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Conference President

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Past Conference President

 Emily C. Friedman is an associate professor of English at Auburn University, where she teaches and publishes on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly women writers, reader expectations, and book history. Her first book, Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, was published by Bucknell in 2016. She is currently creating a digital collection of unpublished manuscript fiction written between 1750 and 1900.

Members-at-Large

Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University where she is also Chair of the Department of English. She is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in early Early Eighteenth- Century England (Cambridge, 1998), co-editor of New Perspectives on Alexander Pope’s Dunciad (co-edit, Bucknell, 2000), Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture (Blackwell, 2005) and British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins, 2009), and editor of Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela (Broadview, 2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 (2015). She is currently editing Laetitia Pilkington’s Memoirs for Broadview and writing a book titled Life/Writing: Failure and the Woman Writer in early Eighteenth-Century England.

Laura L. Runge is Professor of English at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She is the author of Quantitative Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion (Anthem Press, 2023), and co-editor with Jessica Cook of Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-century Women’s Tributes to Women (University of Delaware Press, May 2019). She is editor-in-chief of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women and Arts, 1640-1830, the ABS journal. Her current research interests are Aphra Behn and music, particularly her drama, as well as developing methodologies for literary criticism and quantitative analysis using concordance software.  

ABS Europe Representative

Elaine Hobby is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Studies and Head of Department in the English and Drama Department, Loughborough University. Her work on seventeenth-century women's writing began in 1978, when those teaching on her MA, which focused on the year 1642, said that 'There weren't any women then', and so she must work on writing by men instead. Behn's work is especially close to her heart, and after a long diversion through the writings of religio-political radicals, and another through early-modern writings on the body, she is now looking forward to a decade or two with Aphra Behn at the centre of what she is thinking about. Her publications include Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing 1649-1688 (1988); co-editing of Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (1989); an edition of Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book (1999).

Newsletter Editor

Susannah Sanford McDaniel  is a Visiting Lecturer at Texas Christian University. She works at the intersection of historical experiences of imperialism and their fictionalized accounts, focusing especially on the experiences of women. Her current book project examines imperial ruins, broadly conceived, from the eighteenth century. Other research interests include contemporary adaptations of eighteenth-century works, historical reimaginings, and revolutionary myths and memories.

Listserv Moderator

Robin Runia is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. She's published essays on gender, race, and spirituality in women's writing of the long eighteenth century. She's currently at work on a monograph, Displaced Britons: Africans and Creoles in the Writing of Maria Edgeworth.

Website Editor

Anne Greenfield is Associate Professor of English at Valdosta State University. She is Editor-in-Chief of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Reseach. She edited the collections Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century and Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660-1800, and her current research focuses on depictions of sexual violence in drama from 1660 to 1720.

Anne is responsible for the Aphra Behn Society website. Please contact her at algreenfield@valdosta.edu if you'd like to have a related site listed, or if you have questions or comments about the site's content.