Affiliates

Affiliates and Study Groups

Contact information is provided and updated by the affiliates but is not checked every year for accuracy. If this information is outdated, please contact the VP for Publications at ssaww.vppublications@gmail.com.

African American Literature and Culture Society
http://aalcs.marygrove.edu/
Shirley Moody-Turner, vice-president
28 Burrowes Building; Penn State University, University Park, PA 16803
scm18@psu.edu

American Humor Studies Association
http://www.slu.edu/academic/ahsa/
Contact information: http://www.slu.edu/academic/ahsa/contact.htm

American Theatre and Drama Society
http://www.atds.org/
Cheryl Black
129 Fine Arts
Univ of Missouri, Columbia MO 65211
blackc@missouri.edu

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL)
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/
Robert Nelson
English Department
Ryland Hall
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA 23173
rnelson@richmond.edu

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
http://www.asle.org
Contact information: http://www.asle.org/site/about/administration/

Carson McCullers Society
https://carsonmccullerssociety.wordpress.com/
Contact information: https://carsonmccullerssociety.wordpress.com/

Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
http://cmsedgwicksociety.org/
Contact: Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln mhomestead2@unl.edu

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society
http://sites.google.com/site/gilmansociety/
Sari Edelstein
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Massachusetts, Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125

Children’s Literature Society
June Cummins
8607 Kedvale Ave.
Skokie, IL 60076
jcummins@mail.sdsu.edu
or
Michelle Pagni Stewart
Mt. San Jacinto College
28237 LaPiedra Rd.
Menifee, CA 92584
mstewart@msjc.cc.ca.us

Constance Fenimore Woolson Society
http://blogs.bgsu.edu/cfwoolson/

Anne Boyd Rioux
English Department
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148
aeboyd@uno.edu

Contemporary Women’s Writing Association
http://www.the-cwwa.org/

CWWA invites colleagues with academic interests in contemporary women’s writing in all genres to join this Network. ‘Contemporary’ is defined as post-1970. We welcome input from academics, post-graduate students, writers and performers, publishers and reading groups. CWWA is a Special Interest Group of the English Association.

Edith Wharton Society
http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org
Contact information: http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org/officers.htm

Elizabeth Bishop Society
http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/ebsocieties.php

Advisory Board
* Sandra Barry – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada slbarry@ns.sympatico.ca
* Barbara Page – Vassar College page@vassar.edu
* Camille Roman – Washington State University roman@wsu.edu
* Thomas Travisano, President – Hartwick College travisanot@hartwick.edu
* Jacquelin Vaught Brogan – Notre Dame University Jacqueline.V.Brogan.2@nd.edu

Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
Contact Person: Matthew Nickel, President
Web address: www.emrsociety.com
Email: mattcnickel@gmail.com

Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society

Contact Person: Timothy Scherman

Web address: http://www.oakes-smith.org/

Email: t-scherman@neiu.edu

Ellen Glasgow Society
(previous web URL is inactive)
Dr. Gwendolyn Jones, President
Associate Professor of English
Department of Language and Literature
Clayton State University
2000 Clayton State Blvd.
Morrow, GA 30260-0285
gwendolynjones@clayton.edu

Emily Dickinson International Society
http://www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org/
Contact Information: http://www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org/node/125

Eudora Welty Society
http://eudoraweltysociety.org/

Evelyn Scott Society

Caroline Maun
Department of English
Wayne State University
5057 Woodward Ave., Ste. 9408
Detroit, MI 40202
caroline.maun@wayne.edu
ESS website: www.evelynscott.org

Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
http://www.stowesociety.org/
President: Beth L. Lueck, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

H.D. International Society
Contact Person: Celena E. Kusch and Rebecca Walsh
Mailing Address: Celena E. Kusch, University of South Carolina Upstate, 800 University Way, Spartanburg, SC 29303
and
Rebecca Walsh, Department of English and Ph.D. Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM), NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
Web address: http://hdis.chass.ncsu.edu

Kate Chopin International Society
http://www.katechopin.org/
Contact: Kelli Purcell O’Brien, kobrien1@memphis.edu

Katherine Anne Porter Society
Contact Person: Beth Alvarez
Mailing Address: Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Web address: http://www.kaportersociety.org/
Email: alvarez@umd.edu

Kay Boyle Society
http://homeweb1.unifr.ch/austenfe/pub/KBS/KBS.htm
President:President: Anne Reynes-Delobel, Université de Provence

Louisa May Alcott Society
http://www.louisamayalcottsociety.org/

Lydia Maria Child Society
Sarah Olivier, University of Denver
3304 Perry Street, Denver, CO 80212
solivier82@gmail.com
Join Listserv: https://listserv.du.edu/mailman/listinfo/lmchild-society

Margaret Fuller Society
Website: https://margaretfullersociety.org
President: Charlene Avallone Email: avallone000@gmail.com

Mary McCarthy Society
Contact Person: Dr. Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
Mailing Address: SUNY Empire State College, School for Graduate Study, 150 E. Route 59, Nanuet, New York 10954
Web address: marymccarthy.org
Email: Sabrina.FuchsAbrams@esc.edu

Pauline Hopkins Society
The Hopkins Society was established at the 2009 American Literature Association conference to encourage interest in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: her life, her writings, and the issues she explored. The PEHS aims to foster scholarship and dialogue on Hopkins and her era through conference meetings, publications, and pedagogical resources useful to scholars, teachers, and community members at large.

Main site:
http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org/

Please use this link to join the Hopkins Society listserv:
http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org/listserv-website-information/

For further information, please contact the Program Chair:

JoAnn Pavletich, pavletichj@uhd.edu
Associate Professor
University of Houston-Downtown
Houston, TX

Research Society for American Periodicals
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eellengarvey/index1.html
Ellen Gruber Garvey
Department of English
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305
ellengarvey@earthlink.net

Society for American Jewish Literature
Dr. Victoria Aarons
O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature
Department of English
Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 999-7574
vaarons@trinity.edu

Society for American Travel Writing

(https://americantravelwriting.wordpress.com/

Susan Roberson, Susan.Roberson@tamuk.edu
Andrew Vogel, vogel@kutztown.edu
Melanie Scriptunas, mscript@udel.edu

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
http://www.sharpweb.org/
Membership Coordinator, Eleanor Shevlin: EShevlin@wcupa.edu

Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Norma E. Cantú
The University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0700 NCANTU@TRINITY.EDU

Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World
http://scotus.francis.edu/rebeccahardingdavis/

Society of Early Americanists
http://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/
Kristina Bross, President: Bross@purdue.edu

Susan Glaspell Society
http://blogs.shu.edu/glaspellsociety/
Noelia Hernando Real, Ph.D.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Campus de Cantoblanco
28049 Madrid (SPAIN)
noelia.hernando@uam.es
Western Literature Association

Sabine Barcatta and Randi Tanglen
Mailing Address: PO Box 6815, Logan UT 84341
Web address: www.westernlit.org
WLA Blog address: westlit.wordpress.com
Email: info@westernlit.org (Sabine Barcatta) and rtanglen@austincollege.edu (Randi Tanglen)

Willa Cather Society

http://www.willacather.org/
Ann Romines
Department of English
George Washington University
770 Rome Hall
Washington, DC 20052
annrom@gwu.edu

Regional Research and Study Groups

California (Southern): scssaww@gmail.com http://scssaww.wordpress.com/
Mid-Atlantic: https://ssawwma.pbworks.com/w/page/35054095/SSAWW-MA%20Home%20Page
Pacific Northwest: http://ssawwnw.wordpress.com/ Join the listserv: http://lists.wsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/ssawwnw-l
Texas: http://txssaww.wordpress.com/
United Kingdom: http://www.uscanada.bham.ac.uk/writers/index.htm