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  • 2011 Nominations for President and Executive Committee

Two colleagues have been nominated by the M/MLA Executive Committee for election to the office of President and to the Executive Committee. Any member of the Association may initiate a petition nominating additional M/MLA members as candidates for each of these positions. Petitions must be signed by at least ten members of the Association and must be received by the Executive Director no later than 1 August 2011. In the event that there are nominations by petition, the Executive Director shall enter all valid nominations on a ballot, which will be emailed to the entire membership no later than 15 September 2011. The results will be announced before the Executive Committee meeting of the Association to be held on 4 November 2011. For regulations concerning elections, see the By-Laws of the M/MLA in the Fall 1977 issue of The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

PRESIDENT (one-year term)

Craig N. Owens is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Drake University where he teaches courses in Drama and Irish Literature. Owens earned his Ph.D. at Indiana University, where he specialized in modern drama, Irish studies and literary theory. His dissertation, “Mind the Gap”, explored the various approaches postwar British playwrights have taken to staging politics. He writes and presents primarily on language and its relationship to staged identity, but also on contemporary television, film and popular culture.

Owens also is an active performer. Most recently, as a founding member of Steinsemble, a performance ensemble devoted to staging modernist drama, he has acted in Gertrude Stein’s Counting Her Dresses and Samuel Beckett’s Not I. He also has directed a number of plays and writes them as well. His current work includes a series of short satirical plays on modern love and a book-length study of 20th century English and Continental drama titled Absurdisms. [End Page 168]

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (three-year term)

Hillary Nunn teaches courses in Shakespeare and early modern literature. Her current book project focuses on the connections between early modern stagings of revenge tragedies and growing popular interest in anatomical research during the Renaissance. She is also interested in studying the role of Shakespearean works in today’s popular culture, whether in films or in everyday speech, and she is currently researching the pedagogical uses of electronic texts in college classrooms.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (three-year term)

Andrea Kaston Tange teaches courses on Victorian literature at Eastern Michigan University. Even though Victorian novels get referred to as “big, baggy monsters” because they are long and involve complex plots twists and many, many characters, she loves to teach and read them. For her, they offer a glimpse into another world and provide a historical, as well as literary, adventure.

She is interested in the intersections of gender, class and identity in the nineteenth century, and her research and teaching reflect a deep commitment to a cultural studies approach to history and literature. Her book, Architectural Identities (University of Toronto Press, 2010) examines representations of Victorian domestic life in a range of sources--from fiction to floor plans, autobiography to housekeeping guides. In it, she argues that Victorian middle-class identity was intimately tied to the physical design of homes, and that elements of that design could be manipulated to help redefine one’s self. [End Page 169]

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