Presidential Plenary 2016

Roland Greene was elected second vice president of the MLA in December 2012. His term as president runs from January 2015 through January 2016.

Albert Russell Ascoli has a BA in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and a PhD in Romance studies (Italian) from Cornell University.

Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, writes on medieval culture as well as the afterlives of the Middle Ages in the modern world.

Deidre Shauna Lynch was educated at the University of British Columbia in Canada and at Stanford University, where she took her PhD.

Marjorie Perloff is professor emerita of English humanities at Stanford University and Florence Scott Professor Emerita of English at the University of Southern California.

Ato Quayson is director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he has been since 2005.