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  • Editorial Remarks
  • Graham MacPhee

This issue of College Literature marks the end of my term as editor. As we approach our forty-fourth year of publication, this is a moment to look forward to the continuing evolution and development of the journal and its future role in providing a critical venue for reflection on Anglophone and comparative literary studies. I warmly welcome my successor, Carolyn Sorisio, and wish her the very best of luck in taking on the role of editor and leading the journal into that future.

It is also a time for me to thank all those who have worked so hard to build the success of the journal during my tenure, although they are too many to list by name. They include the members of our International Editorial Board, our associate editors, consulting editors, our book reviews editors, our editorial assistant, our revolving roster of graduate assistants, and our publishing partners at Johns Hopkins University Press, as well as the many supporters of the journal at West Chester University. And I should add to that list my fellow editors at various other journals who have given me advice, encouragement, and the benefit of their experience. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt appreciation for our many anonymous manuscript evaluators, the peer reviewers whose painstaking professionalism and intellectual generosity tends to go unremarked and unnoted, but who ultimately make scholarly [End Page 479] publishing possible. And I would also like to thank all of our contributors for entrusting their work to us.

However, I should mention three people who have in different ways given me such invaluable support over the years. First, I would like to thank Hyoejin Yoon, who as Associate Dean has always tried to reconcile the scholarly imperatives of the journal with the bureaucratic functioning of the institution. Second, I want to reiterate my thanks to Paul Maltby both for his engagement with the intellectual concerns of the journal and for his practical help. And third, I’d like to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Conor McCarthy for so often sharing my editorial travails, offering advice and understanding, and helping build the intellectual project.

My greatest debt, as always, is to Sally. [End Page 480]

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