President—Hunt Hawkins is Chair of the English Department at University of South Florida. For the past seven years he was Chair of the English Department at Florida State University where he held the title of James M. McCrimmon Professor. His academic specializations are Modern British Literature and poetry writing. He has published two books: Teaching Approaches to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and “The Secret Sharer” with the Modern Language Association and The Domestic Life (poems) with the University of Pittsburgh Press. The latter won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He has served as President of the Joseph Conrad Society, the South Atlantic Graduate Education Consortium, and the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English.

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First Vice President—Joan McRae Kleinlein is an associate professor of Modern Languages at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where she has taught since 1997. Her major field of concentration is Medieval French Literature. She has taught courses in this topic area, as well as French film, history, culture, and composition. She has published numerous papers and texts in her field. In addition, Dr. Kleinlein has received the William W. Elliott Assistant Professorship in Modern Languages Award and the Fuqua Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Kleinlein received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College, M.A. from Middlebury College, and her Ph.D. from University of Virginia. In her time at Hampton-Sydney, she has held numerous significant college and departmental committee positions including the College Benefits Committee, Student Affairs Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, Committee on Studies and Core Requirements. She also served as Head of the French and German Divisions in the Modern Languages Department. Dr. Kleinlein is very active in campus activities, including the founding of the French Club, where she serves as the advisor, andworks with campus theater productions.

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Past President—Allen Josephs, University Research Professor and Professor of Spanish, has taught at the University of West Florida, Pensacola since 1969. A founder and past president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, he is the author of White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture, "For Whom the Bell Tolls": Ernest Hemingway's Undiscovered Country, five books on Federico García Lorca and numerous articles on Hispanic culture, Lorca, and Hemingway in scholarly journals, as well as articles and reviews in the Atlantic, Boston Review, New Republic, and the New York Times Book Review. His book Ritual and Sacrifice in the Corrida: The Saga of Cesar Rincón, won the George B. Smith Award for Arts and Letters from the National Association of Taurine Clubs. A SAMLA member since the early 70's, he initiated the Hemingway Society's affiliation with SAMLA.

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Second Vice President — Now the J. Carylye Sitterson Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Trudier Harris has been a member of that university's faculty since 1979.  She has lectured internationally and has published widely in her specialty areas of African American literature and folklore.  In addition to having edited or co-edited seven books, she is the author of seven scholarly books as well as a memoir.  She has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and has received the UNC System Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching and the SAADE John Hurt Fisher Award for outstanding career contributions to the field of scholarship in English.

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Executive Committee Member (2009)—Scott Yarbrough, Professor of English and Department Chair at Charleston Southern University, won the Faculty Merit and 2002 Excellence in Teaching awards for CSU. His publications include articles on William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, and Cormac McCarthy, and he co-authored the textbook A Practical Introduction to Literary Study. His fiction appears in Blackbird, New Orleans Review, Clackamas Literary Review, In Posse Review, Apalachee Quaterly, Iron Horse Literary Review and elsewhere. Yarbrough is fiction editor of storySouth.

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Executive Committee Member (2009) —Carolina Marquez-Serrano is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Tuskegee University. She has been awarded a Ford Foundation grant, won a university-wide teaching award, staged two original plays and produced three videos, and worked as a translator, interpreter, guide, and tutor. Her languages include Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Nahuatl (Aztec), Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Executive Committee Member (2010) —Valerie Dotson is an associate professor at Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, Georgia campus. She started her teaching career at Georgia Perimeter in 1999, after completing her education at Tougaloo College (B.A.), and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., Ph.D.). She has taught courses in freshman composition, digital literacy (ATEC), American Literature, and African American Literature, including honors classes. Dr. Dotson is well-published in her area of study and received numerous awards and fellowships throughout her career. She is an active member of the College Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and SAMLA.

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Executive Committee Member (2010) —Emily Seelbinder is a professor of English at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina, where she has taught courses in American Literature, American Studies, African American Literature, Non-Fiction Writing, and in the Core Program in the Liberal Arts, the honors program, and the freshman writing program. She is a frequent speaker on various topics, including Emily Dickinson, for the North Carolina Humanities Council. After eighteen years with Queens College, she was honored in May of this year with the 2007 Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award. In addition, she has twice received the Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award and has served as Faculty President and Director of the Honors Program. Dr. Seelbinder is a graduate of Salem Academy, Hollins College (B.A., English) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., Ph.D.).

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Executive Committee Member — Robert Sawyer is Associate Professor and Graduate Director at East Tennessee State University. Author of Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003), he is also co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999), which grew out of a SAMLA Special Session in 1998 and Harold Bloom's Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2001).  His most recent works are "Epilogues and Prologues: Performing Shakespearean Criticism in the Restoration" which appears in a new collection of essays from Delaware Press (2007); "Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakespeare Goin' On" for The Upstart Crow (2008), and "Mary Shelley and Shakespeare: Monstrous Creations" which appears in the South Atlantic Review 72.2 (Spring 2007).  He is currently working on a book about Charles Kean for the Pickering and Chatto series, Lives of Shakespearean Actors.

Sawyer served on the SAMLA "English II: 1500-1600," committee from 2003-2005, and he also worked on (2003-2008) and chaired (2007) the South Atlantic Review Essay Prize Committee.  He is currently on the Editorial Board for SAR (2007-present), and is Associate Editor for Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (2004-present).

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Editor of SAR—Matthew Roudané, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Georgia State University, has published over a dozen books on various aspects of American Drama. The recipient of three Fulbright awards, Roudané has lectured widely both here and abroad, and he has taught at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and will be a visiting professor for part of the 2008-09 year at the Université de Toulouse, France.He has served on a number of editorial and advisory boards for such journals as PMLA and Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense.  His forthcoming books will be on Sam Shepard (U Michigan P), Arthur Miller (Cambridge UP) and Edward Albee (Cambridge UP)

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