From the Editor

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From the Editor Jennifer L. Airey Last year, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature had the pleasure of publishing a special volume on Women and Archives, guest edited by Laura Engel and Emily Ruth Rutter, so it has been some time since I have had an opportunity to give an update on our office staff and editorial board. Since my last preface, our Subscriptions Manager, Danielle Calhoun, has graduated, and Jacob Crystal has stepped into her position. Jamie Walt has joined our team as Publicity Manager, taking over for Ciara Graham, who is currently training as our new Book Review Editor. She will take on the role full time at the end of the semester, as we say goodbye to her predecessor, Jennarae Niece, who will be much missed. I also have many outgoing editorial board members to thank and new ones to introduce. Madelyn Detloff, Laura Engel, Brigitte Fielder, Karen Gevirtz, Ambreen Hai, J. Samaine Lockwood, Celia Marshik, Koritha Mitchell, and Talia Schaffer have all completed their terms, and I am grateful for their service. Melissa J. Homestead, Harleen Singh, and Lara Vetter joined our editorial board in Spring 2021, and Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Elizabeth Sheehan, and Margaret D. Stetz in Fall 2021. With this current issue, we welcome Misty G. Anderson, Mary Ellis Gibson, and Catherine Ingrassia. It is with pleasure that I introduce these additions to our editorial board: Melissa J. Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also directs the Cather Project and serves as associate editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather: A Digital Edition (in progress). She is the author of two books, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (2021) and American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 (2005), as well as numerous essays on American women’s authorship and publishing history from the late 1700s through the early 1900s. She has also coedited a 2011 edition of Clarence: A Tale of Our Own Times (1830) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures (2011), and E. D. E. N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist (2012). She is President of the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, has served as an officer of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, and is co-project lead of the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers, a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln designed to support the recovery of American women writers by providing digital access to forgotten or neglected texts and/or extending them with digital analytical tools. The Recovery Hub fosters collaboration, mentorship [End Page 5] and community among women working in the digital humanities while seeking feminist and decolonial approaches to the creation, curation, design, sharing, and archiving of digital content. Harleen Singh is the Director of the Women’s Studies Research Center and Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Women’s Studies at Brandeis University. She and Sarah Lamb founded the South Asian Studies Program, and Singh served as its co-chair from 2007 to 2016. She is also the elected faculty representative to the Board of Trustees at Brandeis. Her writing on novels from India and Pakistan and on Indian film and her book reviews on hip-hop music, sexuality, and feminism have been published in various leading journals. Her chapters on women warriors and South Asian women writers are included in influential book collections. Her monograph, The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India (2014), interprets the conflicting, mutable images of an historical icon as they change over time in literature, film, history, and popular culture. The book is in its second reprint and has been reviewed in The Telegraph, Economic and Political Weekly, The Book Review, BIBLIO, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Her interdisciplinary work in English, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi is focused on women in literature and film. Her next book, Contemporary Debates in Postcolonial Feminism, is being published by Routledge in 2022. Her current book projects include a critical translation of Amrita Pritam’s partition novel Pinjar (1950...