Editor's Note

It has been a distinct honor to have been the editor of Sign Language Studies since January of 2010. I am very grateful to all of the authors and reviewers for their very hard work and to the staff of Gallaudet University Press, who have always provided unfailing support. It is now with great satisfaction that I hand the editorship into the very capable hands of Dr. Pilar Piñar and Dr. Erin Wilkinson. They will do a wonderful job! Their first issue will be volume 22, number 2, Winter 2022. Here is a brief introduction to them both.

Dr. Pilar Piñar is a professor in the World Languages and Cultures program, within the School of Language, Education, and Culture, at Gallaudet University. Her research interests include bilingualism and sentence processing and literacy in sign-print bilinguals. She has published collaborative research exploring the role of ASL in printed word recognition, reading processing in ASL/English bilinguals, and the role of gesture in language.

Dr. Erin Wilkinson is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. She has broad research interests in bilingualism and multilingualism, language documentation and description, language change and variation, signed language typology, and language planning and policy in highly diverse signing communities. Her current studies in collaboration with other researchers examine cognitive and linguistic processing in signing bilingual populations. She also explores which linguistic structures are restructured over time in signed languages and what are possible factors that contribute to language change and variation in signed languages through the lens of usage-based theory.