Officers and Governance
The officers of the MLA are elected by its members. The president for 2011 is Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; the first vice president is Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, who assumes the MLA presidency in 2012; and the second vice president is Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, who will advance to first vice president in 2012 and to the presidency in 2013.
The MLA is governed by an Executive Council, elected periodically by its members, according to the MLA Constitution (official MLA website).
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