The One Hundred Thirty-Four Presidents
Until 2010, presidents' terms coincided with the calendar year. Since 2010, terms have continued through the close of the annual convention in January.
1884–86 | Franklin Carter |
1887–91 | James Russell Lowell |
1892–93 | Francis A. March |
1894 | A. Marshall Elliott (Sec. 1884–92) |
1895 | James Morgan Hart |
1896 | Calvin Thomas |
1897 | Albert S. Cook |
1898 | Alcée Fortier |
1899 | H. C. G. von Jagemann |
1900 | Thomas R. Price |
1901 | Edward S. Sheldon |
1902 | James W. Bright (Sec. 1893–1901) |
1903 | George Hempl |
1904 | George Lyman Kittredge |
1905 | Francis B. Gummere |
1906 | Henry Alfred Todd |
1907 | Fred Newton Scott |
1908 | Frederick M. Warren |
1909 | Marion Dexter Learned |
1910 | Brander Matthews |
1911 | Lewis F. Mott |
1912 | C. H. Grandgent (Sec. 1902–11) |
1913 | Alexander R. Hohlfeld |
1914 | Felix E. Schelling |
1915 | Jefferson B. Fletcher |
1916 | James Douglas Bruce |
1917 | Kuno Francke |
1918–19 | Edward C. Armstrong |
1920 | John Matthews Manly |
1921 | William Guild Howard (Sec. 1912–19) |
1922 | Raymond Weeks |
1923 | Oliver F. Emerson |
1924 | William Allan Neilson |
1925 | Hermann Collitz |
1926 | T. Atkinson Jenkins |
1927 | Ashley H. Thorndike |
1928 | Hugo K. Schilling |
1929 | William A. Nitze |
1930 | Frederick Tupper |
1931 | George Oliver Curme |
1932 | C. Carroll Marden; Milton A. Buchanan |
1933 | John Livingston Lowes |
1934 | James Taft Hatfield |
1935 | Colbert Searles |
1936 | Carleton Brown (Sec. 1920–34) |
1937 | Eduard Prokosch |
1938 | J. S. P. Tatlock |
1939 | H. Carrington Lancaster |
1940 | Karl Young |
1941 | John A. Walz |
1942 | Frederick Morgan Padelford |
1942–43 | Rudolph Schevill |
1944 | Robert Herndon Fife |
1945 | Fred N. Robinson |
1946 | Ernest Hatch Wilkins |
1947 | T. Moody Campbell |
1948 | Percy W. Long (Sec. 1935–47) |
1949 | George Sherburn |
1950 | S. G. Morley |
1951 | Archer Taylor |
1952 | Albert C. Baugh |
1953 | Hayward Keniston |
1954 | LeRoy E. Kimball |
1955 | Louise Pound |
1956 | Gilbert Chinard |
1957 | Taylor Starck |
1958 | James Holly Hanford |
1959 | William Riley Parker (Sec. 1947–56) |
1960 | Henri M. Peyre |
1961 | Henry W. Nordmeyer |
1962 | Kemp Malone |
1963 | Marjorie Nicolson |
1964 | Morris Bishop |
1965 | Howard M. Jones |
1966 | Hermann J. Weigand |
1967 | George Winchester Stone, Jr. (Sec. 1956–63) |
1968 | Otis H. Green |
1969 | Henry Nash Smith |
1970 | Maynard Mack |
1971 | Louis Kampf |
1972 | Stuart Atkins |
1973 | Florence Howe |
1974 | John H. Fisher (Sec. 1963–71) |
1975 | Germaine Brée |
1976 | Northrop Frye |
1977 | Edith Kern |
1978 | Walter J. Ong |
1979 | Jean A. Perkins |
1980 | Helen H. Vendler |
1981 | Peter Demetz |
1982 | Wayne C. Booth |
1983 | Mary Ann Caws |
1984 | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
1985 | Theodore J. Ziolkowski |
1986 | J. Hillis Miller |
1987 | Winfred P. Lehmann |
1988 | Barbara Herrnstein Smith |
1989 | Victor Brombert |
1990 | Catharine R. Stimpson |
1991 | Mario J. Valdés |
1992 | Houston A. Baker, Jr. |
1993 | Elaine Marks |
1994 | Patricia Meyer Spacks |
1995 | Sander L. Gilman |
1996 | Sandra M. Gilbert |
1997 | Herbert Lindenberger |
1998 | Elaine Showalter |
1999 | Edward W. Said |
2000 | Linda Hutcheon |
2001 | Sylvia Molloy |
2002 | Stephen Greenblatt |
2003 | Mary Louise Pratt |
2004 | Robert Scholes |
2005 | Domna C. Stanton |
2006 | Marjorie Perloff |
2007 | Michael Holquist |
2008 | Gerald Graff |
2009 | Catherine Porter |
2010–11 | Sidonie Smith |
2011–12 | Russell A. Berman |
2012–13 | Michael Bérubé |
2013–14 | Marianne Hirsch |
2014–15 | Margaret W. Ferguson |
2015–16 | Roland Greene |
2016–17 | Kwame Anthony Appiah |
2017–18 | Diana Taylor |
2018–19 | Anne Ruggles Gere |
2019–20 | Simon E. Gikandi |
2020–21 | Judith Butler |
2021–22 | Barbara Fuchs |
2022–23 | Christopher John Newfield |
2023–24 | Frieda Ekotto |
2024–25 | Dana A. Williams |