General Announcements

Highlights include information about voting on the proposed new Bylaws, photos from the 2024 Annual Meeting in Toronto, the CfP for the Virtual Annual Meeting, and much more! Summer News Circular

The general call for session proposals (Round 2) is now open! See the 2025 Annual Meeting Page for more more information! Submissions are due JULY 26, 2024.

(The following email was sent June 12, 2024 to current and last year’s members) Dear ASECS Members and Friends, The Executive Board is pleased to announce the following appointments: Treasurer: Michael R. Lynn is Professor of History at Purdue University Northwest. Professor Lynn has been a member of ASECS for over twenty-five years, and has served on a variety of committees, including most recently the Development Committee. He brings extensive experience in fundraising and budgeting to the three-year position, which he will begin officially on July 1, 2025. For the 2024-2025 membership year, he will… Read More »New Treasurer and SECC Editor

Renew your ASECS membership by June 30, 2024 at 2023-2024 rates for the 2024-2025 year! Graduate student rates aren’t increasing at all, and other rates aren’t increasing much, but save a few dollars now and start enjoying membership benefits all year round! Note that the Lifetime Membership category will be increasing significantly. If you have been considering making that move, now’s the time!

Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture is looking for a book review editor. We publish two issuesper year, and are hoping to include 3-4 book reviews and/or review essays per issue. Book reviews arecrucial to the continuing vitality of the discipline. We invite letters of interest from scholars at any career stage. Please send a message of inquiry and a CV to the editors, Laura Rosenthal lrosent1@umd.edu and Erin Keating Erin.Keating@umanitoba.ca. For best consideration, please contact us no later than July 22, 2024.

Updates on the Annual Meeting, Board Elections, and more! Spring News Circular 2024!

Minor updates may still occur in the run-up to the program. Cell appWeb appPasscode: Toronto!

Born in Tobago, M. NOURBESE PHILIP is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and public intellectual who lives in the spacetime of Toronto. Her published works include the seminal She Tries Her Tongue;Her Silence Softly Breaks; the speculative quest narrative in prose and poetry Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence; the young-adult novel Harriet’s Daughter; the play Coups and Calypsos; and the epic, book-length poem Zong! She has authored four collections of essays, the most recent of which is BlanK. Her fellowships include Guggenheim, McDowell, and Rockefeller. Among her awards are the Pushcart Prize… Read More »M. NourbeSe Philip

Congratulations to the following new Executive Board Members. The new term begins July 1, 2024. Details on continuing Board members can be found on the Elections Results page.

The deadline for the “standard” registration rate for the 54th Annual Meeting has been extended until March 22, 2024, 11:59pmET.