Established in 1969. Affiliate since January 2000. Membership: 2,100. Annual dues: $30 student; $30–75 regular; $85 joint; $500 life.

Statement of Purpose: ASECS is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

Annual Meeting: March

Publications: Eighteenth-Century Studies, quarterly; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, annual; News Circular, quarterly newsletter.

Website: https://www.asecs.org/

Address
American Society for 18th-Century Studies
2397 NW Kings Blvd.
PMB 114
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 845.202.0672

Primary Contact: Benita Blessing, asecsoffice@gmail.com

Officers

President
Wendy Wassyng Roworth
Univ. of Rhode Island
Email: president@asecs.org

First Vice President
Lisa A. Freeman
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
E-mail: lfreeman@uic.edu

Second Vice President
Paola Bertucci
Yale Univ.
Email: paola.bertucci@yale.edu

Past President
Rebecca Messbarger
Washington Univ., St. Louis
E-mail: rmessbar@wustl.edu

Treasurer
Joseph Bartolomeo
Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: bartolomeo@hfa.umass.edu

Executive Director
Benita Blessing
American Society for 18th-Century Studies
Email: ASECSExecutiveDirector@gmail.com

Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Ramesh Mallipeddi
Univ. of British Columbia
Email: ramesh.mallipeddi@ubc.ca

Editor, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
David Brewer
Ohio State Univ.
Email: brewer.126@osu.edu

Updated 4/20/23