Executive Board

The Executive Board of Society for Novel Studies is composed of the officers, the Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction (serving in an ex-officio capacity), and six members-at-large, each elected by the members of the Society for a term of four years, three posts to be filled at each biennial meeting of the Society.

The officers of the Society are a Vice President, a President, and the immediate Past President. Each holds office for two years, beginning at the conclusion of the Business Meeting at which the Vice President is elected. The Past President acts as a primary consultant to (and full voting member of) the Executive Board.

The Vice President and three at-large members of the Executive Board are nominated from members among the Society’s membership by the SNS Nominating Committee and are elected by the general membership via electronic communication.

Officers

Aarthi Vadde
President
Department of English, Duke University
aarthi.vadde@duke.edu

Janice Ho
Vice-President
Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
j.ho@ubc.ca 

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
Secretary/Treasurer
Department of English, Rice University

rts.rice.edu

Penny Fielding 
Immediate Past President
Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk

Ex-offico

Kevin McLaughlin
Editor of NOVEL

Departments of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies, Brown University
kevin_mclaughlin@brown.edu

Board Members

Elizabeth Miller
Department of English, University of California Davis

ecmill@ucdavis.edu

Nasser Mufti
Department of English, University of Illinois-Chicago

nmufti@uic.edu

Kinohi Nishikawa
Department of Engilsh, Princeton University
kinohin@princeton.edu

Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Department of Romance Languages, Washington University in St. Louis
isanchez@wustl.edu

Emily Steinlight
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
emily.steinlight@english.upenn.edu

Sunny Yudkoff
Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison

yudkoff@wisc.edu

Dora Zhang
Department of English, University of California-Berkeley

dyzhang@berkeley.edu

Past Presidents

2020-2025: Penny Fielding (term extended during Covid)

2018-2020: Amanda Claybaugh

2016-2018: John Plotz

2014-2016: Jonathan Arac

2012-2014: Kate Flint

2010- 2012: Nancy Armstrong