INFORMATIONAL CONTACTS IN ASECS AFFILIATE AND RELATED SOCIETIES

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. This page is updated as needed; please help keep the information as current as possible and send updates to:


Catherine M. Parisian,
Affiliates Coordinator, ASECS
Dept. of English and Theatre
University of North Carolina Pembroke
Dial Humanities
Room 103
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372-1510
Fax (910) 775-4092
E-mail: cmparisian@verizon.net

AFFILIATE SOCIETIES


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           
Conference President:   Michael Rex, Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN; email: mrex@cumberland.edu 
Past Conference President: Carolyn Woodward, English, University of New Mexico; email: woodward@unm.edu
Newsletter Editor:  Aleksondra Hultquist, English, West Georgia University; email: ahultqui@westga.edu   
Membership Secretary: Ereck Jarvis, English, University of Wisconsin, Madison; email: jejarvis@wisc.edu
Website Editor: Emily Bowles-Smith, English, Lawrence University; email: mailto:emily.bowles-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 ($300)
Next Meeting: Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN, November 5-7, 2009; Program Chair: Michael Rex; email: mrex@cumblerland.edu
Annual laying of flowers on Aphra Behn’s grave.
Website:           http://www.aphrabehn.org

Next meeting - October 27-29, 2011 in Hamilton, Ontario with the CSECS.

 

Bibliographical Society of America

President: John Neal Hoover, Mercantile Library, St. Louis; email: jhoover@umsl.edu
Vice President: Claudia Funke Columbia University; email: ccf6@columbia.edu
Secretary: David R. Whitesell, American Antiquarian Society; email: whitesel@fsa.harvard.edu
Treasurer: G. Scott Clemons, Brown Brothers Harriman; email: scott.clemons@bbh.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; Sustaining: $250 US/$265 non-US; Life: $1,000
Next Meeting:  January 29, 2010, Annual Meeting, New York, New York
Website:  http://www.bibsocamer.org/

 

Burney Society

North America
President: Paula Stepankowsky, 1407 -24th 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
North American Secretary/Treasurer: Alex Pitofsky, 3621- 9th St. Drive, N.E., Hickory, NC 28601; email: pitofskyah@appstate.edu
Publications:     Burney Journal (annual), Marilyn Francus, editor, mfrancus@wvu.edu ; Burney Letter (semi-annual), Lorna Clarke, editor, LClarkLJ@aol.com.
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 meetings:  October 28-29, 2010, Portland, OR - http://burneycentre.mcgill.ca/conferences_2010_portland.html
Website: http://dept.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/burney

UK
Vice-President for the UK: Kate Chisholm; email: kate.chisholm@blueyonder.co.uk
Secretaries/Treasurers for the UK: David and Janet Tregear, 36 Henty Gardens, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 3DL; email: tregear.david@virgin.net
Membership fee for the UK: £12

Next meetings: Chawton House, Sunday June 14, 2009, annual meeting of the Burney Society in the UK;
Next conference: Institut Charles V, Université de Paris 7, Thursday June 10 and Friday June 11 2010, organised by the Burney Society in the UK in association with the Université de Paris 7

Daniel Defoe Society

President: Max Novak (University of California, Los Angeles)
Vice President: Robert Mayer (Oklahoma State University)
Director: Sharon Alker (Whitman College)
Secretary: Ben Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Liaison Officer: Kit Kincade (Indiana State University)
Newsletter Editor: Katherine Ellison (Illinois State University)
Newsletter Editor: Holly Nelson (Trinity Western University, Canada)
At-Large Member: John Richetti (University of Pennsylvania)
At-Large Member: Christopher Flynn (St. Edward's University)
At-Large Member: Geoffrey Sill (Rutgers University-Camden)
At-Large Member: Andreas Mueller (University of Worcester, UK)

Graduate Student Representative: Ashley Marshall (Ph. D Student, Pennsylvania State University)

Website is at http://www.defoesociety.org/.

The contact person - Sharon Alker, alkersr@whitman.edu

First conference in Tulsa, OK, on September 25-26, 2009. Information on the conference can be found at http://www.defoesociety.org/conferences.html

 

East-Central ASECS

President: Linda Troost ( <mailto:ltroost@washjeff.edu> ltroost@washjeff.edu; English Dept. Washington and Jefferson College

Vice President: Lisa Rosner ( <mailto:lisa.rosner@stockton.edu> lisa.rosner@stockton.edu; Historical Studies Program, Richard Stockton State College

Past Presidents:

Geoffrey Sill (2009) ( <mailto:sill@camden.rutgers.edu> sill@camden.rutgers.edu; English Department, Rutgers at Camden

Doreen Saar (2008) ( <mailto:saarda@drexel.edu> saarda@drexel.edu; Humanities Program, Drexel University)

Elected Board Members:

Jean-Marc Kehres (term ends 12/2010). Chair of Molin Prize. ( <mailto:jeanmarc.kehres@trincoll.edu> jeanmarc.kehres@trincoll.edu; Department of Romance Languages)

Christine Clark-Evans (term ends 12/2011) ( <mailto:cxc22@psu.edu> cxc22@psu.edu; French Department, Pennsylvania State University)

Corey Andrews (term ends 12/2012) ( <mailto:ceandrews@ysu.edu> ceandrews@ysu.edu; English Department, Youngstown State University)

ECI editor: Jim May ( <mailto:jem4@psu.edu> jem4@psu.edu; English Department, Penn State University at DuBois)

Webmaster: George Williams (<mailto:George.H.Williams@gmail.com> George.H.Williams@gmail.com; English Department, University of South Carolina, Upstate Campus

Executive Secretary: Linda Merians (term ends 12/2010) lemeria@aol.com

Past and Future Conference Chairs:

Kathy Temple (2008 chair) mailto:templek@georgetown.edu> templek@georgetown.edu; English Department, Georgetown University

Monica Najar (2009 chair) ( <mailto:najar@lehigh.edu> najar@lehigh.edu; History Department, Lehigh University)

Scott Gordon (2009 co-chair) ( <mailto:spg4@lehigh.edu> spg4@lehigh.edu; English Department, Lehigh University)

Linda Troost (2010 co-chair) (see above) Sayre Greenfield (2010 co-chair) ( <mailto:sng6@pitt.edu> sng6@pitt.edu; English Department, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg) Laura Engell (2010 co-chair) ( <mailto:engell784@duq.edu> engell784@duq.edu; English Department, Duquesne University)

The 2010 will be in Pittsburgh at the Omni William Penn Hotel on November 4-6.

The theme for the conference is "Recovery in the Eighteenth Century."

The conference chairs are Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield, and Laura Engell;

they can be reached through http://mysite.verizon.net/VZEQ4P6E or just google

"ECASECS 2010." E-mail suggestions for panels by April 1, 2010; for papers,

contact the chairs of panels directly or send an abstract of a paper to the conference

chairs.

 

Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

President: Mark Spencer, History, Brock University
Vice President: Catherine Jones, University of Aberdeen
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 
Members at Large: Amanda Epperson, History, University of Akron and Sandro Jung, English Lit., University of Salford
Newsletter:       Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Dues:    $30 or 18£, individual; $15 or 9£, grad student, unwaged, or retired; $40 or 25£, supporting; $125 or 75£, , 5-year
Regular meetings held at ASECS and other conferences.
Next Meeting:  

24–27 June 2010, Princeton Theological Seminary: “Thomas Reid, William Cullen and Adam Smith: The Science of Mind and Body in the Scottish Enlightenment”

Website:   http://www.ecsss.org/


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 Architecture, 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.
Next Meeting: 8-10 May 2009, Washington University, St. Louis; Contacts: Karyna Szmurlo; email: skaryna@clemson.edu; Tilli Boon Cuillé; email: tbcuille@susl.edu

Meeting site: http://www.clemson.edu/caah/languages/staelconference/
Website: http://www.stael.org/

Goethe Society of North America

President: Astrida Tantillo, Germanic Studies, MC 189, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607; tel.: (312) 413-2137; fax: (312) 413-1044; email: tantillo@uic.edu 

Vice President: Clark Muenzer, Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1409 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel: (412) 624-5909; fax: (412) 624-6318; email: muenzer@pitt.edu
Secretary-Treasurer:  Claire M. Baldwin, Department of German, Colgate University, 13 Oak, Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346; tel.: (315) 228-7281; fax: (315) 228-7176; email: cmbaldwin@colgate.edu

Executive Secretary:  Patricia Anne Simpson, Modern Languages and Literatures, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172980, Bozeman, MT 59717; tel: (406) 994-6443; email:  psimpson@montana.edu             

Editor of the Goethe Yearbook:  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:   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 Book Series:  Jane Brown, Department of Germanics, Box 353130, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3130; tel: (206) 543-4580; fax: (206) 685-9063; email; jkbrown@u.washington.edu

Editor of the Newsletter & Webmaster: 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, GSNA conference every third year (next conference Nov. 2011).
Next meeting:  
Website: http://www.goethesociety.org/

 

Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture

President:  Julie Plax; email: jplax@email.arizona.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:  Craig Hanson   
Dues: $20, regular; $5, graduate students
Awards:    Wiebenson Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at a scholarly conference or a sponsored lecture. Mary Vidal Memorial fund for travel. A fund to defray research travel and conference expenses for graduate students.
Meetings:  Regularly conducts sessions at ASECS and the College Art Association.
Website:  http://enfilade18thc.wordpress.com
18-AAS Listserve: To subscribe contact: jplax@uarizona.edu

Ibero-American SECS

President: Mark Malin, Randolph Macon College – mmalin@rmc.edu
Vice-President: Margaret Ewalt, Wake Forest University – ewaltmr@wfu.edu
Executive Secretary/Treasurer: Yvonne Fuentes–yvonnefuentes@cox.net
Members-at-Large:
Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s College of California –  geive@stmarys-ca.edu (3 year term)
Matthieu Raillard, Lewis and Clark College –  raillard@lclark.edu (2 year term)
Scott Dale, Marquette University – scott.dale@marquette.edu (1 year term)
Newsletter Editor: David Slade, Berry College–dslade@berry.edu
Pilar G. Sáenz Student Essay Prize & Student Travel Grants: Enid Valle, (Chair of Committee) Kalamazoo College – valle@kzoo.edu
Editor of Dieciocho: David T. Gies, University of Virginia – dtg@virginia.edu
President last year: Karen Stolley, Emory University – kstolle@emory.edu
President two years ago: Enid Valle, Kalamazoo College – valle@kzoo.edu
Honorary President: Theodore Braun, University of Delaware – braun@udel.edu
List-serve: Yvonne Fuentes– yvonnefuentes@cox.net

- We offer the Pilar G. Sáenz Student Essay Prize and Student Travel Grants

- This year our society celebrates its 20th anniversary with the theme: “Ibero-American SECS at TWENTY (1990-2010)”

- We will be hosting a cash bar on Friday, March 19th and welcome friends and colleagues.

The International Herder Society

President:  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: 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:    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: Karl Menges, Department of German, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616; email: karl.menges@johann-gottfried-herder.net;
Wulf Koepke, 20 Winton Street, Roslindale, MA 02131; email: wulf.koepke@johann-gottfried-herder.net  
Next Meeting:
Website: http://www.johann-gottfried-herder.net/english/ihs_society.htm
           

Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region

President: Tom Kaminski, Loyola University, Chicago
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:  April 17-18 2009, Chicago, IL
Website: http://web.missouri.edu/~umcasjsocr/about.html  

 

Samuel Johnson Society of the West

President: Tom Kaminski, Loyola University, Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 6066

Secretary: Myron Yeager, English, 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 (sponsor)

Next Meeting: November 21, 2010, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

 

Lessing Society

President (2008-2010): Monika Fick, U. of Aachen, Germany; e-mail: m.fick@germlit.rwth-aachen.de
Vice President (2008-2010): Barbara Fischer, U. of Alabama
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: richard.schade@.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: J. Karen Ray, Washburn University, email: jkaren.ray@washburn.edu  

Past President: Jeanne Hageman, North Dakota State University, email: Jeanne.Hageman@ndsu.edu
Secretary-Treasurer:     Kathleen Leicht, English, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO 64093; email: leicht@cmsul.cmu.edu 

Newsletter Editor:   Corey Andrews, English, 235 De Bartolo Hall, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555; ceandrews@ysu.edu

Dues:    $10; joint membership, $17
Next Meeting: Sept 30-Oct 3, 2010, Wichita, KS
Website:  http://www.mwasecs.org/

 

Mozart Society

President: John A. Rice, 2016 Century Hills Dr. NE, Rochester, MN 55906; Phone: (507) 292-0903; email: jarice@rconnect.com

Vice President: Caryl Clark, Music, University of Toronto

Secretary: Eftychia Papanikolaou, Music, Bowling Green State University

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.

Website: http://www.mozartsocietyofamerica.org/

 

 

Northeast ASECS

President: J.T. Scanlan, English, Providence College; (401) 865-2446; email: hambone@providence.edu
Past President: John C. O’Neal, French, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 859-4212; email: joneal@hamilton.edu                  
First Vice President: Alden Gordon, Trinity College, Hartford, CT          
Second Vice President:  Frans DeBruyn, English, University of Ottawa; e-mail: Frans.DeBruyn@uottawa.ca
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 6 for $300) and Edna Steeves Prize ($300) for the best graduate paper delivered at the annual conference.
Next Meeting:   November 5-8, 2009 with CSECS Ottawa, CA 
Website: http://www.neasecs.org/

 

North American Kant Society

President: Robert B. Louden, Dep't. of Philosophy, Univ. of S. Maine, 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME 04104-9300, Louden@Maine.edu

Vice President: Pablo Muchnik, Dep't. of Philosophy, Siena College, 515 Loudon Rd., Loudonville, NY 12211-1462, pmuchnik@siena.edu

Treasurer: Robert Hanna, Dep't. of Philosophy, C.B. 232, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 90309, Robert.Hanna@Colorado.edu

Bibliographer: G. Felicitas Munzel, College of Arts & Letters, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, Munzel.1@nd.edu

Annual Dues: $30, regular members; $10, student members. Conducts sessions with the American Philosophical Association, ASECS, and regional societies.

Website: http://northamericankantsociety.onefireplace.org

 

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

Next Meeting: November 13-14, 2009, Edmonton, AB
Dues:    $20, regular; $10, graduate students
             

Rousseau Association

President: Christopher Bertram, Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol B58 1TB UK; email: c.bertram@bristol.ac.uk
Vice President: Michael O’Dea, Département des Lettres modernes, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 18 quai Claude Bernard, 69365 Lyon Cedex 07 FRANCE; email: Michael.Odea@univ-lyon2.fr                          
Secretary-Treasurer:     Sally Campbell, Political Science, Concord University, Athens, WV 27142; 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:   June 25-28 2009, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA                     
Website:  http://www.rousseauassociation.org/

 

Society of Early Americanists

President: Susan Imbarrato, English, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN 56563; email: simbarra@mnstate.edu
Vice President: Hilary Wyss, English, Auburn University; Auburn, AL 36849; email: wysshil@auburn.edu
Executive Coordinator: Kristina Bross, English, Purdue; e-mail: bross@purdue.edu
Immediate Past President: Thomas Krise, English, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211; email: tkrise@pacific.edu
Newsletter Editor: Richard Frohock, English, Oklahoma State University; email: Richard.frohock@okstate.edu
ASECS Liaison Committee: Laura Stevens, English, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104; email: laura-stevens@utulsa.edu
List serve: EARAM-L Moderator: Raymond Craig, English, Kent State University; email: rcraig2@kent.edu

Dues: Please see website: http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/ 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 and special topic conferences in even-numbered years. Sponsors annual Essay Prize ($100 plus framed certificate for the year's best paper on an early American topic, broadly conceived, at the ASECS conference or at one of its affiliates during that academic year).

Next Meeting: May 13-16, 2010, St. Augustine, FL:

Website: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/fellows/bauer/summit3/index.html

Website: http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/


Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies

President: Catherine Gallouet, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; email: gallouet@hws.edu                  
Vice President:  Lesley H. Walker, Indiana University, South Bend, email: Lwalker@iusb.edu   
Executive Secretary:  Philip Stewart, Romance Languages, Box 90257, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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/braun/personal/status.html

 

Society of Eighteenth-Century Music

President: Bertil Van Boer (2007-2009) Bertil.vanboer@wwu.edu
Vice-President: Jane Hettrick (2008-2010)
Secretary-Treasurer: R. Todd Rober (2007-2009)
Past President: Steven Zohn

Newsletter Editor: Thomas Cimarusti, Music, Texas State, San Marcos

The Society's Board of Directors is made up of the officers, five elected members,
a student representative, the newsletter editor, and the webmaster.

Annual dues: US $25.00 for regular members, $35.00 for institutional members,
and $15.00 for students and retirees.

Conducts sessions at ASECS, American Musicological Society, holds biennial conferences, and joint conferences with other organizations.

Website www.secm.org

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

President: Leslie Howsam, History, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada; tel: (513) 253-3000 x2330; email: vp@sharpweb.org  president@sharpweb.org
Vice President:  Ian Gadd, School of English & Creative Studies, Bath Spa University College, Newton Park, Bath, BA2 9BN, United Kingdom; email: vp@sharpweb.org                       
Membership Secretary and Coordinator of North American Liaisons: Eleanor Shevlin, 2006 Columbia Rd., NW, Apt. 42, Washington, DC 20009; (202) 462-3105; 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

Recording Secretary: Jyrki Hakapää, PO Box 4 (Dept. of History researchers) 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland;
Phone: +358 9 191 24327; Fax: +358 9 191 23217;
Email: secretary [at] sharpweb.org

External Affairs Director: Simon R. Frost, Institute of Literature, Culture and Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Strandskadevej 23, DK-8250 Egaa
Denmark; Email: external [at] sharpweb.org

Director for Publications and Awards: Claire Squires,
Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication, Department of English Studies, Room B9, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA
UK; Tel: +44 (0)1786 467505; Fax: +44 (0)1786 466210
Email: publications [at] 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
Director of Electronic Resources: Lee N. McLaird, Center for Archival Collections, 5th Floor, Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 USA;
Phone: (419) 372-2411; Fax: (419) 372-0155;
Email: electronic [at] sharpweb.org

Dues:    Full Membership: $55 US/Canada; $ 60 non-North America/International (includes the annual Book History); Student/Independent Scholars Membership:  $20 US/Canada; $25  non-North America/International (does not include Book History)
Awards:  DeLong Prize in Book History, $1,000 to the best book on the history of the book; The editors of Book History annually award a graduate student essay prize consisting of $400 and publication in the journal to the author of the best article submitted on any aspect of book history. The deadline for submission for each editorial year is 31 August. Please contact either Ezra Greenspan or Jonathan Rose.

Next Meeting August 17-12, 2010, Helsinki, Finland
(http://www.helsinki.fi/sharp2010/)
2011 - Summer, Washington, DC

Website: http://www.sharpweb.org  

 

South Central SECS

President: Robert Steensman and Brett McInelly 
Vice President: Murray Brown
Co-Secretaries: Kathryn Stasio and Michael Stasio, Saint Leo University; email: kathryn.stasio@saintleo.edu
Treasurer:   Kathryn Stasio; email: kathryn.stasio@saintleo.edu
Director of Media and Internet Services:  Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma; email: SSpencer@ucok.edu
Venues Committee Chair:   Kevin Cope, English; email: jovialintelligence@cox.net
Newsletter Editor: Kathryn Stasio, Saint Leo University, MC 2127, PO Box 6665, Saint Leo, FL 33574; email: kathryn.stasio@saintleo.edu    

Public Represdentative and Liaison to ASECS:   Kevin Cope, English; email: jovialintelligence@cox.net
Awards:   Prizes for best paper at annual meeting ($200), best graduate student paper ($200), and SCSECS Lifetime Achievement Award
Dues:   Included in conference registration
Next meeting: February 2010, Salt Lake City; contacts:Robert Steensman and Brett McInelly 
Website:  http://www.scsecs.net/scsecs/

Future Meetings:

2011 Savannah, GA

2012 Asheville, NC

2013 Oceangoing: Aboard Ship

Southeastern ASECS

President:  Martha Bowden, English, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144; email: mbowden@kennesaw.edu
First Vice President: Joe Johnson, French, Clayton State University; email: joejohnson@clayton.edu                        
Second VicePresident: Chris Johnson
Secretary and Newsletter Editor: Misty Anderson; email: mganders@utk.edu
Treasurer:  Dan Ennis, English, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29528; email: dennis@coastal.edu
Members at Large: William Blake Gerrard and Heather McPherson

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:  February 18-20, 2010 Johnson City, TN, hosted by Judith Slagle and East Tennessee State University
Website:  http://www.auburn.edu/academic/societies/seasecs/

Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) will host the 37th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) regional conference in 2011 (dates to be determined). Conference organizers: Byron Wells (French), Claudia Kairoff (English)

 

Voltaire Society of America

Chairman:  George W. Gowen, Esq., Dunnington, Bartholow, & Miller, 666 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
President:  John R. Iverson                 
Vice President: Alden Gorden
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: Tim Erwin, Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154; email: <mailto:timothy.erwin@unlv.edu> timothy.erwin@unlv.edu Vice President:
Secretary-Treasurer: Ted Ruml, English, California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA 92407; email: <mailto:truml@csusb.edu> truml@csusb.edu
Dues: $10; Graduate Students, $5, collected with annual conference registration.
Next Meeting:

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

                        

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


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 email: peter.hynes@usask.ca 
2010 Meeting:Hosted by Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, NL, Canada, 14-16 October 2010. For further information, please contact:

Dr. Don Nichol, Dept of English, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada A1C 5S7; Tel: (709) 737-8064; Fax: (709) 737-4528; E-mail: dnichol@mun.ca Website:http://www.c18.org/scedhs-csecs/index.html

 

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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