Editor’s Note

Legacy is happy to announce that Dr. Summar C. Sparks has joined us as our new editorial assistant. Dr. Sparks recently defended her dissertation, “Bound by Paper: Nineteenth-Century Southern Editors and Their Northern Connections,” at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She brings experience working as an assistant editor at College English, and we are very happy to have her. We would also like to thank Amber LaPiana for her contributions as editorial assistant over the past two years. Dr. LaPiana has helped managing editor Mary Unger with myriad tasks, including proofreading, copyediting, fact-checking, and editing content for mla and house style. She is thorough and exacting in her work. She has also assisted me with improving and managing our workflow and collaborative editorial process. To all of this work she has brought both expertise in the field and lively collegiality. We observe the end of her term with regret, in that we will really miss working with her, but also with gratitude that the journal benefited from her gifts before her career took her elsewhere.

In addition to noting these changes in the editorial team, we announce some changes in the composition of our advisory board. We are happy to appoint Catherine Keyser of the University of South Carolina to the board. Dr. Keyser has served the journal faithfully as a consultant/reader, where she distinguished herself through her meticulous, thoughtful, and constructive essay evaluations. Her broad expertise in modern American women’s writing, gender studies, and periodical studies will be greatly valued as we turn to her for guidance in her new role.

We would also like to take this opportunity, with the conclusion of her term on the board, to thank Meredith Goldsmith for her stellar service. Dr. Goldsmith was unfailingly generous, not only in helping the Legacy editors make difficult decisions about the journal contents but also in accepting whatever assignments I might throw at her, some in quick succession. A journal editor herself, Dr. Goldsmith is extremely busy, yet she cheerfully complied with every single request I made of her. On behalf of the journal, I want to express our gratitude for all Dr. Goldsmith has done for Legacy and the field. We are fortunate indeed that she will continue serving us as a consultant/reader.

Finally, I’d like to thank our student interns—Shannon Cardinal, Josh Powers, Jennifer Bradley, Kassia Waggoner, and Melanie Calicchio—and to acknowledge the contributions of Amber LaPiana and former book review editor Sari Edelstein to the production of this issue. By the time it appears, Dr. LaPiana will have completed her term, but she was actively involved in editing its contents; Dr. Edelstein generously worked with current book review editor Jean Marie Lutes to advise her on the editing of that section. This kind of commitment is typical of those who give their service to Legacy. I offer them both admiration and thanks.