American Literature Section Officers 2012

Chair: Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania

Ex Officio: Michael Moon, Emory University

ADVISORY COUNCIL:

Elected Members of the Council:

Priscilla Wald, Editor of American Literature and Ex-Officio Council Member, Duke University (2009--)
Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania (2010-2014)
Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico (2011-2015)
Gene Andrew Jarrett, Boston University (2011-2015)
Michele Elam, Stanford University (2012-2016)
Sara Blair, University of Michigan (2012-2016)
Joycelyn Moody, University of Texas at San Antonio (2009-2013)

Division Chairs:

American Literature to 1800
Trish Loughran,  University of Illinois

Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Lloyd Pratt, Oxford University

Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Jane Thrailkill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Twentieth-Century American Literature
Robert Dale Parker, University of Illinois

Black American Literature and Culture
Ayesha Harding, Ohio University

American Indian Literatures
James Cox, University of Texas at Austin

Asian American Literature
Paul Lai, University of St. Thomas

Chicana and Chicano Literature
Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin

(The executive coordinator and editor of American Literature are also members of the Advisory Council.)

ALS-MLA STANDING COMMITTEES:

Nominating Committee:
Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania, Chair
Tina Chen, Pennsylvania State University
Sheila Contreras, Michigan State University

Hubbell Award Committee:
Shirley Samuels, Cornell University (2012 Chair)
William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013 Chair)
Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College (2014 Chair)
Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania (2015 Chair)

Foerster Prize Committee:
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jordan Stein, University of Colorado at Boulder
Colleen Boggs, Dartmouth College

EDITORIAL BOARD, AMERICAN LITERATURE

Priscilla Wald, Duke University, Editor  
Sara Blair, University of Michigan (2012)
Jeannine DeLombard, University of Toronto (2012)
Nancy Glazener, University of Pittsburgh (2012)
William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis (2012)
Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota (2012)
Glenda R. Carpio, Harvard University (2013)
Peter Coviello, Bowdoin College (2013)
Kathryn Stockton, University of Utah (2013)
Amy Abugo Ongiri, University of Florida (2013)
Ed White, University of Florida (2013)