The advisory council includes past officers, or others, with an interest in contributing to the Society, or to sharing particular interests and/or expertise, such as coordination of archival projects, social media account, or maintaining the web site of the Society.
Current Members
Ian Copestake, Independent Scholar
Ian Copestake is an academic research scholar, freelance academic editor and proofreader. For fifteen years he served as editor of the William Carlos Williams Review and is the founding editor of Bishop-Lowell Studies. He is the author of The Ethics of William Carlos Williams’s Poetry (2010). He is also editor of three volumes: Rigor of Beauty. Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams (2004), American Postmodernity. Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon (2006), and The Legacy of William Carlos Williams. Points of Contact (2007). His most recent book is Madness and the Sea: A Literary History (2026). His editing and proofreading business, Slovos, was established in 2013.
Daniel Burke, Arrupe College, Loyola University Chicago
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is Professor of Humanities at the University de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and Director of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes. He was Obama Fellow at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in 2022. Before that, he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies in Budapest in 2019. His publications include Academic Imperialism, with Héctor Huyke (forthcoming), Decolonizing American Spanish (2022), After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism (2018), Paris in American Literatures (2015) and Hemingway’s Expatriate Nationalism (2011).
Jonathan Cohen, Independent Scholar
Jonathan Cohen is a poet, translator of Latin American poetry, essayist, and scholar of inter-American literature. Poets whom he has translated include Enrique Lihn, Ernesto Cardenal, Octavio Paz, Homero Aridjis, and Pedro Mir. Among the subjects of his many essays are William Carlos Williams, Waldeen, Pablo Neruda, Salomón de la Selva, Gabriela Mistral, and Muna Lee, the subject of his A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004). By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916–1959 (2011) is his edition of Williams’s verse translations from Spanish; Al Que Quiere! (2017), his centennial edition of Williams’s breakthrough volume of poetry; The Dog and the Fever: A Perambulatory Novella (2018), his edition of Williams’s translation of the Spanish Golden Age novella by Pedro Espinosa; and My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts (2025), his edition of Williams’s translation of the Puerto Rican play by Luis Rechani Agrait. Cohen’s interest in the recovery and study of Williams’s translation work has also resulted in several articles appearing in William Carlos Williams Review, Words Without Borders, and Translation Review. For more information, see jonathancohenweb.com.
