E-Review 53.2: From the Editors

RMMLA: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

From the Editors

In the weeks following the conference in Santa Fe, we have had time to contemplate our myriad experiences in that city of diverse peoples, cultures, and weather systems. Above all, the conference allowed for the exchange of ideas essential to the lifeblood of our profession. Like other conference participants, we were able establish new relationships with scholars in our areas of interest as well as to renew the bonds with friends from graduate school, former colleagues, and conference contacts from previous years. As editors of this journal, we call on you to rework your conference presentation and submit it for publication in The Rocky Mountain Review and E-Review (http://rmmla.wsu.edu/), thus widening your audience beyond those fortunate enough to have attended your presentation in Santa Fe.

The richness of our experiences in Santa Fe resonates in the breadth and depth of the RMMLA membership, and in turn this wealth and richness of academic expertise is readily apparent in this issue of the journal. In the pages that follow, you will find intellectual forays into topics ranging from German minority literature and British literature to Native American traditions and American literature. We hope that you take this opportunity to look beyond your specialty and search for the common language of the humanities.

As always in this season of encroaching darkness, we are already looking forward to spring's rebirth and renewal. For the editorial staff of the The Rocky Mountain Review and E-Review, the spring will also bring another thematic issue of the journal, focusing this time on "Anachronisms and Neologisms in Language and Literature: The Creation of New Wor(l)ds." We would also like to invite you once again to submit manuscripts for our final thematic issue in spring 2001: "Responses to the Turning of the Century: Revisiting, Reviewing, and Recreating the Fin de Siècle Across the Ages."