From The New Editors

From The New Editors We are very excited about assumingthe editorship for theRockyMountain Review ofLanguage andLiterature and look forward to continuing the tradition of solid scholarship established by the previous editorial staff. Above all, we are committed to producing a journal which both reflects the needs and interests ofthe diverse membership ofthe Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association and which serves as a public statement to others in academia of our mission and our interests. To meet these goals, we have decided to make a few changes in the Review. First, we will expand the number articles published in each edition and will select articles written in English which appeal to a broad readership and maintain the scholarly integrity of the journal. Secondly, beginning in Fall 1998, each Fall issue of the Review will focus on a specific theme. This thematic focus will provide a forum in which the interplay ofmultiple perspectives - genre, gender, literary, and extraliterary, philological, et al. - can take place. A call for submissions on specific issues is included separately. To accommodate this change in focus, creative writing will play a smaller role in the scope ofthejournal. We will also be expanding the range of the current book review section to include reviews of other kinds of publications and of scholarly and pedagogical materials. We intend to continue offering primarily reviews of new books published by the scholarly presses but will also be reviewing software (learning tools and modules, development applications, etc.), videos and video series, web sites, and other multimedia resources which seem to us potentially of value to teachers and scholars in languages and literatures. Finally, in light of current technological advances which have an impact on all disciplines, we will publish an online version of the Review, The ?-Review, beginning in Spring 1998, on the new RMMLA site on the World Wide Web (http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ rmmla). The editorial policy regarding referees will be the same as for the print version but this electronic format will allow us to post publications more expediently than in print. We will also be able to provide greater access for our membership to a larger number of publications, some incorporating multimedia, as well as an archive of past articles. In The ?-Review, we will publish articles written in English and in other languages. For the time being, we will continue publishing both print and on-line versions ofthejournal, but we see the on-line version as becoming a dynamic space in which to access and respond to the scholarly endeavors of our members. MichaelRachel J.Ana Maria DelahoydeHalversonRodriguez-Vivaldi ...