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

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

Awards Committee

2026-2028

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

2025-2027

  • Núria Silleras-Fernández, University of Colorado, Boulder (Spanish & Portugese)

  • Paola Ugolini, University of Buffalo (Romance Languages)

2024-2026