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NeMLA
Board of Directors
NeMLA is governed by a Board of Directors elected by NeMLA members. The Board is responsible for enforcing NeMLA’s bylaws, for attending the bi-annual board meetings, and for making the board meeting minutes available to the whole membership.
Elections for board positions are held yearly.
- Membership vote occurs electronically from December 1, 2019, to February 15, 2020, 11:59 PM Eastern. Newly elected board members begin their term at the Sunday brunch on the last day of the NeMLA convention.
- Future Board openings are listed here. Open Board positions are listed in the Summer newsletter. Nominations are accepted each year until August 15 and are listed in the Winter newsletter. Self-nominations are welcome. Submit nominations for 2019-2020 positions to nemla_nominations@nemla.org.
Executive Board
President 2017-2021
Carole Salmon
<Carole_Salmon@uml.edu>
French Studies and Cultures,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
First Vice President 2018-2022
Second Vice President 2019-2023
Photographer: Will Kirk
Bernadette Wegenstein
<berna@jhu.edu>
Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Past President 2016-2020
Simona Wright
<simona@tcnj.edu>
Italian, College of New Jersey
Officers
Executive Director 2017-2020
Carine Mardorossian
<cmardoro@buffalo.edu>
English, University at Buffalo
Board of Directors
Anglophone/American Studies Director 2018-2021
Benjamin Railton
<brailton@fitchburgstate.edu>
English, Fitchburg State University
Anglophone/British Literature Director 2017-2020
Elaine Savory
<savorye@newschool.edu>
Literary Studies, The New School
CAITY Caucus President and Representative 2019-2020
Francisco Delgado
<fdelgado@bmcc.cuny.edu>
English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Comparative Literature Director 2018-2021
Katherine Sugg
<suggkae@ccsu.edu>
English, Central Connecticut State University
Creative Writing, Publishing, and Editing Director 2019-2022
Abby Bardi
<abbybardi@gmail.com>
English, Prince George's Community College
Cultural Studies and Media Studies Director 2018-2021
Maria Matz
<Maria_Matz@uml.edu>
World Languages and Cultures, University of Massachusetts Lowell
French and Francophone Language and Literature Director 2019-2022
Olivier Le Blond
<olivier.leblond@ung.edu>
Modern and Classical Languages, University of North Georgia
German Studies Director 2017-2020
Alexander Pichugin
<pichugin@rutgers.edu>
German Language and Literature Program, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Graduate Student Caucus Representative 2017-2020
Christian Ylagan
<cylagan2@uwo.ca>
University of Western Ontario
Italian Studies Director 2017-2020
Emanuela Pecchioli
<epecchio@buffalo.edu>
Romance Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo
Member-At-Large: Diversity 2017-2020
Susmita Roye
<sroye@desu.edu>
English and Foreign Languages, Delaware State University
Pedagogy and Professionalism Director 2018-2021
Maria Plochocki
<bastet801@att.net>
English, City University of New York
Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Director 2019-2022
Victoria L. Ketz
<ketz@lasalle.edu>
Global Languages, Literatures, and Perspectives, La Salle University
Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Representative 2018-2021
Michelle M. Tokarczyk
<mmtokarczyk@gmail.com>
English Program, Goucher College
Editor of Modern Language Studies
Laurence Roth
<roth@susqu.edu>
English, Susquehanna University