Welcome

The Defoe Society, an international body, was formed in 2006 in order to achieve the following:

  1. To facilitate discussions and exchanges between Defoe scholars;
  2. To encourage Defoe scholarship through the organization of academic panels, the eventual establishment of regular meetings, and the creation of an informal newsletter;
  3. To build a website, on which will be posted an ongoing database of new Defoe publications;
  4. To establish a relationship with libraries with significant Defoe collections, and to seek to access, and to post on our site, select primary documents shared by those libraries;
  5. To discuss pedagogy in relation to Defoe's corpus and;
  6. To encourage increased public awareness of Defoe and his work.

Executive Board

President: Max Novak (University of California, Los Angeles)
Vice President: Robert Mayer (Oklahoma State University)
Director: Sharon Alker (Whitman College)
Secretary: Ben Pauley (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Liaison Officer: Kit Kincade (Indiana State University)
Journal Editor: Katherine Ellison (Illinois State University)
Journal Editor: Holly Nelson (Trinity Western University, Canada)
At-Large Member: John Richetti (University of Pennsylvania)
At-Large Member: Christopher Flynn (St. Edward's University)
At-Large Member: Geoffrey Sill (Rutgers University-Camden)
At-Large Member: Andreas Mueller (University of Worcester, UK)
Graduate Student Representative: Ashley Marshall (Ph. D Student, Pennsylvania State University)