 From 1971 through 1999, prior to its incarnation as the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association in 2000, the journal "Modern Austrian Literature" hosted annual conferences at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) under the auspices of editor and UCR German Studies professor/chair Donald G. Daviau and secretary-treasurer Jorun Johns (California State University, San Bernardino), publisher of Ariadne Press, the California-based scholarly publication house for Austrian critical studies and works in translation.The ASA originated in a referendum held in early 2011, when MALCA's membership voted to change the Association's name and to retitle its journal as the "Journal of Austrian Studies".These changes acknowledge what has long been the Association's identity