Review Editor’s Note

It is with mixed regret (for us) and elation (for her) that we say good-bye to editorial assistant Ashleigh Lovelace with this issue. After graduating from the University of Kentucky last spring with multiple honors and three undergraduate degrees (in English, art history, and arts administration), Ashleigh moves on to a highly coveted position with Penguin Classics and the Penguin Speakers Bureau. In her capacity as assistant to the review editor of EAL, Ashleigh quickly proved her skill and dedication. A perusal of the review section since she began working with the journal in September 2012 attests to her important role in expanding its offerings. We wish her all good things as she fulfills her dream of a career in academic publishing.

Our new review editorial assistant, Katie Cross, promises to continue the fine work begun by Ashleigh and her predecessor, Stephanie Straub. Katie is an English major and psychology minor at the University of Kentucky. Like Ashleigh and Stephanie before her, she holds a prestigious Gaines Fellowship in the Humanities. A recent poet-in-residence for the Slate Branch Ashram, Katie also serves as poetry editor for Shale, the university’s undergraduate literary and arts journal; as president of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society; and as copresident of the university’s creative writing association. We are fortunate to welcome such a talented individual to the editorial staff of Early American Literature.