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Nominations for 2008 MLA ElectionsIn 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. The original announcement of candidates' names (see the Summer 2008 issue of the MLA Newsletter, pages 6–10) has now been updated to include the names of several Delegate Assembly nominees whose candidacy was unconfirmed when the Newsletter went to press.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 PresidentThe 2008 Nominating Committee has selected three nominees for second vice president of the MLA. The person elected will take office in 2009 and will automatically become first vice president in 2010, serving in that office through the close of the January 2011 convention, and president of the MLA in 2011, serving in that office through the close of the January 2012 convention. The 2009 second vice president must be from a field other than English (including American). A biographical summary for each candidate appears below; ballots will be mailed to members in the fall.Russell A. Berman. Walter A. Haas Prof. in the Humanities and prof. German studies and comparative lit., Stanford Univ. PhD, Washington Univ. Previous appointment: Columbia Univ., 1990–91. Visiting appointment: Columbia Univ. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (Harvard Univ.), 1982–83; NEH fellowship (declined), 1989–90; Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, 1989–90. Outstanding Book Award (for The Rise of the Modern German Novel), German Studies Assn., 1988; Bundesverdienstkreuz, Federal Republic of Germany, 1997; Max Kade Prize (for best article in German Quarterly), AATG, 1998; Outstanding Book Award (for Enlightenment or Empire), German Studies Assn., 2000. Dir., NEH summer seminar, 1993, 2007; codir., NEH summer seminar, 2005. Exec. Comm., ADFL, 1998–2000; AATG; German Studies Assn.; Amer. Comparative Lit. Assn.; Amer. Council on the Teaching of Foreign Langs. MLA activities: Delegate Assembly, 1985–87; Comm. on Resolutions, 1987; exec. comm., Div. on 19th– and Early–20th-Century German Lit., 1988–92, 2002–06; Program Comm., 1992–95; PMLA Ed. Board, 1995–97; Nominating Comm., 1998–99. Ed., Telos, 2004–. Ed. boards: Telos, 1979–; German Quarterly, 1987–94, 2007–; Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, 2007; South Central Review; Modern German Culture and Literature, Univ. of Nebraska Press. Publications include Between Fontane and Tucholsky: Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere in Imperial Germany (1983), The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma (1986), Modern Culture and Critical Theory: Art, Politics, and the Legacy of the Frankfurt School (1989), Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood (1993), Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture (1998), Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural Problem (2004), Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture (2007); coed., Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years (2000), Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg (2000); contrib., Public Art and Democracy (1992), Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (1997), Death in Venice: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (1998), Adorno: A Critical Reader (2002), Literature and Philosophy in Germany (2002), A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (2002), A Companion to German Realism, 1848–1900 (2002), Sound Matters: Essays in the Acoustics of Modern German Culture (2004), Americanization and Anti-Americanism: The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945 (2005), Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000 (2005); articles in New German Critique, Zeitgeschichte, Telos, Selecta, PMLA, German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Modern Language Studies, Stanford Italian Review, German Politics and Society, Theory, Culture, and Society, ADFL Bulletin, South Central Review, Vivens Homo, Stanford Humanities Review, Profession, European Studies Journal, Modern Language Quarterly, Internationale Politik, Hoover Digest. Lawrence D. Kritzman. Prof. French and comparative lit., Dartmouth Coll. PhD, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Visiting appointments: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Stanford Univ.; Harvard Univ. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship (Duke Univ.), 1979–80; ACLS travel grant, 1986; ACLS senior fellowship, 1989; Hewlett Foundation grant, 1993; Florence Gould Foundation fellowship, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001. Elected member, Acad. of Literary Studies, 1986–; distinguished alumnus, Horace H. Rackham School of Grad. Studies, Univ. of Michigan, 1988; chevalier (1990) and officier (1994), Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French Natl. Ministry of Educ.; Edward Tuck Prof. of French, Dartmouth Coll., 1994–95; Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Prof. in the Humanities, Dartmouth Coll., 1995–2003; Ordre du Mérite National, French govt., 2001; Morgan Lectureship, Dickinson Coll., 2001; Pat and John Rosenwald Research Prof. in the Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth Coll., 2003–07; Teacher of the Year Award, Dartmouth Coll., 2005–06; Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies (for The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought), 2006; Ray and Pat Browne Award (for The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought), Popular Culture Assn./Amer. Culture Assn., 2007; bronze medal (for The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought), Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2007. Codir. (1994, 1995) and dir. (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007), Inst. of French Cultural Studies, Dartmouth Coll.; dir., Inst. of European Studies, Dartmouth Coll., 1999–2007. Visiting faculty, NEH summer inst., 1986, 1991, 1995. Consultancies: Canada Council for the Humanities, Chateaubriand Fellowships, French govt. grants, NEH, ACLS, Rockefeller Foundation, Natl. Public Radio, Bunting Inst. Sec., Amer. Council for French Social and Cultural Affairs, 1980–87; conseil administratif, Société des Amis de Montaigne, 1990–96; pres. and founder, Comm. for the Future of French Studies in the US, 1991–; advisory comm., Amer. Friends of Medem Library, 1996; Amer. Comparative Lit. Assn.; Natl. Writers Union. MLA activities: exec. comm., Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, 1982–86; Comm. on Teaching and Related Professional Activities, 1984–87; Elections Comm., 1989–90 (ch., 1990), PMLA Advisory Comm., 1992–96; exec. comm., Div. on 20th-Century French Lit., 1993–97; Ad Hoc Comm. on Teaching, 1998–2000; Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Selection Comm., 2004–06 (ch., 2005–06); Program Comm., 2005–08; Nominating Comm., 2006–07 (ch., 2007); exec. comm., Div. on Psychological Approaches to Lit., 2007–11; PMLA Ed. Board, 2008–10. Features ed., New York Literary Forum, 1980–86; series ed., European Perspectives, Columbia Univ. Press, 1989–. Ed. or advisory boards: Contemporary French Civilization, 1977–; Études montaignistes, 1986–; Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 1986–; Montaigne Studies, 1988–; Continuum, 1989–93; Sites, The Journal of Contemporary French Studies, 1996–; Substance, 1997–; French Politics and Society, 1997–; French Forum, 1999–2003; L'image, 2001–. Publications include Destruction/Découverte: Le fonctionnement de la rhétorique dans les Essais de Montaigne (1980), The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance (1991); ed., Fragments: Incompletion and Discontinuity (1981), France under Mitterand (1984), Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture (1989), Le signe et le texte (1990), Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and the "Jewish Question" in France (1995), Realms of Memory, 3 vols. (1996–98), The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2005); coed., Sans Autre Guide (1999); contrib., Sur des vers de Ronsard (1990), Freud, Lacan, and the Critique of Culture (1991), Writing the Renaissance (1992), Approaches to Teaching Montaigne's Essays (1993), Understanding French Poetry (1993), Les visages et les voix de Marguerite de Navarre (1995), French Culture Wars (1995), Monster Theory (1996), Distant Voices Still Heard: Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Literature (1998), French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads (1999), De Pontigny à Cérisy: Un siècle de rencontres (2004), Encyclopédie Montaigne (2004), Writing Lives (2007); articles in Journal of European Studies, Modern Language Notes, Semiotica, Romanic Review, Yale French Studies, Substance, Poetics Today, Yale Journal of Criticism, Études rabelaisiennes, Le monde, Village Voice, French Forum, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, L'Esprit Créateur, Paragraph, Études montaignistes, Dispositio, Michigan Romance Studies. Nicolas Shumway. Tomás Rivera Regents Prof. of Spanish Lang. and Lit., Univ. of Texas, Austin. PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Previous appointments: Indiana Univ. Northwest, 1976–78; Yale Univ., 1978–93. Visiting appointments: Univ. of São Paulo, Univ. of San Andrés (Buenos Aires), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). Mellon fellowship (Yale Univ.), 1982; Morse Fellowship (Yale Univ.), 1986; Fulbright professorship, 2001 (Brazil), 2005 (Argentina). Honorary MA, Yale Univ., 1992. Dir., Teresa Lozano Long Inst. of Latin Amer. Studies, Univ. of Texas, Austin, 1995–2006. Latin Amer. Studies Assn. MLA activities: exec. comm., Div. on Latin Amer. Lit. from Independence to 1900, 1993–97; Comm. on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities, 1995–98; Radio Comm., 2000–05; Exec. Council, 2005–06; ACLS delegate, 2007–10; Comm. on Amendments to the Constitution, 2007–10. Publications include The Invention of Argentina (1991), La invención de la Argentina (1994; rev. ed., 2005), Español en español [textbook, student manual, and teacher's manual] (1984; 2nd ed., 1988; 3rd ed., 1992; 4th ed., 1996); afterword, Teixeira Coelho Neto, Niemeyer: Um Romance (2001); contrib., La cultura de un siglo: América Latina en sus revistas (1999), A imagem dos 500 anos: Reflexões irreverentes (2002), Latin American Writers (2002), Reading between the Lines: Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy (2003), Ideologies of Hispanism (2004), Delirios de grandeza: Los mitos argentinos: Memoria, identidad, cultura (2005), Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana (2006), Derechos culturales y desarrollo humano (2006); articles in Revista iberoamericana, Revista de estudios hispánicos. Executive CouncilThe 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 2009 and run through the close of the January 2013 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 2009, 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 2006 and determined that regular members are constitutionally entitled to 8 of the 12 at-large council seats. Since only five of the continuing council members are regular members, all three persons elected this year must be regular members. A biographical summary for each candidate appears below; ballots will be mailed to members in the fall. Jennifer Crewe. Assoc. dir. and ed. dir., Columbia Univ. Press. MFA, Columbia Univ. Previous employment: College Dept., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982–84; College Dept., Macmillan, Inc., 1984–86. Constituency Award (for leadership and service to the university press community), Assn. of Amer. Univ. Presses, 2006. Guest speaker, Publishing Inst., New York Univ.; roundtable participant, Social Science Translation Project, ACLS. Conference presentations: MLA, Soc. for Cinema Studies, Assn. for Asian Studies, Assn. of Amer. Univ. Presses. Program comm., Soc. for Scholarly Publishing, 1999–2000; Professional Development Comm. ch. (1999–2003) and board of directors (2001–04), Assn. of Amer. Univ. Presses; Books Comm., Professional and Scholarly Publishing, Assn. of Amer. Publishers, 2006–; Assn. for Asian Studies; Amer. Acad. of Religion; Soc. for Cinema and Media Studies. MLA activities: Advisory Comm. on the MLA International Bibliography, 1995–98 (ch., 1997–98); Comm. on Scholarly Editions, 2007–11. Publications include contrib., Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors (2004); articles in Asian Studies Newsletter, Profession; interview in Minnesota Review. Michael Davidson. Prof. lit., Univ. of California, San Diego. PhD, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York. Visiting appointment: San Diego State Univ. NEA Creative Writing Award, 1976–77; California Council for the Humanities grant, 1979, Sept. 1980–Jan. 1981; Fund for Poetry award, 1993, 1995; faculty research award, Academic Senate, Univ. of California, San Diego, 2002–03. Roy Harvey Pearce Prize, Archive for New Poetry, Univ. of California, San Diego, 2005. Amer. Studies Assn., Modernist Studies Assn., Soc. for Disability Studies. MLA activities: Comm. on Disability Issues in the Profession, 1999–2003 (coch., 2001–03); PMLA Advisory Comm., 2000–03; exec. comm., Div. on Poetry, 2007–11. Coch., ed. board, Univ. of California Press, 1990–94. Ed. or advisory boards: Contemporary Literature, 1995–; Contemporary North American Poetry, Univ. of Iowa Press, 2005–; Journal of Literary Disability, 2006–; Flashpoints, Univ. of California Press, 2007–; Sagetrieb: Poetry and Poetics after Modernism. Publications include The Mutabilities (poetry, 1973), Grillwork (poetry, 1980), The Prose of Fact (poetry, 1981), The Landing of Rochambeau (poetry, 1985), Analogy of the Ion (poetry, 1988), The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (1989), Post Hoc (poetry, 1990), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (1997), The Arcades (poetry, 1998), Guys like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (2003); coau., Leningrad (poetry, 1991); ed., The New Collected Poems of George Oppen (2002); contrib. (poetry), Palmer/Davidson: Poets and Critics Respond to the Poetry of Michael Palmer and Michael Davidson (1992), Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1994), From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960–1990 (1994), In the American Tree (2002), Nuova poesia americana (2005); contrib. (criticism), The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993), Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality (1995), Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (1996), Sound States: Acoustical Technologies and Modern and Postmodern Writing (1997), Beyond the Binary: American Identity and Multiculturalism (1999), Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (2002), A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2005), The Disability Studies Reader (2nd ed., 2006); articles in Boundary 2, ELH, New York Times Book Review, American Literature, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Contemporary Literature, Genre, Fragmente, American Literary History, Poetics Journal, Keats-Shelley Journal, Sagetrieb, Western American Literature, Facture, GLQ, PMLA, Cross-Cultural Poetics. Michael R. Katz. C. V. Starr Prof. of Russian and East European Studies, Middlebury Coll. PhD, Oxford Univ. Dean, Lang. Schools and Schools Abroad, Middlebury Coll., 1998–2004. Previous appointments: Williams Coll., 1972–83; Univ. of Texas, Austin (prof. and ch., Dept. of Slavic Langs.; dir., Title VI Center for Russian and East European Studies), 1984–97. Visiting appointments: Univ. of California, Berkeley; Dartmouth Coll.; Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Keasbey Memorial Scholarship, 1966–70, 1971–72; IREX grad. student fellowship, 1970–71; NEH translation grant, 1979–80; IREX senior scholarship, 1983; ACLS travel grant, 1986; IREX Acad. of Sciences fellowship, 1989; Fulbright group seminar abroad, 1989. Max Hayward Translation Prize, Translation Center, Columbia Univ., 1983; Slavic Teacher of the Year Award, Texas Foreign Lang. Teachers' Assn., 1990; Award for Distinguished Service to the Amer. Assn. of Teachers of Slavic and East European Langs. (AATSEEL), 2000; Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession, ADFL, 2005. Dir., NEH in-service inst., 1992–95; dir., NEH summer inst., 2007. Advisory board, Center for the Study of Democracy (Sofia, Bulgaria), 1988–. Board of directors, Amer. Council of Teachers of Russian, 1988–2001; vice pres. (1989–92), pres. elect (1995–96), pres. (1997–98), and past pres. (1999–2000), AATSEEL; Exec. Comm., ADFL, 2000–02; Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Amer. Council on the Teaching of Foreign Langs. MLA activities: Delegate Assembly, 1989–91; Texts and Translations Series Ed. Board, 1991–2000; English–Foreign Lang. Conference Planning Comm., 2001–02; Lang. Map Advisory Comm., 2005–06. Publications include The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (1976), Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (1984); annotated translations, Alexander Herzen, Who Is to Blame? (1984), Nikolai Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done? (1989), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1989; 2nd ed., 2001), Tolstoy's Short Fiction (1991), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Devils (1992, 1999), Alexander Druzhinin, Polinka Saks and the Story of Aleksei Dmitrich (1992), Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (1994), Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Prologue (1995), Evgeniya Tur, Antonina (1997), Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanin (2001), Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Five (2005); contrib., The Old and New World Romanticism of Washington Irving (1986), Studies in Russian and German (1988), Issues in Russian Literature before 1917 (1989), People of the Book (1996), Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization (2001); articles in Oxford Slavonic Papers, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Dostoevsky Studies, ADFL Bulletin, New England Review, Southwest Review, Moriya. Randolph D. Pope. Commonwealth Prof. of Spanish and Comparative Lit., Univ. of Virginia. PhD, Columbia Univ. Ch., Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Univ. of Virginia, Aug. 2004–July 2007; dir., Prog. in Comparative Lit., Univ. of Virginia, Aug. 2008–. Previous appointments: Washington Univ., 1985–2001; Vassar Coll., 1982–85; Dartmouth Coll., 1976–83; Univ. of Bonn, 1973–76; Barnard Coll., 1969–73. Visiting appointments: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder; Tübingen Univ. Fulbright Scholarship for Grad. Study, 1968–69; Germanistic Soc. grant, summer 1971; Kemper Faculty Grant to Improve Learning, Washington Univ., 1992, 1997; NEH research fellowship, 1993–94. Dir., NEH summer seminar, 1991, 1993. Dir., Spanish Summer School, Middlebury Coll., 1982–86. Exec. comm., MMLA, 1991–94; member (1998–), vice pres. (2001–04), and ch. (2006–), Coordinating Comm. for Comparative Lit. History, Intl. Comparative Lit. Assn.; Exec. Comm. (2006–08) and pres. (2008), ADFL; Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas; Twentieth Century Spanish Assn. of America; Amer. Comparative Lit. Assn. MLA activities: Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Selection Comm., 1994–96; exec. comm., Div. on 20th-Century Spanish Lit., 1994–98; Delegate Assembly, 1996–98; Comm. on Honors and Awards, 1996–99, 2004–07 (ch., 2006–07); Advisory Comm. on Foreign Langs. and Lits., 1998–2001 (ch., 2000–01); Teagle Foundation Grant Working Group, 2007–08. Ed. (1985, 1991–99) and coed. (1999–2002), Revista de estudios hispánicos; coed., H–CLC: The List for Computers in Literary Studies, 1995–97; founding coed., Ediciones del Norte, 1978–88. Ed. boards: España contemporánea, Latin American Literary Review, Hofstra Hispanic Review, Purdue Univ. Press, Bilingual Review / Revista Bilingüe, Revista hispánica moderna, Códice. Publications include La autobiografía española hasta Torres Villarroel (1974), Novela de emergencia: España, 1939–1954 (1984), Understanding Juan Goytisolo (1995); ed. and contrib., The Analysis of Literary Texts: Current Trends in Methodology (1980); coed. and contrib., Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture (2007); contrib., Literature, the Arts, and Democracy: Spain in the Eighties (1990), European Writers: The Twentieth Century (1990), Women Writers of Contemporary Spain: Exiles in the Homeland (1990), The Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's Tale (1994), Autobiografía y escritura (1994), The Garden across the Border (1994), Borders and Margins: Post-colonialism and Post-modernism (1995), The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, vol. 2 (1996), Intertextual Pursuits: Literary Mediations in Modern Spanish Narrative (1998), The Cambridge Companion to Spanish Literature (1999), Savoir et littérature / Literature, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences (2002), The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel from 1600 to the Present (2003), Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History (2004), Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 322 (2006), Naciones literarias (2006), Mario Vargas Llosa and the Persistence of Memory (2006), Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War (2007); articles in Revista iberoamericana, Hispanic Review, Anales cervantinos, Anthropos, Siglo XX / 20th Century, Cervantes, Insula, Journal of International Literary Studies, Revista hispánica moderna, ADFL Bulletin, Profession, PMLA, Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, Lateral: Revista de cultura, Neohelicon, Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Karin C. Ryding. Sultan Qaboos bin Said Prof. of Arabic, Georgetown Univ. PhD, Georgetown Univ. Previous appointments: Lang. Training Supervisor, Foreign Service Inst., US Dept. of State, 1980–86; School of Advanced Intl. Studies, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1976–78. Natl. Flagship Lang. Initiative grant (principal investigator and project adviser for intensive Arabic lang. prog. at Georgetown Univ.), Natl. Security Educ. Prog., 2005–08. Advisory and review comm., Arabic Summer School, Middlebury Coll., 1981–87; board of advisers, Amer. Global Studies Inst. (Monterey, CA); advisory board, Natl. Middle East Lang. Resource Center, Brigham Young Univ., Provo. Exec. Comm., ADFL, 1996–98; pres., Amer. Assn. of Teachers of Arabic, 2007–08. MLA activities: Ad Hoc Comm. on Foreign Langs., 2004–06. Series ed., Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics, Georgetown Univ. Press. Publications include Formal Spoken Arabic: Basic Course (1990; 2nd ed., 2005), A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic (2005); coau., Saudi Arabic Familiarization Course (1990), Formal Spoken Arabic: FAST Course (1993; rpt., 2005); ed., Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalil ibn Ahmad (1998); contrib., Perspectives on Linguistics IV (1992), Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1993 (1993), Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language: Issues and Directions (1995), History of Linguistics 1993 (1995), Content-Based Instruction for Foreign Language Classrooms (1997), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, vol. 1 (2005) and vol. 2 (2006), A Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the Twenty-First Century (2006), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (2nd ed., 2006), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (2007); articles in ADFL Bulletin, Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, Theory into Practice, Modern Language Journal, International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Al-Arabiyya, Linguistic Reporter. Dana A. Williams. Assoc. prof. English, Howard Univ. PhD, Howard Univ. Dir. of Undergrad. Studies, Dept. of English, Howard Univ., 2006–. Previous appointment: Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, 1999–2003. Ford Foundation postdoctoral scholar (Northwestern Univ.), 1999–2000; Manship Summer Fellowship Award, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, 2001; faculty research grant in the humanities, Howard Univ., 2006–08. Teacher of the Year, Honors Prog., Coll. of Arts and Sciences, Howard Univ., 2006–07. Advisory board, August Wilson Soc., 2007–; Black Studies Comm., Coll. Lang. Assn. MLA activities: Comm. on the Lits. of People of Color in the United States and Canada, 2006–09. Publications include Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography (1998), "In the Light of Likeness—Transformed": The Literary Art of Leon Forrest (2005); ed., Conversations with Leon Forrest (2007), African American Humor, Irony, and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking (2007); coed., August Wilson and Black Aesthetics (2004); contrib., African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (1999), Encyclopedia of African-American Literature (2007); articles in Studies in American Fiction, African American Review, CLA Journal, Profession, International Journal of the Humanities, Bulletin of Bibliography. Kathleen Woodward. Prof. English and dir., Simpson Center for the Humanities, Univ. of Washington, Seattle. PhD, Univ. of California, San Diego. Previous appointments: Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1977–2000; dir., Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1981–2000. Visiting appointments: Univ. of Aix-Marseilles; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris); Inst. for the Humanities, Univ. of Michigan. Fellow, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1978–79; Camargo Foundation fellowship, fall 1984. Project dir. or codir.: grant for Cream City Review, Wisconsin Arts Board, 1980–81; research conference grant, NEH, 1983; writers-in-residence grant, NEA, 1984–85; fellowship program in age studies, Rockefeller Foundation, 1994–98; development grant (for Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes), Rockefeller Foundation, 1998–2001; conference grant, Rockefeller Foundation, 2000–01; postdoctoral fellowship grant (to Simpson Center for the Humanities), Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, 2001–04. Award for Excellence in Research, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Foundation, 1983; Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, French Natl. Ministry of Educ., 1989; First Annual Distinguished Alumni Award, Dept. of Lit., Univ. of California, San Diego, May 2001. Natl. board of consultants, NEH, 1979–82; projects advisory board, Intl. Longevity Center (New York), 1990–; senior fellow and advisory board member (in social sciences and humanities), Brookdale Foundation (New York), 1992–; advisory board (1992–) and pres. (1995–2001), Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes; ch., natl. advisory board, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, 2000–05; exec. board, Natl. Humanities Alliance, 2003–; ch., natl. advisory board, Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, 2005–. Natl. Comm. of the Arts and Humanities, Gerontological Soc. of America, 1980–84; Soc. for Lit. and Science; Intl. Assn. for Philosophy and Lit. MLA activities: exec. comm., Div. on 20th-Century Amer. Lit., 1987–91; exec. comm., Div. on Psychological Approaches to Lit., 1995–99; Comm. on the Status of Women in the Profession, 2004–07 (coch., 2006–07). Series ed., Theories of Contemporary Culture, Indiana Univ. Press, 1983–2000; coed., Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 1986–95; series assoc. ed., Age Studies, Univ. of Virginia Press, 1993–2000; series coed., Short Studies, Univ. of Washington Press, 2000–. Ed. or advisory boards: Journal of Aging Studies, 1988–91; In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science, Univ. of Washington Press, 2003–; Vectors: Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (e–journal), 2004–; Journal of Aging, the Humanities, and the Arts, 2006–. Publications include Paul Blackburn: A Checklist (1980), At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980), Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991); ed., The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980), Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (1999); coed., Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978), The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (1980), Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986); contrib., Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity (1993), Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (1994), Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Future of Gender (1994), Anne Tyler: Novelist (1994), Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life (1995), Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism (1995), Freud and the Passions (1996), Emotion in Postmodernism (1997), Symbols, Images, and Stereotypes: Historical and Existential Experience (2000), Postmodernism and the "Fin de Siècle" (2002), Discourse, the Body, and Identity (2003), Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (2003); articles in Cultural Critique, Indiana Law Journal, Differences, Journal of Aging and Identity, American Literary History, National Women's Studies Association Journal, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Kenyon Review, Women's Review of Books, South Atlantic Review, Studies in the Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, L'Esprit Créateur, Generations, Discourse, Substance, Journal of the Melanie Klein Society, Contemporary Literature, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly: A Journal of Long Term Care, Southern Humanities Review, Dickensian. Special-interest DelegatesThe 2008 Elections Committee has nominated the following candidates to replace the twenty special-interest delegates whose terms in the assembly will expire on 31 December 2008. Each pairing represents a contest. The term of office of those elected will be from 1 January 2009 through the close of the January 2012 convention. Members may vote in any or all of the special-interest contests. Ballots will be mailed to members in the fall; candidate information (biographical summaries and statements on matters of professional concern) will be posted in the members-only area of the MLA Web site in the fall.Continuing and Distance Education (1) Jo Anne Shea, Univ. of Texas, Austin / Ashley Tarbet, Penn State Univ., University Park Disability Issues (1) Todd R. Ramlow, George Washington Univ. / Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell Coll. Ethnic Studies (4) Chandan Reddy, Univ. of Washington / Steven G. Yao, Hamilton Coll. ♦ Yolanda Flores, Univ. of Vermont / Richard T. Rodríguez, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana ♦ Jené Schoenfeld, Univ. of Kentucky / Vershawn Ashanti Young, Univ. of Iowa ♦ Herman Beavers, Univ. of Pennsylvania / J. Martin Favor, Dartmouth Coll. Foreign Language Teaching (1) Stacey Katz, Univ. of Utah / Nikhil Sathe, Ohio Univ., Athens Graduate Students (2) Zachary Lamm, Loyola Univ., Chicago / Brian Neff, Penn State Univ., University Park ♦ Tracy G. Beckett, Penn State Univ., University Park / Monica F. Jacobe, Catholic Univ. of America Lecturers, Adjuncts, and Instructors (1) Lila Marz Harper, Central Washington Univ. / Jill M. Holslin, San Diego State Univ. Less–Taught Languages (1) Stephen Sheehi, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia / Hana Zabarah, Georgetown Univ. Politics and the Profession (2) Eve Oishi, Claremont Graduate Univ. / Jennifer Wicke, Univ. of Virginia ♦ Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale / Jules Law, Northwestern Univ. Retired (1) Morris Beja, Ohio State Univ., Columbus / Robert W. Hanning, Columbia Univ. Scholars Residing outside the United States and Canada (1) Paul Giles, Oxford Univ. / Christine Kanz, Univ. of Marburg Two–Year Colleges (2) Christine E. Hutchins, Kingsborough Community Coll., City Univ. of New York / Lisa A. Seale, Univ. of Wisconsin Colls. ♦ Roger Walton Jones, Ranger Coll., TX / Richard Middleton-Kaplan, Harper Coll., IL Women in the Profession (3) Meryl Altman, DePauw Univ. / Audrey A. Fisch, New Jersey City Univ. ♦ Heather K. Love, Univ. of Pennsylvania / Donna Strickland, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia ♦ Susannah Mary Chewning, Union County Coll., Cranford, NJ / Phyllis van Slyck, LaGuardia Community Coll., City Univ. of New York Regional DelegatesThe Elections Committee also nominated the following candidates to replace the thirty-six regional delegates whose terms will expire on 31 December 2008. Each pairing represents a contest. The term of office of those elected will be from 1 January 2009 through the close of the January 2012 convention. Members may vote in only one region. Ballots will be mailed to members in the fall; candidate information (biographical summaries and statements on matters of professional concern) will be posted in the members-only area of the MLA Web site in the fall.Region 1: New England and Eastern Canada (5) Lisa Jeanne Fluet, Boston Coll. / candidate unconfirmed ♦ Holly Jackson, Brandeis Univ. / Amy Witherbee, Boston Coll. ♦ Helga Schreckenberger, Univ. of Vermont / Katharina von Hammerstein, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs ♦ Joan C. Dagle, Rhode Island Coll. / Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant Univ. ♦ Mark R. Blackwell, Univ. of Hartford / Petar Ramadanovic, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham Region 2: New York State (4) Christopher Baswell, Barnard Coll. / John Michael, Univ. of Rochester ♦ Patrizia C. McBride, Cornell Univ. / Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York ♦ James J. Bono, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York / Mike Hill, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York ♦ Adam G. Hooks, Columbia Univ. / Seth Perlow, Cornell Univ. Region 3: Middle Atlantic (5) Christine Leigh Blackshaw, Mount Saint Mary's Univ. / Bettina Brandt, Montclair State Univ. ♦ Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins Univ. / Arnd Wedemeyer, Princeton Univ. ♦ Horacio Chiong–Rivero, Swarthmore Coll. / Adriano Duque, Rider Univ. ♦ David Kurnick, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick / Hiram Perez, William Paterson Univ. ♦ Marcie Bianco, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick / Rebecca Skidmore Biggio, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown Region 4: Great Lakes (6) Alejandro Herrero–Olaizola, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor / Carl Niekerk, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana ♦ Matthew Senior, Oberlin Coll. / Michael Tangeman, Denison Univ. ♦ Juliette Cherbuliez, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities / Ellen McClure, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago ♦ Richard A. Gordon, Ohio State Univ., Columbus / Jarrod Hayes, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor ♦ Thomas J. D. Armbrecht, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison / Jonathan Burgoyne, Ohio State Univ., Columbus ♦ Julia Barrett, Loyola Univ., Chicago / Melissa Girard, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana Region 5: South (6) William Collins Donahue, Duke Univ. / Jeffrey Grossman, Univ. of Virginia ♦ Anna Froula, East Carolina Univ. / Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ♦ Maryse Fauvel, Coll. of William and Mary / Janell Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. ♦ Barry J. Faulk, Florida State Univ. / Phillip E. Wegner, Univ. of Florida ♦ Lucas H. Harriman, Univ. of Miami / Peter C. Kunze, Florida State Univ. ♦ Colleen Glenn, Univ. of Kentucky / Vanessa Kraemer, Univ. of Louisville Region 6: Central and Rocky Mountain (5) Christopher LeCluyse, Westminster Coll., UT / Neill Matheson, Univ. of Texas, Arlington ♦ Stephanie Fitzgerald, Univ. of Kansas / Jennifer M. Wilks, Univ. of Texas, Austin ♦ Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State Univ., Tempe / Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma ♦ Susan Lurie, Rice Univ. / Elizabeth M. Richmond–Garza, Univ. of Texas, Austin ♦ Carlos Amador, Univ. of Texas, Austin / Kersten Horn, Univ. of Missouri, Saint Louis Region 7: Western US and Western Canada (5) Heidi Brayman Hackel, Univ. of California, Riverside / Irene Tucker, Univ. of California, Irvine ♦ David F. Hult, Univ. of California, Berkeley / Panivong Norindr, Univ. of Southern California ♦ Cynthia J. Brown, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara / F. Regina Psaki, Univ. of Oregon ♦ Emily Hodgson Anderson, Univ. of Southern California / Gina Bloom, Univ. of California, Davis ♦ Paul Haavardsrud, Univ. of Calgary / David Lacy, Univ. of California, Irvine
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