Austrian Studies Association

The Austrian Studies Association or ASA (formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association or MALCA, with its journal Modern Austrian Literature) continues traditions started in 1961 (originally the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association), as the only North American association devoted to scholarship on all aspects of Austrian and Austrian-associated cultural life and history from the eighteenth century to the present.

The Association publishes a quarterly scholarly journal, the Journal of Austrian Studies and holds an international annual spring conference, organized around a theme with open sessions. Its other activities include organizing scholarly panels for the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association, the German Studies Association, and at other national and international conferences. Current news and resources of interest are included on its website and distributed through its list-serv and on its Facebook page.

From 1971 through 1999, prior to its incarnation as the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association in 2000, the journal Modern Austrian Literature hosted annual conferences at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) under the auspices of editor and UCR German Studies professor/chair Donald G. Daviau and secretary-treasurer Jorun Johns (California State University, San Bernardino), publisher of Ariadne Press, the California-based scholarly publication house for Austrian critical studies and works in translation. The ASA originated in a referendum held in early 2011, when MALCA's membership voted to change the Association's name and to retitle its journal as the Journal of Austrian Studies. These changes acknowledge what has long been the Association's identity: an interdisciplinary organization that welcomes all eras and disciplines of Austrian studies at its conferences and in its journal, including scholarship on the cultures of Austria's earlier political forms (Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire, and Austria-Hungary) and scholarship that acknowledges this region's historical multi-ethnic, multilingual, and transcultural identities and their legacies in the present. As of 1 January 2010, the ASA/MALCA also assumed the role heretofore played by the American Grillparzer Society as liaison to the Austrian Grillparzer Gesellschaft, located in Vienna and the sponsor of conferences and a yearbook. The revision of the association and its publication was initiated by former Presidents David Luft (Oregon State University) (2010-12) and Robert Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) (2012-14). The current President of the ASA (2014-16) is Imke Meyer (University of Illinois at Chicago), Business and Information Manager is Katherine Arens (University of Texas, Austin).

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