Executive Directors
Craig Svonkin, 2009-present
Salah Khan, 2005-2009
Lorely French, 1999-2005
Cyndia Susan Clegg, 1991-1999
Caroline Locher and Ellen Keck Stauder, 1988-1990
Louise Westling, 1984-1987
Frances Smith Foster, 1981-1984
Frederick Burwick, 1978-1981
Presidents
Peter Schulman, 2024-2025
Juan Delgado, 2023-2024
Yolanda Doub, 2022-2023
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod, 2021-2022
Martin Kevorkian, 2019-2021
Stanley Orr, 2018-2019
Katherine Kinney, 2017-2018
Andrea Gogröf, 2016-2017
John Ganim, 2015-2016
Heidi Schlipphacke, 2014-2015
Cheryl Edelson, 2013-2014
Lorely French, 2012-2013
Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, 2011-2012
Sabine Wilke, 2010-2011
Thierry Boucquey, 2009-2010
Beverly Voloshin, 2008-2009
Imke Meyer, 2007-2008
Kathleen Lundeen, 2006-2007
Steven Axelrod, 2005-2006
Cyndia Clegg, 2004-2005
Catherine Montfort, 2003-2004
Hector Mario Cavallari, 2002-2003
Wolfgang Nehring, 2001-2002
Thierry Boucquey, 2000-2001
Gail K. Hart, 1999-2000
John Engell, 1998-1999
Frederick Burwick, 1997-1998
Pamela Vaughn, 1996-1997
Marie-France Hilgar, 1995-1996
G.H. Hertling, 1994-1995
Jean-Pierre Barricelli, 1993-1994
Roswitha Burwick, 1992-1993
Susana Hernandez-Araico, 1991-1992
Hans Wagener, 1990-1991
Marga Cottino-Jones, 1989-1990
Charles Altieri, 1988-1989
Patricia Merivale, 1987-1988
Thomas Rosenmeyer, 1986-1987
Mary-Kay Gamel, 1985-1986
Ruth Roberts, 1984-1985
Michael Batts, 1983-1984
Albert B. Friedman, 1982-1983
Stanley B. Greenfield, 1981-1982
Mark Edwards, 1980-1981
Alain Renoir, 1979-1980
Pacific Coast Philology Editors
Martin Japtok, 2024-Present
Richard Hishmeh, 2022-Present
Cheryl Edelson, 2020-2024
Richard Sperber, 2016-2021
Roswitha Burwick, 2010-2020
Friederike von Schwerin-High, 2010-2016
Lorely French and Pauline Beard, 2007-2010
Victoria Myers, 1998-2007
Frederick Burwick, 1997-1998
Cyndia Clegg, 1990-1997
Pacific Coast Philology Special Issue Editors
Yolanda Doub, 2027
Jeremiah Axelrod, 2026
Martin Kevorkian, 2022
Stanley Orr, 2021
Katherine Kinney, 2021
Andrea Gogröf, 2019
Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod, 2018
John Ganim, 2017
Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, 2016
Cheryl Edelson, 2015
Lorely French, 2014
Sabine Wilke, 2011
Beverly Voloshin, 2004-2011
Executive Committee Members-at-Large
Sonia Barrios Tinoco and Jessica Luck, 2023-2026
Dawn Dietrich and Satoko Kakihara, 2022-2025
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins and James Lu, 2021-2024
Petra Fiero and Carole-Anne Tyler, 2020-2023
Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Brigitte Prutti, 2018-2022
Melissa Axelrod and Peter Schulman, 2017-2021
Karin Bauer and Andrew Howe, 2016-2020
Yolanda A. Doub and Brian Reed, 2015-2018
Jane J. Lee and Lysa Rivera, 2014-2017
Catherine Cucinella and Richard Hishmeh, 2013-2016
John D. Schwetman and Sonia Barrios Tinoco, 2012-2015
Emily Taylor Merriman and Aili Zheng, 2011-2014
Damian Bacich and Ellen Finkelpearl, 2010-2013
Shirin Khanmohamadi (special two-year term), 2010-2012
Roswitha Burwick (stepped down in 2010 to become Pacific Coast Philology co-editor) and Jeffrey Gray, 2009-2012
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod, 2009-2011 (Special Election)
Sophie Delahaye and Craig Svonkin, 2008-2011 (Svonkin stepped down in 2009 to become Executive Director)
Graduate Student Representatives
Alexa Barger, 2023-2025
Russell McDermott, 2021-2023
Emily Butler-Probst, 2018-2021
Raymond H.J. Rim, 2016-2018
Sarah Whitcomb Lozier, 2014-2016
Melanie Hernandez, 2012-2014
April Davidauskis, 2010-2012
Lorenzo Giachetti, 2008-2010
Web and Communications
David John Boyd, 2020-present
Russell McDermott, 2016-2019
Heather Wozniak, 2007-2016
Conference Hosts
2025: No sponsors; San Francisco
2024: The National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature; San Diego State University; Pomona College; California State University, San Bernardino; California Baptist University; La Sierra University; California State University, Los Angeles; The Dorothy Ramon Learning Center; and University of California, Riverside
2023: University of Washington Humanities Division; University of Portland College of Arts and Sciences; Portland State University; Reed College; Imbrifex Books; and Willamette University
2022: UCLA; California State University, Los Angeles; USC; and Occidental College
2021: University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Department of English at University of Texas – Austin
2019: University of San Diego, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego State University, Palomar College, and the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature
2018: Andrea Gogröf, Western Washington University
2017: Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University, and Stanley Orr, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
2016: Jim Garrett, California State University, Los Angeles, and Liam Corley, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (conference held at the Pasadena Westin)
2015: Hildy Miller, Portland State University
2014: John Ganim, University of California, Riverside, and Lora Geriguis, La Sierra University
2013: Catherine Cucinella, California State University, San Marcos, and Rebecca Ingram, San Diego University
2012: Maria Bullon-Fernandez, Seattle University
2011: Thierry Boucquey, Scripps College
2010: Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University, and Stanley Orr, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
2009: Beverly Voloshin, San Francisco State University
Site Chairs: Emily Merriman and Bérénice LeMarchand
2008: Hans Rindisbacher, Pomona College
2007: Kathleen Lundeen, Western Washington University
2006: Steven Axelrod, University of California, Riverside
2005: Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University
2004: Salah Khan, Reed College
2003: Thierry Boucquey, Scripps College
2002: Kathleen Lundeen, Western Washington University, Bellingham
2001: Catherine Montfort, Santa Clara University