INFORMATIONAL CONTACTS IN ASECS AFFILIATE AND RELATED SOCIETIES
Compiled by Heather McPherson
Based on information received through May 18, 2007

Listed below are the officers to contact to request information about or to supply information to the Affiliate and Related Societies of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The Executive Secretary is often the best source for general information about the society. In many societies, the President is in charge of the annual meeting and the Vice President of the next meeting. Items for the newsletter should be sent to the Newsletter Editor where one is indicated. Executive Board members are not listed. Please send updates or corrections to:

Heather McPherson
Affiliates Coordinator, ASECS
Department of Art and Art History
113 Humanities Building
900 13th Street South
U. of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294-1260
(205) 934-4942 (tel); (205) 996-6986 (fax);
email: hmcphers@uab.edu

 

Aphra Behn Society

Executive President: Martha Bowden, English, Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Road, Building 27, Kennesaw, GA 30144; (770) 499-3219 (tel); email: mbowden@kennesaw.edu

Past Conference President: Phoebe Smith; email: lochtay@aol.com

Conference President: Carolyn Woodward, English, University of New Mexico; email: woodward@unm.edu

Newsletter Editor: Aleksondra Hultquist, English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; email: aleksondra12@yahoo.com

Membership Secretary: J. Ereck Jarvis

Website Editor: Emily Smith, English, Lawrence University; email: emily.smith@lawrence.edu

British Representative: Jane Spencer, English, University of Exeter, Queen’s Building, Queen’s Drive, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QH UK; email: J.Spencer@exeter.ac.uk

Dues: $15

Awards: Annual prize for best graduate student essay ($250)

Next Meeting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 25-27, 2007; Program Chair:

Carolyn Woodward; email: woodward@unm.edu; conference website: http://www.unm.edu/~english/News/ABSconference.htm

Annual laying of flowers on Aphra Behn’s grave.

Website: http://www.oldroads.org/behn/home.htm


Bibliographical Society of America

 President: John Bidwell, Morgan Library; email: jbidwell@morganlibrary.org

Vice President: Irene Tichenor; email: itichenor@earthlink.net

Secretary: David R. Whitesell, American Antiquarian Society; email: hitesel@fsa.harvard.edu

Treasurer: R. Dyke Benjamin, Lazard Asset Management; email: dyke.benjamin@lazard.com

Executive Secretary: Michèle E. Randall, P.O. Box 1537, Lenox Hill Station, New York, NY 10021; (212) 452-2710 (tel./fax); email: bsa@bibsocamer.org

Publications: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, editor, T.H. Howard-Hill, University of Carolina; managing editor: Travis Gordon

Dues: Individual: $65 US/$80 non-US; Student: $20 US/$35 non-US; Institutional: $75 US/ $90 non-US; Contributing: $100 US/$115 non-US; Life: $1,000; Sustaining: $250 US/$265 non-US

Next Meeting: 25 January 2008, Annual Meeting, New York, New York

Website: http://www.bibsocamer.org


Burney Society

President: Paula Stepankowsky, 1407 -24 th Ave., Longview, WA 98632; email: pstepankowsky@comcast.net

Vice President of the Society and Vice President for Canada): Stewart Cooke, Dawson College, 3040 Sherbrooke St. W., Montréal, Québec, H3Z 1A4; scooke@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Vice President for the UK: Kate Chisholm; email: Kate.Chis@virgin.net

North American Secretary/Treasurer: Alex Pitofsky, 3621- 9 th St. Drive, N.E., Hickory, NC 28601; email: pitofskyah@appstate.edu

Co-Secretary/Treasurers for the UK: David and Janet Tregear, 7 Market Ave., Chicester, West Sussex, PO19 IJU, UK; email: tregeardavid@hotmail.com

Publications: Burney Journal (annual), Victoria Kortes-Papp, editor; Burney Letter (semi-annual), Lorna Clarke, editor

Dues: $30, regular; $15, students and seniors

Awards: Hemlow Prize ($250) awarded to the best essay written by a graduate student on any aspect of the life and writings of Frances Burney.

Next Meeting: 6-7 July 2007, Burney Conference, Windsor, UK; 5 October 2007, annual meeting of the North American Burney Society, Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, BC; 2-3 Chicago, 2008, annual meeting and biennial conference for the North American Burney Society

Website: http://dept.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/burney


East-Central ASECS

President: Doreen Alvarez Saar, English and Philosophy, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; email: saarda@drexel.edu

Vice President: Geoffrey Sill, Rutgers University, Camden

Past President: Kevin Berland, English, Penn State University, Sharon, PA 16146; email: bcj@psu.edu

Executive Secretary: Linda E. Merians, 70-31 108th Street, Apt. #14G, Forest Hills, NY 11375; (718) 459-2892; (718) 459-7926 (fax); email: LEmeria@aol.com

Newsletter Editor: James E. May, English, Penn State University/Dubois, College Place, Dubois, PA 15801; (814) 375-4784 (fax); email: JEM4@psu.edu ; Contributing Editor: Linda Merians; email: LEmeria@aol.com

Newsletter (three issues per year): The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Dues: $15, regular, $10, student, and $20, joint memberships

Awards: Sven Eric Molin Prize ($150) for the best graduate student paper; Leland D. Peterson Prize to honor service to EC/ASECS

Next Meeting: 8-11 November 2007, Atlantic City, NJ; contact: Lisa Rosner, Historical Studies Program, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ 08240; email: RosnerL@stockton.edu

Website: http://www.udel.edu/braun/personal/ec.html


Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

President: John W. Cairns, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, Scotland, UK; john.cairns@ed.ac.uk

Vice President: Janet Sorensen, English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; jsorense@indiana.edu

Executive Secretary and Newsletter Editor: Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102-1982; (973) 596-3377 (tel); (973) 596-5345 (fax); email: sher@njit.edu

Newsletter: Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Dues: $20 or 12 pounds (individual); $10 or 6 pounds (grad student, unwaged, or retired); $30 or 18 pounds (institution); $25 or 15 pounds (supporting); $80 or 48 pounds (5-year)

Regular meetings held at ASECS and other conferences.

Next Meeting: 10-12 July 2007, Twelfth International Enlightenment Congress, Montpellier, France; 26-29 June 2008, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Website: www.ecsss.org


Goethe Society of North America

President: Professor Robert Ellis Dye, 1305 Fairmount Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105; email: rdye695716@aol.com

Vice President: Professor Simon Richter, Germanic Languages and Literatures, 745 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104; tel: (215) 898-7332; email: srichter@sas.upenn.edu

Secretary-Treasurer: Professor John B. Lyon, Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1409 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel: (412) 624-5839; email: jblyon@pitt.edu

Executive Secretary and Editor of the Book Series: Professor Astrida Tantillo, Germanic Studies, MC 189, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607; tel.: (312) 413-2374; fax: (312) 413-2377; email: tantillo@uic.edu

Editors of the Yearbook: Professor Simon Richter, Germanic Languages and Literatures, 745 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; tel: (215) 898-7332; email: srichter@sas.upenn.edu; Professor Daniel Purdy, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, 311 Burrowes Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802; tel: (814) 865-1353; fax: (814) 863-8822; email: dlp14@psu.edu

Book Review Editor: Professor Catriona MacLeod, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 745 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; tel: (215) 898-7334; fax: (215) 573-7794; email: cmacleod@sas.upenn.edu

Editor of the Newsletter & Webmaster: Professor Burkhard Henke, Department of German and Russian, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035-6956; tel.: (704) 894-2269; fax: (704) 894-2782; email: buhenke@davidson.edu ; webmaster@goethesociety.org

Dues: Senior Members, $35; Active Members, $25; Students and Emeriti, $10;

Institutions, $40; Patrons, $100

Awards: GSNA Essay Prize for an outstanding piece of scholarship on Goethe and his times published during the previous year; Gloria Flaherty Scholarship awarded annually to a graduate student in support of travel for a research project or presentation.

Meetings: Meets with ASECS, German Studies Association, regional MLA. Contact:

Website: http://www.goethesociety.org


Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture

President: Anne Schroder, 2507 Foxwood Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; (919) 932-6186 (tel); email: anne.schroder@duke.edu

Treasurer: Denise Amy Baxter, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 305100, Denton, TX 76203; email: denisebaxter@earthlink.net

Newsletter Editor: Susan Dixon, School of Art, University of Tulsa, 600 S. College Ave., Tulsa, OK 74104; email: susan-dixon@utulsa.edu

Dues: $20, regular; $5, graduate students

Awards: Wiebenson Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at a scholarly conference or a sponsored lecture.

Meetings: Regularly conducts sessions at ASECS and the College Art Association.

Website: http://plaza.ufl.edu/mhyde/hecaa

18-AAS Listserve: To subscribe contact: jplax@uarizona.edu


Ibero-American SECS

President: Enid Valle, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49006; email: valle@kzoo.edu

Vice President: Karen Stolley, Emory University; email: kstolley@emory.edu

Past President: Catherine Jaffe, Modern Languages, Texas State University-San

Marcos, San Marcos, TX 78666; email: cj10@txstate.edu

Honorary President: Theodore E. D. Braun, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; (302) 451-2038; email: TEDBraun@comcast.net

Executive Secretary/Treasurer: Yvonne Fuentes, Department of Foreign Languages, Louisiana State University, 316 Hodges Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; email: yfuent1@lsu.edu

Editor, Dieciocho: David Gies, Spanish, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903; email: dtg@virginia.edu

Newsletter Editor: David Slade, Centre College; email: david.slade@centre.edu

Dues: $10

Awards: Pilar G. Sáenz Student Essay Prize

Meetings: Annual Meeting at ASECS and regularly conducts sessions at ASECS.

Website: http://www.udel.edu/fllt/faculty/braun/iasecs.html

Listserve: Rebecca Haidt, Ohio State University; email: haidt.1@osu.edu


The International Herder Society 

President: Professor Michael Maurer, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturgeschichte Fürstengraben 18, 07743 Jena, Germany; tel.: +49 364 944395; fax: +49 3642 944392; email: michael.maurer@johann-gottfried-herder.net

Vice President: Professor Robert E. Norton, Department of German and Russian, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; tel: (574) 631-5572; fax: (574) 631-4268; email: robert.norton@johann-gottfried-herder.net

Secretary-Treasurer: North America: Professor Johannes Schmidt, Department of Languages, Clemson University, 706 Strode Tower, PO Box 340535, Clemson, SC 29634; tel: (864) 656-4299; fax: (864) 656-0258; email: johannes.schmidt@johann-gottfried-herder-net; Europe, Africa, Asia: Heinrich Clairmont, Heidestrasse 60a, 44581 Castrop-Rauxel, Germany; tel.: +49 2367 98157; fax: +49 2367 98158; email: heinrich.clairmont@johann-gottfired-herder.net

Editors, Herder Yearbook: Professor Karl Menges, Department of German, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616; email: karl.menges@johann-gottfried-herder.net;

Professor Wulf Koepke, 20 Winton Street, Roslindale, MA 02131; email: wulf.koepke@johann-gottfried-herder.net

Next Meeting: 2008, Jena, Germany

Website: http://www.johann-gottfried-herder.net/english/ihs_society.htm

 


Johnson Society of the Central Region

President: Brian Corman, English, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada; email: bcorman@chass.utoronto.ca

Vice President:

Secretary-Treasurer: George Justice, English, University of Missouri-Columbia, 107 Tate Hall, Columbia, MO 65211; email: justiceg@missouri.edu

Newsletter Editor: George Justice; email: justiceg@missouri.edu

Dues: $3

Next Meeting: early May 2008, Toronto, Canada; Contact: Brian Corman; email: bcorman@chass.utoronto.ca

Website: http://web.missouri.edu/~umcasjsocr/about.html


Johnson Society of Southern California

President: Myron Yeager, School of Communication Arts, Chapman University, One University Dr., Orange, CA 92866; (714) 997-6653; email: yeager@chapman.edu

Newsletter Editor: Treadwell Ruml, English, California State University, San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407; (909) 880-5886; email: truml@csusb.edu

Dues: $25; $100 (patron)

Next Meeting: 18 November 2007, Huntington Library; contact: Myron Yeager; email: yeager@chapman.edu


Lessing Society

President: Wolfgang Albrecht, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Burgplatz 4, 99423 Weimar, Germany

Vice President: Steven Martinson, German Studies, ML 571, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; email: martinso@ccit.arizona.edu

Secretary Treasurer and Managing Editor, Lessing Yearbook: Richard E. Schade, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372; (513) 556-2756 (o); (513) 556-1991 (fax); email: schadere@email.uc.edu

Book Review Editor: Herbert Rowland, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University, West Lafayette, In 47907; (765) 496-1685: email: hrowland@purdue.edu

Lessing Yearbook: Published annually in the Spring. Newsletter, Notes and Notices, appears in Fall and Spring.

Regular Membership: $35; Euro 36 (for German members); Emeritus/Student: $10; Euro 10 (for German members)

Meetings: Regularly conducts sessions at ASECS, MLA, and other regional societies. Conducts business meeting at ASECS. Organizes an international conference every 3-4 years. Website: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/german/lessing


Midwestern ASECS

President: Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265; email: margocollins@gmail.com

Vice President: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma; email: sspencer@ucok.edu

Past President: Catherine Craft-Fairchild, University of St. Thomas; email: c9craftfairc@stthomas.edu

Secretary-Treasurer: Kathleen Leicht, English, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 64093; email: leicht@cmsul.cmu.edu

Newsletter Editor: Corey Andrews, English, 227 De Bartolo Hall, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555; ceandrews@ysu.edu

Webmaster: Allen Michie, English, Iowa State University, 203 Ross Hall, Ames, IA 50011; email: amichie@iastate.edu

Dues: $10; joint membership, $17

Next Meeting: 11-13 October 2007, Kansas City, MO; contact: Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University; email: margocollins@gmail.com

Website: www.mwasecs.org


Mozart Society

President: Kathryn Libin, Music, Vassar College

Past President: Isabelle Emerson, Music, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154; (702) 895-3114; email: isabelle.emerson@unlv.edu

Vice President: Jane Stevens, Music, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; email: jrstevens@ucsd.edu

Secretary: Eftychia Papanikolaou

Treasurer: Joseph T. Orchard, Union, NJ

Newsletter Editor: Isabelle Emerson; email: isabelle.emerson@unlv.edu

Dues: $40, regular; $25, student, emeritus; $80, sustaining; $200, patron; $1,000 life.

Awards: Marjorie Weston Emerson Prize ($500) for the best edition, book, or article about Mozart published during the preceding calendar year.

Organizes sessions at the American Musicological Society and ASECS and holds biennial conferences.

Next Meeting: 2009, Vienna and Prague; email: isabelle.emerson@unlv.edu

Website: http://www.unlv.edu/mozart


Northeast ASECS

President: Anna Battigelli, English, SUNY at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY 12901; (518) 564-2429; email: a.battigelli@att.net

Past President: Edward T. Larkin, German, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824; (603) 862-3549; email: etl@cisunix.unh.edu

First Vice President: John C. O’Neal, French, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 859-4212; email: joneal@hamilton.edu

Second Vice President: J.T. Scanlon, English, Providence College; (401) 865-2446; email: hambone@providence.edu

Secretary-Treasurer: Nancy Johnson, English, SUNY at New Paltz; (845) 257-2747; email: johnsonn@newpaltz.edu

Newsletter Editor: John H. O’Neill, English, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Rd., Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 859-4463; email: joneill@hamilton.edu

Dues: $15

Awards: Travel grants for graduate students presenting papers (up to 15 for $100) and Edna Steeves Prize ($150) for the best graduate paper delivered at the annual conference.

Next Meeting: 25-28 October 2007, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; contact: Peter Cosgrove, English, Dartmouth College; email: Peter.W.Cosgrove@dartmouth.edu Website: http://www.neasecs.org/


North American Kant Society

President: Patricia Kitcher, Philosophy, 708 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University,

New York, NY 10027; email: pk206@columbia.edu

Executive Secretary: Eric Watkins, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0119; (858) 822-0082 (tel); (858) 534-8566 (fax); email: ewatkins@ucsd.edu

Treasurer: Gordon Brittan, Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717; email: uhigh@msu.edu

Bibliographer: Felicitas Munzel, University of Notre Dame; email: Munzel.1@nd.edu

Dues: Regular, $20; student, $10

Conducts sessions with the American Philosophical Association, ASECS, and regional societies.

Next Meeting:

Website: http://naks.ucsd.edu


Northwest SECS

Chief Officer and Treasurer: Ken Ericksen, English, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR 97128; email: kjericks@linfield.edu

Publishes Transactions, The Journal of the Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, annual or biennial collection of papers and meets annually.

Editor, Transactions, Stephen Wolfe; email: stephen.wolfe@mail.hum.uit.no

Dues: $20, regular; $10, graduate students

Next Meeting: Meeting concurrently with ASESC, 27-30 March 2008, Portland, OR


Rousseau Association

President: Byron Wells, Romance Languages, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109; email: wells@wfu.edu

Vice President: Christopher Bertram, Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol B58 1TB UK; email: c.bertram@bristol.ac.uk

Secretary-Treasurer: Sally Campbell, Political Science, Concord University, Athens, WV; email: scampbell@concord.edu

Director of Publications: John T. Scott, Political Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616; email: jtscott@ucdavis.edu

Electronics Publications Director: Zev Trachtenberg, Philosophy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019; email: Ztrachtenberg@ou.edu

Dues: Regular, $30; Student or Retired, $15

Next Meeting: 28-30 June 2007, Lyon, France

Website: http://www.rousseauassociation.org


Society of Early Americanists

President: Dennis Moore, English, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580; email: dmoore@english.fsu.edu

Vice President: Thomas Krise, English, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816; email: tkrise@mail.ucf.edu

Executive Coordinator: Hilary Wyss, English, Auburn University; email: wysshil@mail.auburn.edu

Newsletter Editor: Richard Frohock, English, Oklahoma State University; email: Richard.frohock@okstate.edu

ASECS Liaison Committee: Lisa Logan, Chair, Director of Women’s Studies, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816; email: lmlogan@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu; Christine Huber, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; email: chuber@email.unc.edu; Daniel E. Williams, English, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129; email: D.E.Williams@tcu.edu

List serve: “EarAm-L,” c/o Raymond Craig, English, Kent State University; email: rcraig2@Kent.edu

Dues: Please see website: http://www.mnstate.edu/sea for categories.

Interdisciplinary. Meets with ASECS and other national organizations, holds sessions at regional conferences, and conducts its own national conference in odd-numbered years. Sponsors annual Essay Prize ($50 plus framed certificate and a touch of immortality for the year’s best paper on an early American topic, broadly conceived, at the ASECS conference or hat of one of its affiliates during that academic year.

Next Meeting: 8-10 June 2007, Williamsburg, VA, jointly with Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Website: http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org


Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies

President: John C. O'Neal, French, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Rd., Clinton, NY 13323; email: joneal@hamilton.edu

Vice President: Marie-Paule Laden, French, San Francisco State University; email: mpladen@sfsu.edu

Executive Secretary: Philip Stewart, Romance Languages, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0257; (919) 660-3122 (o); (919) 684-4029 (fax); email: pstewart@duke.edu

Dues: none

Electronic bibliographies prepared by Benoit Melançon, French, Université de Montréal

Newsletter (included on Internet List: secfs@acpub.duke.edu)

Website: http://www.udel.edu/fllt/faculty/braun/secfs.html


Germaine de Staël Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies

Board of Directors: Karyna Szmurlo, Chair (Clemson University); Madelyn Gutwirth (West Chester University); Nanette Le Coat (Trinity University); Ann Gardiner (Philadelphia University)

Advisory Board: Tili Boon Cuillé ( Washington University); Kari Lokke ( University of California, Davis); Avriel Goldberger ( Hofstra University)

Contact: Karyna Szmurlo, College of Architecuture, Arts, & Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634; email: skaryna@clemson.edu

Newsletters: Staël Notes ( USA) and Bulletin ( France); Publication: Cahiers staëliens

The society meets regularly with ASECS, MLA, and other organizations.

Website: http://www.stael.org


Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)

President: Robert L. Patten, 407 Fondren Library, MS 46, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251; tel: (713) 348-4697; fax: (713) 348-6245; email: president@sharpweb.org

Vice President: Leslie Howsam, History, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada; tel: (513) 253-3000 x2330; email: vp@sharpweb.org

Membership Secretary: Barbara A Brannon, University of North Carolina-Wilmington; tel & fax: (910) 254-0308; email: members@sharpweb.org

Treasurer: Jim Wald, Hampshire College Center for the Book, Warner House, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002; tel: (413) 559-5592; fax: (413) 559-5620; email: treasurer@sharpweb.org

Publications Coordinator: Alexis Weedon, 12 Bradford Road, Toddington, Dunstable, Beds LU5 6EQ UK; tel: +44 (0)1582 489014; e-mail: publications@sharpweb.org

ASECS Liaison and Public Affairs Director: Eleanor Shevlin, 2006 Columbia Rd., NW, Apt. 42, Washington, DC 20009; email: publicity@sharpweb.org

Editor, SHARP News: Sydney Shep; email: editor@sharpweb.org

Annual: Book History, Editors: Ezra Greenspan; email: egreensp@mail.smu.edu; Jonathan Rose, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940; email: jerose@drew.edu

Webmaster: Patrick Leary; email: webmaster@sharpweb.org

Dues: $45 US/Canada; 30 pounds in Britain (includes the annual Book History); Students, $15 (does not include Book History)

Awards: DeLong Prize in Book History, $1,000 to the best book on the history of the book

Next Meeting: 11-15 July 2007, University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN

Electronic bulletin board: SHARP-L (Contact listsersv@listserver.indiana.edu

Website: http://www.sharpweb.org


South Central SECS

President: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, MC 2127, PO Box 6665, Saint Leo, FL 33574; email: kathryn.duncan@saintleo.edu

Past President: Laura Stevens, English, University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104; email: laura-stevens@utulsa.edu

Vice President: Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265; email: margocollins@gmail.com

Co-Secretaries: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University; email: kathryn.duncan@saintleo.edu; Michael Stasio, University of Tampa

Treasurer: Kathryn Duncan; email: kathryn.duncan@saintleo.edu

Director of Media and Internet Services: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma; email: SSpencer@ucok.edu

Venues Committee Chair: Kevin L. Cope, English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; email: plushtoy@bellsouth.net

Newsletter Editor: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University; email: kathryn.duncan@saintleo.edu

Archivist: Robert C. Leitz, III, James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University at Shreveport; email: rleitz@pilot.lsus.edu

Awards: Prizes for best paper at annual meeting ($200), best graduate student paper ($200), and SCSECS Lifetime Achievement Award ($200)

Dues: $15, regular; $30, supporting member; $100, patron

Next meeting: 21-23 February, 2008, New Orleans, LA; contact: Kathryn Duncan; email: kathryn.duncan@saintleo.edu

Website: http://www.scsecs.net/scsecs/


Southeastern ASECS

President: Kathleen Doig, French, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303; email: kdoig@gsu.edu

First Vice President: Mary McAlpin, Foreign Languages, University of Tennessee, 701 McClung, Knoxville, TN 37996; email: mmcalpin@utk.edu

Second Vice President: Martha Bowden, English, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144; email: mbowden@kennesaw.edu

Past President: Howard Irving, Music, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294; email: irving@uab.edu

Secretary and Newsletter Editor: Jack DeRochi, English, Winthrop, derochij@winthrop.edu

Treasurer: Linda Szilagyi, 10014 Willow Cove Rd., Huntsville, AL 35803; email: lszilagyi@mindspring.com

Awards: Percy G. Adams SEASECS Prize for the best article published by a member ($500)

Dues: Regular, $20; contributor, $40; students, $10; life member, $200

Publication: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, ed. Samia Spencer; email: Spencsi@auburn.edu

Next Meeting: 14-17 February 2008, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; contact: Professor Paula Backscheider, English, 9030 Haley Center, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849; email: pkrb@auburn.edu

Website: www.auburn.edu/seasecs


Voltaire Society of America

Chairman: George W. Gowen, Esq., Dunnington, Bartholow, & Miller, 666 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Chairman: George W. Gowen

President: John R. Iverson

Vice President: Alden Gordon

Secretary-Treasurer: Garry Apgar, 40 Bennett Street, Bridgeport, CT 06605; (203) 345-9610 (tel); email: garryapgar@optonline.net

Dues: $25

Meetings: Regularly conducts sessions at ASECS.

Website: http://www.whitman.edu/VSA

 


Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

President:

Vice President:

Secretary-Treasurer and Newsletter Editor: Ted Ruml, English, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA 92407; (909) 880-5886; email: truml@csusb.edu

Dues: $10; Graduate Students, $5, collected with annual conference registration

Awards: Helene W. Koon Memorial Prize ($250) for the best WSECS conference paper by a graduate student or a faculty member of junior rank.

Next Meeting: http://c18.net/scedhs-csecs/


RELATED SOCIETIES


Atlantic SECS/Société atlantique d’étude du dix-huitième siècle

President: Jane Curran, German, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada BH3 3J5; email: Jane.Curran@dal.ca

Vice President: Roland Bonnel, French, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada BH3 3J5

ASECS Representative: David McNeil, English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada BH3 3J5; email: dmcneil@is.dal.ca

Next Meeting:

 


Canadian SECS/Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle

President: Betty A. Schellenberg, English, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6; email: schellen@sfu.ca

Past President: Frans De Bruyn, English, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5; email: fdebruyn@uottawa.ca

Secretary: Gordon Fuller, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 3W1; email: gdfulton@uvic.ca

Treasurer: Gefen Bar-On, 2048 Neepawa Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2A 3L6; email: gefen.bar-on@mcgill.ca

Lumen Editors: Barbara K. Seeber, English, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1; email: bseeber@brocku.ca; Ugo Dionne, Département des littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7; email: ugo.dionne@unmontreal.ca

Bulletin Editors: Stéphanie Massé, Département de français, Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada G9A 5H7; email: stephanie.masse@uqtr.ca; Kathleen James-Cavan, English, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 0W0; email: kathleen.james-cavan@duke.usask.ca

Conference President: Pam Perkins, English, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2; email: pperkin@cc.umanitoba.ca

ASECS Representative: Don Nichol, English, Memorial University, Elizabeth Avenue, St. John’s, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7; email: dnichol@mun.ca

Webmaster: Peter Hynes, English, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 0W0 (2002-05); email: peter.hynes@usask.ca

Next Meeting: 17-20 October 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba; contact: Pam Perkins, English, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Canada; email: pperkin@cc.umanitoba.ca

Website: http://c18.net/scedhs-csecs/

 


Johnsonian News Letter

Editor: Robert De Maria, English, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604; email: demaria@vassar.edu; co-editors: Priscilla Gilman, Vassar; Nancy E. Johnson, SUNY-New Paltz

Subscriptions: $12 per year (2 issues); to subscribe, contact: The Johnsonian News Letter, 6 Prowitt St., Norwalk, CT 06855-1220; (tel) 1-800-331-3601

 


McMaster Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Chairman: Jane Rush, French, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9, Canada

Administrative Secretary: Patricia Goodall, Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, McMaster University

Meetings: Schedules symposia and a seminar series every year.

Website: www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~eightcn/#member

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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