Jesse Aleman: Elected to the American Literature Section Advisory Council

Dr. Jesse Alemán has been elected to serve on the MLA's American Literature Section Advisory Council for a three-year term, beginning January 2012. The American Literature Section represents the largest of the constituent parts of the MLA. It sponsors two of the field's most important journals--American Literature and American Literary Scholarship, the latter edited by our very own distinguished professor, Gary Scharnhorst; it elects the editorial board of American Literature; coordinates the MLA's plenary sessions and American literature awards; and oversees all of the MLA's American Literature divisions. It is one of several posts that Alemán has held in the MLA, including serving on the Delegate Assembly and sitting on the executive committees of the Division on Chicana/o Literatures and the Division on Ethnic Approaches to Literature, which he recently chaired.