Executive Council

Executive Council

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). 

First Vice 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.

Immediate Past President: Yoon Sun Lee, Wellesley College

Yoon Sun Lee is a professor of English at Wellesley College. She publishes and teaches in several fields: British prose in the Romantic era, the eighteenth-century novel, Asian American literature, narrative theory, and literary theory. She is the author of Nationalism and Irony (Oxford University Press, 2004), Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). Her essays have appeared in journals and collections including Novel: A Forum on Fiction, PMLA, Representations, MLQ, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory, The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Her most recent book, The Natural Laws of Plot: Objectivity in Realist Novels, is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. She serves on the executive committee of the MLA Prose Fiction Forum, and co-convenes the Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar and the Novel Theory Seminar at the Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center. She has served on the ISSN Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

 

Secretary-Treasurer; Editor, Narrative: 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 Liaisons: Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University; Dan Punday, Mississippi State University

Lindsay Holmgren is the Past President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. With a BA, MA, and PhD in English Literature, she is Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University where she teaches ethics and rhetoric and chairs the Academic Integrity Council. She also instructs residents and fellows in narrative and the rhetorical aspects of patient-centered care in Postgraduate Medical Education. She has held three federal grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her research, which engages a narratological approach to economics. Her narrative work has appeared in a range of publications, including Narrative, Literature and Medicine, and The Henry James Review, and is forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory.

Members-at-Large: Brian J. McAllister, American University of Sharjah, 2023-2025

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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.

Cody Mejeur, University of Buffalo, SUNY, 2022-2024

Cody Mejeur is Assistant Professor of Game Studies at University at Buffalo, SUNY. Their work uses games to theorize narrative as an embodied and playful process that constructs how we understand ourselves, our realities, and our differences. They have published on games pedagogy, gender and queerness in games, and video game narratives and player experiences, and they are currently the game director for Trans Folks Walking, a narrative game about trans experiences. They are Director of the Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio in Media Study at UB. They work with the LGBTQ Video Game Archive on preserving and visualizing LGBTQ representation. They are editor at One Shot: A Journal of Critical Games & Play, and have served as Diversity Officer of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).

Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki, 2022-2024

Merja Polvinen is Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is one of the team PIs in the consortium Instrumental Narratives: Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (iNARR). She has worked on contemporary speculative fiction, on narrative and complex systems and, most recently, on cognitive narratology (she was a member of the original steering group of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities network). Her book Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition: An Enactive Approach to Literary Artifice (2023) is out in the new Routledge series on Cognitive Humanities. You can reach her at merja.polvinen(at)helsinki.fi.

Divya Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2023-2025

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. 

W. Michelle Wang, Nanyang Technological University, 2024-2026


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.

Gretchen Busl, Texas Woman’s University 2024-2026

 Gretchen Busl is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan "Amplify Your Impact" at Texas Woman’s University. Her research combines studies in narrative theory, rhetoric, world literature, and gender studies. She is the co-editor of the volume Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors and has published her work in Modern Language Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and English Studies. She is also a member of ISSN’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and a passionate advocate for the public humanities.

Grad Caucus Chair: Ella Mingazova, University of Liege; KU Leuven

Ella Mingazova holds a joint-PhD in literature from the University of Liège and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Her doctoral thesis, titled Narrative Slowness: Inefficiency, Attention, Affect, critically examines experiences of narrative rhythm and focuses on narrative slowness, which is understood as an effect, more precisely as a sensation felt in the reading of a text.

She is more broadly interested in pace in contemporary culture and has coedited a book on planned obsolescence (in French, 2022). Her research has appeared in the journals Studies in Travel Writing and Image [&] Narrative. More recently, she coedited Slow Narrative across Media with Marco Caracciolo (Ohio State University Press, 2024). Her current research focuses on affects in narrative from a transmedial perspective.

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

Emma K. McNamara is completing a doctorate at Ohio State University focusing on 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.

 

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. Ferraro

Antonio J. (“Joey”) Ferraro (he/him) holds a PhD in English from The Ohio State University. He has served in a variety of outreach, communication, and programming roles, including as a member of the advisory board for the Medical Humanities certificate at the University of Cincinnati; two years as the graduate assistant for Project Narrative; and two years as the editorial assistant for Narrative. 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.

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 (2022-2024)

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

  • Member-at-Large: Divya Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2023-2025)

  • 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)