Monday, March 1st, 2010
Graduate Student Representative
Over the years, more and more graduate students have started attending the annual Western Literature Association Conference. Now every fifth member of the Western Literature Association is a graduate student. Therefore, since 2001, the association’s Executive Council has included a Graduate Student Representative who is elected by the membership at large. Beginning in 2011, two grad student representatives serve on the council. Each graduate student representative serves a two-year term, and a new representative is elected each year.
Each Grad Rep’s responsibilities include:
If you are interested in submitting your name for nomination as Grad Student Representative, please contact the current WLA president. Note: The Graduate Student Reps are appointed for two years, and the Western Literature Association expects that appointment to be carried out. So please don’t nominate yourself or accept a nomination for Graduate Student Rep if you expect to finish your degree before the end of spring semester of your second year.
Know your current graduate student representatives:
Jillian Moore Bennion (rep.: 2018-2020)
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
jillian.bennion@gmail.com
Jillian Moore Bennion is a doctoral student and graduate teaching fellow at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. She holds an MA in American Studies from Utah State University. Her research interests include nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature and film. Her current research centers on representations of maternal grief as labor and the resulting material artifacts as they appear in Western American narrative literature.
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Surabhi Balachander (rep.: 2019-2021)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
surabhib@umich.edu
Surabhi Balachander
Past Graduate Student Reps:
Jes Lopez, Michigan State University, 2017-2019
Rachel Heise Bolten, Stanford University, 2016-2018
Landon Lutrick, University of Nevada, Reno, 2015-2017
Sylvan Goldberg, Stanford University, 2014-2016
Jaquelin Pelzer, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2013-2015
William V. Lombardi, University of Nevada, Reno, 2012-2014
Ashley Reis, University of North Texas, 2011-2013
Matt Lavin, University of Iowa, 2010-2012
Kerry Fine, Texas Tech University, 2008-2011
Angela Waldie, University of Calgary, 2006-2008
Drucilla Wall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005-2006
Matthew R. Burkhart, University of Arizona, 2003-2005
Anne L. Kaufman, University of Maryland, 2001-2003
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