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Nominations for 2009 MLA Elections

In accordance with the provisions of the MLA constitution, the Nominating Committee and the Elections Committee have arranged this year's elections for second vice president, for the Executive Council, and for the Delegate Assembly. Any member of the association may initiate a petition proposing additional candidates for second vice president, for the Executive Council, and for the Delegate Assembly. Procedures for filing petitions are described in articles 6.E, 8.A.2, and 10.E of the MLA constitution. Petitions must reach the executive director before 1 July.

Second Vice President

The 2009 Nominating Committee has selected three nominees for second vice president of the MLA. The person elected will take office in 2010 and will automatically become first vice president in 2011, serving in that office through the close of the January 2012 convention, and president of the MLA in 2012, serving in that office through the close of the January 2013 convention. The 2010 second vice president must be from the field of English (including American). A biographical summary for each candidate appears below; members will receive voting instructions in the fall.

Kwame Anthony Appiah. Laurance S. Rockefeller Univ. Prof. of Philosophy and the Univ. Center for Human Values, Princeton Univ. PhD, Clare Coll., Cambridge Univ. Previous appointments: Harvard Univ., 1991–2002 (Carswell Prof. of Afro-Amer. Studies and Philosophy, 1999–2002); Duke Univ., Jan. 1990–June 1991; Cornell Univ., July 1986–Dec. 1989; Yale Univ., 1981–86; Clare Coll., Cambridge Univ., 1979–81. Morse fellowship, Yale Univ., 1983–84; junior fellowship, Soc. for the Humanities, Cornell Univ., 1985–86; Mellon fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1990–91; Walter Channing Cabot fellowship, Harvard Univ., 1998–99. Visiting appointments: Clare Coll., Cambridge Univ.; New York Univ. Law School; école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales; Fordham Univ. Law School. Greene Cup for General Learning, Clare Coll., Cambridge Univ., 1975; Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (for In My Father's House), Cleveland Foundation, 1993; Herskovits Award (for In My Father's House), African Studies Assn., 1993; Annual Book Award (for Color Conscious), North Amer. Soc. for Social Philosophy, 1996; Ralph J. Bunche Award (for Color Conscious), Amer. Political Science Assn., 1997; Editors' Choice (for The Ethics of Identity), New York Times Book Review, June 2005; Arthur Ross Book Award (for Cosmopolitanism), Council on Foreign Relations, 2007; Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, Brandeis Univ., 2008; Romanell Professorship, Phi Beta Kappa, 2008–09. Honorary degrees: Univ. of Richmond; Colgate Univ.; Bard Coll.; Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.; Swarthmore Coll.; Dickinson Coll. (commencement speaker). Member, Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, 1995–; member, Amer. Philosophical Soc., 2001–; Amer. Acad. of Arts and Letters, 2008–. Ch., Joint Comm. on African Studies, Social Science Research Council-ACLS, 1991–94; advisory board, Soc. for the Humanities, Cornell Univ., 1998–2008; trustee, Natl. Humanities Center, 1999–2001, 2002–04, 2005–07; board of dirs., ArtStor, 2003–; board member, ACLS, 2004– (ch., 2005–); nonfiction juror, Pulitzer Prize, 2004; board member, Amer. Acad. in Berlin, 2005–06; Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, 2006–07. Coordinating comm. for annual meeting, African Lit. Assn., 1987; pres., Soc. for African Philosophy in North America, 1991–94; Herskovits Award Comm., African Studies Assn., 1994–96; Supervising Comm. (1992–94), ch. (1993–94), and trustee (1996–2002), English Inst.; Freedom to Write Comm. (ch., 1996–2003), nominating comm. (1997), board member (2000–03), and pres. (2009–11), PEN Amer. Center; vice pres. (2006–07) and pres. (2007–08), Eastern Div., Amer. Philosophical Assn. (APA); ch., Board of Officers, APA, 2008–; Council on Foreign Relations. MLA activities: Exec. Council, 2003–06. Asst. ed., Theoria to Theory, 1974–79; advisory ed., Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture, Greenwood P, 1984–; assoc. ed., Philosophical Review, 1987–89; ed. (1991–2005) and publisher (2005–), Transition. Ed. or advisory boards: Universitas, 1976–78; Philosophical Review, 1986–87; Perspectives in Auditing and Information Systems, 1986–; Diacritics, 1987–89; Public Culture, 1989; Callaloo, 1990; Common Knowledge, 1990; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1992–2005; Wilson Quarterly, 1993; Essence, An International Journal of Philosophy, 1997; Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1998–2008. Publications include: Assertion and Conditionals (1985), For Truth in Semantics (1986), Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1989), Avenging Angel (fiction, 1990, 1991), In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992; Brazilian edition, 1997; Japanese edition, 1997), Nobody Likes Letitia (fiction, 1994), Another Death in Venice (fiction, 1995), Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (2003), The Ethics of Identity (2005), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006), Experiments in Ethics (2008); coau., Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996); ed., Early African-American Classics (1990); African section ed., The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (2000); coed., Identities (1995), A Dictionary of Global Culture (1996), Encarta Africana (1999), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (1999; 2nd ed., 2005), Encarta Africana 2000 (1999), Africana: The Concise Desk Reference (2003), Buying Freedom (2007); guest coed., Critical Inquiry (1992); contrib., Anatomy of Racism (1990), Consequences of Theory (1991), Crisscrossing Boundaries in African Literatures (1991), Media Spectacles (1993), The Impact of African Studies on the Disciplines (1993), Wole Soyinka: An Appraisal (1994), An Ethical Education (1995), Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (1995), Public Education in a Multicultural Society (1996), Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies (1997), The African Philosophy Reader (1998), Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture (2001), Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity, Community, Ethics (2001), Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Anti-Discrimination Law (2001), Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (2003), Black Experience and the Empire (2004), Race or Ethnicity: On Black and Latino Identity (2007), Why Do We Educate? Renewing the Conversation (2008), Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (2008), and others; articles in Journal of Human Development, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Kettering Review, Fordham University Law Review, PMLA, Daedalus, Journal of Social Philosophy, Slate Magazine Online, Profession, Cahiers d'études africaines, Débat, Research in African Literatures, Critical Inquiry, World Literature Today, English in Africa, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, New York Review of Books, Venue: An International Literary Magazine, New Political Science, Salmagundi, Boston Review, Callaloo, Voice Literary Supplement, Philosophical Forum, Yale Journal of Criticism, Philosophical Studies, Wilson Quarterly, Journal of Philosophy, Massachusetts Review, and others.

Michael Bérubé. Paterno Family Prof. in Lit., Penn State Univ., University Park. PhD, Univ. of Virginia. Codir., Disability Studies Prog., Penn State Univ., University Park, 2004–. Previous appointment: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, 1989–2001. NEH summer stipend, 1990; academic specialist grant (for Amer. lit. seminars in Brazil), U.S. Information Agency, 1993; fellow, Prog. for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, 1993–94; univ. scholar, Univ. of Illinois, 1994–97; Assad Meymandi Fellowship, Natl. Humanities Center, Mar. 2006. Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers, Univ. of Illinois, 1990–97, 1999, 2000; selection of Life As We Know It as a best book of the year, Fresh Air, Natl. Public Radio, 1996; selection of Life As We Know It as notable book of the year, New York Times, 1996. Visiting appointment: Hurst Visiting Prof., Washington Univ., Feb. 2008. Dir., Illinois Prog. for Research in the Humanities, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, 1997–2001; intl. advisory board, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 1999–2002. Advisory Council, Amer. Lit. Section, 1997–99; Natl. Council (2005–08, 2008–11) and exec. comm. (2006–08, 2008–10), Amer. Assn. of Univ. Professors; ch., Public Lang. Awards Comm., Natl. Council of Teachers of English, 2006–08; Amer. Studies Assn. MLA activities: Profession Advisory Comm., 1996–97; Delegate Assembly, 1996–98, 2000–01; Comm. on Disability Issues in the Profession, 1998–2002 (ch., 2000–02); Nominating Comm., 1999–2000; Exec. Council, 2002–05; Delegate Assembly Organizing Comm., 2002–05; Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2004–06; Comm. on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities, 2007–10 (ch., 2009–10). Series ed., Cultural Front, New York UP; Board of Literary Advisors, Electronic Lit. Organization. Ed. boards: Comparative Literature Studies, Contemporary Literature, Electronic Book Review, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Minnesota Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Pedagogy, Postmodern Culture, Symplokē, Twentieth-Century Literature. Publications include: Marginal Forces / Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (1992), Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994), Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996), The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1998), What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education (2006), Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (2006); ed., The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (2004); coed., Higher Education under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (1995); contrib., Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities (1993), PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy (1995), Confessions of the Critics (1996), Advocacy in the Classroom: Problems and Possibilities (1996), On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search (1997), Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis (1997), Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son (1997), Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature (2000), What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (2000), Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (2002), The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction (2004), Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise (2004), Genetics, Disability, and Deafness (2004), New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (2005), Redefining Culture: Perspectives across the Disciplines (2006), Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise (2006), Marxism, Cultural Studies, and Sport (2009); articles in Callaloo, PMLA, Yale Journal of Criticism, Minnesota Review, American Literature, Social Text, American Literary History, South Atlantic Quarterly, Clio, Pedagogy, African American Review, Centennial Review, American Quarterly, Boundary 2, Contemporary Literature, Literature and Medicine, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Modern Fiction Studies, Transition, Critique, Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health, Comparative Literature Studies, ADE Bulletin, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

David Damrosch. Prof. comparative lit., Harvard Univ. PhD, Yale Univ. Ch., Dept. of Comparative Lit., Harvard Univ., 2009–. Previous appointment: Columbia Univ., 1980–2009. Advisory board, Carnegie Foundation Initiative on the Doctorate, 2002–05. Exec. board, Soc. for Critical Exchange, 1991–95; conference dir. (1992, 1997, 2009), Board of Advisers (1993–97), vice pres. (1999–2001), and pres. (2001–03), Amer. Comparative Lit. Assn.; Research Comm. on Lit. and Cultural Identity, Intl. Comparative Lit. Assn., 1997–99; exec. board, Oratorio Soc. of New York, 1999–2001; exec. board (1999–2003) and pres. (2001), Mount Desert Summer Chorale; exec. board, Assn. of Depts. and Progs. of Comparative Lit., 2005–09; PEN. MLA activities: exec. comm., Div. on Lit. and Religion, 2003–07; Ad Hoc Comm. on the Structure of the Annual Convention, 2006–09. Ed. boards: Comparative Literature Studies; Comparative Literature in China; Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Rodopi. Publications include: The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), Meetings of the Mind (2000), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), How to Read World Literature (2009); ed., Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling, Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire (2006), Teaching World Literature (2009); general ed. or coed., The Longman Anthology of British Literature (1998; 2nd ed., 2002; 3rd ed., 2006), The Longman Anthology of British Literature, compact ed. (1999; 2nd ed., 2003), The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004; 2nd ed., 2008), The Longman Anthology of World Literature, compact ed. (2007), Masters of British Literature (2007); coed., The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present (2009); contributing ed., The HarperCollins World Reader (1994); contrib., Images of Sainthood (1991), Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (1995), Gilgamesh: A Reader (1997), Fronteiras imaginadas (2001), Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (2005), Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education (2006), Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006), Studying Transcultural Literary History (2006), The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (2006), Grenzen der Literatur: Zu Begriff und Phänomen des Literarischen (2009); articles in Critical Inquiry, Comparatist, New Literary History, Translation Studies, Smithsonian Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, Modern Language Quarterly, European Review, Comparative Critical Studies, Cairo Review of Books, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature, World Literature Today, PMLA, Symplokē, Pedagogy, Washington Post, Civilization, American Literary History, Lingua Franca, Writing Sociology, Representations, Prooftexts, Stanford Literature Review, Wordsworth Circle.


Executive Council

The Nominating Committee has selected seven nominees for the MLA Executive Council. The three candidates elected will serve four-year terms that will begin 1 January 2010 and run through the close of the January 2014 convention. The MLA constitution (art. 8.A.5) states that the at-large representation on the council must include at least one representative and no more than six from each of the following fields: English, French, German, Spanish, and other (e.g., other languages and literatures, comparative literature, folklore, linguistics). Since all these fields will continue to be represented on the council in 2010, this year's candidates may come from any field. In addition, because no designated field is represented by more than three council members, all three persons elected this year may be from the same field.

The same section of the MLA constitution contains one other provision pertaining to the composition of the council: the at-large membership of the council "shall also include at least one representative, but no more than eight, from each of the eligible membership levels (i.e., regular, graduate student, and life), except that the number of regular members on the council shall always be in proportion to the regular membership of the association. To determine this proportion, the Nominating Committee shall reexamine the proportion of regular members in the membership every three years." The committee conducted the required examination in 2009 and determined that regular members are constitutionally entitled to 8 of the 12 at-large council seats. Since seven of the continuing council members are regular members, one regular member must be elected this year. The two other candidates who are elected must come from another membership category. (Note: In the candidate listing, below, regular members are marked with an * and life members are marked with a §.)

A biographical summary for each candidate appears below; members will receive voting instructions in the fall.

§Electa Arenal. Prof. emerita Spanish and women's studies, Coll. of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York (CUNY). PhD, Columbia Univ. Fellow, Bunting Inst., Radcliffe Coll., 1978–79; NEH fellowship, 1978–79; fellowship, Norwegian Research Council for Science and Humanities, spring 1991; project grant, US-Mexico Fund for Culture, 1998; faculty research award, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY, 1999–2001; Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency, Santa Fe Art Inst., 2003. Outstanding Latina Woman of 1998, El Diario / La Prensa (New York). Visiting appointments: Univ. of Hawai‘i, Univ. of Delaware, Univ. of Bergen (Norway), Columbia Univ. Dir., Center for Feminist Research in the Humanities, Univ. of Bergen, 1992–94; dir., Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center, CUNY, 1997–2000. Grant selection comm., John Carter Brown Library, 1990, 1999. MLA activities: Comm. on the Status of Women in the Profession, 1991–95. Advisory comm., New Press, 1989–1995. Publications include: This Life within Me Won't Keep Still (play, 1986); ed., Rethinking Self and Society: Subjectivity, Gender, and Identity (1997); coed., Sor Marcela de San Félix, Obra completa: Coloquios espirituales, loas y otros poemas (1988), Untold Sisters: Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works (1989; 2nd ed., 2009), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Answer / La respuesta (1994; 2nd, expanded ed., 2009); cotrans., Jesús Aguado, The Poems of Vikram Babu (2008); introd., León Felipe, Bardo peregrino (1983), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Neptuno alegórico (2009); contrib., Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols (1983), Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America (1986), Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1991), Engendering the Early Modern Stage: Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire (1999), The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers (2000), Crossing Boundaries: Attending to Early Modern Women (2000), Elena Garro: Lectura múltiple de una personalidad compleja (2002), A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America (2005), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2007), Studies on Women's Poetry of the Golden Age (2009); articles in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Feminist Studies, MACLAS: Latin American Essays, Signs, Journal of Hispanic Philology, Insula, University of Dayton Review, Cuadernos americanos.

*Cristina V. Bruns. Adjunct instructor English, Chapman Univ. PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. Previous appointment: Saddleback Coll., CA. Summer inst. fellowship, Univ. of California, Irvine, Writing Project, 2001; block grant, Gervitz Grad. School of Educ., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), 2001; research assistantship, Grad. Div., UCSB, 2001. Research asst., South Coast Writing Project, 2001–03; book club facilitator, 2001–07. Natl. Council of Teachers of English. MLA activities: Delegate Assembly, 2005–07. Conference presentations: NCTE, 2003, 2008; Western Regional Conf. on Christianity and Lit., 2004, 2006; PAMLA, 2006; MLA, 2007, 2008. Publications include: article in Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning; review in Pedagogy.

§Lawrence Buell. Powell M. Cabot Prof. of Amer. Lit., Harvard Univ. PhD, Cornell Univ. Previous appointments: Loeb Coll. Prof. (1998–2003) and John P. Marquand Prof. of English (1996–2002), Harvard Univ.; Oberlin Coll., 1966–90. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1961–62; Howard Foundation fellowship, 1969; NEH senior research fellowship, 1979, 2002; Guggenheim fellowship, 1987; Japan Soc. for the Promotion of Science fellowship, 1996. Visiting appointments: Tunghai Univ. (Taiwan), 1963–65; Univ. of Chicago, 1986; Bread Load School of English, 1987–88. Norman Foerster Prize (for best essay in American Literature), Amer. Lit. Section, 1968; John G. Cawelti Award (for Writing for an Endangered World), Amer. Culture Assn., 2001; Warren-Brooks Award (for Emerson), Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies, 2003; Christian Gauss Award (for Emerson), Phi Beta Kappa, 2004; Jay B. Hubbell Award (for lifetime scholarly achievement), Amer. Lit. Section, 2007. Member, Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, 2008–. Board of trustees, Oberlin Shansi Memorial Assn., 1971–86 (ch., 1972–75, 1977–78). Prog. comm. ch., Amer. Studies Assn., 1992; Assn. for the Study of Environmental History; Assn. for the Study of Lit. and Environment; Thoreau Soc. MLA activities: exec. comm., Div. on 19th-Century Amer. Lit., 1986–90; PMLA Ed. Board, 1994–96; exec. comm., Div. on Biography, Autobiography, and Life Writing, 1994–98; Prize for a First Book Selection Comm., 2000–01. Ed. or advisory boards: American Quarterly, 1979–82; American Literature, 1983–86; American Literary History, 1994–; Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 1994–2003; Environmental History, 2001–06; Modern Intellectual History, 2007. Publications include: Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (1973), New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance (1986), The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Making of American Culture (1995), Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond (2001), Emerson (2003), The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005); ed., The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (2006); coed., Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (2007); contrib., Moby Dick: New Critical Essays (1987), American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect (1991), The Columbia History of American Poetry (1993), New Historical Literary Study (1993), Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America (1999), Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts (1999), The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe (2004), The Seeming and the Seen: Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture (2006); articles in Prospects 10, Amerikastudien, American Literary History, American Literature, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, PMLA, REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.

§Morris Eaves. Prof. English, Univ. of Rochester. PhD, Tulane Univ. Previous appointment: Univ. of New Mexico, 1970–86 (Presidential Prof. of English, 1985–86). Natl. Humanities Center fellowship, 1984–85; Getty publication grant, 1992; Guggenheim fellowship, 1997. William Riley Parker Prize, MLA, 1978; Best Special Issue Award (for Studies in Romanticism), Conf. of Eds. of Learned Journals, 1982; Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition (for William Blake Archive), MLA, 2003; approved edition (for William Blake Archive), Comm. on Scholarly Editions, MLA, 2005. Visiting appointment: Tulane Univ., 1979–80. Codir., NEH Summer Seminar for Coll. Teachers, 1984; codir., inst. for high school teachers of English, Natl. Humanities Center, 1988–90. Project codir., William Blake Archive (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Univ. of Rochester); assoc. fellow, Inst. for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Univ. of Virginia, 1994–; advisory board, Virtual Art Gallery, Romantic Circles, 1999–; selection comm., Lyman Award (for achievements in information technology), Natl. Humanities Center-Rockefeller Foundation, 2002; steering comm., Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship; Scholars' Advisory Panel, Digital Library Federation. MLA activities: Comm. on Scholarly Editions, 1997–2005 (coch., 2004–05); Task Force on Evaluation Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, 2004–06. Coed., Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 1970–; coed., William Blake Archive, 1995–. Ed. board, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2005–08. Publications include: William Blake's Theory of Art (1982), The Counter Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake (1992); ed., S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary (1988), The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2002); guest ed., Studies in Romanticism (1982); coed., Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism (1986), William Blake: The Early Illuminated Books (1993); contrib., Sparks of Fire: Blake in a New Age (1982), The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990), The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism (1992), Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body (1994), William Blake: Images and Texts (1997), Romanticism and Millenarianism (2002), Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print (2002), Blake, Nation, and Empire (2006) Electronic Textual Editing (2006); articles in RoN: Romanticism on the Net, JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing, RLG DigiNews, Romantic Circles, PMLA, Wordsworth Circle, Studies in Romanticism, PMLA, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Publishing History, Blake Newsletter, Blake Studies, Contemporary Literature, College English.

*Dorothea Heitsch. Lecturer French, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. PhD, Univ. of Washington, Seattle. Previous appointments: Shippensburg Univ., 1999–2004; Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, 1998–99. Visiting scholar, Harvard Univ., 2006–07; visiting scholar, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006–07. Chapter moderator (2001–07) and Northeast regional vice pres. (2006–07), Pi Delta Phi (natl. French honor soc.); Renaissance Soc. of America; Amer. Comparative Lit. Soc.; Société Internationale des Amis de Montaigne; Soc. for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Publications include: Practicing Reform in Montaigne's Essais (2000); coed., Printed Voices: The Renaissance Culture of Dialogue (2004); articles in Montaigne Studies, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et réforme, Bibliothèque d'humanisme et renaissance, Literature and Medicine, Rhetorica.

§Richard Ohmann. Prof. English emeritus, Wesleyan Univ. PhD, Harvard Univ. Junior fellow, Soc. of Fellows, Harvard Univ., 1958–61; Guggenheim fellowship, 1964–65; Rockefeller fellowship, 1982–83; fellow, Inst. for Advanced Study, Indiana Univ., Jan. 1985. Visiting appointments: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980; Arnold Bernhard Visiting Prof. of English, Williams Coll., 1995. Bowdoin Prize, Harvard Univ., 1958; Exemplar Award, Conf. on Coll. Composition and Communication, 1993. Richard Ohmann Award (for outstanding article in College English), established 2000; homage issue of Works and Days, 2005. Dir., Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan Univ., 1989–95; exec. comm., Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 1992–94. School Comm., Mohawk Trail Regional School District (Massachusetts), 1997–2004. Panel of linguistic advisers, American Heritage Dictionary, 1962–64. Coll. Section Comm. (1966–78), Resolutions Comm. (1971), and Comm. on Public Doublespeak (1972–93), Natl. Council of Teachers of English; steering comm., Radical Caucus in English and Modern Langs., 1968–; Supervising Comm., English Inst., 1972–75; pres., Soc. for Critical Exchange, 1990–92. MLA activities: Delegate Assembly, 1971–72 (Budget Comm., 1972), 1984–86; exec. comm., Div. on Sociological Approaches to Lit., 1985–89; consultant, MLA-FIPSE Curriculum Review Project, 1991–94; Prize for a First Book Selection Comm., 1994–95. Ed., College English, 1966–78; founder (1975) and ed. board (1975–), Radical Teacher. Publications include: Shaw: The Style and the Man (1962), English in America: A Radical View of the Profession (1976, 1996), Politics of Letters (1987), Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century (1996), Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture (2003); coed., Making and Selling Culture (1996); afterword, The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives (2002); contrib., Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature (1994), PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy (1995), The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory: Connections and Continuities (1995), The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years (1997), Personal Effects: The Social Effect of Scholarly Writing (2001), Print in Motion (vol. 4 of A History of the Book in America, 2009); articles in Radical Teacher, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Citizenship Studies, Minnesota Review, College English, Critical Inquiry, Poetics Today, New Literary History, Studies in Literature.

*Pamela Morgan Redela. Lecturer women's studies, California State Univ., San Marcos (CSUSM). PhD, Univ. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Other adjunct appointments: Palomar Coll., CA; Mira Costa Coll., CA; San Diego City Coll., CA; National Univ., CA. Tinker field research grant, summer 2000; dissertation fellowship, Dept. of Lit., UCSD, 2002. Faculty adviser, Women's Studies Student Assn., CSUSM, spring 2008–. Natl. Assn. of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Western Social Sciences Assn. MLA activities: conference representative, Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, Aug. 2008. Conference presentations: Natl. Assn. of Hispanic and Latino Studies, 2006; Western Social Sciences Assn., 2009.

Special-Interest Delegates

The 2009 Elections Committee has nominated the following candidates to replace the sixteen special-interest delegates whose terms in the assembly will expire on 31 December 2009. Each pairing represents a contest. The term of office of those elected will be from 1 January 2010 through the close of the January 2013 convention. Members may vote in any or all of the special-interest contests and will receive detailed voting instructions in the fall. At that time, candidate information (biographical summaries and statements on matters of professional concern) will be posted in the members-only area of the MLA Web site.

Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing (1)
Linda S. Bergmann, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette / candidate unconfirmed

Creative Writing (1)
Melanie Almeder, Roanoke Coll. / Catherine Kasper, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio

Ethnic Studies (2)
Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern Univ. / Amy Feinstein, Colgate Univ. ♦ Matthew Calihman, Missouri State Univ. / Gregory J. Hampton, Howard Univ.

Foreign Language Teaching (1)
Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State Univ., Tempe / Nikhil Sathe, Ohio Univ.

Gays and Lesbians in the Profession (1)
Jodi Schorb, Univ. of Florida / Karen Tongson, Univ. of Southern California

Independent Scholars and Alternative Careers (1)
Karen Alexander, Signs / Laura R. Braunstein, Dartmouth Coll.

Lecturers, Adjuncts, and Instructors (2)
James Britton, Univ. of Miami / Paul B. Miller, Vanderbilt Univ. ♦ Cordula D. Brown, Seattle Univ. / Sandra Ballif Straubhaar, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Less-Taught Languages (1)
Brian James Baer, Kent State Univ., Kent / Thomas J. Garza, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Politics and the Profession (1)
Emily S. Davis, Univ. of Delaware, Newark / Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Univ. of North Dakota

Two-Year Colleges (2)
Patricia R. Campbell, Lake Sumter Community Coll., FL / Elise R. Denbo, Queensborough Community Coll., City Univ. of New York ♦ Frederick De Naples, Bronx Community Coll., City Univ. of New York / Sean P. Murphy, Coll. of Lake County, IL

Women in the Profession (3)
Cherie Ann Turpin, Univ. of the District of Columbia / Mimi Yiu, Georgetown Univ. ♦ Helga Schreckenberger, Univ. of Vermont / Ingeborg Walther, Duke Univ. ♦ Carolyn Dever, Vanderbilt Univ. / Diane P. Freedman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

Regional Delegates

The Elections Committee also nominated the following candidates to replace the thirty-four regional delegates whose terms will expire on 31 December 2009. The committee's nominations reflect decisions the committee made in response to its constitutional mandate to examine the "apportionment of delegates among the seven regions" and the "apportionment between student and regular members within each region" (art. 10.D.1). To match shifts in the association's membership, the committee took two seats away from Region 3 and gave one of those seats to Regions 4 and one to Region 7. So that the number of graduate student delegates in each region will be "as nearly as possible in proportion to the student membership in the region" (art. 10.3), the number of seats reserved for graduate students was reduced by one in Region 3 and increased by one in Region 4.

Each pairing represents a contest. The term of office of those elected will be from 1 January 2010 through the close of the January 2013 convention. Members may vote in all contests in any one region and will receive detailed voting instructions in the fall. At that time, candidate information (biographical summaries and statements on matters of professional concern) will be posted in the members-only area of the MLA Web site.

Region 1: New England and Eastern Canada (3)
Justin Crumbaugh, Mount Holyoke Coll. / Domingo Ledezma, Wheaton Coll. ♦ Richard H. Millington, Smith Coll. / David Suchoff, Colby Coll. ♦ Anne Moore, Tufts Univ. / Bryna L. Siegel, Univ. of Rhode Island

Region 2: New York State (3)
Nancy E. Johnson, State Univ. of New York, New Paltz / Elise Lemire, Purchase Coll., State Univ. of New York ♦ Richard Finkelstein, State Univ. of New York, Geneseo / Theodore L. Steinberg, State Univ. of New York, Fredonia ♦ Michael Jacobs, St. John's Univ., Jamaica / John R. Ziegler, Fordham Univ., Bronx

Region 3: Middle Atlantic (3)
Tita Chico, Univ. of Maryland, College Park / Kathryn Temple, Georgetown Univ. ♦ Martin Oliver Carrion, Johns Hopkins Univ. / Cedric R. Tolliver, Univ. of Pennsylvania ♦ Jones DeRitter, Univ. of Scranton / Lawrence Schwartz, Montclair State Univ.

Region 4: Great Lakes (7)
Charles S. Ross, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette / John Schilb, Indiana Univ., Bloomington ♦ E. Nicole Meyer, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay / Dianna C. Niebylski, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago ♦ Mary Jean Corbett, Miami Univ., Oxford / Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ., Bloomington ♦ Anna W. Stenport, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana / Johannes Türk, Indiana Univ., Bloomington ♦ Daylanne English, Macalester Coll. / Jesse Matz, Kenyon Coll. ♦ Tracy L. Evans, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities / Sandra Simmons, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison ♦ Josh Lambert, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor / Kevin Piper, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Region 5: South (7)
Suzette Acevedo-Loubriel, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Cayey / Carmen A. López-Álvarez, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Ponce ♦ Will Brantley, Middle Tennessee State Univ. / Stephen E. Tabachnick, Univ. of Memphis ♦ William Hutchings, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham / Douglas Robinson, Univ. of Mississippi ♦ Carol D. Harllee, James Madison Univ. / Angelica J. Huizar, Old Dominion Univ. ♦ Rebecca Edwards Newman, Rhodes Coll. / Susan Giesemann North, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga ♦ John C. Charles, North Carolina State Univ. / Willis Lee Templeton, North Carolina Wesleyan Coll. ♦ Boukary Sawadogo, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette / Jason A. Stump, Tulane Univ.

Region 6: Central and Rocky Mountain (5)
Trey Philpotts, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock / Jim Sanderson, Lamar Univ. ♦ Gregory Castle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe / Gregory Eiselein, Kansas State Univ. ♦ Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Univ. of Wyoming / Diane Price Herndl, Iowa State Univ. ♦ Rafael E. Saumell, Sam Houston State Univ. / Emil Volek, Arizona State Univ., Tempe ♦ Jan Emberson, St. Edward's Univ. / Linda McManness, Baylor Univ.

Region 7: Western US and Western Canada (6)
Kent Baxter, California State Univ., Northridge / David Kelman, California State Univ., Fullerton ♦ Yifen T. Beus, Brigham Young Univ., Hawai`i / Nobuko Miyama Ochner, Univ. of Hawai`i, Mānoa ♦ James Mardock, Univ. of Nevada, Reno / Edward M. Test, Boise State Univ. ♦ Susan C. Anderson, Univ. of Oregon / Lorely E. French, Pacific Univ. ♦ Gina J. Froese, Univ. of Alberta / Hallie Rebecca Marshall, Univ. of British Columbia ♦ Bradley W. Buchanan, California State Univ., Sacramento / Paul Gilmore, California State Univ., Long Beach

 
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