Tim Wientzen, Assistant Professor, Skidmore College

Candidate statement

My desire to serve as Treasurer stems from my abiding respect for MSA, an organization that has always been the center of my professional endeavors. I have been a member of MSA since 2007, when I was in my second year of graduate school, and since then I have attended the conference nine times. My scholarly interests are firmly rooted in modernist studies, including issues of science, technology, politics, and (increasingly) the environment. I am currently completing my first book, called Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex, which I expect to have submitted to a publisher by this coming summer. I have published work from this and other projects in Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, Novel, and PrintPlus. As a former editor at Novel and organizer of the first meeting of the Society for Novel Studies, I oversaw a wide range of organizational tasks, and I would be excited to bring the skills I developed in those positions to the job of Treasurer.