Evelyn Scott Society officers 2025-2030

​Graça Salgado -- President

Graça Salgado is an Associate Professor of English at Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a translator from English into Portuguese. Researcher in the field of critical discourse analysis and life writing, she has published on gender, memory and emotion in life writing discourses such as letters and autobiographies. She translated Stefan Zweig and Lotte Zweig’s South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42 (Versal 2013) and more recently Evelyn Scott’s Brazilian autobiography Escapade (Versal 2019) whose historical context is World War One. She has been working on Scott’s life, thought, and writing since 2012.

Caroline Maun -- Vice President

Caroline Maun is an associate professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She teaches creative writing and American literature. She is the editor of The Collected Poetry of Evelyn Scott, and author of Mosaic of Fire: The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle. Her poetry publications include the volumes The Sleeping, What Remains, and three chapbooks, Cures and Poisons and Caroline Maun: Greatest Hits, both from Puddinghouse Press, and Accident, published by Alice Greene & Co. 
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Rachel Bryan -- Secretary / Treasurer

Rachel Bryan is the Judith Anderson Herbert Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where she teaches in the English Department and serves as a consultant and administrator of their writing center. The first chapter of her dissertation, "Bone Tired: Resisting Labor in Southern Women's Fiction," explored Evelyn Scott's depictions of women working in conversation with Ellen Glasgow's and William Faulkner's. She's carried that lens toward social reproduction theory and narratives of the work of caregiving into other interactions with Scott's work. She has volunteered as Vice President of the Flannery O'Connor Society since 2023.