INTERNATIONAL ARTHURIAN SOCIETY: NORTH AMERICAN BRANCH

Description of Branch and its Membership, 2014

Membership in the International Arthurian Society is open to all persons interested in the study of the Arthurian realm in literature, history, art, film, and popular culture. National Branches of the Society include the French, German, British, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Hispanic (Spain, Portugal, and Brazil), Rumanian, Swiss, North American (U.S.A. and Canada), and Australia & New Zealand. The Society also has Corresponding Secretaries in Finland, Hungary, Israel, and Russia. At present, there are nearly 1,200 individual members in the Society, and over 300 libraries subscribe to its annual Bibliographical Bulletin. The North American Branch has approximately135 library subscribers and 280 individual members, including professional academics, students, and non-academics with an interest in the Arthurian tradition. As of December 2012, approximately 80% of our members lived in the United States, 15% in Canada, 2% in other countries in North and South America, and 3% in other countries throughout the world.

International congresses are held every three years, most recently in Utrecht in 2005, in Rennes in 2008, and in Bristol in 2011. The next conference will be 20 to 27 July 2014 at the University of Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania. In addition, the North American Branch holds an annual meeting in May, in conjunction with the International Congress on Medieval Studies organized by the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo). For further information about the IAS, please consult the Arthuriana web site: http://www.arthuriana.org/.

The Society publishes annually the Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society (BBIAS)/ Bulletin Bibliographique de la Société Internationale Arthurienne (BBSIA), which contains notices of scholarly books, articles, and reviews on Arthurian subjects that have appeared during the preceding year as well as original articles, a news section, and a list of the members of the Society with their addresses. The bibliography will soon move to an online format, currently projected for the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014. Members of the North American Branch also receive four issues annually of Arthuriana. News of the North American Branch (“The Round Table”) appears twice a year in Arthuriana.

Annual dues in U.S. or Canadian dollars, which include a subscription to BBIAS and Arthuriana vary according to membership category: Regular ($60); Contributing or Joint (family): one copy of all publications per membership ($70); Patron ($90 or more); Student ($15); and Emeritus ($50). Members of the North American Branch residing outside the U.S.A. and Canada are kindly requested to add $45 to their membership dues, regardless of category, to help support the cost of mailing publications. Note: Persons joining before October 1 will be considered members for that calendar year and will receive all publications corresponding to that year. Those who become members after October 1 will be considered members for the following year and receive that year’s BBIAS and Arthuriana.

Officers of the North American Branch (2011-2014): President: Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic U of America); Immediate Past President: Kevin J. Harty (La Salle U); Vice-President: Kevin Whetter (Acadia U); Secretary-Treasurer: Evelyn Meyer (Saint Louis U); Bibliographer: Anne Berthelot (U of Connecticut); Editor of Arthuriana: Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue U); Graduate Student/New Member of the Profession: Brandy Brown (Penn. State U);  Advisory Committee: Carol Dover (Georgetown U), Michael Twomey (Ithaca College), David F. Johnson (Florida State U), Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson U), Susan Aronstein (U of Wyoming), and Ann Howey (Brock U).

To join or to renew your membership for 2014, please complete the Membership Application form below.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM 2014 (Word)

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM 2014 (PDF)

The Round Table Newsletter:

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Winter 1996

Summer 1997

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Summer 1999

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Fall 2001

Summer 2002

Fall 2002

The Arthurian Network email Address Directory

This is a partial list of e-mail addresses of current (2012-2013) IAS/NAB members and is not to be confused with ARTHURNET. Send queries, corrections, additions, or changes to IAS-NAB Secretary-Treasurer Eveln Meyer: emeyer16@slu.edu.

This directory was last updated Fall 2012.