EDITORIAL ESC and “Globalization” M o st READERS o f English Studies in Canada (ESC) will un doubtedly know by now that the journal is moving from Carleton University, where it has been produced for twelve years, to the Uni versity of Alberta. The new editorial team, under the editorship of Jo-Ann Wallace, is responsible for all issues from March 2003. At Carleton we are finishing the 2002 volume and gradually hand ing off our editorial and other responsibilities. Since 1 September 2002, in fact, we have been forwarding all new submissions and all new books received for review to the University of Alberta. We are still processing articles and reviews that were in the pipeline before this date, but these too will soon leave, even if their paperwork is still incomplete, and, in the case of articles, their acceptance (or rejection) has yet to be finally decided. The new editorial team will wish to establish its own priorities within the ACCUTE mandate “to promote the interests of those teaching and studying English language and literatures in Cana dian colleges and universities by facilitating the dissemination and exchange of research and the exploration of professional issues” (Hengen 1). The editorial team at Carleton decided, therefore, that we should increase the size of the 2002 issues so that we could pub lish more of the articles and reviews that we had accepted and for which the paperwork had been completed by their respective au thors. Despite our best efforts, we have sent —and shall send — a goodly supply of articles to the University of Alberta. We shall also transmit reviews, although twenty are printed in this issue and another twenty will appear in the December 2002 one. There is a second reason for our wishing to clear the decks as much as possible for the new team. As Shannon Hengen, the outgo ing president, reported in the ACCUTE newsletter for June 2002, at the 2002 Annual General Meeting, the ACCUTE membership was asked to accept under “what 21st Century Robert’s Rules of Order calls Unanimous or General Consent (rather than a vote) [...] a resolution adopted at the previous day’s joint executive/English Studies in Canada Board meeting: to delete from further issues of ESC the sentence on the copyright page that reads: “ESC welcomes submissions from members of ACCUTE and others associated with the Canadian academic and literary community” (1). In the end, for the reasons explained by the President, the “matter” (1) was left over to the 2003 AGM. What Hengen did not explain, however, 351 was the significance of the adoption of this change for ESC and for ACCUTE. What this proposal was intended to do was to open the pages of ACCUTE’sjournal to both non-members of ACCUTE and those not associated with the Canadian academic and literary community. To an extent, of course, ESC, certainly in the last five years, has commissioned and/or otherwise encouraged articles from people in both these categories. But there is a difference between ESC’s pol icy of occasional contributions of articles by non-Canadians and/or non-ACCUTE members and the kind of “globalization,” which may now include the reviewing of books by non-Canadians as well, that the proposed policy implies. Although its intention is to heighten the “international” pro file of ESC and to make it, in the view of those who support the proposal, a “world-class” journal, I question the wisdom of making this change. For the sake of brevity, I shall leave aside the irony of ACCUTE’s directing its journal to break both its and ESC’s Cana dian national mandate. Instead, I shall concentrate on three other reasons that strike me as equally important. The first has to do with the potential loss of identity —and possibly subscribers —that will follow when readers discover that English Studies in Canada no longer focusses on its announced subject and, therefore, no longer represents the English language and literatures sector of the Canadian academic world to itself and others. The second has to do with logistics, specifically in the case of reviews. We have cast our net widely for books edited or...