Editor's Comment

EDITOR'S COMMENT The College ofArts and Sciences at Northeastern University has supported Studies in American Fiction consistently for more than three decades. My colleagues on SAF's internal editorial board and I are deeply grateful that the College's longstanding financial commitment , together with that ofour subscribers, has made it possible for Northeastern's Department ofEnglish to help sustain the community ofscholarly publication in American literature. Competing professional commitments, however, have made it impossible for me to continue as Editor beyond this fall. Happily, I am able to tell readers that SAF has found a new home: Fordham University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New Yorkwilljointly edit and publish StudiesinAmerican Fiction. There will be a short hiatus in publication as .£4.Fmakes the transition to its newinstitutionalhomes; furtherinformationandupdateswillbe available from time to time through the web site of Northeastern's Department ofEnglish. Meanwhile, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my colleagues on SAFs editorial boards who have shared with me the pleasant responsibility of reading and evaluating the many essays that have come through our hands, and the graduate assistants who over the years have dedicated so many hours to producing the journal . Editing SAFYias introduced me to awonderfully collégial, worldwide communityofAmericanliterature specialists, andI willcontinue to look forward to meeting in person many ofthe rising scholars we have published in recent years. Some of SAFs back issues are currently being gathered together forfree electronic accessunderthe auspices ofNortheasternUniversity's Institutional Repository—IRis—and the Northeastern University Libraries (). I hope that SAFs readers will continue to visit these resources as they expand, and I thankNortheastern University for helping to preserve SAFs legacy in this new medium. Mary Loeffelholz ...