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From the Book and New Media Review Editor's Desk

Introduction to the Series: A Look Back at Influential Books in Student Development

Introduction to the SeriesA Look Back at Influential Books in Student Development J. Patrick Biddix Over the past 60 years, the field of student affairs and specifically the subdiscipline of college student development has experienced significant growth and advancement. As societal norms, personal values, attitudes and beliefs toward others, and our understanding of who can and should attend college have shifted, the practice of student affairs has similarly advanced with a deeper emphasis on student development. These paradigmatic changes reflect the influence of John Dewey (1916) and the vision of Esther Lloyd-Jones (1934) that postsecondary education extends beyond the classroom—influence that can be cultivated and enhanced by student affairs educators. Reflecting on the influential scholarship that has shaped the field, I contemplated the prominent books on which current work is built and that continue to influence our work. As associate editor for book reviews, I was drawn to book-length considerations of college student development that have become exemplars—scholarship that is recognizable in citation counts, evident in graduate curriculum, and visible at conferences as well as campus programs, initiatives, and practices. As John Braxton described in his rereview of Tinto’s work in this issue, these are works that have attained a “paradigmatic status” by attaining consensus among scholars. Editor Debora Liddell described these works as having “stood the test of time” by becoming scholarship “upon whose shoulders much of our work rests.” Would we have scholarship of intersectionality (Torres, Jones, & Renn, 2009) without first having scholarship of identity development (Erikson, 1968)? The past six decades have yielded some tremendously influential books that have advanced the scholarship and practice of student affairs work. As I reflected on which to revisit, an initial question framed my thinking: What are the most influential and enduring books related to student development? As a graduate faculty advisor and mentor, I also had this related question in mind: What books should all professionals know? Another important consideration was continued relevancy. For example, many students recognize the names Astin, Chickering, Gilligan, and Tinto, but what makes their work enduring? Perhaps more importantly, is their work applicable today? How might they be framed or understood better in a contemporary context? Months of careful consideration resulted in a list of six books matched to six scholars charged with the challenging task of rereading and reconsidering legacy, rigor, and relevancy. The result is a revisit of fundamental texts by contemporary scholars representing a diversity of views and perspectives, one in each 2019 issue (along with reviews of recent books). Each reviewer was asked to provide a description of the work, to consider its initial and enduring value, to critique the work, to consider its continued influence, and to describe its place today as a fundamental text for the field. We hope that readers find these revisits valuable and look forward to the discussion we hope they engender. [End Page 128] REFERENCES Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and education: An introduction to the philosophy of education. New York, NY: Macmillan. Google Scholar Erikson, E. (1968). Identity: Youth and crisis. New York, NY: Norton. Google Scholar Lloyd-Jones, E. (1934). Personnel administration. Journal of Higher Education, 5, 141–147. Google Scholar Torres, V., Jones, S. R., & Renn, K. A. (2009). Identity development theories in student affairs: Origins, current status, and new approaches. Journal of College Student Development, 50, 577–596. Google Scholar Copyright © 2019 ACPA–College Student Educators International

Editor's Note

Editor's Note Marion Rust The Harvard Advocate. Calendar Magazine. Music for the Love of It. Anima. Dirt. Land of Extremes. Sequoia. Editorial work has trailed me from a young age, whether it be helping my father with his self-published newsletter, proofreading undergraduate fiction in college, flying across the country the day after graduation to take on a freebie popular culture monthly in my favorite city, escaping into a series of messy creations put together by the assortment of iconoclasts known as the San Francisco Women Writers Workshop, or long hours as a graduate student propping up an estimable, near-defunct literary journal in the company of my dear friend (now "poetry witch") Annie Finch. As many of you know, I also served as book review editor of this journal (and then coeditor for reviews) for over half a decade. And yet, despite my familiarity with the intricacies of editorial labor in a variety of contexts, as well as the ever-changing contours of our field and even the look of a galley proof, the last few months have upended any sense of expertise I may once have possessed. In appreciation of what those who came before me made look so deceptively easy, I'd like to dedicate the bulk of this introduction to honoring the journal's two most recent prior editors, without whom I would lack both the courage and opportunity to be the person writing this note. One, Professor Sandra Gustafson, edited Early American Literature for a decade and remains close by as its advisory editor. The other, Carolina Distinguished Professor David S. Shields, who preceded Sandra in both these capacities, steps off the masthead altogether with this issue for the first time in twenty-odd years. I'll start with him. No doubt David has entirely forgotten the episode I am about to relate. Years ago, he was kind enough to open an e-mail from a young professor he barely knew. Attached were eight pages of informal ruminations on the distinction between sentimentalism and domesticity in an early American literary context. David wrote back with some thoughts of his own, and that exchange became the germ of my first publication in EAL. The reason [End Page 1] David probably doesn't remember this event is that for him it was entirely unremarkable. But as anyone familiar with standard practice in academic journals knows, his attention was in actual fact decidedly unusual. David's willingness to entertain whatever potentially innovative insight came his way, regardless of who held it or the shape it held, inspired me during a period when institutional walls seemed to loom particularly large. While I can't say I'll exhibit the same generosity of spirit should it come to e-mails with half-done essays attached, I remain grateful to David for valuing conversation over convention. Without sacrificing a shred of this journal's more than half century of high standards, I hope to honor his willingness not to stand on ceremony wherever new ideas are concerned. One of David's best new ideas was appointing Sandra Gustafson to succeed him as editor of the journal. Last year I asked Sandra to reflect on where early American literature, and Early American Literature, found themselves almost a decade into her tenure. Her response, while very different in kind from David's, displays similar intellectual curiosity and personal generosity. If you ask Sandra what she is proudest about regarding her editorship, she almost always speaks first of a commitment to inclusion that extends from special issue topics to historical and theoretical methodologies, to the career stage of its contributors. Many is the graduate student whom Sandra has seen through multiple drafts of a promising article that eventually becomes the pathway to a professorial appointment. These essays sit alongside contributions by Houston Baker, Wai Chi Dimock, Annette Gordon-Reed, Annette Kolodny, Jerome McGann, Peter Onuf, Ivy Schweitzer, Kenneth Warren, and countless other luminaries. Some of Sandra's personal favorite issues include: the most recent, coedited by Rodrigo Lazo and Kirsten Silva-Gruesz, on the Spanish Americas; a joint forum with William and Mary Quarterly on "Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous...

Wendell L. Willkie and Irita Van Doren: Ellsworth Barnard's “Postscript to <em>Wendell Willkie: Fighter for Freedom</em>”

Ellsworth Barnard wrote the first scholarly biography of Indiana native Wendell L. Willkie. In his book Wendell Willkie: Fighter for Freedom (1966), Barnard cast doubt on an aspect of Willkie's life that subsequent biographers have accepted as fact: the 1940 Republican presidential nominee's affair with Irita Bradford Van Doren, book review editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Barnard portrayed the Willkie-Van Doren relationship as a friendship, which he discussed in less than a page. Yet he also penned an article-length, unpublished essay on the purported romance and his interpretation of it. Published here for the first time is that essay, with an introduction, notations, and commentary by political historian and biographer (of Indiana's Paul V. McNutt) Dean J. Kotlowski.

From the Editor

Richard Kopley and Paul Lewis, cochairs of the PSA’s Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, are busy with the plans for the 2021 conference to be held in Boston at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel founded in 1854. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Marilynne Robinson. Her essay on Poe in the February 5, 2015, issue of the New York Review of Books begins with this sentence: “Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day.” She also had this to say on the bicentennial of Poe’s birth: “I could not stop memorizing his poems. To say them and hear them taught me to feel the deeper coherences of language, as if words ordered by their sounds and suggestions were a charm that opened more meaning than words contain” (Baltimore Sun, January 19, 2009). Phillip Philips, chair of the conference program committee, will be the one receiving submissions for papers and panels; see the CFP on the back cover of this issue.In early February, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Spain will hold its Second International Conference, “Beyond Childhood and Adolescence: Growing with Edgar Allan Poe.” The conference will be at the University of Almeria, located in southern Spain; the CFP appeared in the last issue. The keynote speakers will be Gerald Kennedy and David Roas Deus. For more information, see http://www2.ual.es/eapsa2020/index.php/almeria/.I want to take this opportunity to give special thanks to the editorial board members for their time and expertise in responding to the many essays we get; triple-blind review requires much work on their part, and we have been receiving many submissions recently—which, of course, we welcome!At the PSA Executive Board meeting at the ALA in May, it was decided to add a book review editor for the journal. We want to thank John Martin, scholarly communication librarian at the University of North Texas, for taking on this role beginning with the Spring 2020 issue. He has established a new set of guidelines for book reviews, and these will appear in the next issue of the journal as well as on the PSA listserv.

Message from the Editors

Message from the Editors Carol Bakhos, Adam Shear, and Aviva Arad, Managing Editor The Association for Jewish Studies and the AJS Review editors and editorial board extend their condolences to the family of Professor Yaakov Elman, longtime member of our editorial board, who passed away on July 29, 2018. May his memory be a blessing. Note on Changes to Our Submission Process Beginning January 1, 2019, all article submissions to AJS Review should be submitted as an MS Word document through an online submission portal, which will be found at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/AJSReview. Submission instructions and requirements will be provided as you submit, and authors can also consult the journal's Instructions for Contributors on the journal website at http://cambridge.org/AJS. Peer reviewers will also be solicited and return reports through the online portal. Any submissions already under review at the launch of the new portal will continue to be handled by direct contact with the managing editor at review@associationforjewishstudies.org. Book reviews will not be a part of the new submission process and will continue to be solicited and received via email by our book review editors. We look forward to receiving your contributions. [End Page 267] Copyright © 2018 Association for Jewish Studies

The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation

As my last act as outgoing book review editor for Advances in the History of Rhetoric, I am pleased to introduce a forum on Professor Darrel Wanzer-Serrano’s important 2015 work, The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. When editor Arthur Walzer and I made the decision to host these forums, we envisioned creating a space where scholars could respond to important new works in the field. Some we expected would be provocative, inviting us to think about new possibilities in the history of rhetorical theory, criticism, and praxis. Professor Wanzer-Serrano’s book is both provocative and timely. It pushes us to think about decolonial love and the struggle of the New York Young Lords in the context of rhetoric studies and at a time when immigrant voices are fighting to be heard amidst increasing violence, dehumanization, and exclusion.

CEJ area book review editors

CEJ area book review editors

Steinbeck Studies: A Field Turned from Wild to Fertile

<i>Steinbeck Studies: A Field Turned from Wild to Fertile</i>

Editor's Letter

Editor's Letter

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Edited by Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2017. 384 pp. $27.99 hardcover. Just between the time that an email request from the book review editor of the Journal arrived (November 28, 2017) to the time of sitting down to begin writing a first draft of this

Books and materials received

Personnel PsychologyVolume 71, Issue 2 p. 296-296 BOOKS AND MATERIALS RECEIVED Books and materials received† First published: 02 May 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12273 † The publication listed is already scheduled for review and/or is included as a new listing. Readers interested in reviewing for Personnel Psychology are invited to write Book Review Editor Dr. Steven Toaddy at steven.toaddy@gmail.com—providing information about background and areas of interest. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume71, Issue2Summer 2018Pages 296-296 RelatedInformation

Editor's Note

Editor's Note

CEJ area book review editors

CEJ area book review editors

Welcome from the Editors: A Brief History of LCHS

Welcome from the Editors: A Brief History of LCHS

Reflections from the Book and Media Reviews editor Dr. William B. Gunn, Jr.

Reflections from the Book and Media Reviews editor Dr. William B. Gunn, Jr.

Editor's Note: In Transition, a Moment for Gratitude

Editor's Note: In Transition, a Moment for Gratitude

Books and materials received

Personnel PsychologyVolume 71, Issue 1 p. 144-144 BOOKS AND MATERIALS RECEIVED Books and materials received† First published: 06 February 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12259 † The publication listed is already scheduled for review and/or is included as a new listing. Readers interested in reviewing for Personnel Psychology are invited to write the Book Review Editor Dr. Steven Toaddy at steven.toaddy@gmail.com, providing information about background and areas of interest. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume71, Issue1Spring 2018Pages 144-144 RelatedInformation

The European Review of Agricultural Economics is searching for a book review editor

The European Review of Agricultural Economics is searching for a book review editor

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note Susan Tomlinson With this first 2018 issue I am delighted to announce Cari Carpenter’s appointment as our new book review editor. Cari is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century American and Native American literature. She is the author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (Ohio State University Press, 2008). She also edited Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), and coedited with Carolyn Sorisio The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864–1891 (University of Nebraska Press, 2015). We are thrilled that Cari has joined us and we can’t wait to see where she takes our book review section. As we welcome Cari to the masthead, we also announce Jean Lutes’s departure after three years as our book review editor. Jean joined Legacy in 2004 as a consultant and later served on our editorial board. The precision and generosity she brought to evaluating submissions made her an editor able not only to match each new publication with its ideal reader-reviewer but also to bring every review to its full critical expression. Her innovations, such as the web reviews in our last issue, have kept Legacy apace with new directions in scholarly publishing. We are delighted that Jean is staying on as an editorial consultant and that contributors to Legacy will continue to benefit from her insightful peer reviews. Our digital media coordinator, Amanda Stuckey, is updating the Legacy website’s portrait gallery, and last fall she built this project into one of her literature courses at York College of Pennsylvania, introducing undergraduates to recovery work and the digital humanities as integral parts of literary and textual analysis. Amanda has partnered with Women Writers Online, part of the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. You can read her blog post about this exciting project at wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/digital-collections-interpretation/. [End Page vii] Susan Tomlinson Legacy Copyright © 2018 University of Nebraska Press