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MLA Officers and Members of the Executive Council

Function: The officers and other members of the Executive Council are elected by the MLA membership and have fiduciary and administrative responsibility for the association.

Staff liaison: Carol Zuses (governance@mla.org)

President: Michael Bérubé
First Vice President: Marianne Hirsch
Second Vice President: Margaret W. Ferguson
Executive Director: Rosemary G. Feal

Samer M. Ali, 2012–Jan. 2016
Barbara K. Altmann, 2011–Jan. 2015
Jonathan Arac, 2010–Jan. 2014
Lawrence I. Buell, 2010–Jan. 2014
Debra Ann Castillo, 2011–Jan. 2015
Jennifer Crewe, 2009–Jan. 2013
Dorothea Heitsch, 2010–Jan. 2014
María Herrera-Sobek, 2011–Jan. 2015
Lanisa Kitchiner, 2012–Jan. 2016
Lutz Koepnick, 2012–Jan. 2016
Richard M. Ohmann, 2010–Jan. 2014
Karin C. Ryding, 2009–Jan. 2013
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, 2012–Jan. 2016
Kathleen Woodward, 2009–Jan. 2013