Board members must:
• sustain membership in NASSR throughout the term of service;
• attend NASSR conferences and Board meetings, barring extraordinary circumstances, throughout the term of service;
• and maintain a tone of mutual respect and support in all Board discussions and communications.
All Board members, including graduate student representatives as appropriate, should contribute to efforts to enhance the Society through significant academic activities and productive endeavors, such as:
• finding creative ways to foster and include scholarship by colleagues in historically underrepresented groups and areas, thereby expanding the diversity of the Society;
• and/or creating events or structures that aim at bringing new members into NASSR;
• or reaching out to scholars in precarious professional circumstances and enhancing their opportunities for professional engagement;
• or helping NASSR to facilitate or join in international events, such as supernumerary conferences or colloquia;
• or fostering alliances with other scholarly societies, including those outside English literature and those outside North America;
• or helping to secure organizers for future conferences;
• or organizing small online conferences affiliated with NASSR;
• or even organizing a NASSR conference.
If elected to the Board, graduate students, contingent faculty, and postdoctoral scholars will receive free membership to the Society during their term of service. The same benefit will be available to independent scholars on the basis of need.