President
Fred Gardaphe
Distinguished Professor
English and Italian American Studies
Department of English
Queens College, CUNY
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11367-1597
718-997-4655
and
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Queens College, CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
212-642-2037
fred.gardaphe@qc.cuny.edu

Past President
Melinda Luisa de Jesus
Associate Professor, Critical Studies
Humanities and Sciences
California College of the Arts
5212 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94618
mdejesus@cca.edu

Previous Past Presidents


MELUS Journal Editor
Martha J. Cutter
Editor, MELUS
Associate Professor of English
The University of Connecticut
215 Glenbrook Road Unit 4025
Storrs, CT 06269-4025
melus@uconnvm.uconn.edu
MELUS: (860) 486-2320

Program Chair
Wenxin Li
Assistant Professor
English Department
Suffolk County Community College
The State University of New York
Selden, NY 11784
Phone: 631-451-4369
liw@sunysuffolk.edu

Secretary
Jose L. Torres-Padilla
Associate Professor
Dept of English
SUNY College at Plattsburgh
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
518-564-2413
torresjl@plattsburgh.edu

Treasurer
Kim Martin Long
Interim Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences
Professor of English
1871 Old Main Drive, OM 202
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Shippensburg PA 17257
http://www.ship.edu/~kmlong
vox: (717) 477-1215
fax: (717) 477-4025
kmlong@ship.edu

Membership Chair
Derek Royal
Assistant Professor of English
Dept. of Literature and Languages
Texas A & M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
vox: (903) 886-5275
fax: (903) 886-5980
derek_royal@tamu-commerce.edu

Graduate Student Representative
JoAnne Ruvoli
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of English MC 162
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607
joanneruvoli@yahoo.com


MELUS Coordinators

Archivist
Kimberley D. Robles Smith
Madden Library, Fresno State University
5200 N. Barton Ave. MS/ML34
Fresno, CA 93740-8014
vox: (559) 278-4578
fax: (559) 278-6952

MELUS NewsNotes Editor
Katharine Rodier
Associate Professor of English
Marshall University
400 Hal Green Blvd.
Huntington WV 25755-2646
vox: (304) 696-3128
fax: (304) 696-2448

MELUS-L Coordinator
Stephen Souris
Professor of English
Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages
Texas Woman's University
PO Box 425481
Denton, TX 76204-5481
vox: (940) 898-2343


MELUS Journal Editors Emeriti

Founding Editor
Katharine Newman

Editor Emeriti
Joe T. Skerrett, Jr.
Veronica Makowsky