Officers 2026
President: Michelle M. Dowd
Department of English
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244
mmdowd1@ua.edu
Vice President: Amy Froide
Department of History
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250
froide@umbc.edu
Past President: Andrea Pearson
American University
Washington, DC
pearson@american.edu
Treasurer: Maria DePrano
Department of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343
mdeprano@ucmerced.edu
Secretary: Jessica Goethals
Department of Modern Languages and Classics
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0246
jgoethals@ua.edu
Executive Appointments 2026
Listserv Coordinator: Karen L. Nelson
Department of English
University of Maryland
Tawes Hall Rm. 2120B
7751 Alumni Dr.
College Park, MD 20742
knelson@umd.edu
Web Editor: Jess Hamlet
Department of the Humanities
Alvernia University
400 Saint Bernardine Street
Reading, PA 19607
jessica.hamlet@alvernia.edu
Web Editor: Naomi Makowska
Department of History
Queen’s University
49 Bader Lane
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
naomi.makowska@queensu.ca
Social Media Liaisons: Rebecca Arnheim and Jenna Wendler
Rebecca Arnheim
rarnheim@bu.edu
Jenna Wendler
jlw12@bu.edu
Archivist: Julie Eckerle
Department of English
University of Minnesota, Morris
600 East 4th Street
Morris, MN 56267
ecker014@morris.umn.edu
Committees 2026
Executive Committee
2026-2028
Sheila Barker (Art) Medici Archive/University of Pennsylvania: shbarker@upenn.edu
Lara Dodds (English) Mississippi State University: ldodds@english.msstate.edu
2025-2027
Kimberly Coles, University of Maryland, College Park (English) kcoles@umd.edu
Shannon McHugh, Huntington Library (Italian/Gender) smchugh@huntington.org
2024-2026
Yoonsoo Kim, Purdue University (Spanish and Portuguese) kim153@purdue.edu
Sharon Strocchia, Emory University (History) sharon.strocchia@emory.edu
Graduate Student/Early Career Member
Rebecca Teague, University of California, Riverside (History of Art) Rebecca.teague@email.ucr.edu
Awards Committee
2026-2028
Theresa Kutasz Christensen (Art History) , Penn State: TKutaszChristensen@gmail.com
Barbara Fuchs (Spanish/Portuguese) UCLA: fuchsbar@humnet.ucla.edu
Serena Laiena (Italian) University College Dublin: serena.laiena@ucd.ie
Erin McCarthy (English) University College Galway: erin.mccarthy@universityofgalway.ie
2025-2027
Susan Cogan, Utah State University (History)
Kate Driscoll, Duke University (Italian & Romance Studies)
Elizabeth L’Estrange, University of Birmingham, UK (Art History)
Tara Lyons, Illinois State University (English)
2024-2026
Margaret Boyle, Bowdoin College (Spanish), mboyle2@bowdoin.edu
Tanja Jones, University of Alabama (Art History), tljones10@ua.edu
Kate Narveson, Luther College (English), narveska@luther.edu
Jennifer Welsh, Eastern New Mexico University (History), jennifer.welsh@enmu.edu
Nominating Committee
2026-2028
Cristina D’Errico (Italian) Indiana University: cderric@iu.edu
Elise Watson (History) St. Andrews: elise.watson@ed.ac.uk
Valerie Wayne (English) University of Hawaii: vwayne@hawaii.edu
2025-2027
Núria Silleras-Fernández, University of Colorado, Boulder (Spanish & Portugese)
Paola Ugolini, University of Buffalo (Romance Languages)
2024-2026
Maria Carrión, Emory University (Comparative Literature) mcarrio@emory.edu