SSAWW welcomes Rita Bode, Associate Professor of English at Trent University, as its new Vice President for Organizational Matters.  Dr. Bode is a longtime member of SSAWW; her scholarly interests include 19th- and early 20th-century British and American; 19th-century American women writers, and transatlantic studies; youth literature; novel; and drama.  She will be coordinating the next SSAWW Conference, which will be held in Philadelphia in 2015.