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Board Members:

Ann Rea, Co-President (2009), teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown. Her research interests include middlebrow fiction of the interwar period, the debate about women's sexuality in the early decades of the twentieth century, P.G. Wodehouse, Irish Literature, and children's literature. She has published essays on women's middlebrow fiction, Marie Stopes, Anne Devlin, and C. S. Lewis as a middlebrow writer. She is currently editing, with Kate Macdonald, a book series on Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace for Pickering and Chatto, and a book of critical essays about P. G. Wodehouse.

Geneviève Brassard, Co-President (2010), is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Portland, where she teaches Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, and Postcolonial literatures. Her current research explores the intersection of female sexuality and urban spaces between the wars, and a portion of that research, on Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North, was recently published in Women: A Cultural Review. She has contributed book reviews on Modernism, women writers, and First World War literature to Modernism/Modernity, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, and the Yearbook of English Studies, among other journals.

Rebecca Cameron, Vice President (2010), is an Associate Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches modern British literature. Her research and teaching interests include modern drama, women's literary history, and gender studies. She has published several articles on twentieth-century British drama, especially women playwrights of the interwar period, in such venues as Modern Drama, Ibsen Studies, Women's Studies, and Comparative Drama. She also participated in the creation of an extensive, collaboratively authored digital resource, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (2006-).

Claire Buck, Membership Secretary (2009), is a Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she teaches modern and contemporary British literature. She is author of H.D. and Freud: Bisexuality and a Feminine Discourse (1991) and editor of The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992), as well as numerous articles on women's writing in the modernist period. She is currently writing a book on the relationship between travel writing and First World War writing.

Kristin Bluemel, Journal Editor (2004), is Professor of English at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. She was a founding member of The Space Between Society, was Society co-president with Phyllis Lassner from its founding until 2006, and has been editing the Society's journal since 2004. She is author of George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (2004) and Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (1997). She is also the editor of Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain (2009).

Robin Rissler, Treasurer (2005), is completing her doctorate in the Department of English at Ohio State University.

Advisory Board:

Debra Rae Cohen is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests involve intersections between modernism, media, popular culture and propaganda.She is the author of Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's Great War Fiction (2002) and co-editor of the collection Broadcasting Modernism (2009). Her current book project, which builds on that collection, is entitled "Sonic Citizenship"; she is also working on a book that treats Rebecca West as a limit case for modernist historiography. She serves as book review editor of Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.

Elizabeth Darling (2011) is an architectural historian based in the Department of History, Philosophy and Religion at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her work focuses on the sites, discourses and practices of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain, with a particular interest in the 1920s, the work of the architect Wells Coates, and the clients of modernist architecture. Her revisionist monograph, Re-forming Britain, Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction was published in 2007, and her monograph on Wells Coates is forthcoming summer 2012. Recent publications include a study of the early interiors of Wells Coates and a study of the intersection between the reform of the English curriculum at Cambridge University and the patronage of modern architecture (Journal of British Studies, January 2011).

Patrick Deer is Associate Professor of English at New York University. His teaching interests include 20th-century British literature, war culture, modernism, postcolonial and Anglophone literature, and the novel and film. He is the author of Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009) and he has served as guest editor for two recent issues of Social Text: The Ends of War (2007) and Reflections on the Work of Edward Said (co-edited with Gyan Prakash and Ella Shohat, 2006). He is currently working on the manuscript of Deep England: Forging the Nation After Empire.

Paula Derdiger (2010) is a doctoral candidate at McGill University. Her dissertation examines British reconstruction after World War II, charting the creation of the welfare state through literature, film, architecture, and town and country planning. Previous work focuses on the World War II fiction of writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, and Graham Greene. With Phyllis Lassner, she has co-authored a chapter on Elizabeth Bowen.

Erika Doss is Professor and Chair in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches courses in American, modern, and contemporary art and cultural studies. Her wide-ranging interests in American art are reflected in the breadth of her publications which include Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995), Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999), Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001), Twentieth-Century American Art (2002), and Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (2010). Doss is also co-editor of the "Culture America" series at the University Press of Kansas, and is on the editorial boards of Memory Studies, Public Art Dialogue, and Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. Her current research project, "Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth Century American Artists and Religion," explores the links between five American modernists and issues of faith.

Robin Feenstra (2010) teaches at Dawson College in Montreal. His research and teaching interests include Anglo-American modernism, post-WWII British fiction, film, radio, and dystopian literature. He is currently writing on the intersection of noise and modernity in the interwar period, especially in the work of Elizabeth Bowen and George Orwell.

Christina Hauck is an Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches modern British literature. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Marie Stopes, Lord Alfred Douglas, and others, and is currently writing a book on sexual reproduction and modernist identity.

Phyllis Lassner, Honorary Member (2010), served as President of the Space Between Society from 2004 to 2010. She teaches Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, as well as British Women Writers of World War II, and Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire. Her most recent book is Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses (2008). She has also published widely on interwar and wartime women writers. She has created and edits the Northwestern University Press book series, "Cultural Expressions of World War II and the Holocaust: Interwar Preludes, Responses, Memory."

Andrea Pappas (2011) is an Associate Professor of Art History at Santa Clara University where she teaches American Art and other topics. Representative publications include Eye on the Sixties, Vision, Body, and Soul: Selections from the Collections of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, “Invisible Points of Departure: Reading Rothko’s Christological Imagery” and “The Picture at Menorah Journal: Making ‘Jewish Art’” both of which appeared in the Journal of American Jewish History. She is co-editor of and contributing author to a recent book, Teaching Art History with Technology: Reflections and Case Studies. Her current research project examines the market for "mid-garde" modernist art in New York, 1929-1959.

Alexis Pogorelskin (2011) is an Associate Professor of History at University of Minnesota-Duluth where she teaches History of Russia (all periods), Modern Europe, and History of the Holocaust. She has published numerous articles on Russian cultural, intellectual, and political history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has written widely on Russo-Finnish relations. She edits the bi-lingual journal The NEP Era, Soviet History, 1921-28. In the spring of 2010, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Yale University Press has solicited her biography of Lev Borisovich Kamenev. Her essay on The Mortal Storm, published in The Space Between, shared the prize for best paper at the 2009 conference. Expanded, it will be published by Northwestern University Press.

Roger Rothman is Associate Professor of Art History at Bucknell University, where he specializes in modern and contemporary art. He has published articles on Cubism, Dada, Surrealism in journals such as Modernism/Modernity, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Word & Image, and Konsthistorisk Tidskrift. His book, Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dali and the Aesthetics of the Small is forthcoming (Nebraska, 2012).

Michael Williamson is an Associate Professor of English at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.