Gannon University
Board of Directors
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President 2024-2025
Victoria L. Ketz
ketz@lasalle.edu
Global Languages, Literatures, and Perspectives, La Salle University
Vice President 2023-2025
Simona Wright
simona@tcnj.edu
World Languages and Cultures, The College of New Jersey
Past President 2022-2025
Modhumita Roy
Modhumita.Roy@tufts.edu
English, Tufts University
OFFICERS
Associate Executive Director 2024-2025
Derek DiMatteo
dimatteo001@gannon.edu
English, Gannon University (Erie, PA)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
American and Diaspora Studies Director 2024-2027
Nicole Lowman
nllowman@buffalo.edu
Engineering Education, University at Buffalo
British and Global Anglophone Studies Director 2023-2026
Angela Fulk
fulkab@buffalostate.edu
English, SUNY Buffalo State College
CAITY Caucus President and Representative 2023-2026
Maria Plochocki
bastet801@att.net
English, City University of New York
Comparative Literature Director 2024-2027
Ernesto Livorni
elivorni@wisc.edu
Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Creative Writing, Publishing, and Editing Director 2022-2025
Maria Matz
Maria_Matz@uml.edu
Department of World Languages and Cultures, UMass-Lowell
Cultural Studies and Media Studies Director 2024-2027
Julia Titus
julia.titus@yale.edu
Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Diversity Caucus President 2023-2026
Ann Marie Short
ashort@saintmarys.edu
English & Gender and Women's Studies, Saint Mary's College
French and Francophone Studies Director 2024-2025
Olivier Le Blond
olivier.leblond@ung.edu
Department of Modern Languages, University of North Georgia
Graduate Student Caucus Representative 2023-2024
Christian Ylagan
cylagan2@uwo.ca
Comparative Literature, Western University
Hispanophone and Lusophone Studies Director 2022-2025
Esther Alarcon-Arana
em.alarcon@gmail.com
Modern Languages, Salve Regina University
Italian Studies Director 2023-2026
Giusy Di Filippo
gdifilip@holycross.edu
Italian Studies, College of the Holy Cross
Pedagogy & Professionalization Director 2024-2027
Kathleen Kasten-Mutkus
kathleen.e.kasten@gmail.com
Rutgers University Libraries
Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Representative 2023-2026
Maria Rovito
mrr354@psu.edu
American Studies and English, Penn State University at Harrisburg
