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President: Christopher Ricks, Boston University; Vice-President: Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University; Immediate Past-President: Morris Dickstein, CUNY Graduate Center; Secretary-Treasurer: William Flesch, Brandeis University; Council: Mark Bauerlein, Emory University; Susan Bullock, Boston, Massachusetts; Stephen M. Foley, Brown University ; Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University; James Longenbach, University of Rochester; David J. Rothman, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sarah Spence, University of Georgia; Sandra Stotsky, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Rachel Wetzsteon, William Paterson University; Special Liasion for Graduate Student Affairs: Jean Bocharova, UC Riverside; Office Manager: E. Christopher Clark, Lesley University; Volunteer Office Staff: Chelsea Bell, Boston University; Sean Gordon, Boston University; Erin McDonagh, Boston University

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Our Mission

The ALSC has the following goals:

1. to provide space for encounters between scholars, critics, editors, and teachers, and fiction writers, poets, playwrights and screenwriters;

photograph of Norman Mailer and J. Michael Lennon

2. to foster connections between the academic study of literature and the wider literary culture extending beyond the academy;

3. to sponsor and disseminate studies of curriculum and wider topics relating to literature (such as the teaching of composition, and the reading habits of citizens);

4. to create links between the teaching of literature in primary and secondary schools, and instruction in colleges and universities;

photograph of the Mythology K-12 panel at the 2005 Conference

5. to encourage debate and exchange between scholars of ancient and modern literatures, and between Western and Asian literatures;

photograph of the Mahfouz panel at the 2005 Conference

6. to explore the literary dimensions of other arts; film, drama, painting, and music;

7. to insist upon the literary nature of the teaching of literature.

photograph of seminar on Experimental Poetics at the 2005 Conference
 

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