A Welcome: Editor’s Note

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A Welcome: Editor’s Note Karen L. Kilcup Sometimes, we get lucky. Most of the work of producing ESQ occurs behind the scenes. I could not have served as the journal’s editor for the last seven and a half years without the guidance and help of our Editorial Goddess, Managing Editor Heloise Abtahi; our YiC Coordinators, currently Rachel L. Brown; and our excellent Editorial Assistants, now Sezin Zorlu. Observant ESQ readers will have noticed the appearance of Sari Edelstein on our editorial page. In late 2021, I contacted Sari to see if she would be interested in joining the journal’s staff, and she graciously agreed to begin following, and then participating in, our editorial processes. Starting as Associate Editor during one of the most challenging times in memory—a global pandemic and shutdown of much “normal” activity—she officially became the Coeditor at the beginning of this year. This position follows her years of support for the journal, which includes serving on ESQ’s Advisory Board and reviewing submissions. My longstanding admiration of Sari’s scholarship propelled my invitation. Readers will remember her early ESQ essay on Redburn in 2013; her important contribution to our 2016 Provocations feature, “Reading Age Beyond Childhood,” which appeared in the first issue I edited (62.1); as well as her engaging 2021 dialogue with Danielle Coriale, “The Society to Encourage Studies at Home (in a Pandemic).” From her illuminating study of genre conventions in Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing (2014) to her field-defining Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age (2018)—and many publications before, between, and after—Sari has emerged as a prominent, must-read voice in American literary and cultural criticism. Sari is not only a superlative scholar, she is also a discerning, thoughtful, imaginative, and collaborative colleague. We are very fortunate, and I am deeply grateful, to have her on our team. online access ESQ is available online through Project MUSE. For subscriptions, visit http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/index.html. [End Page i] Copyright © 2023 Board of Regents of Washington State University