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