Executive Committee: 2023
President: Greg Clingham
Vice President: Jane Wessel
1st. Past President: Anna Foy
2nd. Past President: Joann Myers
Web Wizard: Susan C. Beam (susancheriebeam@gmail.com)
ECI editor: Jim May
Past and Future Conference Chairs: Brett Wilson (2023), Eleanor Shevlin/Sylvia Marks (2020/2021/2022), Joann Myers (2019), Peter Staffel (2019/2018), Emily Kugler (2017), Marie McAllister (2016), Eleanor Shevlin (2015), Cheryl Wanko (2015), Rodney Mader (2015), Don Mell (2014), Matt Kinservik (2014)
Elected Board Members & Molin Prize Judges: David Palumbo, Brett Wilson, and Linda Merians
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The East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held its first meeting in 1970, a few months after the inaugural meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ACECS), of which it is an affiliate. EC/ASECS's region includes most of the Mid-Atlantic area: Delaware, Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Society meets every fall, usually in October or November. Members represent virtually every discipline related to eighteenth-century studies. Our members hail from coast to coast, from Canada to Mexico, and from various points overseas.
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East Central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
EC/ASECS Annual Conference comes to
Williamsburg, Virginia!
[image at left: Print of the Bodleian Plate, depicting the colonial architecture of Williamsburg, Virginia. The plate, discovered in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, was critical to the reconstruction of Williamsburg in the early-mid 20th century.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bodleian_Plate.jpg]
Resources
One of our members, Kevin J. Berland, is the founder, owner, factotum, etc., of the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Discussion Bulletin Board (C18-L).
Membership Information
For information on membership or on the annual meeting, contact Executive Secretary Kevin Cope at encope@lsu.edu.
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
The Society's newsletter, the Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, formerly the East-Central Intelligencer, is the most substantial of the ASECS-affiliate societies' newsletters, averaging over 70 pages for each of its two annual issues. The editor is James E. May; he can be contacted at jem4@psu.edu.
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
N.S. Volume 36, Number 2: September 2022
To read or download the latest issue of EC/ASECS’s renowned bi-annual publication, click here.