Officers and Advisory Board members are elected by society members for three-year terms. Elections take place electronically prior to the annual conference, with terms beginning at the conclusion of the meeting. The election cycle begins with nominations from January through March, elections held in April, and results announced by email in May.

Bylaws for the Space Between Society

Minutes for The Space Between Society

Officers:

Megan Faragher, Co-President (2024), is Professor of English at Wright State University, Lake Campus, where her research interests include interwar literature, institutions, information culture, propaganda, and social psychology. She is the author of Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature: The Psychographic Turn (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Mid-century Women’s Writing (Manchester University Press, 2024). She has published articles in Prose Studies, Feminist Modernist Studies, Textual Practice, The Space Between Journal, and Literature & History. She also has essays in the collections Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time (2022), Humans at Work in the Digital Age (2019), and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City (2018). She co-edited, with Caroline Krzakowski, the Modernism/modernity Print Plus cluster on Modernist Institutions (2020). She is currently writing a monograph on literature and interwar management psychology. Previously served as web manager 2020-2023 and was former conference chair in 2024.

Luke Seaber, Co-President (2023), is Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture and Senior Co-Ordinator for the Undergraduate Preparatory Certificate for the Humanities at University College London. He is author of G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Influence on George Orwell: A Surprising Irony (2012) and Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017). He has published various articles and chapters on 19th- and 20th-century British literature, and is co-editor (with Space Between member Michael McCluskey) of Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain (2020) and (with Nick Hubble and Elinor Taylor) the Bloomsbury Decades of Fiction 1930s volume (2021).

Elizabeth Blake, Vice President (2025), is Associate Professor of English at Clark University, where she specializes in transnational modernisms, queer and feminist literature and theory, and food in literature. Her particular focus is on how queer pleasure is represented in the literature of the early twentieth century, and how those representations come to shape existing literary forms. She is also interested in the relationship between modernism and popular forms of cultural production, including cookbooks, dinner theatre, genre fiction, and women’s middlebrow fiction. She is the author of Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms (2023). Other recent work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Feminist Modernist Studies, and The Journal of Lesbian Studies. She has been attending The Space Between Society Conference since 2018, and has been a member of the advisory board since 2023.

Claire Buck, Treasurer (2022), is Professor of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts and author of Conceiving Strangeness in British First World War Writing (2015). Her research explores imperial and colonial tropes in war culture. Her current work concerns First World War photography and global labor migrancy. She has published on women’s modernism and has essays in Santanu Das and Kate McLoughlin (eds.) The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity (2018) and Debra Rae Cohen and Doug Higbee (eds.) Teaching Representations of the First World War (2017). A longtime member of the Space Between Society, she co-hosted the 2012 conference and served as Membership Secretary (2009-2012) and President (2015-2018). As President she worked to make professional development an integral part of the society conference.

Ally Nick, Membership Secretary (2024), is a Visiting Lecturer of Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany where she is teaching courses on American cultural history, modernism, and feminism. She received her PhD in English from the University of Mississippi, where she focused on British and American Modernism, Wartime and Postwar Literature, Transnational Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation explores the use of genre experimentation for political education in the works of Martha Gellhorn, Elizabeth Bowen, Pearl S. Buck, and Rebecca West. Her article, “Refugee Domesticity in Martha Gellhorn’s World War II Fiction,” was published in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature in 2023.

Rachel Martin, Web Manager (2025), is a Literature and Criticism PhD candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, specializing in multilingual American poets and Yiddish literature. She has lived on three continents, taught in a bilingual school, and trained pre-service teachers. She holds two master’s degrees, including one in instructional design. Questions of transmission, storytelling, and retention appear in all aspects of her life. Rachel is an adjunct instructor for the English and Communication Studies departments at Carroll College, where she works as an academic instructional technologist. Rachel is also a poet, exploring themes of memory, individuation, and translation.

Sarah E. Cornish, Journal Co-Editor (2025), is a Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Northern Colorado. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association, and her research on wartime’s impacts on literature and material culture in interwar, WWII, and midcentury literature and film focuses particularly on women’s writing and cultural production. Her articles have been published in Feminist Modernist Studies, Twentieth Century Literature, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. She has a recent chapter in Mid-century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the public/private divide (Manchester UP, 2024) edited by Melissa Dinsman, Meghan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson and is co-editor of two special issues: “Cinema in the Space Between: An International Approach” (Fall 2020), a special issue of The Space Between and “Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic” (Winter 2023), a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies. You can find Sarah on Bluesky: @secornish.bsky.social.

Melissa Dinsman, Journal Co-Editor (2025), is Associate Professor of English at York College-CUNY, author of Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Aesthetics During World War II (Bloomsbury 2015), and co-editor of Mid-Century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the public/private divide. Her research focuses on WWII writers, the politics of the domestic, propaganda, and information networks. Dinsman’s recent work can be found in ELN, Feminist Modernist Studies, and Women’s Writing as well as chapters in The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English, The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell, and the forthcoming Virginia Woolf and Transnationalism (Edinburgh UP). She has been associated with the Space Between Society for over a decade and has served on the Advisory Board and Executive Board as web manager and co-President.

Sarah Gleeson-White, Book Review Co-Editor (2023), is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Sydney. She has published widely in early twentieth-century U.S. literature and film in, for example, PMLA, Modernism/modernity, and African American Review, and her books include William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays (Oxford UP 2017), Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers (Alabama UP 2003) and, as co-editor with Pardis Dabashi, The New William Faulkner Studies (Cambridge UP 2022). Her current book project, Literature in Motion: Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture, is under contract with Oxford UP, and she is at work on a chapter about Alice Dunbar Nelson and the movies for Jim Crow Modernism, ed. R. Jackson, A McKible & K. Clark (also under contract with Oxford UP).

Jessica Masters, Book Review Co-Editor (2023), holds an MPhil in English and is currently completing a PhD in the Department of English at the University of Sydney about transnational modernist art objects and narrative form, focusing on the work of Jean Toomer, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, and Willa Cather. She is currently working on an article about Henry Green and the late modernist sublime. Jessica has extensive professional writing and editorial experience, including while working at the Australian National University, and as a research assistant at the University of Sydney.

Michael McCluskey, Podcast Editor (2020), is Associate Teaching Professor of English at Northeastern University. He was previously Lecturer in English at the University of York, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, and a Fellow at metaLAB (at) Harvard. His research looks at literature and film from (mostly) the 1920s and ’30s to consider the history of technology, the history of education, and the intersection of the two. He is co-editor, with Kristin Bluemel, of Rural Modernity in Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and co-editor, with Luke Seaber, of Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He is currently writing a monograph on 1930s British documentary and working on an edited collection about infrastructure in the space between.

ADVISORY BOARD

Joshua Calandrella (2025) is a PhD candidate in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His literary studies weave together the regrowth of twentieth-century Yiddish Poetry after the Holocaust and the layering of Jewish literary history across space and time. He also studies Biblical Hebrew, Chassidic literature, World Mythology, Latin American Literature, and the interweaving of Romanticism and Mysticism in European and American novels. When he is not teaching English Composition at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, Joshua writes poetry and leads multilingual reading communities in his surrealist yeshiva.

Debra Rae Cohen (2021; 2024) is Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on British modernism and media, especially radio, and women’s literary responses to war and political crisis. She is the author of Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women’s Great War Fiction, and co-editor of the collections Broadcasting Modernism and Teaching Representations of the First World War. She was a founding member of The Space Between and the first book review editor of its journal. Former editor of the journal Modernism/modernity, she is currently the Past President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Caroline Krzakowski (2023) is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Her first book, Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture (2023), examines representations of international relations in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carré, and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock that respond to the political instability of the post-war period. She is the co-editor, alongside Megan Faragher, of the Modernism/modernity Print Plus cluster on Modernist Institutions (2020). She has also contributed to collections including The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology (2021), and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (2015).

Michael T. Williamson (2025) is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as Director of the Doctoral Program in Literature and Criticism, the Director of the MA Program in Literature, and the MA Program in Composition and Literature. He is also a founding member of Humanities Training for Law Enforcement, Co-Director of the Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative, and Editor of the journal Pennsylvania English. A member of The Space Between Society since 2006, he has published essays on Yiddish Literature, Middlebrow Literature, Holocaust Literature, and Women’s Spy Fiction. He was Vice President of the Space Between Society from 2022 – 2025.

Sarah Woodbury (2021; 2024) is Curator of Art at the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University, where her exhibitions have addressed such topics as automatons, maritime painting, and Barbie dolls. She previously held curatorial appointments at the Roswell Museum in New Mexico, Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and the Dallas Museum of Art. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary, and completed her B.A. and M.A. in Art History at Lake Forest College and Williams College, respectively. Her scholarly research focuses on art access, with her dissertation concentrating on outreach exhibitions. Her work has appeared in The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, Arts, and in the collection Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum, edited by Hajra Williams, Kate Guy, and Claire Wintle.