2022 Forum Executive Committee Appointees
The following members were appointed to seats on forum executive committees. Terms are five years (9 Jan. 2023 through the close of the Jan. 2028 convention).
Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies [CLCS]
CLCS Medieval: Ingetio Domenico, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern: Kyle Pivetti, Norwich Univ.
CLCS 18th-Century: Pamela F. Phillips, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century: Julia Chang, Cornell Univ.
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century: Aamir R. Mufti, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
CLCS Arthurian: Annegret Oehme, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
CLCS Caribbean: Kezia Page, Colgate Univ.
CLCS Celtic: Brian Cook, Auburn, AL
CLCS Classical and Modern: Katerina Stergiopoulou, Princeton Univ.
CLCS European Regions: Julia Elsky, Loyola Univ., Chicago
CLCS Global Anglophone: Samantha Pinto, Univ. of Texas, Austin
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American: Nesrine Chahine, Texas Tech Univ.
CLCS Global Hispanophone: Victor Sierra Matute, Baruch Coll., City Univ. of New York
CLCS Global Jewish: Stephanie Pridgeon, Bates Coll.
CLCS Global South: Emilie N. Diouf, Brandeis Univ.
CLCS Gothic Studies: Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Tecnológico de Monterrey
CLCS Hemispheric American: Regina Mills, Texas A&M Univ., College Station
CLCS Mediterranean: Sevinc Turkkan, Syracuse Univ.
CLCS Nordic: Wade Hollingshaus, Brigham Young Univ., UT
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic: Jasmine An, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Genre Studies [GS]
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Carl F. Miller, Palm Beach Atlantic Univ.
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives: Qiana Whitted, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
GS Drama and Performance: Ju Yon Kim, Harvard Univ.
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale: Christine A. Jones, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
GS Life Writing: Anthony S. Foy, Swarthmore Coll.
GS Nonfiction Prose: No appointment was made.
GS Poetry and Poetics: Kamran Javadizadeh, Villanova Univ.
GS Prose Fiction: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Penn State Univ., University Park
GS Speculative Fiction: Hua Li, Montana State Univ., Bozeman
GS Travel Writing: Churnjeet Mahn, Univ. of Strathclyde
Higher Education and the Profession [HEP]
HEP Community Colleges: Anne McGrail, Lane Community Coll., OR
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: Géraldine Fiss, Univ. of California, San Diego
HEP Teaching as a Profession: Atia Sattar, Univ. of Southern California
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures [LLC]
African
LLC African to 1990: Lokangaka Losambe, Univ. of Vermont
LLC African since 1990: Matthew Omelsky, Univ. of Rochester
American
LLC Early American: Tara Bynum, Univ. of Iowa
LLC 19th-Century American: Kathryn Walkiewicz, Univ. of California, San Diego
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American: Rafael Walker, Baruch Coll., City Univ. of New York
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American: Tavia Nyong'o, Yale Univ.
LLC African American: McKinley Melton, Gettysburg Coll.
LLC Asian American: Yu Min Claire Chen, Defense Language Inst., US Army Training and Doctrine Command
LLC Chicana and Chicano: Sara Ramirez, Texas State Univ.
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada: Hannah Manshel, Univ. of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
LLC Italian American: Joseph Tumolo, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
LLC Jewish American: Rachel Rubinstein, Springfield Coll.
LLC Latina and Latino: Maritza Cardenas, Univ. of Arizona
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English: Naddine Sinno, Virginia Tech
LLC Southern United States: Frank Cha, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Arabic
LLC Arabic: Dima Ayoub, Middlebury Coll.
Asian
LLC East Asian: Jina Kim, Univ. of Oregon
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic: Nalini Iyer, Seattle Univ.
LLC West Asian: Thomas Thompson, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Canada
LLC Canadian: Max Karpinski, Univ. of Alberta
Catalan
LLC Catalan Studies: Núria Silleras-Fernández, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Chinese
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese: Heng Du, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese: Maria Franca Sibau, Emory Univ.
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese: Clara Iwasaki, Univ. of Alberta
Dutch
LLC Dutch: Dan Thornton, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
English
LLC Old English: Benjamin Saltzman, Univ. of Chicago
LLC Middle English: Nicole R. Rice, St. John's Univ., NY
LLC Chaucer: Ingrid Nelson Amherst Coll.
LLC 16th-Century English: Penelope H. Geng, Macalester Coll.
LLC Shakespeare: Brandi Adams, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
LLC 17th-Century English: Carmen Nocentelli, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English: Sal Nicolazzo, Univ. of California, San Diego
LLC Late-18th-Century English: Amit Yahav, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
LLC English Romantic: Soelve Curdts, Heinrich-Heine Univ.
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English: Amy R. Wong, Dominican Univ.
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone: Juno Jill Richards, Yale Univ.
French
LLC Medieval French: Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown Univ.
LLC 16th-Century French: Alison Calhoun, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
LLC 17th-Century French: Hall Bjørnstad, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
LLC 18th-Century French: Chloe Edmondson, Stanford Univ.
LLC 19th-Century French: Celine Brossillon, Ursinus Coll.
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French: Hannah Freed-Thall, New York Univ.
LLC Francophone: Maya Angela Smith, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Galician
LLC Galician: Nicola Bermingham, Univ. of Liverpool
German
LLC German to 1700: Chrisopher Hutchinson, Univ. of Mississippi
LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German: Ellwood H. Wiggins, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German: Kristin Dickinson, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German: Lynn L. Wolff, Michigan State Univ.
Hebrew
LLC Hebrew: Oded Nirl, Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York
Hungarian
LLC Hungarian: Szidonia Haragos, Zayed Univ.
Irish
LLC Irish: Liam Lanigan, Governors State Univ.
Italian
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian: Eleonora Stoppino, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian: Bradford A. Masoni, St. Paul, MN
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian: Giulia Riccò, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Japanese
LLC Japanese to 1900: Erin L. Brightwell, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
LLC Japanese since 1900: Pedro Bassoe, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette
Korean
LLC Korean: Jooyeon Rhee, Penn State Univ., University Park
Latin American
LLC Colonial Latin American: Nicole Legnani, Princeton Univ.
LLC 19th-Century Latin American: Maria Aguilar, Florida Atlantic Univ.
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Roberto Strongman, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic: Mirta Suquet, Susquehanna Univ.
LLC Mexican: Xiomara Cervantes-Gomez, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
LLC Puerto Rican: Karen Jaime, Cornell Univ.
Occitan
LLC Occitan: Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston Coll.
Old Norse
LLC Old Norse: Asger Mathias Nordvig, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Portuguese
LLC Global Portuguese: Ines Cordeiro da Silva Dias, Univ. of Leeds
LLC Luso-Brazilian: Eliseo Jacob, Howard Univ.
Romanian
LLC Romanian: Ileana Chirila, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham
Scottish
LLC Scottish: Meg Oldman, Latrobe, PA
Sephardic
LLC Sephardic: Margaux Fitoussi, Columbia Univ.
Slavic
LLC Russian and Eurasian: Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth Coll.
LLC Slavic and East European: Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State Univ.
Spanish and Iberian
LLC Medieval Iberian: Donald Wood, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama: Jose Estrada, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose: Donald Gilbert-Santamaria, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian: Lennie Amores, Albright Coll.
Yiddish
LLC Yiddish: Julian Arnold Levinson, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Language Studies and Linguistics [LSL]
LSL Applied Linguistics: Gillian Lord, Univ. of Florida
LSL General Linguistics: Heiko Wiggers, Wake Forest Univ.
LSL Global English: James Dunn, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
LSL Language and Society: Inés Vañó García, St. Anselm Coll.
LSL Language Change: Kendon Smith, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
LSL Linguistics and Literature: Genevieve Waite, New York, NY
LSL Romance Linguistics: Javier Moreno-Rivero, Univ. of Cambridge
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning: Cori Crane, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Media Studies [MS]
MS Opera and Musical Performance: Paul Edwards, Southern Methodist Univ.
MS Screen Arts and Culture: Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Santa Clara Univ.
MS Sound: John Melillo, Univ. of Arizona
MS Visual Culture: Stefanie Heine, Univ. of Copenhagen
Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies [RCWS]
RCWS Creative Writing: Vidhu Aggarwal, Rollins Coll.
RCWS History and Theory of Composition: Yu-Kyung Kang, Gonzaga Univ.
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric: Christina Cedillo, Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake
RCWS Literacy Studies: Jazmine Wells, Univ. of Kentucky
RCWS Writing Pedagogies: Tara Coleman, LaGuardia Community Coll., City Univ. of New York
Theory and Method [TM]
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing: Sarah Neville, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography: Rebecca Schneider, New Mexico Highlands Univ.
TM Language Theory: Roi Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv Univ.
TM Libraries and Research: Andrea R. Malone, Univ. of Houston
TM Literary and Cultural Theory: Patrice Douglass, Univ. of California, Berkeley
TM Literary Criticism: Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
TM The Teaching of Literature: Brandi Locke, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
Transdisciplinary Connections [TC]
TC Adaptation Studies: Joyce Green MacDonald, Univ. of Kentucky
TC Age Studies: Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina Univ.
TC Anthropology and Literature: Sarah Quesada, Duke Univ.
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies: Laura Christine Otis, Emory Univ.
TC Digital Humanities: Dhanashree Thorat, Mississippi State Univ.
TC Disability Studies: Sony Coráñez Bolton, Amherst Coll.
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities: Hsuan L. Hsu, Univ. of California, Davis
TC History and Literature: Bruce Holsinger, Univ. of Virginia
TC Law and the Humanities: Nicole Wright, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society: Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: Sarah Orem, Univ. of Southern California
TC Memory Studies: Brahim El Guabli, Williams Coll.
TC Philosophy and Literature: Ian Balfour, York Univ.
TC Popular Culture: No appointment was made.
TC Postcolonial Studies: Najnin Islam, Colorado Coll.
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature: Gautam Basu Thakur, Boise State Univ.
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies: Brittney Michelle Edmonds, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
TC Religion and Literature: Ken Seigneurie, Simon Fraser Univ.
TC Science and Literature: Stephanie Shirilan, Syracuse Univ.
TC Sexuality Studies: E. K. Tan, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York
TC Translation Studies: Mary Helen McMurran, Univ. of Western Ontario
TC Women’s and Gender Studies: Cameron Awkward-Rich, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst