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  • Editor's Note

I am delighted to welcome Marion Rust to the EAL editorial team as book review editor. She has embraced her new position with characteristic energy and acumen by assembling a valuable group of review essays, book reviews, and conference reviews for the current issue. Marion is chair of the English Department at the University of Kentucky and a leading scholar of early American literature, with a particular emphasis on women's writing and the works of Susanna Rowson. Marion's publications include Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, U of North Carolina P, 2008) and a Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Temple (2011). She has articles and reviews in The William and Mary Quarterly, Early American Literature, Novel, The New England Quarterly, Modern Philology, and The Journal of American History, among others. I look forward to her continuing contributions to the journal and the field.

I also wish to welcome two new members of the editorial board: Joanna Brooks, of San Diego State University, a leading scholar of ethnic American literature in the early period; and Martin Brückner, of the University of Delaware, who has done influential work on the geographic revolution and its impact on early American literature.

Katherine Clay Bassard, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Laura Murray, of Queens University, have stepped down from the board. I wish to thank them for their fine service to the journal. [End Page 261]

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