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The Emily Dickinson Journal 9.1 (2000) vii-viii



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From the Editors


This issue, which I have co-edited with the new editor, Gary Stonum, marks the end of my tenure as editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal. It has been a pleasure working with him over the past few months to effect this transition, and I look forward to his editorship: he brings great expertise and new vision to the position. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have aided and abetted me in the ten-year adventure that has been creating and developing this Journal. Beginning in the late eighties, when the fledgling EDIS board suggested, "let's have a journal!" to the present, when the EDJ has become central to contemporary publishing about Dickinson, this has been an exciting and deeply rewarding enterprise for me.

My thanks begin with the Emily Dickinson International Society, for encouraging and supporting to my work on the EDJ over the years. The members of the Editorial Board of the Journal have given unstintingly of their time and expertise, making it possible for us to publish scholarship of the highest quality. We have been blessed with two fine presses to publish the Journal. Colorado University Press believed in an idea and brought it to the world; Johns Hopkins University Press has enabled us to widen our sights and, I hope, our sophistication, too. The University of Colorado at Boulder, Pomona College, and Washington University have helped to finance our editorial office.

I particularly want to thank the wonderful Editorial Assistants without whom, quite literally, there would have been no EDJ. Blythe Forcey was there at the very beginning, full of good ideas and know-how about graphics, layout, flyers, mailing lists, and visions for the future. Kim Hosman helped to edit Vol. I (1992) and Tracy Walker assisted with Volume II (1993); they developed the repertoire of tasks for the Editorial Assistant and performed them with skill, imagination, and generosity. Thereafter, Lynne Spear worked hand in hand with me for many years, her exceptional talents as editor, designer, computer artist, office manager, and web-master contributing more than could ever be tallied to the volumes that we produced together.

Finally, my thanks go to the contributors. I have delighted in working with the best Dickinson scholars in the world, both newcomers and veterans, and in experiencing at close hand the currents of Emily Dickinson studies over the last decade. Especially, I have valued the opportunity to encourage new [End Page vii] writers and help bring their work to fruition. I have never tired of reading what smart people have to say about Dickinson, even as each fresh insight has expanded my pleasure in Dickinson herself. Editing this journal has made me more appreciative than ever before of Emily Dickinson and the community of those who engage with her in scholarly and artistic ways.

Suzanne Juhasz

It is a great honor to follow in the editorial footsteps of Suzanne Juhasz. Not only did she found the Journal and guide it toward the position it now occupies in Dickinson studies, she has done so in a notably generous and forthcoming way. Many of our contributors know well how much they owe to her encouragement and advice; she has done a remarkable job helping polish the ideas and the prose that have appeared in these pages. Happily this is not a task she now relinquishes. I am pleased to say that she has agreed to stay on as part of the Journal's Editorial Board.

There are other changes on the masthead as well. Over the last year or so, three new Dickinson scholars have joined the Board and begun helping with its work of evaluating manuscripts: Joan Kirkby of Macquarrie University (Australia), Robert McClure Smith of Knox College, and Shira Wolosky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Roland Hagenbuchle, one of the five original members of the Editorial Board, and its first international representative, has announced his decision to retire. Last but not least, with this issue Brad Ricca...

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