Executive Council

Executive Council

President: Dorothee Birke, University of Innsbruck

Dorothee Birke is professor of Anglophone literatures at the University of Innsbruck, where she is now happily settled after working at English Departments and Institutes for Advances Studies in Giessen, Freiburg, Aarhus and Trondheim. In her research, she is particularly interested in interfaces between narrative and reception and recently in literary practices in digital media ecologies.

She has authored two monographs, Memory’s Fragile Power: Crises of Memory, Identity and Narrative in Contemporary British Novels and Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel. Her work has also been published in journals such as Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Style, Narrative, and Poetics Today.

First Vice President: Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Aarhus University

Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen is a professor at Aarhus University. His research has contributed to mainly

three areas of narrative theory: first person narration; unnatural narratology; and fictionality. His

current project is on human sexuality and the roles of imagination and fictionality in human sexual

practices and preferences. Henrik is Vice Chairperson of the equality and diversity committee at AU

and heads the research groups Narrative Research Lab and

Centre for Fictionality Studies.

Second Vice President: Kelly Marsh, Mississippi State University

Kelly A. Marsh is Professor of English at Mississippi State University.  Her work combines rhetorical and feminist approaches to narrative, focusing especially on plot and seriality as well as on the complexities of reader empathy and narrative authority in fiction since 1800.  She is the author of The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy (Ohio State University Press), and her work has also appeared in journals including Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory, Style, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.  She was a Project Narrative Visiting Scholar in January of 2017, and she was co-organizer of the 2020 Narrative Conference in New Orleans.

Immediate Past President: Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University

Marco Caracciolo is an Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the environmental humanities, his work explores the forms of experience afforded by narrative in literary fiction and video games. He is the author of several books, including most recently Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), which was awarded the 2024 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, and Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures (Bloomsbury, 2022). 

 

Secretary-Treasurer; James Phelan, The Ohio State University

James Phelan (he/him) has been editor of Narrative since 1992 and Secretary-Treasurer of the ISSN since 2003. He is Distinguished University Professor of English and the Director of Project Narrative at Ohio State University. He has devoted his research to thinking through the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rhetoric. Among his many books are Reading People, Reading Plots; Narrative as Rhetoric; Living to Tell about It; Experiencing Fiction; Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010; Somebody Telling Somebody Else; and (with Matthew Clark) Debating Rhetorical Narratology. Since 1993, he has been a co-editor of the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series at Ohio State University Press. He is the recipient of the ISSN’s 2021 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Conference Liaison: Gretchen Busl, Texas Woman’s University

Gretchen Busl is a Professor of English and Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan "Amplify Your Impact" at Texas Woman’s University. Her research, which combines studies in narrative theory, rhetoric, world literature, and gender studies, has been published in venues such as Modern Language Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and English Studies. She is the co-editor of the volume Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors and The Process of Becoming: New Directions for the Humanities Dissertation (forthcoming from the Modern Languages Association). A passionate advocate for the public humanities, she is also a member of the ACLS/Mellon-funded Doctoral Futures project. 

Member-at-Large: Brian J. McAllister, American University of Sharjah, 2023-2026

Brian J. McAllister is an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. His research in narrative theory focuses primarily on interactions between the concerns of rhetorical narrative theory, ecocriticism, poetry studies, and spatial theory. He is currently writing a study of spatiotemporal and rhetorical disorientation in the Anthropocene, considering ways that ecological conditions implicit in relationships between speaker, audience, and narrative situation complicate current rhetorical approaches to narrative. McAllister’s publications have appeared in Narrative, Diegesis, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, and Science-Fiction Studies, as well as in a number of edited collections. His writing includes studies on the rhetoric of emergence in narrative, geological time in landscape poetry, visual poetry and narrative theory, disorienting narrative space, and science-fiction poetry. McAllister was also the guest editor of a special issue of Narrative on poetry and narrative theory. He currently serves as the chair of the Narrative Society's Sustainability Committee.

Member-at-Large: Divya Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2023-2026

Divya Dwivedi is a narratologist and philosopher based in India. She is Asssociate Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her research is concerned with the ontology of the literary, the address function, postcolonial racisms, and Psychoanalysis. Her most recent works include Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives co-edited with Henrik Skov Nielsen and Richard Walsh (Ohio State University Press, 2018), and “The Transitivity of “We” and Narrative Legions” in STYLE 54.1. She is the author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics co-authored with Shaj Mohan (Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy; Bloomsbury, 2019). The special issue of Critical Philosophy of Race 11.1 on the caste system in India, guest-edited by her, is forthcoming. Since 2018, Dwivedi is a member of the Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. With Robert J. C. Young she is currently editing a special issue of Parallax on “Decanonizing Literary Theory”. In November 2020, Dwivedi co-founded a new open access multilingual journal Philosophy World Democracy together with Jean-Luc Nancy, Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, and Mireille Delmas-Marty. 

Member-at-Large: W. Michelle Wang, Nanyang Technological University, 2024-2027


W. Michelle Wang is an Associate Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. She also oversees graduate and continuing education, as well as the English double major programmes, in the School of Humanities at NTU. Her research interests include cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative, art and aesthetics, and her work has been published in journals such as Narrative, Style, and Critical Studies in Television. Her book monograph, Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (2020), was published by the Ohio State University Press and she recently co-edited The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art (2024) with Neil Murphy and Cheryl Julia Lee.

Member-at-Large: Sarah Copland, MacEwan University University, 2025-2028

Photo of Copland sitting down

Sarah Copland is Associate Professor of English at MacEwan University (Edmonton, Canada), where she also holds a Chancellor’s Research Chair (2025-2027). Prior to joining MacEwan, she was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar with Project Narrative at the Ohio State University. She has published work on rhetorical approaches to narrative theory, narrative ethics, short story theory, the politics of form, fictionality, and modernist narratives, prefaces, and poetry in Narrative, Poetics Today (co-authored with James Phelan), Journal of Narrative Theory, Modernism/modernity, Henry James Review, European Journal of English Studies, and other journals and edited collections. She and Greta Olson co-edited The Politics of Form (Routledge, 2018). Her most recent work in the scholarship of teaching and learning appeared in Teaching and Learning Inquiry and Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie.

Member-at-Large: Virginia Pignagnoli, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, 2025-2028

Virginia Pignagnoli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona in Spain, where she teaches U.S. Literature and Literary Theory. She is the author of Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts (Ohio State University Press, 2023), and her articles have appeared in journals including Narrative, Poetics Today, Neohelicon, the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), and Enthymema. She is a Ramón y Cajal fellow, currently working on a research project investigating the convergence of sincerity, intersubjectivity, political critique, and digital paratexts in contemporary literary narratives.

Grad Caucus Chair: Emma K. McNamara, The Ohio State University

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Emma K. McNamara completed a doctorate at Ohio State University. Her dissertation focusedon representations of girlhood, feminist narratology, and young adult romance. She has master’s degrees in Secondary English Education and Children’s Literature from the University of the District of Columbia and Simmons College, respectively, and is dually certified in Culturally Responsive Literature Instruction from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the chair of the Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the coordinator of YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, a member of the Children’s Literature Association Article Award Committee, and the 15+ reading group facilitator for Capitol Choices. She has published on Gossip Girl, Harriet the Spy, and urban theory, and is a reviewer for Kirkus and Children’s Books Ireland.

Grad Caucus Vice-Chair: Ellen Stenstrom, Indiana University

To support the efforts of our Executive Council and the dissemination of knowledge within and beyond the Society, the ISSN relies upon an Outreach Coordinator. 

Outreach Coordinator: Antonio J. “Joey” Ferraro

Antonio J. (“Joey”) Ferraro (he/him) holds a PhD in English from The Ohio State University. He has been a member of the ISSN since 2018, when he attended his first Narrative conference in Montreal.

 

Past Executive Committee Officers

When first fully constituted, in 1986, SSNL's Executive Board stood at 10 members and consisted of the 4 Officers and 6 Council members. In 1995, with the addition of the Past President to the list of Officers, the number of members of the Executive Council increased to 11. The Officers were elected for one-year terms and the members of the Executive Council for overlapping three-year terms.

In successive years, the Nominating Committees initiated the practice of ensuring continuity in the leadership by nominating the Second Vice President for First Vice President and the First Vice President for President. Similarly, five standing committee officer positions have been established over the years: the Secretary-Treasurer, the Archivist, the Electronic Communications Coordinator, the Membership Coordinator, and the Conference Liaison. In recent years, the Membership Coordinator and Archivist positions have been removed from the Executive Committee. The current number of Board members stands at 13: 4 elected officers, 3 standing officers, and 6 council members.

2024

  • President: Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University

  • First Vice President: Dorothee Birke, University of Innsbruck

  • Past President: Yoon Sun Lee, Wellesley College

  • Member-at-Large: Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki (2022-2025)

  • Member-at-Large: Cody Mejeur, University of Buffalo, SUNY (2022-2025)

  • Member-at-Large: Divya Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2023-2026)

  • Gretchen Busl, Texas Woman’s University (2024-2027)

  • W. Michelle Wang, Nanyang Technological University (2024-2027)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Dan Punday, Missisippi State Unversity; Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

2024

  • President: Yoon Sun Lee, Wellesley College

  • First Vice President: Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University

  • Second Vice President: Dorothee Birke, University of Innsbruck

  • Past President: Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales

  • Member-at-Large: Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki (2022-2025)

  • Member-at-Large: Cody Mejeur, University of Buffalo, SUNY (2022-2025)

  • Member-at-Large: Divya Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2023-2026)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Dan Punday, Missisippi State Unversity; Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

2023

  • President: Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales

  • First Vice President: Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University

  • Second Vice President: Dorothee Birke, University of Innsbruck

  • Past President: Erin James, University of Idaho

  • Member-at-Large: Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam University (2021-2023)

  • Member-at-Large: Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University (2021-2023)

  • Member-at-Large: Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki (2022-2025)

  • Member-at-Large: Cody Mejeur, University of Buffalo, SUNY (2022-2025)

  • Member-at-Large: Divya Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2023-2026)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Dan Punday, Missisippi State Unversity; Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University


2022

  • President: Erin James, University of Idaho

  • First Vice President: Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales

  • Second Vice President: Yoon Sun Lee, Wellesley College

  • Past President: Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

  • Member-at-Large: Helen H. Davis, Wilkes University (2020-2022)

  • Member-at-Large: Aaron Oforlea, Washington State University (2020-2022)

  • Member-at-Large: Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam University (2021-2023)

  • Member-at-Large: Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University (2021-2023)

  • Member-at-Large: Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki (2022-2024)

  • Member-at-Large: Cody Mejeur, University of Buffalo, SUNY (2022-2024)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

2021

  • President: Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

  • First Vice President: Erin James, University of Idaho

  • Second Vice President: Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales

  • Past President: Sylvie Patron, University of Paris Diderot

  • Member-at-Large: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Brandeis University (2019-2021)

  • Member-at-Large: Dorothee Birke, University of Innsbruck (2019-2021)

  • Member-at-Large: Helen H. Davis, Wilkes University (2020-2022)

  • Member-at-Large: Aaron Oforlea, Washington State University (2020-2022)

  • Member-at-Large: Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam University (2021-2023)

  • Member-at-Large: Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University (2021-2023)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

2020

  • President: Sylvie Patron, University of Paris Diderot

  • First Vice President: Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

  • Second Vice President: Erin James, University of Idaho

  • Past President: Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere

  • Member-at-Large: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (2019-2021)

  • Member-at-Large: Dorothee Birke (2019-2021)

  • Member-at-Large: Helen H. Davis (2020-2022)

  • Member-at-Large: Aaron Oforlea (2020-2022)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University




2019

  • President:Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere

  • First Vice President: Sylvie Patron, University of Paris Diderot

  • Second Vice President: Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

  • Past President: Dan Punday, Mississippi State University

  • Member-at-Large: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (2019-2021)

  • Member-at-Large: Dorothee Birke (2019-2021)

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University




2018

  • President: Dan Punday, Mississippi State University

  • First Vice President: Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere

  • Second Vice President: Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University

  • Past President: Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky

  • Assistant Conference Liaison: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University




2017

  • President: Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University

  • First Vice President: Dan Punday, Mississippi State University

  • Second Vice President: Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere

  • Past President: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky

  • Assistant Conference Liaison: Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University




2016

  • President: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University

  • First Vice President: Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University

  • Second Vice President: Dan Punday, Mississippi State University
    Past Executive Council Members

  • Past President: Susan Lanser, Brandeis University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaisons: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky & Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell




2015

  • President: Susan Lanser, Brandeis University

  • First Vice President: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University

  • Second Vice President: Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University

  • Past President: Richard Walsh, York University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2014

President: Richard Walsh, York University

  • First Vice President: Susan Lanser, Brandeis University

  • Second Vice President: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University

  • Past President: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2013

  • President: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University in St. Louis

  • First Vice President: Richard Walsh, York University

  • Second Vice President: Susan Lanser, Brandeis University

  • Past President: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2012

  • President: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

  • First Vice President: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Second Vice President: Richard Walsh, York University

  • Past President: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2011

  • President: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland, College Park

  • First Vice President: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

  • Second Vice President: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Past President: Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2010

  • President: Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University

  • First Vice President: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Second Vice President: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College

  • Past President: Priscilla Walton, Carleton University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2009

  • President: Priscilla Walton, Carleton University

  • First Vice President: Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University

  • Second Vice President: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland, College Park

  • Past President: Margaret Homans, Yale University

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2008

  • President: Margaret Homans, Yale University

  • First Vice President: Priscilla Walton, Carleton University

  • Second Vice President: Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University

  • Past President: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2007

  • President: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

  • First Vice President: Margaret Homans, Yale University

  • Second Vice President: Priscilla Walton, Carleton University

  • Past President: Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky




2006

  • President: Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley

  • First Vice President: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

  • Second Vice President: Margaret Homans, Yale University

  • Past President: Alison Booth, University of Virginia

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky

  • Membership Coordinator: Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College




2005

  • President: Alison Booth, University of Virginia

  • First Vice President: Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley

  • Second Vice President: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

  • Past President: Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College

  • Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Membership Coordinator: Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College




2004

  • President: Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College

  • First Vice President: Alison Booth, University of Virginia

  • Second Vice President: Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley

  • Past President: Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




2003

  • President: Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College

  • First Vice President: Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College

  • Second Vice President: Alison Booth, University of Virginia

  • Past President: Hortense Spillers, Cornell University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




2002

  • President: Hortense Spillers, Cornell University

  • First Vice President: Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College

  • Second Vice President: Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College

  • Past President: Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




2001

  • President: Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University

  • First Vice President: Hortense Spillers, Cornell University

  • Second Vice President: Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College

  • Past President: Joseph Litvak, Tufts University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




2000

  • President: Joseph Litvak, Tufts University

  • First Vice President: Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern Univ.

  • Second Vice President: Hortense Spillers, Cornell University

  • Past President: Elizabeth Langland, University of Florida

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1999

  • President: Elizabeth Langland, University of California, Davis

  • First Vice President: Joseph Litvak, Tufts University

  • Second Vice President: Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern (OCT)

  • Past President: Robert Caserio, Temple University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1998

  • President: Robert Caserio, Temple University

  • First Vice President: Elizabeth Langland, University of Florida

  • Second Vice President: Joseph Litvak, Bowdoin College

  • Past President: Karen Lawrence, University of California, Irvine

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Electronic Communications Coordinator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1997

  • President: Karen Lawrence, University of California, Irvine

  • First Vice President: Robert Caserio, Temple University

  • Second Vice President: Elizabeth Langland, University of Florida

  • Past President: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1996

  • President: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • First Vice President: Karen Lawrence, University of Utah 

  • Second Vice President: Robert Caserio, Temple University

  • Past President: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University


1995

  • President: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • First Vice President: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Second Vice President: Karen Lawrence, University of Utah

  • Past President: Janice Carlisle, Tulane University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Archivist: George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1994

  • President: Janice Carlisle, Tulane University

  • First Vice President: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

  • Second Vice President: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic

  • Past President: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1993

  • President: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont

  • First Vice President: Janice Carlisle, Tulane University

  • Second Vice President: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt

  • Past President: Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1992

  • President: Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin

  • First Vice President: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont

  • Second Vice President: Janice Carlisle, Tulane University

  • Past President: Daniel Schwarz, Cornell University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University


1990-92

Note: This slate was elected in April 1990 at the Conference in New Orleans. There was no conference in April 1991. At the annual Conference held in Nice in June of 1991, the members decided to change the nomination time to December at MLA, with the election held by mail soon after. As a result the next Officers did not take office until 1992.

  • President: Daniel Schwarz, Cornell University

  • First Vice President: Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin

  • Second Vice President: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont

  • Past President: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University

  • Editor, Narrative: James Phelan, The Ohio State University




1989-90

  • President: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • First Vice President: Daniel Schwarz, Cornell University

  • Second Vice President: Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin

  • Past President: Linda Wagner-Martin, Michigan State University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University




1988-89

  • President: Linda Wagner-Martin, Michigan State University

  • First Vice President: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Second Vice President: Daniel Schwarz, Cornell University

  • Past President: Terry Eagleton, Oxford University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University




1987-88

  • President: Terry Eagleton, Oxford University

  • First Vice President: Linda Wagner-Martin, Michigan State University

  • Second Vice President: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

  • Past President: Sheridan Baker, University of Michigan

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University




1986-87

  • President: Sheridan Baker, University of Michigan

  • First Vice President: Terry Eagleton, Oxford University

  • Second Vice President: Linda Wagner, Michigan State

  • Past President: Ronald Paulson, Johns Hopkins University

  • Secretary-Treasurer: Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University



Past Executive Council Members

In 1993 and 1995, ISSN's Executive Council was augmented by constitutional amendments that increased its size to 13 members, with six elected council members serving at any one time, each with two year terms.

  • Porter Abbott, University of California, Santa Barbara (2011-2013)

  • Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University (2013-2015)

  • Liesbeth Korthals Altes, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2013-2015)

  • Ann Ardis, University of Delaware (1992-94)

  • Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania (1996-99)

  • Beth Boehm, University of Louisville (2006-08)

  • Alison Booth, University of Virginia (1996-99)

  • Philippe Carrard, University of Vermont (1997-99) 

  • Alison Case, Williams College (2004-06)

  • Robert Caserio, Utah (1994-96)

  • Rita Charon, Columbia University (2016-2018)

  • Steven Cohan, Syracuse (1989-91)

  • Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University (1992-2004, ex officio)

  • Hillary Dannenberg, University of Trier (2010-2012)

  • Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans (2011-2013)

  • Amy J. Elias, Member-at-Large, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2015-2017

  • Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa (1991-93)

  • Joanna Frye, College of Wooster (1990-92)

  • Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia (2000-02)

  • Christopher González, Member-at-Large, Utah State University, 2018-2020

  • Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University (2005-07)

  • Per Krogh Hansen, University of Southern Denmark, 2017-2019

  • Luc Herman, University of Antwerp (2016-2018)

  • Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College (1998-2000)

  • Molly Hite, Cornell University (1997-99)

  • Margaret Homans, Yale (1994-96)

  • Lynne Huffer, Rice University (2002-04)

  • Tony Jackson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (2010-2012)

  • Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College (2001-03)

  • Emma Kafalenos, Washington University (2003-05)

  • Eleanor Kaufman, University of Virginia (2004-06)

  • Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, 2015-2017

  • Shoshana Knapp , Virginia Polytechnic (1987-88, 1989-91)

  • Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western University (2012-2014)

  • Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Princeton University (2000-2002)

  • Elizabeth Langland, University of Florida (1992-94)

  • Jules Law, Northwestern University (1999-2001)

  • Susan Lanser, Brandeis University (2009-2011)

  • Robert Eric Livingston, The Ohio State University (2002-04)

  • Tara MacDonald, University of Idaho, 2017-2019

  • John MacQueen, Edinburgh (1987-89)

  • Jesse Matz, Kenyon College (2006-08)

  • Douglas Mao, Princeton University (2000-02)

  • Theodore O. Mason, Jr., Kenyon College (2005)

  • Erin McGlothlin, Washington University in St. Louis (2012-2014)

  • Brian McHale, The Ohio State University (2005-07)

  • Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic (1991-93, ex officio)

  • Mary Ann O'Farrell, Texas A&M University (1999-01)

  • George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University (ex officio)

  • James Phelan, The Ohio State University (1987, ex officio)

  • Peggy Phelan, New York University (1995-97)

  • Peter Rabinowitz, Hamilton College (1990-92)

  • Brian Richardson, University of Maryland (2003-05)

  • David Richter, Queens College, The City University of New York (2008-2010)

  • Adena Rosmarin, Stanford (1988-90)

  • Clyde de L. Ryals, Duke (1987-89)

  • Dianne F. Sadoff, University of Southern Maine (1995-97)

  • Daniel Schwarz, Cornell (1987-88)

  • John Shawcross, Kentucky (1987-90)

  • Hortense Spillers, Emory (1993-95)

  • Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University (2009-2011)

  • Paul Wake, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014-2016

  • Barry Weller, University of Utah (1998-00)

  • Hertha Wong, Berkeley (1993-95) 

  • Kay Young, UC, Santa Barbara and The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2014-2016

  • Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Member-at-Large, Aarhus University, 2018-2020

  • Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky (2008-2010)