Welcome to EC/ASECS
East Central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
The East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held its first meeting in 1970, a few months after the inaugural meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ACECS), of which it is an affiliate. EC/ASECS's region includes most of the Mid-Atlantic area: Delaware, Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Society meets every fall, usually in October or November. Members represent virtually every discipline related to eighteenth-century studies. Our members hail from coast to coast, from Canada to Mexico, and from various points overseas.
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EC/ASECS Annual Conference comes to
[image at left: HMS Swallow, under Chaloner Ogle, at the Battle of Cape Lopez against pirate Black Bart (Bartholomew Roberts) in his ship Royal Fortune, in which Roberts was killed. Painted by Charles Edward Dixon.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Edward_Dixon_HMS_Swallow_1703_Black_Bart_Battle_of_Cape_Lopez_Royal_Fortune_Bartholomew_Roberts.jpg]
Executive Committee: 2024
President: Jane Wessel
Vice President: Brett Wilson
1st. Past President: Greg Clingham
2nd. Past President: Anna Foy
Web Wizard: Susan C. Beam (susancheriebeam@gmail.com)
ECI editor: Jim May
Past and Future Conference Chairs: Brett Wilson (2023), Eleanor Shevlin/Sylvia Marks (2020/2021/2022), Joann Myers (2019), Peter Staffel (2019/2018), Emily Kugler (2017), Marie McAllister (2016), Eleanor Shevlin (2015), Cheryl Wanko (2015), Rodney Mader (2015), Don Mell (2014), Matt Kinservik (2014)
Elected Board Members & Molin Prize Judges: David Palumbo, Brett Wilson, and Linda Merians
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Resources
One of our members, Kevin J. Berland, is the founder, owner, factotum, etc., of the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Discussion Bulletin Board (C18-L).
Membership Information
For information on membership or on the annual meeting, contact Executive Secretary Kevin Cope at encope@lsu.edu.
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
The Society's newsletter, the Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, formerly the East-Central Intelligencer, is the most substantial of the ASECS-affiliate societies' newsletters, averaging over 70 pages for each of its two annual issues. The editor is James E. May; he can be contacted at jem4@psu.edu.
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
ECI Volume 37, Number 1: March 2023 - full text
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