The Society for Novel Studies (SNS) exists to further the study of the novel as a genre and to examine the role of fiction in engaging, formulating, and shaping the world.
Members of the SNS share an interest in the novel as a historical and contemporary phenomenon, as a genre continually open to change and experimentation, and as a national, regional, transnational, and global form. The society’s membership is occupied in researching individual works of fiction and their writers and in engaging in critical study of the theoretical questions posed by the writing, reading, translation, distribution, and consumption of novels.
Current Board
Penny Fielding
President
Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk
Aarthi Vadde
Vice-President
Department of English, Duke University
aarthi.vadde@duke.edu
Janice Ho
Secretary/Treasurer
Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
j.ho@ubc.ca
Amanda Claybaugh
Immediate Past President
Department of English, Harvard University
amanda_claybaugh@harvard.edu
Ex officio
Kevin McLaughlin
Editor of NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
Brown University
Board Members
Elizabeth Miller
Department of English, University of California-Davis
ecmill@ucdavis.edu
Nasser Mufti
Department of English, University of Illinois-Chicago
nmufti@uic.edu
Kinohi Nishikawa
Department of English, Princeton
kinohin@princeton.edu
John Plotz
Department of English, Brandeis University
plotz@brandeis.edu
Sunny Yudkoff
Department of German, Nordic, and Slavis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
yudkoff@wisc.edu
Society of Novel Studies Podcast: Novel Dialogue
