Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao has been elected to the board of directors of the American Comparative Literature Association. His four-year term will begin at the 2005 annual meeting in April. Yao will be the only member of the board who teaches at a liberal arts college. Founded in 1960, the American Comparative Literature Association is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.
