 www.byronsociety.org/bsa/membership.html December 2011 Dear Byron Society Members, As 2012 is just around the corner, we're sending this message to Byron Society members to let you know that it's time to renew your membership in the Byron Society of America for the upcoming year. 2011 has been a strong year for the Society. In January, the Byron Society Collection was officially introduced at the Drew University Library Gala by Robert Weisbuch, President of Drew. In February, BSA's board of directors held their annual meeting in the Special Collections building at Drew where the Byron Collection is now housed and undergoing cataloguing. The directors were treated to a tour of the Drew Special Collections facilities and exhibition space after the board meeting. To date, cataloguing of all nineteenth-century books and manuscripts has been completed. Work on the twentieth-century imprints proceeds steadily. Also at the February meeting, the directors elected Professor Julia Markus as the Society's new treasurer. Julia directs the creative writing program at Hofstra University and is currently at work on a biography of Lady Byron. We're grateful to Julia for taking on this role—and know you will enjoy getting to know her, if you don't already. Thanks to the efforts of BSA's Director of Membership and Academic Services, Robin Hammerman, BSA continued its presence at the College English Association's annual conference by sponsoring a panel at the spring 2011 meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Society's panel, "Fortune in Romanticism," featured talks by members Ann Hawkins and Adam Mekler. During the summer, various BSA members presented papers at the 7th International Student Byron Conference, held in Messolonghi Greece June 20-24 and focusing on "Lord Byron and His Times," and at the 37th International Byron Conference held June 27-July 1 in Valladolid Spain on the theme of "Byron and Latin Culture." In the fall, BSA hosted a talk given by Benjamin Markovits about writing Childish Loves, the third book in his Byron trilogy. The event was held at the Center for Fiction in New York City, where Byron Society members joined other devotees of literary fiction for an evening of conversation. Looking ahead to 2012, BSA will hold its 39th annual MLA session in just a few weeks in Seattle, Washington. Gary Dyer chairs the program on "Lord Byron: Poetry in Manuscript, Poetry in Print," with papers by BSA members Alice Levine, Michelle Levy, and Gary Dyer. The New Year also brings another issue of the Byron Journal, now in its fortieth year of publication, the 38th International Byron Conference in Beirut, Lebanon on "Byron and Genre," a DePaul Humanities Center conference centering on the bicentennial of Childe Harold, and exciting news anticipated from the Byron Society Collection, among other things. To renew your membership in the Byron Society of America for 2012 please click here. If you have any questions about your membership status, contact Robin Hammerman at robinhammer@byronsociety.org. We thank you for your valued support of the Byron Society and send best wishes to you for the holiday and the new year ahead. Sincerely,
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