ASECS Election, 2005

ASECS Election

2012-13 Candidate Information

*Candidate for President:

Julie Candler Hayes is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is currently serving as Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. Her research interests include early modern philosophy and literature, theories of language, literary theory, and translation studies. She is the author of Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800 (Stanford UP, 2009), Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion (Cambridge UP, 1999), and Identity and Ideology: Diderot, Sade, and the Serious Genre (John Benjamins, 1991). With Judith Zinsser, she co-edited Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science (Voltaire Foundation, 2006) and with Daniel Brewer, Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading (Voltaire Foundation, 2002). She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the McMaster University Library. She has served as co-chair of the ASECS Women’s Caucus and on the ASECS Executive Board, the ISECS Executive Board, the Executive Committee of the Eighteenth-Century French Literature Division of the MLA, and the Executive Board of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Her current research examines the work of early modern women moral philosophers.

*Candidate for First Vice-President:

Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English at Yale University, is the author of The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (1985), Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1996), and, most recently, IT (2007), a study of the genesis of iconic celebrity in the long eighteenth century. Formerly chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre at Northwestern University, and the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, he currently heads Yale's Theatre Studies program and directs the World Performance Project, which is funded by a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Recent essays on eighteenth-century topics include "Gossip Girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and Invisible-Hand Drama" in Modern Drama (October, 2010) and "'The Uncreating Word': Silence and Unspoken Thought in Fielding's Drama" in Henry Fielding: Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Magistrate, ed. Claude Rawson (2008). Joseph Roach has directed over fifty plays and operas, including The Country Wife, Dido and Aeneas, She Stoops to Conquer, and, as a medley for Yale's Tercentennial in 2001, A Short Short View of the immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

*Candidates for Second Vice-President:

Kathleen Wilson is the 99% Candidate. Professor of History and Cultural Analysis and Theory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, an island periphery at the center of the world, she has instilled in undergraduates, graduates and the Long Island public alike an appreciation for interdisciplinary wonders of the global eighteenth century. Her publications include The Sense of the People (1995), which won prizes from the Royal Historical Society and the North American Conference on British Studies; The Island Race (2003); and (as editor) A New Imperial History (2004). She is currently finishing a book entitled Strolling Players of Empire: Theatre, Culture and Modernity in the English Provinces (Cambridge) that explores the politics of theatrical performance and colonial rule across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Other work in progress includes Re-thinking the Colonial State: Gender and Governmentality in the Long Eighteenth Century; Admirals as Heroes: Naval and Military Adventuring and the Making of British Masculinity; The World of Jane Austen; Jane Austen in the World; and The Global 1790s. A founder and series editor of Critical Perspectives on Empire for Cambridge University Press, and recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others, she would devote her tenure at ASECS to promoting the interdisciplinary scholarship and outreach of all ASECS members. She lives in New York City with her husband, daughter and poodle.

Larry Wolff is professor of history at New York University, and director of the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1979 (History and Literature) and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984 (History). His research has focused on the relation between Eastern Europe and Western Europe, especially pursuing the argument that Eastern Europe was "invented" in the eighteenth century by the philosophes and travelers of the Enlightenment. He also works on the history of childhood, and his forthcoming book (2012) is Paolina’s Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova’s Venice. Other books include Venice and the  Slavs: The  Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001), Inventing Eastern Europe: The  Map of Civilization  on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994), and The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the  Partitions (1988). His current research concerns Turkish subjects on the European operatic stage during the long eighteenth century in the context of European-Ottoman relations. He has received Fulbright, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Studies and on the executive board of ASECS.

*Candidates for the Executive Board (First Position)

Robert Markley is W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English at the University of Illinois and the editor of the interdisciplinary journal, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. His books include Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (Oxford UP, 1988), Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740 (Cornell UP, 1993), Virtual Realities and Its Discontents (ed., Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Duke UP, 2005), and The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Cambridge UP, 2006). In addition, he is the author of more than eighty articles in various journals and collections of essay. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell, and the Huntington, Clark, and Beinecke Libraries. Professor Markley has served as an advisory editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2004-07), and currently is the Section Editor, Eighteenth-Century Literature, for the online Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Restoration, Genre, Configurations, and 18thConnect. Over the years, he has held numerous offices in ASECS, MLA, and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Since 1990 he has directed more than thirty dissertations in eighteenth-century studies, science studies, and new media at Illinois as well as at West Virginia University and the University of Washington. His current research focuses on climate and literary culture during the Little Ice Age (c. 1450-1800).

Ourida Mostefai is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Boston College, where she has also served as Associate Dean and Director of International Programs. Her research focuses on Enlightenment philosophy, polemics and pamphlet literature, and the fiction of the French Revolutionary period. She is the author of Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres: étude de la controverse autour de la “Lettre à d’Alembert” de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2003) and the editor of Lectures de “la Nouvelle Héloïse”/Reading “la Nouvelle Héloïse” (1993). She has co-edited Rousseau and l’Infâme: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment, with John T. Scott (2009); Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries,” with John C. O’Neal (2003); and four issues of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (with Tim Erwin and Catherine Ingrassia). Her forthcoming book is entitled: “Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique: querelles, disputes et controverses au siècle des Lumières.” An elected member of the Executive Committee of the 18th-Century French Literature Division of the MLA, she has served on many ASECS committee (the Clifford Prize committee, the Nominating committee, and the Fellowships committee), and on the editorial boards of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.

*Candidates for the Executive Board (Second Position)

Clorinda Donato is the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where she is Professor of French and Italian. Her co-edited volumes, articles and book chapters span a wide rage of disciplines including the History of Encyclopedias, the Protestant and Catholic Enlightenments, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, and Freemasonry. For ASECS she served as Book Review Editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1998-2004 and chaired the Innovation in Teaching Award selection committee in 2009. In 2008 received was a recipient of the ASECS Innovation in Teaching Award with Tim Keirn and Norbert Schürer for “Teaching the Global Eighteenth Century.” In 2005 she was awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her promotion of French language and culture. She has received numerous grants, including a $100,000 NEH in 2011 for teaching humanities texts in French and Italian to speakers of Spanish in accelerated French and Italian acquisition courses. She is an active member of the Iberoamerican SECS and is working to establish an Italian Studies caucus at ASECS. A co-edited volume with Marc-André Bernie and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas—Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfers is forthcoming from Toronto University Press. She is finishing the book manuscript “Dissecting Gender in Giovanni Bianchi’s ‘Breve storia della vita di Catterina Vizzani’: Text, Context and John Cleland’s English Translation.” She currently serves on the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility.

Waltraud Maierhofer, Professor of German and International Programs at the University of Iowa and academic coordinator of German. Her research and teaching interests center on German literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century and include cultural history, correspondence, and scholarly editing. She is the editor of correspondence by Angelica Kauffman (2001, 1999), a bilingual edition of the libretto Circe with the translation by Goethe and Vulpius (2007), and a travel guide to Florence by Adele Schopenhauer (2007). Her book Hexen, Huren, Heldenweiber(2005) examines representations of historical women and images of femininity in German narrative fiction on the Thirty Years’ War from Grimmelshausen to the present. She has published on subjects ranging from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister to recent historical fiction and film and also a textbook for teaching Introduction to German literature (Deutsche Literatur im Kontext). Recent articles include one on Goethe and forestry and Ramberg as illustrator of Goethe's last edition of his works. Maierhofer co-edited with Caroline Bland and Gertrud Roesch Women against Napoleon (2007). Her research has been funded by fellowships from the Humboldt foundation. Maierhofer served as advisory editor for ECS, as member of the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize Committee and has been editor of the Foreign Languages and Literatures section of ECCB (Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography) since 2004, currently seeking a successor. She is also treasurer of Women-in-German.