4. Member at Large (3 Years) (Seat 1)

Catherine Jaffe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Texas State University and currently a Fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Specializing in women writers, gender, and translation, Jaffe co-authored with Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas "María Lorenza de los Ríos, marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: Vida y obra de una escritora del Siglo de las Luces" (2019), co-edited with Elizabeth Lewis "Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1831" (2009), and co-edited with Lewis and Mónica Bolufer "The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment" (2019). Jaffe serves on the Executive Committee of the MLA 18th-19thC Spanish and Iberian Literature Forum. Her research has been supported by Spain’s Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the ASECS Women’s Caucus. For ASECS, Jaffe served as president and Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and produced two concerts of Ibero-American music (ASECS 2012, 2014). She served on the editorial board of SECC and currently serves on the boards of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, and Anales de Literatura Española (Universidad Alicante). She holds a B.A. in English from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago.

Karin A. Wurst is Professor of German at Michigan State University. Her books have focused on representations of the family, women's drama, and cultural consumption in 18th-Century Germany, as well as on J.M.R. Lenz: Das Schlaraffenland verwilderter Ideen. Narrative Strategien in den Prosaerzählungen von J. M. R. Lenz (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014); Fabricating Pleasure: Fashion, Entertainment, and Consumption in Germany (1780-1830), German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies (Wayne State University Press, 2005). Karin A. Wurst and Alan Leidner, Unpopular Virtues: J. M. R. Lenz and the Critics. A Reception History (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999). Edited and introduced Eleonore Thon's "Adelheit von Rastenberg." Texts and Translation Series. (New York: MLA, 1996). Edited and introduced J.M.R. Lenz als Alternative? Positionsanalysen zum 200. Todestag (Köln, Wien, Weimar: Böhlau, 1992). Frau und Drama im achtzehnten Jahrhundert (Köln, Wien: Böhlau, 1991). "Familiale Liebe ist die wahre Gewalt." Zur Repräsentation der Familie in Lessings dramatischem Werk"(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988). Her articles focus on 17th- and 18th-century Germany and issues of gender, cultural and aesthetic representation. They have appeared in German Quarterly, Daphnis, German Studies Review, Lessing Yearbook, Text + Kritik, Seminar, Women in German Yearbook, Goethe Yearbook, Lenz Jahrbuch. Her teaching interests include literary and cultural theories, feminist theory, women's literature and material culture. From 2006 to 2014 she served as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at MSU; she served as Special Advisor to the Provost on Intercultural Learning and Student Engagement (2014-16).