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NeMLA
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.
- 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. Email nominations, along with statements of purpose, CVs, and bios, for 2020-2021 positions to nemla_nominations@nemla.org.
- A membership vote for 2020-2021 positions will occur electronically starting December 1, 2020.
- Newly elected board members will begin their term at the Sunday brunch on the last day of NeMLA's 52nd Annual Convention.
Executive Board
President 2018-2022
First Vice President 2019-2023
Photographer: Will Kirk
Bernadette Wegenstein
<berna@jhu.edu>
Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Second Vice President 2020-2024
Copyright: Doug Levere
Joseph Valente
<jvalente@buffalo.edu>
English, University at Buffalo
Past President 2017-2021
Carole Salmon
<Carole_Salmon@uml.edu>
French Studies and Cultures,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Officers
Executive Director 2017-2020
Carine Mardorossian
<cmardoro@buffalo.edu>
English, University at Buffalo
Board of Directors
British and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies Director 2020-2023
Thomas Lynn
<TJL7@PSU.EDU>
English, Penn State Berks
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
Diversity Caucus President 2020-2023
Jennifer Mdurvwa
<jmdurvwa@buffalo.edu>
Graduate Enrollment, University at Buffalo
French and Francophone Studies Director 2019-2022
Olivier Le Blond
<olivier.leblond@ung.edu>
Modern and Classical Languages, University of North Georgia
German Studies Director 2017-2020
Charles Vannette
<Charles.Vannette@unh.edu>
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of New Hampshire
Graduate Student Caucus Representative 2020-2023
Dana Gavin
<dgavi001@odu.edu>
Old Dominion University
Italian Studies Director 2020-2023
Tiziano Cherubini
<Tiziano_Cherubini@baylor.edu>
Modern Languages & Cultures, Baylor University
Professionalization, Composition, and Pedagogy Director 2018-2021
Maria Plochocki
<bastet801@att.net>
English, City University of New York
Spanish and Portuguese Studies Director 2019-2022
Victoria L. Ketz
<ketz@lasalle.edu>
Global Languages, Literatures, and Perspectives, La Salle University
US and Transnational/Diaspora Studies Director 2018-2021
Benjamin Railton
<brailton@fitchburgstate.edu>
English, Fitchburg State University
Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Interim Representative 2018-2021
Sarah Goldbort
<sjgoldbo@buffalo.edu>
English, University at Buffalo
Editor of Modern Language Studies
Laurence Roth
<roth@susqu.edu>
English, Susquehanna University