Mark Fulk's Statement

Mark Fulk, Buffalo State College SUNY :

I am an associate professor with a specialty in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Feminist and Queer Studies.  I have published one book (Understanding May Sarton, University of South Carolina Press, 2001) and articles on various topics including John Dryden, Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, Stephen Sondheim, and Philip Roth.  I am currently working on a book-length study of Susan Sontag's essays.  I been at SUNY Buffalo State for 13 years.  I have served on various conference organizing bodies, including being executive president of The Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830.  In my capacity on these various boards, I have helped to organize seven academic conferences.  I am interested in serving on the NeMLA board because I have attended several NeMLA conferences and find them very high quality and want to continue this tradition.  In particular, I would like to see more of a space made at NeMLA for discussion and application of Literary Theory and Aesthetic Philosophy, as many of us use this material in significant ways in our writing and teaching.