Editor's Introduction

This is an Editor's Introduction with a difference. That is, it is not only commentary by the Editor, but it also introduces the new Editors who have now joined me in the preparation of this Journal and who will soon succeed me. We have already begun working together in earnest, sharing all of the responsibilities and privileges and planning together for the future. As someone who since 1986 has consulted freely with our Advisory Editors and Managing Editor but who has himself made all of the final decisions, I find this an invigorating change. I had anticipated that the transition would work smoothly and had been confident from the start of the process that the Journal would be in superb hands when I leave it in June 2003—for I know well the personal and professional qualities of my successors—but I never expected it to be so much fun. One of the wisest decisions that I have made in my sixteen years as Editor of JML, I now am certain, is the way that I have chosen to depart and the people I have chosen to continue JML's unique heritage as a scholarly journal. Let me introduce them to you.

As Editors:

DANIEL T. O'HARA, Professor of English at Temple University, is the author of five books, including Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America (Duke, 2003) and four other books on modern literature, critical theory, and cultural studies. He is also the editor or co-editor of two collections of essays in contemporary criticism. He serves as Book Review Editor of boundary 2, as of JML; he serves as well on the editorial board of Annals of Scholarship and is the editor of the forthcoming JML Special Issue on Freud. Currently, he is completing a book on Yeats and visionary discourse.

JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, has published books on Beckett, Bernhard, Pound, Joyce, and literary theory. Recent books include Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001), The Future of Theory (2002) and two edited collections, Jacques Lacan in America (2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2003).

ELLEN CRONAN ROSEretired in June 2002 as chair of the Women's Studies Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she taught feminist theory and feminist praxis and edited, with sociologist Maralee Mayberry, an anthology of essays on feminist pedagogy. From 1985 to 1993, she taught English and women's studies at Drexel University. She is the author of The Tree Outside the Window: Doris Lessing's Children of Violence, The Novels of Margaret Drabble: Equivocal Figures, and—with Carey Kaplan—The Canon and the Common Reader; she has edited a collection of essays on Margaret Drabble and—again with Carey Kaplan—two collections of essays on Doris Lessing. Her essay with Kaplan about their collaboration appears in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1993).

As Senior Advisory Editors:

ROBERT L. CASERIOwill contribute a chapter on Edwardian and Georgian literature to the forthcoming new Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature. He is most recently the author of The Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory, which was a co-winner of the 2000 Perkins Prize awarded by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. He is Professor of English and Head of the Department of English at Penn State.

PAULA MARANTZ COHENis Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University. She is the author of four books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, film, and culture, including, most recently, Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth (Oxford University Press, 2001). Her essays have appeared in such journals as ELH, Criticism, Papers on Language and Literature, the Yale Review, Raritan, and the Hudson Review. Her novel, Jane Austen in Boca, is being published by St. Martin's Press this fall.

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