D. Member-at-Large Seat #1

Alison Conway is Professor of English, and Gender and Women’s Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is the author Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (2001) and The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750 (2010). She is also co-editor, with Mary Helen McMurran, of Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives (2016), and co-editor, with David Alvarez, of Imagining Religious Toleration: a Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830 (2019). Her most recent monograph, Sacred Engagements: Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750-1820, is forthcoming with the Johns Hopkins University Press. She has been active in the ASECS Women’s Caucus since 1995 and is currently serving as Chair of the ASECS Travel Grants committee. She was President of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies from November 2017 through June 2021 and is currently serving as interim Co-Editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, with Corrinne Harol.

Emily C. Friedman is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University and Director of 18thConnect.org, a peer-reviewing body and aggregator of digital humanities projects in eighteenth-century studies. A scholar whose work brings together book history, digital humanities, narratology, and fan studies, she is the author of Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Bucknell 2016), co-edited (with Devoney Looser) a special issue of Romantic Circles Pedagogy on Teaching Austen, and is the Project Lead on Manuscript Fiction in the Age of Print, 1750-1900, a database of never-published fiction. With Emily Kugler she is the co-founder of Playing the Eighteenth-Century, a public scholarship project trading depictions of eighteenth-century culture in modern games. Her work has appeared in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Women’s Writing, Keats-Shelley Journal, Burney Journal, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, among other venues. An ASECS member since 2005, she has served as Co-Chair of the Graduate Caucus and the Digital Humanities Caucus, Conference President for a combined meeting of the Aphra Behn Society and Frances Burney Society, President/Founder of the International Samuel Richardson Society, and Member at Large to SE-ASECS. She will soon join the boards of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and Electronic Enlightenment.