About The Society

History

The Mary McCarthy Society was founded in 2012 by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, professor of English at the State University of New York, Empire State College, author of Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics and the Postwar Intellectual (2004) and editor of the Mary McCarthy special issue of Women’s Studies (Vol. 49, 2020) and Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers (2017). The Society was founded in collaboration with Ronald Patkus, associate director of the Libraries for Special Collections at Vassar College; Sophia Wilson Niehaus, executor of the Mary McCarthy Literary Trust; Margo Viscusi and Eve Stwertka, former executors of the Mary McCarthy Literary Trust; Frances Kiernan, biographer of Mary McCarthy; and Robert Pounder, professor emeritus of Vassar College. The Mary McCarthy Society is a division of the American Literature Association and sponsors biennial panels at the American Literature Association Convention in Boston, MA.

Advisory Board

Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, co-chair (Professor, State University of New York, Empire State College)               

Sophia Wilson Niehaus, co-chair (Executor, The Mary McCarthy Literary Trust)

Frances Kiernan (Author, Seeing Mary Plain)

Ronald Patkus (Associate Director of the Libraries for Special Collections, Vassar College) 

Robert Pounder (Professor Emeritus of Classics, Vassar College)

Eve Stwertka (Former Co-Executor, Mary McCarthy Literary Trust)

Margo Viscusi (Former Co-Executor, Mary McCarthy Literary Trust)