From SLS to SLSA: A Brief History

Abstract

We sketch here the background of the founding of what was originally known as the Society for Literature and Science and its first years of operation, with a few comments on some of our early landmarks and some later developments. We thank our colleagues Carol Colatrella, Mark Greenberg, Judith Yaross Lee, Manuela Rossini, and David Porush for their suggestions about our draft. We ask the forbearance of many other colleagues and friends who soon joined these original co-founders but are not named here because of time limitations.