American Literature Section Chairs American Literature Section Chairs

American Literature Section

Chairs of the Section

The following scholars have served as the elected leader of the Modern Language Association's American Literature Group or Section.


2012: Nancy Bentley
2011: Michael Moon
2010: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
2009: Sarah Robbins
2008: Caroline Levander
2007: Sandra Zagarell
2006: Philip J. Barrish
2005: Mary Loeffelholz
2004: Mary Loeffelholz
2003: Carla Kaplan
2002: Gary Scharnhorst
2001: Thadious Davis
2000: Robert Levine
1999: Paul Lauter
1998: Cecelia Tichi
1997: Susan K. Harris
1996: Linda Wagner-Martin
1995: William L. Andrews
1994: Eric Sundquist
1993: Elaine Hedges
1992: Blanche Gelfant
1991: Emory Elliott
1990: James Justus
1989: J. A. Leo Lemay
1988: John Seelye
1987: Leo Marx
1986: Roger Asselineau
1985: Martha Banta
1984: Nina Baym
1983: Lewis Simpson
1982: James M. Cox
1981: Joseph Blotner
1980: Walter B. Rideout
1979: Edwin Cady
1978: William M. Gibson
1977: Nathalia Wright
1976: Russel B. Nye
1975: Richard B. Davis
1974: Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
1973: Norman Grabo
1972: Michael Millgate
1971: Harrison Hayford
1970: Hugh Holman
1969: John Gerber
1968: Roy Harvey Pearce
1967: Arlin Turner
1966: Henry A. Pochmann
1965: Lyon N. Richardson
1964: Lewis Leary
1963: Henry Nash Smith
1962: Hyatt H. Waggoner
1961: Herbert R. Brown
1960: Norman Holmes Pearson
1959: Clarence Gohdes
1958: Walter Blair
1957: Charles Anderson
1956: Theodore Hornberger
1955: Gay Wilson Allen
1954: William Charvat
1953: Leon Howard
1952: Floyd Stovall
1951: Randall Stewart
1950: Harry R. Warfel
1949: Ernest E. Leisy
1948: Harry H. Clark
1947: Perry Miller
1946: Willard Thorp
1945: Gregory Paine
1944: Louise Pound
1943: Tremaine McDowell
1942: Milton Ellis
1940-41: Napier Wilt
1939: Jay B. Hubbell
1937-38: Sculley Bradley
1935-36: Howard Mumford Jones
1933-34: Stanley T. Williams
1932: Ralph L. Rusk
1930-31: Robert E. Spiller
1928-29: Kenneth B. Murdock
1925-27: Jay B. Hubbell
1924: Fred L. Pattee
1923: Percy H. Boynton
1922: Arthur H. Quinn
1921: Killis Campbell