 | Nicole Stamant, President Nicole Stamant, Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English at Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Georgia, specializes in Life Writing Studies and American Literature. She is the author of Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging (Routledge, 2022) and Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives (Palgrave, 2014), and currently serves as the managing editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Her journal articles have appeared in South Atlantic Review, MELUS, English Language Notes, and Studies in Comics, among others; she has also contributed to several edited collections. She is writing her next monograph, which is tentatively titled “The Hospitality of Culinary Memoir.” | |
 | Chrystian Zegarra, Past President Chrystian Zegarra studied Latin American Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and received a PhD in Hispanic Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently an associate professor of Spanish at Colgate University (Hamilton, New York). He published the monograph El celuloide mecanografiado: la poesía cinemática de E. A. Westphalen. Some of his articles have appeared in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Hispamérica, Inti, Hispanic Poetry Review, Hispanic Journal, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. He has also published essays in volumes published in Europe, Latin America and the United States. He edited two books on the poetic, narrative and journalistic works of Peruvian writer Luis Valle Goicochea (Hilvanes: poemas & crónicas and Los zapatos de cordobán: escritos en prosa). He has also co-edited the collective volume Partera de la historia: violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica (in press). He is currently working on the co-edition of a collective volume on silent and sound cinema in Ibero-American literature. He contributes bibliographical annotations on Peruvian poetry to the Handbook of Latin American Studies. As a poet, he has published six books of poetry; with the collection Escena primordial y otros poemas, he won the Copé de Oro Prize in 2005. | |
 | Ian Afflerbach, First Vice President Ian Afflerbach is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of North Georgia, where he teaches courses in modern fiction, popular genre, and African American literature. His first book, Making Liberalism New was published by Johns Hopkins in 2021, and he’s currently finishing a second book titled “Sellouts! The Story of an American Insult.” He has published in journals including PMLA, Novel, and Modernism/modernity, and written for Public Books, The Conversation, and The Academic Minute. | |
 | Horacio Sierra, Second Vice President Horacio Sierra is a Professor of English at Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest HBCU. His research and teaching interests include Renaissance literature, popular culture, and U.S. Hispanic literature and culture. Dr. Sierra’s academic work has been published in Comparative Drama, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Public Humanities, Early Modern Women, Women’s Studies, Journal of Florida Literature, International Journal of Cuban Studies, and Theatre Journal. His creative writing has been published in The William & Mary Review, Gulf Coast Magazine, Caribbean Writer, Peregrine, and The Journal of Florida Studies. His journalism has been published in The Washington Post, Forbes, The Baltimore Sun, and The Miami Herald. Dr. Sierra’s research and teaching have been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Texas-Austin, the University System of Maryland, and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. He is the Editor of The Mid-Atlantic Review and serves on the Editorial Board of The Sixteenth-Century Journal. He has served on grant review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has been invited to provide keynote lectures at Columbia University, Florida International University, Fresno City College, West Hills College, and Villanova University. In 2023 President Biden appointed him to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He earned his B.S. in Communication from the University of Miami and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. | |
 | Jon Dawson, Executive Committee Member Jon Falsarella Dawson (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is a Senior Lecturer at University of North Georgia, where he teaches American literature, world literature, film, and first-year composition. His scholarship focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, particularly realism and naturalism. Dr. Dawson’s book, Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck (LSU Press, 2022), examines the centrality of social criticism to American naturalism and analyzes how major writers within this tradition engaged with economic issues that continue to shape American life. His articles have appeared in Studies in American Naturalism, The Thomas Wolfe Review, Excavatio, the Steinbeck Review, the South Atlantic Review, and Studies in the American Short Story. Dr. Dawson also serves on the editorial board for the Steinbeck Review and writes a biannual feature on Steinbeck in popular culture. | |
 | Annachiara Mariani, Executive Committee Member Annachiara Mariani is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests are in Italian Cinema, National and Transnational Media Studies and Italian Theatre. She has authored a book on the Grotesque Theatre and Pirandello (2013) and was the guest editor for a special edition of the journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies on Sorrentino’s films and TV series. She has also published numerous articles, essays, and book reviews on Italian Theatre, Cinema, Television, and the relationship between media and literature for, among others, Cambridge University Press, The Johns Hopkins University Press, The University of Toronto Press, and Rutgers University Press. She also edited the volume Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television as part of the Trajectories series (The University of Chicago Press, 2021). She is currently working on a book-length project on today’s portrayal of the Italian Renaissance through popular culture. | |
 | Carmela Mattza, Executive Committee Member Carmela V. Mattza is Associate Professor of Spanish at Louisiana State University. She holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Chicago. One of her main research areas is the representation of women in Early Modern Iberia literature. In 2017, her book, Hacia La vida es sueño como Speculum Regina. Isabel de Borbón en la corte de Felipe IV was published by Verbum Editorial in Madrid, Spain. Since 2018, her research has focused on the interplay of emotions and environment in the Early Modern Period. In «Emotion Object and Space (Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño and Tang Xianzú’s The Peony Pavillion).» published in 2019, she takes a comparative approach to study the role of dreams, emotions and portraits in the works of two Early Modern playwrighters, Tang Xianzu and Calderón de la Barca. In «Emotional Objects in the Episode of the Cave of Montesinos», published in 2020, she studies Don Quixote’s episode in the cave of Montesinos to show how Don Quixote’s ekphrastic speech depicts displaced objects that Cervantes selects from literary tradition. They are reshaped and reinserted so as to engage with issues such as poetics, emotions and language. She is currently co-editing volume to appear in Cervantes, The Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. At Louisiana State University, she has taught a very wide range of classes, has served as graduate advisor, and directed undergraduate research projects. She is one of the recipients of the 2020 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award in the College of Humanities and Social Science. She is also a MLA IB field bibliographer and has been a member of SAMLA since 2011. | |
 | Silvia Tiboni-Craft, Executive Committee Member Silvia Tiboni-Craft has been an Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Wake Forest University since 2012. She obtained both a B.A. and M.A. in Italian Literature from the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo with a special focus on 19th and 20th century and a Ph.D. in Italian at Rutgers University. Silvia’s research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century Italian women writers, domestic space, disability studies, mad studies and pedagogy. She has published articles on Italian women writers and pedagogy and several book reviews. She is currently working on a book project that explores how Italian women writers portray in their novels and short stories the domestic space in which women were segregated. | |
 | Forrest Blackbourn, Executive Committee Member Forrest Blackbourn is an Associate Professor of Spanish and QEP Director at Dalton State College (GA). He earned his B.A. in Foreign Languages (Spanish) and M.A. in Foreign Languages (Spanish and French) from Mississippi State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Romance Languages (Hispanic and Francophone Literatures) from The University of Alabama. His research pertains to diasporas involving the Caribbean and the United States. In his time at Dalton State College, Dr. Blackbourn has served as Coordinator for the Honors Program (2018-2022) and Director of PACE (2022-present), a SACSCOC Quality Enhancement Plan focusing on first-year student success. Forrest has been highly involved in SAMLA conferences over the past several years, including organizing and chairing panels and delivering presentations primarily pertaining to Hispanic and Francophone literatures and cultures. Furthermore, he has served on the SAMLA Studies Book Award: Edited Collection Committee and currently serves on the SAMLA Program Committee. | |
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 | LeeAnne M. Richardson, Executive Director LeeAnne M. Richardson (PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington) is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University, where she teaches late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature. She has a particular interest in the odd, the under-studied, and the culturally marginalized, focusing on the ways that characterizations of the “unpopular” intersect with questions of gender, sexuality, and genre. Author of New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Late Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire, she has also published on women prose writers from the British colonies (like Flora Annie Steel, the “female Kipling,” and Olive Schreiner); women poets (Dollie Radford, Michael Field); and the transition from Victorian to modernist literature. This work has appeared in Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth Century Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies as well as in anthologies. She is currently completing a monograph titled The Forms of Michael Field, which argues that for Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), gender identity is—like the various types of lyric poetry and verse drama they produced—another form to experiment with and re-define. Moreover, in their many books of poetry, genre itself becomes a form of identity and a way to mediate gendered social expectations. |
