Hopkins Society Members at Boston’s African Meeting House, 2009
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society was officially established at the Spring 2009 American Literature Association Conference.
Our purpose in establishing the Society is to encourage interest in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: her life, her writings, and the issues she explored. The PEHS aims to foster scholarship and dialogue on Hopkins and her era through conference meetings, publications, and pedagogical resources useful to scholars, teachers, and community members at large.
Officers of the Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
President
Edlie Wong, Professor & Associate Chair, English, University of Maryland
Vice President
DeLisa Hawkes, Assistant Professor, English, William & Mary
Secretary
April C. Logan, Associate Professor, Salisbury University
Historian
John Gruesser, Research Scholar, Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University & Emeritus Professor and Adjunct Professor of English, Kean University
Treasurer & Membership Officer
Tanya Clark, Senior Assistant Professor, Morehouse College
Chair, Program Committee
Courtney L. Novosat, Senior Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair, Monuments and Awards Committee
Ira Dworkin, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
John Barton, Associate Professor, University of Missouri Kansas City
Interim Webmaster & Facebook Page Manager
Courtney L. Novosat (interim)
PEHS would like to extend its ardent gratitude to Mary Frances Jiménez and Amy Bennett-Zendzian for serving as the Society’s Webmaster and Facebook Manager, respectively, since its inception. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Michael Soriani for his service as Webmaster, 2025-2026.
