Board Members

The ACLA Board is comprised of two main committees: the Executive Committee and Advisory Committee. The members of each are listed above.

Board members chair various standing committees. Chairs of each committee are noted with an asterisk:

STANDING COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP 2026-2027

• Finance Committee: Eyal Amiran* (University of California, Irvine), Eleanor Kaufman (University of California, Los Angeles), Jan Mieszkowski (Reed College)
• Nominations Committee: Anthony Alessandrini* (CUNY), Neelofer Qadir (Georgia State University), Tiana Reed (York University), Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania)
• Publications Committee: Harris Feinsod* (Johns Hopkins), Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania)
• Program Committee: Elizabeth Holt* (Bard College), S. Shankar (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
• Conference Committee: Tze-Lan Sang (Michigan State University), Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston), Danielle Marie (ACLA), Ping Zhu (UCSD)
• Graduate Student Committee: Soumya Shailendra (Northwestern University), Ayse Irem Karabag (York University)

AD HOC COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

• Development Committee: Brigid Kennedy* (ACLA), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)

PAST PRESIDENTS

2025-2026 Karen Emmerich, Princeton University

2023-2024 Ranjana Khanna, Duke University

2022-2023 Rei Terada, University of California Irvine

2021-2022 Shu-mei Shih, University of California Los Angeles

2020-2021 Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland

2019-2020 Waïl Hassan, University of Illinois

2018-2019 David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University

2017-2018 Emily Apter, New York University

2016-2017 Joey Slaughter, Columbia University

2015-2016 Yopie Prins, University of Michigan

2014-2015 Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles

2013-2014 Eric Hayot, Penn State University

2012-2013 Lois Zamora, University of Houston

2011-2012 Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles

2009-2011 Haun Saussy, University of Chicago

2007-2009 Sandra Berman, Princeton University

2005-2007 Kathleen Komar, University of California, Los Angeles

2003-2005 Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut

2001-2003 David Damrosch, Harvard University

1999-2001 Jonathan Culler, Cornell University

1997-1999 Susan Suleiman, Harvard University

1995-1997 Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University, Lingnan University

1993-1995 Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University

1991-1993 Stuart McDougal, University of Michigan

1989-1991 Mary Ann Caws, City University of New York

1987-1989 Frederick Garber, State University of New York at Binghamton

1985-1987 Thomas M. Greene, Yale University

1977 Haskell M. Block, State University of New York at Binghamton

1974 Horst Frenz, Indiana University