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President

Professor Maureen Moran is the new President of the English Association. Professor Moran has held a number of senior managerial posts, including Assistant Principal (Academic) at the West London Institute of Higher Education, Head of the Department of English at Brunel University, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Brunel. For six years she was an Associate Editor of The Year's Work in English Studies with special responsibility for the nineteenth and twentieth-century chapters and for work on critical and cultural theory. She serves on a number of editorial boards including English Literature in Transition and the Boydell and Brewer research monograph series, English Association Studies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Public Orator of the University. Her specialist teaching and research area is Victorian literature, and she has published on such topics as Pater, Hopkins, witchcraft and Victorian women's writing, and Victorian literature and religion. Her most recent publications include Victorian Literature and Culture (Continuum Press, 2006) and Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2007).

Chair

Adrian Barlow, Unversity of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, is the new Chair of the English Association. He is Director of Public Programmes and Staff Tutor in Literature at Madingley Hall, Lead Consultant, Oxford University English Literature Admissions Test (ELAT); Cambridge Inspector for Language-Literature, (Option International) French Baccalauréat; Series editor, Cambridge Contexts in Literature (21 vols.) Cambridge University Press; member of External Advisory Panel, Oxford University Faculty of English. Adrian is also co-editor of the English Association's Newsletter. His recent publications include World and Time: Teaching Literature in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Great War in British Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Hon. Treasurer

Dr Catherine Alexander is the new Treasurer of the English Association. Dr Alexander joined the Board of Trustees in 1999. She was a founding member of the British Shakespeare Association and was Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the International Shakespeare Association until 2003. Prior to her appointment as Fellow of the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute, where she has particular responsibility for the MA Shakespeare & Theatre and MA Shakespeare & Education programmes, Cath worked part-time as a Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Centre (where she also edited Shakespeare at the Centre) and part-time as a Lecturer in the English Department on the main campus of the University of Birmingham.