Executive president | Conference President | Past Conference President | Members-at-Large | British Representative | Membership Secretary | Newsletter Editor | Website Editor

Executive President

Martha F. Bowden Ph.D. (1981) University of Toronto. I am a Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, where I have been teaching since 1992. My area of specialty is eighteenth-century studies, but I also teach freshman composition, the second half of the Sophomore Survey in British literature, the Gateway course, introducing students to the major, and a graduate course in the M.Ed. program. This spring I was elected to a three-year term as Coordinator of Undergraduate English Studies. I am a Contributing Editor to The Scriblerian. My research interests included eighteenth-century fiction, church history, and the depiction of the eighteenth century in contemporary historical fiction.

Representative Publications: Books: The Reform'd Coquet, Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady, and The Accomplish'd Rake (University Press of Kentucky, 1999), an edition of three novels by Mary Davys (1674[?]-1732), and Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne (Unviversity of Delaware Press, 2007). In addition, I have published articles on a variety of subjects, including eighteenth-century fiction and teaching composition.

As Executive President of ABS, I am responsible for the oversight and coordination of the Society's activities, including conferences, membership, and finances. If you have any questions about the society, please email me: mbowden@kennesaw.edu

Conference President

Dr. Michael Rex

Past Conference President

Dr. Carolyn Woodward

Members-at-Large

Dr. Nicole Boucher Spottke and Dr. Jennifer Golightly

British Representative

Jane Spencer

Newsletter Editor

Aleksondra Hultquist is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently finishing work on her dissertation, "Equal Ardour: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction and the Recasting of the Novel, 1684-1757." She has been a member of the Society since 2002 and its newsletter editor since 2003.

Aleksondra collects information for and edits the newsletter for web publication 3 times per year. If you have information that you would like to share or have questions about the listserv, email her at hultquis@uiuc.edu.

Membership Secretary

Ereck Jarvis is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working on his dissertation, which is provisionally titled "Writing the Club in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England." Ereck joined the Society in 2005 and has been its membership secretary since then.

Ereck diligently maintains the Society's database of members and their contact information. Please notify him of changes of address and affiliation: jejarvis@wisc.edu

Website editor

Emily Bowles received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2004. She is a lecturer in English and Gender Studies at Lawrence University, where she also recently directed an independent study project on Aphra Behn's poetics.

Emily has published articles on Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, and Frances Brooke. Her first monograph, Triumphant Bodies, is available from Cambridge Scholars Press.

Emily is responsible for the Aphra Behn Society website. Please contact her at emily.bowles-smith@lawrence.edu if you'd like to have a related site listed, or if you have questions or comments about the site's content.