Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

2009 Election

PAMLA Members who have paid their dues for 2009 will receive an election ballot via email.  It was sent on July 7, 2009.  If you did not receive a ballot but believe you are entitled to vote, please contact the Executive Director Craig Svonkin at svonkin@netzero.com.

The candidates for this year are as follows:

CANDIDATES FOR THE PAMLA EXECUTIVE BOARD (three year term)

PLEASE VOTE FOR ANY TWO:

ROSWITHA BURWICK has been teaching at Scripps College since 1971 and holds the Distinguished Chair in Modern Languages. She has published widely on German Romanticism and is one of the main editors of the historical critical edition of the works of German romantic Poet Achim von Arnim. At present, she also serves as the Director of the Scripps Core Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities. She is the recipient of numerous scholarship, teaching, and service awards and grants. She has held offices in numerous professional organizations, including PAMLA. Roswitha Burwick has been a member of PAMLA since 1975.

FRÉDÉRIQUE CHEVILLOT has been teaching the French language and its diverse literatures for the past 20 years at the University of Denver. She is interested in what is called "extreme" contemporary literature produced by women writers in French. She has published on authors such as Anne Hébert, Béatrix Beck, Tassadit Imache, Marguerite Duras, Agota Kristof, and Amélie Nothomb, and she recently co-edited a volume on [Women Writing on War] (Des Femmes écrivent la guerre). She served as General Editor of Women in French Studies from 1999-2005. Frédérique Chevillot has been a member of PAMLA since 2003.

ANNE (ANITA) FOUNTAIN is Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at San José State University. Recent offices: Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Board of Directors, 2005-2008; South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Women’s Caucus President, 2002. SAMLA Official Delegate, JNCL- NCLIS (Joint National Committee for Languages & National Council for Languages and International Studies) 2001-2002. Anne Fountain has published widely on Latin American literature (Cuba & Mexico) and the Hispanic literature of the United States. She taught for many years in the Southeast (N.C., Florida and Mississippi) and joined PAMLA shortly after moving to California in fall 2002.

JEFFREY GRAY is Professor of English at Seton Hall University, where he teaches courses in American poetry, postcolonial literature, and literary theory. He has published widely on American poetry, and his own poetry has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, American Poetry Review, Midamerican Review, New Letters, The Literary Review, and other journals. He has been an NEH fellow, MacDowell fellow, Geraldine R. Dodge fellow, and two-time Fulbright fellow. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and was educated at the University of Washington and the University of California, Riverside. He lived and taught for many years in Central America, the South Pacific, Asia, and Europe. Jeffrey Gray has been a member of PAMLA since 1993.

CANDIDATES FOR THE OFFICE OF SECOND VICE PRESIDENT (becomes First Vice President in 2011, and President in 2012)

PLEASE VOTE FOR ONE:

HANS J. RINDISBACHER is Professor of German at Pomona College. He has served on most faculty committees and as the Chair of the German and Russian Department at Pomona for many years; notably he is one of the College’s grant advisors in what is one of the most successful Fulbright grant programs in the country. He supports a broadly international and multilingual outlook in higher education and interdisciplinary approaches in his own research and publications, which focus on issues of perception and representation in literature and culture. Hans Rindisbacher has been an active PAMLA member since 1995, served on the Executive Committee, organized panels, presided over the German standing session, and hosted PAMLA’s annual conference in Claremont in 2008.

ANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ-VIVALDI is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington State University, where she coordinates the Undergraduate and Graduate Studies programs for the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, as well as the College of Liberal Arts Film Studies Program. She has published extensively on Latin American contemporary literature and film and, in particular, on hybrid cultures and genres. She serves on numerous college and university committees, including the college Advisory Board and the Honors College Foreign Language Proficiency Initiative, and internationally on the Advisory Council for the Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño. An active member of PAMLA since 1991, Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi has served on the Executive Committee, organized special sessions, and participated twice in the Forum.

2009 Special Election Results

Executive Committee Jeremiah B. C. Axelrod, Occidental College

2008 Election Results

President
Beverly Voloshin, San Francisco State University

First Vice-President
Thierry Boucquey, Scripps College

Second Vice-President
Sabine Wilke, University of Washington

Executive Committee
Sophie Delahaye, Washburn University
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Graduate Student Representative
Lorenzo Giachetti, Stanford University