Labov, 2013
Emily D. Johnson, 2014
Kevin M. F. Platt, 2015
Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, 2016
Rebecca Jane Stanton, 2017

TEACHING

The Teaching of Language (D047)
Stacey Katz Bourns, 2013
Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, 2014
Fernando Rubio, 2015
Heather Willis Allen, 2016
Johanna Watzinger-Tharp, 2017

The Teaching of Literature (D048)
John Paul Riquelme, 2013
Leonard Cassuto, 2014
Jeanne A. Follansbee, 2015
Donna L. Pasternak, 2016
Gaurav G. Desai, 2017

The Teaching of Writing (D049)
Donna Strickland, 2013
Katherine H. Adams, 2014
Victor J. Vitanza, 2015
John L. Schilb, 2016
Jacqueline R. Rhodes, 2017

Teaching as a Profession (D050)
Christine Henseler, 2013
Steven Mailloux, 2014 (2013 Sec.)
Marc Bousquet, 2015 (2013 Ch.)
Jeffrey J. Williams, 2016
Kimberly Nance, 2017

 

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