We are proud to announce the winners of the PAMLA 2025 General Board Elections!
Second Vice President
- Jerry Rafiki Jenkins is the Assistant Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia.
Member-at-Large Positions
- Toshiaki Komura is Professor of English at Meiji Gakuin University.
- Enrico Vettore is the chair of the Graziadio Center for Italian Studies and Professor of Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
- Lisa Weston is Professor of English at California State University – Fresno.
Graduate Student Representative
- Graciela Sierra-Moreno is a PhD student in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
We want to again thank and acknowledge the fine work of the Nominating Committee (Chair Peter Schulman and members Yolanda Doub and Juan Delgado), as well as David John Boyd, our PAMLA Communications Directorm for administering the elections.
And our deepest gratitude goes out to our candidates for their willingness to serve our association should they be elected, including Friederike von Schwerin-High, Lissa Paul, and Nathan Bonar. We are all busy, so thank you, candidates, for your dedication to service and to PAMLA!