Marc André Bernier (Canada) - ELECTED
Marc André Bernier est professeur de littérature française à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières depuis 1996. Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en rhétorique, il est président de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle (2009-2011). Ses travaux interrogent le roman ou encore l'écriture de l'histoire à la lumière de la tradition rhétorique. En 2006, il a organisé le séminaire international des jeunes dix-huitiémistes de la SIEDS sur le thème « Les Lumières et l'histoire ».

Jean-Claude Bonnet (France)
Jean-Claude Bonnet est directeur de recherche (CNRS) au sein du Centre d'études de la langue et de la littérature françaises des XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles (Paris IV/CNRS) où il anime une équipe qui a publié de nombreux ouvrages. Il a été depuis longtemps très impliqué dans la SFEDS et, depuis quelques années, dans la SIEDS, où il est actuellement second vice-président. Ses travaux portent notamment sur Diderot et L.S. Mercier, sur la « naissance du Panthéon », comme sur la fondation de la gastronomie.

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Allemagne) - ELECTED
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, depuis 1993 Professeur à l'Université de Saarbrücken (Allemagne), titulaire de la Chaire d'Études Culturelles Romanes et de Communication Interculturelle ; doctorats en philologie romane (Bayreuth, RFA, 1981) et en histoire (EHESS, Paris, 1984), Prix Diefenbaker du Conseil des Arts du Canada 2001 ; professeur invité e.a. au Sénégal, au Burkina Faso, au Cameroun, en France (EHESS Paris, Limoges, Lyon, MSH Paris), au Canada (Montréal, Québec, Moncton) et aux États-Unis (Northwestern University, UCLA). Domaines de recherche : littératures et médias de large diffusion au 18^e siècle ; encyclopédies au 18^e siècle — structures, traductions et transferts ; édition critique de l'Histoire des Deux Indes de Raynal ; rapports entre l'Europe des Lumières et le monde non-européen.

Joan B. Landes (USA)
Joan B. Landes is Walter L. and Helen Ferree Professor of Early Modern History and Women's Studies, Penn State University. Her work addresses the gendered organization of public and private spheres; female citizenship; representations of the female body in French revolutionary print culture; the polemical uses of monstrosity; anatomical and medical science; and animal subjects in natural history illustration and visual culture. She has served as President of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies 2002/03 and ISECS delegate.

Lise Andries (France) - ELECTED
Lise Andries est directeur de recherche au CNRS au Centre d'Etude de la Langue et de la Littérature des XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles (CELLF), CNRS-Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris). Elle a été secrétaire générale de la Société Internationale d'Etude du XVIII^e siècle (SIEDS) de 2007 à 2011. Son domaine de recherche est la littérature à grande diffusion en France aux XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles (almanachs, Bibliothèque bleue, brochures, gravures populaires). Principaux ouvrages : La Bibliothèque bleue au 18^e siècle. Une tradition éditoriale, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1989 ; Le Grand Livre des secrets : le colportage en France aux 17^e et 18^e siècles, Paris, Imago, 1994 ; Robinson (ouvrage collectif), Paris, Editions Autrement, 1996 ; Le Partage des savoirs XVIII^e-XIX^e siècles (ouvrage collectif), Lyon, PUL, 2003 ; La Bibliothèque bleue en collaboration avec G.Bollème, Paris, Laffont, 2003 ; Cartouche, Mandrin et autres brigands du 18^e siècle (ouvrage collectif), Paris, Editions Desjonquères, 2010.

Penelope J. Corfield (UK) - ELECTED
Penelope J. Corfield is Emeritus Professor, Royal Holloway, London University, and Visiting Professor, Leicester University (see www.penelopejcorfield.co.uk) She is currently completing a big overview of Georgian Britain 1700-1830: The Verdict, Then and Now. Penelope is fluent in French and Italian; reads German and Spanish; lectures around the world; and has supervised many overseas students. As BSECS President (2008-10), she launched BSECS's updated website and encouraged interdisciplinarity. If elected, she will strengthen technological and personal links between ISECS and all national Societies.

Peter Reill (USA)
Peter Hanns Reill is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA and director of UCLA's Center for 17^th and 18^th Century Studies and of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. He specializes in eighteenth-century intellectual history with a concentration upon structures of historical thought, the relationship between the natural sciences and the social sciences, and the hermetic imagination in the Enlightenment and Early Romanticism. Amongst his publications are: The Rise of Historicism in the Enlightenment, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment. He is past president of ASECS and was the organizer of the ISECS Eleventh International Congress of the Enlightenment, held in Los Angeles in 2003.

Anne-Marie Mai (Denmark) - ELECTED
Anne-Marie Mai is Professor of Nordic literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural studies (1999), visiting professor at the Scandinavian Department, University College London (2000) and at the Scandinavian Department, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel (2003). She is one of the founders of the Danish Society for 18^th Century Studies and a member of the Executive Committee of ISECS. She was one of the organisors of the ISECS-conference, "Joy and Laughter in the 18^th Century", 2010. In her research, she has especially focused on Scandinavian Enlightenment.

Catriona Seth (France)
Catriona Seth is a graduate of Oxford and the Sorbonne and Professor of 18^th-century studies at the Université de Nancy. She has also taught at Indiana University. She co-organised the Montpellier ISECS early career seminar and will co-organise the one in Bloomington in 2012. She is secretary general of the Société française and an ISECS delegate. She is particularly committed to assisting young scholars and developing international relations. Her research fields include the history of ideas, literature and women's studies.

Dimitris Apostolopoulos (Grèce)
Dimitris Apostolopoulos est Directeur de Recherches au CNRS (Athènes) (1980-); 'Fellow' du Centre Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D. C.) (1989); Professeur invité à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) (2001-). Membre de l'équipe de la Voltaire Foundation qui s'occupe de l'édition de l'Essai sur les mœurs de Voltaire (2010). Ses recherches portent sur la fortune des idées des Lumières au monde sud-est européen. Secrétaire général de l'Association d'étude des Lumières en Grèce, éditeur de sa revue Ho Eranistes / Le Glaneur (1991-). Il participe assidûment aux activités de la SIEDS depuis 1991.

Rosamaria Loretelli (Italie) - ELECTED
Rosamaria Loretelli is full professor of English literature, President of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, founder of the British-Italian programme of joint conferences and publications, and author of books on comparative European literature, eighteenth-century British popular literature and the aesthetic of the novel. In 2010 she edited British and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century (with Frank O'Gorman) and published L'invenzione del romanzo, which examines narrative forms from the Odyssey to the eighteenth century in relation to changes in reading practices.

Laurenz Lütteken (Allemagne)
Laurenz Lütteken, b.1964, is professor ordinarius for musicology at the University of Zurich. Before he held the chair for musicology at Marburg University, and rejected appointments to Bochum and Leipzig. To his main reserach interests belong eighteenth century music and musical culture. He has published a lot of books, articles and a bibliographgy of musical articles in eighteenth-century journals. He was editor of Acta Mozartiana from 2003-2009, and he is member of the board of Eighteenth-Century Music. From 2004-2010 he was at first vice president, afterwards president, of the DGEJ.

Eva Velasco-Moreno (Espagne)
Eva Velasco-Moreno, Professor of Ethics and History of Political Thought at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid). Her fields of research are related with sociability in Spanish eighteenth century, censorship and political thought. In 2000 she published a book about the Spanish Royal Academy of History. She also contributed with several articles on the theoretical principles of censorship in Spain. Since 2006 she is Secretary of the Spanish Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and delegate to the ISECS Executive Committee.

Byron Wells (USA) - ELECTED
Byron Wells is Professor of French and chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University. His primary research interests center on French fiction and the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As Executive Director of ASECS, he has been a delegate on the ISECS Executive Committee, where he has chaired the Financial Oversight Committee and worked with the bursary committees for the Los Angeles and Graz Congresses. He also co-directed the 2000 and 2003 International Seminars for Junior Scholars.

Dena Goodman (USA)
Dena Goodman is Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the French Enlightenment, women, and gender. She is co-director of the digital Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/) and the author, most recently, of Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (Cornell University Press, 2009). She has served on the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and as president of the Western Society for French History.

Wiep van Bunge (Pays-Bas) - ELECTED
Wiep van Bunge (1960) is Professor of the History of Philosophy as well as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. He is a member of the Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies and chair of the Dutch-Belgian Eighteenth Century Society (Werkgroep De Achttiende Eeuw), the Dutch Spinoza Society (Vereniging Het Spinozahuis) and the Pierre Bayle Foundation (Pierre Bayle Stichting). His research focuses on the intellectual history of the early Enlightenment.

Pascal Bastien (Canada)
Pascal Bastien est professeur d'histoire à l'Université du Québec à Montréal depuis 2003. Ses travaux portent sur la justice pénale et interrogent notamment les récits d'exécution dans la France des Lumières. Délégué de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle depuis 2007, il a assuré l'implantation et la gestion du bottin en ligne des membres de la SIEDS (SIEDS-direct: http://www.sieds.org/isecs-direct/index.php/).

Lorenzo Bianchi (Italie) - ELECTED
Lorenzo Bianchi graduated from the Università degli Studi di Milano and is currently full professor of History of Philosophy at the Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale'. His research focuses on Italian and European philosophical culture from the 16^th to 18^th centuries. He studied naturalism and sceptical tradition from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and the 'libertinage érudit'. He has also explored the thought of Bayle, Montesquieu and Voltaire. He is a collaborator on the critical edition of the Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu. He is a member of the scientific board of the Société Montesquieu and of the Executive Commitee of the Società italiana di studi sul secolo XVIII and of the ISECS. He translated the Italian edition of Bayle's Projet d'un Dictionnaire critique (Naples, 1987) and of Voltaire's works (Milan, 1994-2003). He is the author of Tradizione libertina e critica storica (Milan, 1988) and of Rinascimento e libertinismo (Naples, 1996). He recently edited Dopo Machiavelli / Après Machiavel (with A. Postigliola, Naples 2008), Kant et les Lumières européennes (with J. Ferrari and A. Postigliola, Naples-Paris, 2009), L'umanesimo scientifico dal Rinascimento all'Illuminismo (with G. Paganini, Naples, 2010).

Laura Brown (USA) - ELECTED
Laura Brown is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English and Vice Provost at Cornell University. She earned her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Brown is the co-author, with Felicity Nussbaum, of The New Eighteenth Century, and the author of: English Dramatic Form; Alexander Pope; Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Literature; Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century; and Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Literary Imagination.

Gavin Budge (UK)
Gavin Budge is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire. His research is on the relationship between literature, philosophy and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on Romanticism, and he is currently working on a study of 'Romanticism, Medicine and the Supernatural'. He is fluent in French, German and Italian, and is interested in comparative literary research. He has been the Executive Secretary of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies since 2003.

Anna Cullhed (Suède) - ELECTED
Anna Cullhed is Research Fellow at the Swedish Academy and Associate Professor (Docent) in Comparative Literature at Uppsala University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2001. Her research interests include 18^th-century views of poetics in Britain, Germany, France, and Sweden (The Language of Passion: The Order of Poetics and the Construction of a Lyric Genre 1746-1806, 2002), as well as sentimental poetry. Anna Cullhed is President of the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies since 2009. Within ISECS, she wishes to focus on the promotion of early career scholars and international networks.

Michel Delon (France) - ELECTED
Michel Delon enseigne la littérature française et l'histoire des idées à Paris-Sorbonne. Il est responsable du doctorat européen sur les mythes fondateurs de l'Europe (Bonn-Florence-Sorbonne). Auteur de plusieurs essais (L'Idée d'énergie, Le Savoir-vivre libertin, L'Invention du boudoir, etc.), il a édité Sade et Diderot dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade et dirigé le Dictionnaire européen des Lumières, traduit en américain. Il a été le président de la Société française d'étude du Dix-huitième siècle (2003-2009) et est éditeur associé des SVEC à Oxford.

Anton Demin (Russie)
Anton Olegovič Demin Born on 2 July 1974, Novosibirsk, USSR; Studied at the State University of Novosibirsk, 1991-1997; completed doctoral studies at the Research Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1997-2000. Doctoral thesis: 'The dramatic works of Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816): the history of their texts and their literary sources' (upheld in 2000). From 2000 to the present, research worker at the Department of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the Research Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg. Has written extensively on Russian literature of the eighteenth-century and its contacts with Western literatures. Has translated into Russian five books on history from English, French and Italian.

John Dunkley (UK)
John Dunkley: I was a founder member of the British Society for 18^th-Century Studies in 1971 and have been its secretary, journal editor and president. Though I was a member of the French Department in Aberdeen University for most of my career, with most of my research centred on French literature and social history, I have tended to consider it in an international dimension. Nowadays, both for economic as well as for scholarly reasons, it seems to me that the only way to preserve and promote the activities to which we devote our professional and personal energies, is to cooperate worldwide (and I mean world, not just European and North American) and to try, through our activities, to promote the ways of thinking which we associate with the rational Enlightenment, adapted to operating in the modern context.

Pasi Ihalainen (Finlande)
Pasi Ihalainen, Ph.D., Professor of General History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has studied the secularization of the concept of the political party, the modernization of national identities, the redefinition of democracy in parliamentary debates and interaction between scientific and political discourses, often in a comparative perspective. His books include The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century England (1999), Protestant Nations Redefined (2005), Agents of the People (2010) and the co-edited volume Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution (forthcoming 2011). Professor Ihalainen was the President of the Finnish Society in 2004-2007, the editor-in-chief of the first volume of International Review of Eighteenth-Century Studies and a co-opted member of the Executive Committee in 2007-2011. He is one of the editors of Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Heather McPherson (USA) - ELECTED
Heather McPherson is Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research focuses on portraiture and issues of representation. She has published widely on French art and visual culture including essays on Chardin, Greuze, and Jacques-Louis David, and is the author of The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge UP, 2001). She is currently completing a book on art and celebrity in the age of Reynolds and Siddons, which examines the intersecting worlds of artist and actor in late eighteenth-century London and the emergence of modern celebrity culture. Her essays on Sarah Siddons and cultural politics have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and most recently in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, ed. Tom Mole (Cambridge UP, 2009) and Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain, ed. Michael Yonan and Alden Cavanaugh (Ashgate, 2010). She is currently President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She has served on numerous ASECS committees and as Affiliates Coordinator, 1998-2008.

Tanehisa Otabe (Japon) - ELECTED
Tanehisa Otabe is professor of aesthetics at the University of Tokyo. From 2005 to 2009 he was President of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He has academic interests in aesthetics in Germany in the 18th century and intercultural aesthetics. He has co-edited two books in German: Ästhetische Subjektivität. Romantik und Moderne (Würzburg, 2005) and Kulturelle Identität und Selbstbild. Aufklärung und Moderne in Japan und Deutschland (Münster, 2010). He is a member of the board of the International Schelling Society.

Wolfgang Schmale (Autriche) - ELECTED
Wolfgang Schmale est professeur ordinaire d'histoire moderne et contemporaine à l'Université de Vienne, et président de la Société autrichienne d'étude du XVIII^e siècle (depuis novembre 2001). Il est membre du comité d'organisation du 13^e Congrès international d'études du XVIII^e siècle à Graz en 2011. Il a dirigé avec Nan L. Dodde le manuel de l'histoire scolaire de l'Europe au XVIII^e s., il est co-auteur de L'An I des droits de l'homme (A. de Baecque. M. Vovelle, W. Schmale). Dernière parution: Références culturelles multiples dans la monarchie des Habsbourg au XVIII^e s.

Geraldine Sheridan (Irlande) - ELECTED
Geraldine Sheridan is Professor of French at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Director of a cross-institutional Eighteenth Century Research Group. She has published widely on aspects of French cultural history, including Boulainvilliers and the Radical Enlightenment, Lenglet Dufresnoy and the literary underground of the period, cultural links between France and Ireland in the eighteenth century, and most recently the iconography of the trades and crafts in the pre-Revolutionary period. She is a former President of the Eighteenth Century Ireland Society.

Stefanie Stockhorst (Allemagne)
Stefanie Stockhorst holds the chair for Early Modern Literature at the Department of German, University of Potsdam. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen and her post-doctoral lecture-qualification from the University of Augsburg, where she also lectured in European cultural history. She acted as elected member of the EC (2005-2008) and Vice-President (2008-2010) of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (DGEJ) and has been a delegate to the ISECS EC since 2009. She is particularly interested in poetology, anthropology, and transcultural relations.

Danièle Tosato-Rigo (Suisse)
Danièle Tosato-Rigo Professeure d'histoire moderne à l'Université de Lausanne. Présidente de la Société vaudoise d'histoire et de la commission de l'Académie suisse des sciences humaines pour l'étude du XVIII^e siècle. Déléguée de la Société suisse pour l'étude du XVIII^e siècle auprès de l'ISECS. Domaines de recherches : histoire socio-culturelle de la Suisse d'Ancien Régime, histoire des élites, politique et éducation, écrits du for privé. Projet FNRS en cours sur « L'éducation domestique en Suisse romande au miroir des écrits personnels XVIII^e-début XIX^e siècle ».

Raïa Zaïmova (Bulgarie)
Raïa Zaïmova (D.Sc.), directrice de recherches (ABS) et professeur universitaire (Université de Sofia, NUB)

• - présidente de la Société bulgare du 18^e siècle (2005-2009), déléguée à plusieurs reprises au Comité exécutif ;
• - 3 monographies et 130 publications en bulgare et français dans le domaine de l'histoire culturelle ;
• - modérateur de sessions aux trois derniers congrès des Lumières et aux colloques interdisciplinaires en Bulgarie ;
• - dernière activité éditoriale : Nature et Société, Nouvelles études rousseauistes (co-éd. N. Aretov) Sofia, 2010.