President
Wenying Xu
Professor & Chair
Department of English
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
wxu@fau.edu

Past President
Fred Gardaphe
Distinguished Professor
English and Italian American Studies
Department of English
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Queens College, CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
fred.gardaphe@qc.cuny.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
Sterling L. Bland, Jr.
Chair, Department of African American and African Studies
and Associate Professor of English
Rutgers University
175 University Avenue, 304 Conklin Hall
Newark, NJ 07102-1814
p. 973.353.5528, ext. 3892
f. 973.353.1193
slbland@rutgers.edu

Treasurer
Kim Martin Long
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
Georgina Dodge
Assistant Vice Provost
Office of Minority Affairs
The Ohio State University
102 Bricker Hall
190 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1358
614-292-4355
fax: 614-292-6444
dodge.20@osu.edu

Project Chair
Mary Jo Bona
Professor of Italian American Studies and English
Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5359
mbona@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Graduate Student Representative
Christopher Gonzalez
The Ohio State University
Department of English
421 Denney Hall
164 W 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1340
gonzalez.283@osu.edu


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