Committees

Officers and Councilors
Dante Studies Editorial Board
Dante Notes Editorial Board
Education and Outreach Committee
Prize Committee
Bibliography Committee
Nominating Committee
Audit Committee
Liaison to the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
Liaison to the Modern Language Association (MLA)
Liaison to the Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
Liaison to the American Boccaccio Association
Liaison to the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS)
Liaison to the Society for Italian Studies
Liaison to the Società Dantesca Italiana

Councilors and Officers, 2024-2025

Officers

Alison Cornish (President; elected term as Councilor, 2017-2020; elected Vice-President by Council, 2018-2019; re-elected as Vice by Council, 2019-2020; elected Acting President by Council, 23 January 2020; ex officio voting Councilor; elected President by Council, 2020-2023; relected by Council, 2023-2026; ex officio voting Councilor)
New York University

Albert Russell Ascoli (Immediate Past President, ex officio non-voting Councilor)
University of California, Berkeley

Martin Eisner (Vice President, elected by Council 2025-2026; elected term as Councilor, 2024-2027)
Duke University

Michael Sherberg (Treasurer; appointed term: 2016-2019; reappointed by Council 2019-2022; reappointed by Council 2023-2025; ex officio voting officer)
Washington University St. Louis

Julie Van Peteghem (Secretary; appointed term: 2023-2026; ex officio voting officer)
Hunter College, City University of New York

Kristina Olson (Editor-in-chief, Dante Studies; appointed term: 2024-2029; ex officio non-voting Council member)
George Mason University

Akash Kumar (Editor, Dante Notes; appointed term 2023-2025; ex officio, non-voting Council member)
University of California, Berkeley

Danielle Callegari (Director of Communications; appointed term: 2023-2025; ex officio, non-voting Council member)
Dartmouth College

Elizabeth Coggeshall (Director of Education and Outreach; appointed term 2023-2025; elected term as Councilor: 2020-2023; elected Vice President by Council 2021-2022; re-elected 2022-2023; ex officio non-voting Council member)
Florida State University

Christian Dupont (Archivist, ad hoc 1-year appointment by Council, 2023-2024; reappointed by Council, 2024-2025; reappointed by Council, 2025-2026; Secretary-Librarian, appointed term: 2014-2017, reappointed by Council 2017-2020, reappointed by Council 2020-2023)
Boston College

Councilors

all voting, elected to three-year terms, beginning and ending in May (note: all other appointments begin and end with the calendar year):

Francesco Ciabattoni (2023-2026)
Georgetown University

Sara Diaz (2023-2026)
Fairfield University

Susanna Barsella (2024-2027)
Fordham University

Filippo Gianferrari (2025-2028)
University of California, Santa Cruz

Heather Webb (2025-2028)
Yale University

Dante Studies Editorial Board, 2025

Kristina Olson (Editor-in-chief) (2024-2029)
George Mason University

Justin Steinberg (former Editor-in-chief) (2024)
University of Chicago

Martin Eisner (2022-2024; reappointed term 2025-2027)
Duke University

Susanna Barsella (2023-2025)
Fordham University

Fabian Alfie (2024-2026)
University of Arizona

Laura Banella (2024-2026)
University of Notre Dame

Anna Wainwright (2024-2026)
University of New Hampshire

Dennis Looney (2025-2027)
Independent Scholar

Cosette Bruhns Alonso (Managing Editor)
University of Pennsylvania

Dante Notes Editorial Board, 2024

Akash Kumar (Editor) (2023-2025; Associate Editor, 2016-2019; reappointed term 2020-2022)
University of California, Berkeley

Terrence Quinn (Associate Editor) (2021-2023; reappointed term 2024-2026)
St. Louis University High

Nassime Chida (Associate Editor) (2022-2024; reappointed term 2024-2026)
Duke University

Alyssa Granacki (Associate Editor) (2023-2025)
Colby College

Elizabeth Coggeshall (Associate Editor) (2024-2026)
Florida State University

Giacomo Berchi (Associate Editor) (2024-2026)
Stanford University

Education and Outreach Committee, 2024

Ronald Herzman (Chair 2023-2025; Director of Education and Outreach and Chair 2015-2019; reappointed term as Director: 2020-2022)
State University of New York at Geneseo

Elizabeth Coggeshall (2020-2023) (ex officio, as Director of Education and Outreach)
Florida State University

Danielle Callegari (2023-2025) (ex officio, as Director of Communication)
Dartmouth College

Akash Kumar (2023-2025) (ex officio, as Editor of Dante Notes)
University of California, Berkeley

Fabian Alfie (2024) (ex officio, as Chair, Prize Committee)
University of Arizona

Prize Committee, 2025

Marco Aresu (2025-2027)
University of Pennsylvania

Catherine Bloomer (2025-2026)
Villanova University

Anna Marra (2025)
Vanderbilt University

Bibliography Committee, 2025

Anna Wainwright (Chair and Bibliographer) (2019-2022; Chair, 2022; reappointed term as Chair, 2023-2025; appointed as Bibliographer 2024-2025)
University of New Hampshire

Sara Diaz (2023-2025)
Fairfield University

Julie Peteghem (2023-2026 ex officio, as Secretary)
Hunter College, City University of New York

Nominating Committee, 2025

Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. (Chair) (2024-2025)
University of Notre Dame

Christian Dupont (2024-2026)
Boston College

Arielle Saiber (2025-2027)
Johns Hopkins University

Audit Committee, 2025

Susanna Barsella (2023-2025)
Fordham University

Julie Van Peteghem (2024-2026)
Hunter College, City University of New York

Martin Eisner (2025-2027)
Duke University