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Peter Kalliney
Election
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Name
Peter Kalliney
Candidate statement
Tuggle Chair in English, University of Kentucky
I have been an MSA member and regular conference attendee for more than twenty years. The organization has been instrumental in my professional development. Preserving the sustainability of the MSA, ensuring the accessibility of its activities, and maintaining the high standards of its publications would be among my chief priorities as an officer. Are there ways to make the conference more affordable without losing what attendees find valuable about the event? Are there ways to increase member engagement beyond the annual conference, such as the Special Interest Groups? Are there ways to continue to improve the journal, which has benefitted from very capable editors over the past decade? I would like the board to create a better mechanism for collecting member feedback that includes but goes beyond the annual post-conference survey. Gathering better information from members can help the board be more responsive.
Members can learn more about my scholarship on my profile: https://www.as.uky.edu/users/pjkall2. I have published in Modernism/modernity and I have served on the editorial board for many years. I chaired the MSA First Book Prize committee in 2021 and I won the Book Prize in 2023 for my most recent monograph, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature.
I have been an MSA member and regular conference attendee for more than twenty years. The organization has been instrumental in my professional development. Preserving the sustainability of the MSA, ensuring the accessibility of its activities, and maintaining the high standards of its publications would be among my chief priorities as an officer. Are there ways to make the conference more affordable without losing what attendees find valuable about the event? Are there ways to increase member engagement beyond the annual conference, such as the Special Interest Groups? Are there ways to continue to improve the journal, which has benefitted from very capable editors over the past decade? I would like the board to create a better mechanism for collecting member feedback that includes but goes beyond the annual post-conference survey. Gathering better information from members can help the board be more responsive.
Members can learn more about my scholarship on my profile: https://www.as.uky.edu/users/pjkall2. I have published in Modernism/modernity and I have served on the editorial board for many years. I chaired the MSA First Book Prize committee in 2021 and I won the Book Prize in 2023 for my most recent monograph, The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature.
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