The Committee represents the membership of the Society and is responsible for running of the Society’s affairs, organisation of meetings, disbursement of awards and bursaries, and other matters.
Members of the Society can stand for election to the Committee during the Annual General Meeting. If you are a member of the Society and would like to join the Committee, please get in touch by March of a given year (prior to the May AGM at which voting will take place).
OFFICERS
President – Robin Lord Byron
Chairman – Kenneth Robbie
Director – Emily Paterson Morgan
Treasurer – Gill Woodcock
TRUSTEES
Robin Lord Byron, Kenneth Robbie, Dr Emily Paterson Morgan, Bernard Beattie, Dr Karen Caines, Dr Christine Kenyon Jones, Gill Woodcock, Richard Deakin, Sir Roderick Beaton MBE, Dr David Woodhouse
PhD Bursary Review Committee
Chair: Dr Anthony Howe, Reader in English Literature and Director of Graduate Research for English, Birmingham City University
Dr Will Bowers, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought, Queen Mary University London
Dr Matthew Ward, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham
Dr Emily Wing Rohrbach, Associate Professor in English Literature 1660-1832, University of Durham
Society Coordinators
Marc Gotthardt
SUB-COMMITTEES
MEMBERSHIP AND EVENTS COMMITTEE
BURSARIES AND AWARDS COMMITTEE
STATUE COMMITTEE
JOURNAL COMMITTEE (EDITORIAL BOARD)
NEWSTEAD CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
We are always looking for enthusiastic and proactive Members and Friends of the Society to join our sub-committees and support the growth and provision of Society activities. If you would like to join an existing sub-committee or propose a new one, please get in touch by sending an email to our Director, Emily Paterson-Morgan, at contact@thebyronsociety.com