ASECS has signed onto the statement from the National Humanities Alliance (NHA, of which ASECS is a member) on threats to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The full text of the statement can be found here: NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH Members can find further information on the NHA’s efforts on their website: Save the NEH
ASECS President Paola Bertucci, Yale University, has won the prestigious Paul Bunge Prize for her 2023 book, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour. Congratulations! You can read more here: “Paola Bertucci wins 2025 Paul Bunge Prize for Latest Book”
Even Now – Poems by Patricia L. Hamilton Southern California native and SEASECS Immediate Past President Patricia L. Hamilton earned her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. Newly retired as a professor of English, she served in higher education for forty years. She won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award in Poetry and has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry has been published in Broad River Review, Ibbetson Street, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Plainsongs, among other journals. She resides in Jackson, Tennessee, with her husband and enjoys travel, jazz, mystery novels, and a good cappuccino.
The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will be held March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025, online.
