- FROM THE EDITOR
I am delighted that La corónica's new layout and logo design has met everyone's approval. Calligrapher and designer John Stevens (<www.johnstevensdesign.com>) has maintained the journal's personality while enhancing it with the expressiveness and complex shape of a hand-painted letterform especially designed for La corónica.
On the other hand, my decision to implement a recommendation of the most recent MLA Style Manual -adding print or web after each bibliographic entry- has stirred passionate, almost inflammatory, reactions. "What's next," an annoyed contributor quipped, "carrier pigeon?" La corónica is the journal of the Modern Language Association Division on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and we must abide by MLA guidelines, but I agree that this particular suggestion feels superfluous and, in a more damaging way, wastes time and precious paper while irritating most readers. For those reasons and above all, by popular demand, we will not add the irksome print tag any longer.
This Editor sincerely regrets the involuntary omission of Teresa Jiménez Calvente's name as guest editor of the critical cluster "Salió buen latino. Los ideales de la cultura española tardomedieval y protorrenacentista" in the volume 37.1 (Fall 2008).
As always, the Editor stands in the particular debt of certain individuals who generously contribute their time and expertise to La corónica. They invest great effort in bringing us timely news, evaluating and critiquing submissions, and offering sound advice on editorial policy. They include most recently
Samuel G. Armistead | Jonathan Burgoyne |
Nieves Baranda | Anthony Cárdenas |
Carmen Benito-Vessels | Gabriela Cerghedean |
Andrew Beresford | Juan Carlos Conde |
Hugo O. Bizzarri | Jean Dangler |
Marina S. Brownlee | Christopher Donahue |
Elizabeth Drayson | Carmen Parrilla |
Adriano Duque | Pablo Pastrana |
Steven Dworkin | Óscar Perea |
Nancy Joe Dyer | Simone Pinet |
Theresa Earenfight | Donna Rogers |
Daniel Eisenberg | Antonio Sánchez Jiménez |
Emily Francomano | Martha E. Schaffer |
Edward Friedman | Joseph T. Snow |
Ryan D. Giles | Ronald E. Surtz |
Michael Harney | Fernando Tejedo-Herrero |
Michelle Herder | Juan Miguel Valero Moreno |
Yonsoo Kim | Louise O. Vasvári |
Eukene Lacarra | Mary Ann Vetterling |
Benjamin Liu | Laura Vivanco |
Ignacio Ferrando Frutos | David Wacks |
Laurence de Looze | Lillian von der Walde |
Óscar Martín | Barbara Weissberger |
Alberto Montaner | Jane Whetnall |
José Manuel Nieto Soria | Stan Whitley |
Stephen Parkinson | Irene Zaderenko |
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The senior editorial team joins me as well in expressing our gratitude to Dean Jacqueline Fetrow, Associate Provost Mark Welker, and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages Byron Wells at Wake Forest University. We also thank Dean Joseph Steinmetz and Associate Dean Paul D'Anieri of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas. Without their continued financial support, this journal could not continue. [End Page 2]