Curriculum Vitae
2024-Present: Professor of English, St. John’s University, New York
2018-2024: Professor and Chair, Department of English, St. John’s University, New York
2012-2015: Director, Women’s Studies Program, St. John’s University
2007-2017: Associate Professor of English, St. John’s University
1999-2006: Assistant Professor of English, St. John's University
1996-1999: Assistant Professor of English (tenure track), Illinois State University
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English and American Literature, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1996
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University, Dissertation Director; Michael T. Gilmore, Brandeis University; Robert Ferguson, Columbia University, Readers
School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Summer 2004
M.A. Women's Studies and English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 1994
B.A. Honors in English and General Honors, Vassar College, NY, 1989
SELECT COURSES TAUGHT (Graduate and Undergraduate)
Disaster and Vulnerability in American Literature and Culture; Professional Writing; Introduction to Graduate Studies; Trauma Studies; Monsters, Vampires, Ghosts; English Studies in the Digital Age; Literary Digital Studies; Digital Pedagogy; American Women Writers and Wikipedia; American Women Writers and the Dead: a Service Learning Course in Conjunction with the Maple Grove Cemetery, Queens NY; The Gothic Imagination; Women and Literature; True Blood: Vampires, Zombies, and American Literature; American Renaissance; American Literary Realism and Naturalism; African American Literature; Early American Literature; Global Literature; Distance Learning Pedagogy; Dissertation Workshop; Dissertation director and committee member on over 30 dissertations, comprehensive exams, and Master’s theses; McNair and Ozanam scholar project mentor; graduate and undergraduate independent study mentor; internship director.
CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY
Technology Associate, 2014-2019
Distance Learning Mentor, 2005-2018
Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, 2012-2013
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, 2009-2010 and 2012-2013
Online Learning Consortium: Certificate in Digital Storytelling, Digital Pedagogy, 2011.
Co-designed St. John’s CTL Certificate in Digital Pedagogy
CTL Faculty Workshops: Designing Digital Projects, Collaborating with CommentPress, Wikipedia in the Classroom
Co-founder and coordinator of Digital Humanities @SJU
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Books (hardcover, paper, and digital editions):
Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture Series: Co-edited with Jean M. Lutes. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Danger and Vulnerability in American Literature: Crash and Burn. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018/2020.
Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Co-edited with Jessica DeSpain. Series: Topics in Digital Humanities. Series Editor: Susan Schreibman. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Boys Don’t Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Co-edited with Milette Shamir. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Articles in Books:
“Vulnerability and Victimhood in American Literature and Culture.” American Literature and Vulnerability. Kazuya Ikuta, Editor. Ryuto Umezawa, Translator. Sairyusha Press, Tokyo, Japan. Forthcoming May 2027.
“Introduction.” Lutes & Travis. Gender in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
“Disastrous Wrecks: Wharton and Wound Culture.” The New Edith Wharton Studies. Edited by Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Invited Essay.
“Introduction: Digital Humanities and the Nineteenth-Century Classroom.” DeSpain & Travis.Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Co-edited with Jessica DeSpain. Series: Topics in Digital Humanities. Series Editor: Susan Schreibman. University of Illinois Press, 2018.
“National Traumas and National Tragedies: The Vocabulary of Expectation and Lament Post 9/11,” Recovering 9/11 in New York. Co-Edited by Michael Wolfe and Robert Fanuzzi. Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. Invited Essay.
“Accidents, Agency, and American Literary Naturalism.” Cambridge History of American Women Writers. Edited by Dale Bauer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Invited Essay.
“Introduction.” Shamir & Travis. Boys Don’t Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Co-edited with Milette Shamir, Editors. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
“Willa Cather’s Law of the Heart: Emotional Injury and its Fictions.” In Boys Don’t Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. Edited by Jennifer Travis and Milette Shamir. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002
Articles in Journals:
“Wikipedia and Women Writers and Readers: Closing the Gender Gap through Collaborative Learning.” Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013. Invited Article.
“On Earthquakes and Strong Sentiment: The Culture of Sentiment Twenty Years Later.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2013. Invited Reflection Essay.
“The Trials of Law and Literature” American Literary History 2009. 21 (2): 345-355. Invited Review Essay.
“Pain and Recompense: The Trouble with Ethan Frome,” Children’s Literature Review, Vol. 136 (CLR-136) (Summer 2008). Reprint.
“Injury’s Accountant: Theodore Dreiser and the Railroad,” Studies in American Naturalism 3 (1) (Summer 2008): 42-60.
"Sexual Evidence and the Scope of Injury: Willa Cather's A Lost Lady," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 29 #2 (Winter, 2000).
"The Cost of Feeling: Emotional Injury in Henry James's The Golden Bowl," Modern Fiction Studies 44 (4) (December 1998): 837-64.
"Pain and Recompense: The Trouble with Ethan Frome," Arizona Quarterly 53 (3) (Fall 1997).
Book Reviews:
“Telling Our Stories,” American Literary History, July 2016. Invited Review Essay.
Review of Family, Kinship and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Cindy Weinstein and Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature by David Greven. Studies in the Novel (Summer 2009). Invited Review.
Review of Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920 by John Pettegrew. American Historical Review (April 2008): 522-523. Invited Review.
“Trauma Studies Before and After 9/11,” St. John’s Humanities Review Spring 2004. Invited Review.
Review of Kirby Farrell's Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties. JPCS (Spring 2000). Invited Review.
"Parker's Melville." The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Dalkey Archive Press, Summer 1997. Invited Review.
INVITED LECTURES/CONFERENCES/KEYNOTES:
Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka Japan: “Crash Lit: American Women Writers and Legacies of Gender,” October 9, 2024, invited.
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan: “Disaster in American Literature and Culture,” October 10, 2024, invited.
American Literature Society of Japan, Chukyo University, Nagoya Japan: Workshop, Vulnerability in American Literature, October 13, 2024, invited.
Rikkyo University, Tokyo Japan: “Disaster in American Literature and Culture,” October 15, 2024, invited.
Sophia University, Tokyo Japan: “Crash Lit: American Women Writers and Legacies of Gender,” October 16, 2024, invited.
Keynote Lecture, AISNA Biennial Conference (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani—The North American Studies Association of Italy): “Vulnerability and the Literary Imagination.” Conference Title: Vulnerabilities: Weaknesses, Threats, Resilience in the U.S.A. and in Global Perspectives; 21-23 September 2023, University of Perugia, invited.
New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship. American Literature Association. May, 2023, invited chair.
“Back Talk or Talking Back: Behind the Wikipedia Page.” Feminist Digital Pedagogy Roundtable. Modern Language Association. New York, January 2018, organizer and presenter.
Digital Pedagogy and American Literary Culture. Roundtable. Modern Language Association. Featured Presidential Panel. Philadelphia, January 8, 2017, organizer and presenter.
“Crash Lit: On American Women Writers and the Culture of Speed.” Modern Language Association, January 6, 2017. Featured Presidential Panel and Invited Presenter.
“From Strunk and White to Hip Hop Rhetoric: Discourse Communities.” Creative Connectivity—Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Quinnipiac University, November 18-19, 2016; featuring St. John’s graduate students and doctoral students.
D19: Digital Pedagogy in C19 Studies. C19: Conference of Nineteenth Century Americanists. Penn State University, March 17, 2016, organizer and presenter.
Digital Pedagogy and American Literary Culture. Roundtable. Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada. April 2015, organizer and chair.
“The Art of Accident.” Library as Method. Featured Presidential Panel at Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada. January 9, 2015, presenter.
“Creative Destruction: Conflagration, The Newspaper Sketch, and Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster.’” American Literature Association, May 2014, presenter.
“All Things Must Be Known: Dave Eggers’ The Circle, Social Media, and Digital Literary Pedagogy.” American Literature Association: Roundtable on Literature and Pedagogy, May 2014, presenter.
“Reading and Risk: The Sensation Novel, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and the Law.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Boulder Colorado, October 2012, invited presenter.
“Creating a Writing Community from a Written Requirement: The Year Long Dissertation Workshop.” International Writing Across the Curriculum Convention. University of Georgia, Savannah. June 7-9, 2012, chair and presenter.
“American Women Writers: Building Presence Through Social Media,” Nineteenth Century Literature/Twenty-First Century Literacies, C19 Conference, University of California Berkeley, April 11-16, 2012, organizer, chair, and presenter.
“9/11 and the Language of Lament,” Making Sense of 9/11: Ten Years Later. St. John’s University, September 17, 2011, invited presenter.
“The Vocabulary of Injury and Realism’s Martial Men,” American Literature Association, presenter, May 2011, presenter.
Keynote, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut: “Fright! Gendered Injuries in America” April 21, 2008, invited.
“Safety and Danger: The Sensation Novel and the Laws of Fright,” Humanities Institute Lecture Series. The University of Connecticut, February 13, 2008, invited lecture.
Keynote Plenary: “Feeling American Studies,” New York Metro American Studies Association, Columbia University, October 2007, invited.
“The Call to Harms: The Discourse of Injury in American Culture,” The Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, September 2007, invited lecture.
“Edith Wharton and the Railroad,” Edith Wharton Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., December 2005, presenter.
“Injury: The Battle of Soldier’s Heart and the American Civil War,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004.
“Scientists of Affect: The Politics of Emotion and the Professionalization of Reading Pain,” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004, presenter.
“On Personal Quantity: Psychic Injury in Henry James’s The Golden Bowl,” New York Americanist Seminar, Fordham University, February 21, 2004, presenter.
"Women in the Academy," American Association of University Women. Manhasset, New York, March 22, 2001, invited lecture.
"The Soul Has Bandaged Moments.” New York Americanist Seminar, New York University, Draper Center, October 6, 2001, invited.
Keynote: “Boys Don't Cry?” Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and The Emotions. Symposium at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 27-28, 2001, invited.
"Liberationists, Keepers, and Weepers: Men and Emotions at the Millennium," American Studies Association, Montreal 1999, panelist.
Keynote Lecture: "Emotional Distress: Literary and Cultural Configurations of Pain," The Newberry Library. November 1997, Monticello Lecture.
Keynote: "Pain, Modernity, and Literary History," Gender and Modernity: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series. Illinois State, March,1997, invited.
"Emotional Injury and the Price of Protection in Turn-of-the-Century-America," Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, 1995, presenter.
AWARDS/HONORS (selected)
Summer Research Grant, St. John’s University, 2002, 2023, 2016, 2018
Ozanam Scholar Mentor Award, 2015
Center for Teaching and Learning Grant, 2014
Legacy Mentor Award, Society for Multicultural Affairs, St. John’s University, 2014
Center for Teaching and Learning Travel Grant, 2014
McNair Scholars Program, Mentor of the Year, St. John’s University, 2013
Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, St. John’s University, 2012-2013
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, St. John’s, 2009-2010 and 2012-2013
Distance Learning Recognition Award, St. John’s University, 2012
Outstanding Achievement Award, St. John’s University, 2011
Recognition/Merit Award, St. John’s University, 2001-2008; 2010-2016; 2018 (program discontinued 2020)
The Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Fellow, 2007-8
American Association of University Women (AAUW), American Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2001
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Summer Fellowship at the Pierpont Morgan Library, 2000.
The Huntington Library, W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship and Mellon Fellowship, July-August,1998
College of Physicians Fellowship, Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, 1998-9
University Teaching Award, Illinois State University, 1998
University Research Initiative Award, Illinois State, 1998
The Newberry Library, Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women, 1997
University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Illinois State University, 1997 & 1999
Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sacher Grant for Summer Research, Brandeis University, 1995
Grant Prize for Outstanding Research in Women's Studies, Brandeis University Women's Studies Program, 1994-5
Mellon Fellowship, Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University 1994-5
Best Essay in Women's Language and Literature, Women's Caucus, Northeast Modern Language Association, 1994
Best Essay, Feminist Theory Colloquium Prize, Brandeis University, 1994
Northeast Modern Language Association Summer Grant, 1994
Feigl-Berger Fellowship, Brandeis University, 1991-1994
RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)
Manuscript Reviews: Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, Palgrave Macmillan
Tenure Referee: College of William and Mary, SUNY Westbury, Indiana University
Outside Reader for Ph.D. Dissertation: Connecticut State University, School of Education
Grant Referee: The Newberry Library, The Huntington Library, Villanova University
SERVICE ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (selected appointments)
MA in Professional Writing and Strategic Communication, co-founder, proposal in progress for New York State approval (2021-present)
University Core Curriculum Committee and Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee, 2019-2024: core curriculum revision for the university
Department Chair: Personnel and Budget, Committee Graduate and Undergraduate Curriculum Committees
Professional Development Working Group, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, 2018-2024
Strategic Priority Review Team, Teaching and Learning, January 2016-2024
Revision of Undergraduate Curriculum, English, 2019-2022
Director, Women and Gender Studies Program, 2012-2015
Personnel and Budget Committee, 2006-2012
MEMBERSHIPS/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
Association Departments of English (ADE), Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
C19: Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists
Metro-American Studies Association
Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka Japan: “Crash Lit: American Women Writers and Legacies of Gender,” October 9, 2024, invited.
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan: “Disaster in American Literature and Culture,” October 10, 2024, invited.
American Literature Society of Japan, Chukyo University, Nagoya Japan: Workshop, Vulnerability in American Literature, October 13, 2024, invited.
Rikkyo University, Tokyo Japan: “Disaster in American Literature and Culture,” October 15, 2024, invited.
Sophia University, Tokyo Japan: “Crash Lit: American Women Writers and Legacies of Gender,” October 16, 2024, invited.
Keynote Lecture, AISNA Biennial Conference (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani—The North American Studies Association of Italy): “Vulnerability and the Literary Imagination.” Conference Title: Vulnerabilities: Weaknesses, Threats, Resilience in the U.S.A. and in Global Perspectives; 21-23 September 2023, University of Perugia, invited.
New Directions in Stephen Crane Scholarship. American Literature Association. May, 2023, invited chair.
“Back Talk or Talking Back: Behind the Wikipedia Page.” Feminist Digital Pedagogy Roundtable. Modern Language Association. New York, January 2018, organizer and presenter.
Digital Pedagogy and American Literary Culture. Roundtable. Modern Language Association. Featured Presidential Panel. Philadelphia, January 8, 2017, organizer and presenter.
“Crash Lit: On American Women Writers and the Culture of Speed.” Modern Language Association, January 6, 2017. Featured Presidential Panel and Invited Presenter.
“From Strunk and White to Hip Hop Rhetoric: Discourse Communities.” Creative Connectivity—Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Quinnipiac University, November 18-19, 2016; featuring St. John’s graduate students and doctoral students.
D19: Digital Pedagogy in C19 Studies. C19: Conference of Nineteenth Century Americanists. Penn State University, March 17, 2016, organizer and presenter.
Digital Pedagogy and American Literary Culture. Roundtable. Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada. April 2015, organizer and chair.
“The Art of Accident.” Library as Method. Featured Presidential Panel at Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada. January 9, 2015, presenter.
“Creative Destruction: Conflagration, The Newspaper Sketch, and Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster.’” American Literature Association, May 2014, presenter.
“All Things Must Be Known: Dave Eggers’ The Circle, Social Media, and Digital Literary Pedagogy.” American Literature Association: Roundtable on Literature and Pedagogy, May 2014, presenter.
“Reading and Risk: The Sensation Novel, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and the Law.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Boulder Colorado, October 2012, invited presenter.
“Creating a Writing Community from a Written Requirement: The Year Long Dissertation Workshop.” International Writing Across the Curriculum Convention. University of Georgia, Savannah. June 7-9, 2012, chair and presenter.
“American Women Writers: Building Presence Through Social Media,” Nineteenth Century Literature/Twenty-First Century Literacies, C19 Conference, University of California Berkeley, April 11-16, 2012, organizer, chair, and presenter.
“9/11 and the Language of Lament,” Making Sense of 9/11: Ten Years Later. St. John’s University, September 17, 2011, invited presenter.
“The Vocabulary of Injury and Realism’s Martial Men,” American Literature Association, presenter, May 2011, presenter.
Keynote, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut: “Fright! Gendered Injuries in America” April 21, 2008, invited.
“Safety and Danger: The Sensation Novel and the Laws of Fright,” Humanities Institute Lecture Series. The University of Connecticut, February 13, 2008, invited lecture.
Keynote Plenary: “Feeling American Studies,” New York Metro American Studies Association, Columbia University, October 2007, invited.
“The Call to Harms: The Discourse of Injury in American Culture,” The Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, September 2007, invited lecture.
“Edith Wharton and the Railroad,” Edith Wharton Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., December 2005, presenter.
“Injury: The Battle of Soldier’s Heart and the American Civil War,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004.
“Scientists of Affect: The Politics of Emotion and the Professionalization of Reading Pain,” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004, presenter.
“On Personal Quantity: Psychic Injury in Henry James’s The Golden Bowl,” New York Americanist Seminar, Fordham University, February 21, 2004, presenter.
"Women in the Academy," American Association of University Women. Manhasset, New York, March 22, 2001, invited lecture.
"The Soul Has Bandaged Moments.” New York Americanist Seminar, New York University, Draper Center, October 6, 2001, invited.
Keynote: “Boys Don't Cry?” Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and The Emotions. Symposium at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 27-28, 2001, invited.
"Liberationists, Keepers, and Weepers: Men and Emotions at the Millennium," American Studies Association, Montreal 1999, panelist.
Keynote Lecture: "Emotional Distress: Literary and Cultural Configurations of Pain," The Newberry Library. November 1997, Monticello Lecture.
Keynote: "Pain, Modernity, and Literary History," Gender and Modernity: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series. Illinois State, March,1997, invited.
"Emotional Injury and the Price of Protection in Turn-of-the-Century-America," Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, 1995, presenter.
AWARDS/HONORS (selected)
Summer Research Grant, St. John’s University, 2002, 2023, 2016, 2018
Ozanam Scholar Mentor Award, 2015
Center for Teaching and Learning Grant, 2014
Legacy Mentor Award, Society for Multicultural Affairs, St. John’s University, 2014
Center for Teaching and Learning Travel Grant, 2014
McNair Scholars Program, Mentor of the Year, St. John’s University, 2013
Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, St. John’s University, 2012-2013
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, St. John’s, 2009-2010 and 2012-2013
Distance Learning Recognition Award, St. John’s University, 2012
Outstanding Achievement Award, St. John’s University, 2011
Recognition/Merit Award, St. John’s University, 2001-2008; 2010-2016; 2018 (program discontinued 2020)
The Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut, Fellow, 2007-8
American Association of University Women (AAUW), American Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2001
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Summer Fellowship at the Pierpont Morgan Library, 2000.
The Huntington Library, W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship and Mellon Fellowship, July-August,1998
College of Physicians Fellowship, Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, 1998-9
University Teaching Award, Illinois State University, 1998
University Research Initiative Award, Illinois State, 1998
The Newberry Library, Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women, 1997
University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Illinois State University, 1997 & 1999
Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sacher Grant for Summer Research, Brandeis University, 1995
Grant Prize for Outstanding Research in Women's Studies, Brandeis University Women's Studies Program, 1994-5
Mellon Fellowship, Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University 1994-5
Best Essay in Women's Language and Literature, Women's Caucus, Northeast Modern Language Association, 1994
Best Essay, Feminist Theory Colloquium Prize, Brandeis University, 1994
Northeast Modern Language Association Summer Grant, 1994
Feigl-Berger Fellowship, Brandeis University, 1991-1994
RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)
Manuscript Reviews: Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, Palgrave Macmillan
Tenure Referee: College of William and Mary, SUNY Westbury, Indiana University
Outside Reader for Ph.D. Dissertation: Connecticut State University, School of Education
Grant Referee: The Newberry Library, The Huntington Library, Villanova University
SERVICE ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY (selected appointments)
MA in Professional Writing and Strategic Communication, co-founder, proposal in progress for New York State approval (2021-present)
University Core Curriculum Committee and Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee, 2019-2024: core curriculum revision for the university
Department Chair: Personnel and Budget, Committee Graduate and Undergraduate Curriculum Committees
Professional Development Working Group, Equity and Inclusion Task Force, 2018-2024
Strategic Priority Review Team, Teaching and Learning, January 2016-2024
Revision of Undergraduate Curriculum, English, 2019-2022
Director, Women and Gender Studies Program, 2012-2015
Personnel and Budget Committee, 2006-2012
MEMBERSHIPS/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
Association Departments of English (ADE), Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
C19: Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists
Metro-American Studies Association