Laura Fiss — President | 2024-2026
Associate Teaching Professor in the Pavlis Honors College, Michigan Technological University
Research interests: Victorian and early-twentieth-century British literature and culture; humor; music; book history, print culture (periodicals, sheet music), and reception history; reflection and engineering education
Selected publications: The Idler’s Club: Humour and Mass Readership from Jerome K. Jerome to P. G. Wodehouse (Edinburgh University Press, 2023); “Out With It, as the Subeditor Said to the Novel: Wellerisms and the Humor of Excerption” (Victorian Periodicals Review 2017); “Pushing at the Boundaries of the Book: Humor, Mediation and Distance in Carroll, Thackeray, and Stevenson” The Lion and the Unicorn 2014); “‘This Particularly Rapid, Unintelligible Patter’: Patter Songs and the Word-Music Relationship” (The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan, 2009)