Here is an alphabetical list of relevant professional associations:

• American Literature Association is commited to exploring the richness and diversity of American writing and is not limited to any specific critical methodology or dogma. In addition to conference information, you can find a directory of scholars.
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period . . . from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
• Association of Departments of English contains many useful resources for administrators such as discussions, policies, reports, and job announcements
• The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is a good source of information on writing conferences, programs, careers, and much more.
• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism established to provide a forum for the discussion of a wide variety of theoretical approaches to Romantic works of all genres and disciplines and reaches a broad range of disciplines such as History, Art History, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Music, Political Economy, and Literature; their interests encompass American, Canadian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Russian, Scottish, and Spanish Romanticism.
• North American Victorian Studies Organization established in 2002 to provide a continental forum for the discussion a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary approaches of the Victorian period.
• Poetry Foundation is the home of Poetry Magazine and includes a great variety of additonal resources such as pod casts, audio, video, etc.
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing provides a global network for book historians, professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars.