Executive Council

The Executive Council, along with the Advisory Board, makes up the governing mechanism of NAVSA and is elected into position by the general membership. The Council, unlike the Board, executes the tasks of the organization (funding, prizes, database management, and so on).  For further information about the Executive Council and the Advisory Board, see our Constitution under "About NAVSA" (left-hand menu). If you have an issue that you wish to see addressed, feel free to write to the President of NAVSA, Cannon Schmitt, or to any individual member of the Executive Council or Advisory Board. The members of NAVSA's Executive Council are as follows:

Cannon Schmitt (2023-2025)
(President)
English, U of Toronto

Rachel Ablow (2023-2025)
(Vice-President)
Department of English, U of Buffalo

Kate Flint (2023-2025)
(Past President)
Department of English and of Art History, U of Southern California

Secretary-Treasurer

Laura Rotunno (2022-2026)
Department of English, U of Penn State, Altoona

Executive Secretaries

Mary Ellis Gibson (2022-2026)
(Donald Gray Prize administrator)
Department of English, Colby College

Pamela K. Gilbert  (2024-2028)
(Sally Mitchell Prize administrator)
Department of English, U of Florida

Priti Joshi (2020-2024)
(Membership Renewal administrator)
Department of English, U of Puget Sound

Canadian Representative

Lauren Gillingham (2022-2025)
(Canadian Representative and administrator of the travel grant and ACCUTE panel)
Department of English, U of Ottawa

Ex Officio Members

Dino Franco Felluga
(Web Developer)
Department of English, Purdue U, West Lafayette

Adrian Wisnicki
(COVE Representative)
Department of English, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

Monique Morgan
(Editor of Victorian Studies)
Department of English, Indiana U, Bloomington

Future Conference Organizers (ex officio)

Monique Morgan
(2023 conference organizer)
Department of English, Indiana U

Dino Franco Felluga
(2024 conference organizer)
Department of English, Purdue U

Nathan Hensley
(2025 conference organizer)
Department of English, Georgetown U


Graduate-Student Administrative Assistants 
Matthew Taitano (courtesy of the Department of English, Purdue U)
Monica Wolfe (courtesy of the Department of English, Purdue U)


Past Members of the Executive Council

Emily Allen, Jason Camlot, Dennis Denisoff, Pamela Gilbert, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lauren Goodlad, Sean Grass, Jason Jones, Barbara Leckie, Meegan Kennedy, Richard Menke, Elsie B. Michie, Andrew Miller, Deborah Denenholz Morse, Cannon Schmitt, Meagan Timney, Chris VandenBossche and Susan Zieger
Past Presidents
Dino Franco Felluga (2003-2014); Marlene Tromp (2014-2016); Dennis Denisoff (2016-2019); Kate Flint (2020-2022)