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You can download the latest issue of [Inter]sections HERE.

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

 [Inter]sections has been undergoing a make-over which is still in progress. Basically, it’s transitioning towards a peer-reviewed form with only two core sections (graduate and undergraduate), with longer and fewer papers which may allow for more fully developed arguments, and a larger number special issues. Out of the older sections we shall of course be keeping the reviews (we still love the idea of having many shotgun reviews, but are mostly inviting longer ones), as well as the very popular American Studies in Romania/Abroad section. We are also open to adding interviews and other forms of organizing what you write, but prefer to keep articles out of the much-too-confining genre-specific rubrics we operated with for the first part of this journal’s existence.

Also, our publication is becoming a trimestrial affair, in an attempt to boost the quality of our work and central nervous system. To this end, we have been very happy to welcome several new members to our (graduate student) peer-reviewing team, and work out a new peer-reviewing system which is hopefully going to be tough but rewarding. A new set of (potentially evolving) publication guidelines is now available on the (again, quite new)

American Studies website: http://www.americanstudies.ro/?article=54

Our new e-mail address is intersections@americanstudies.ro.

Please use it for all submissions, questions or comments. Make no mistake, we loved the old format and are still expecting many contributions from the initial [Inter]sections team, but thought the quality of the articles was often unfortunately unequal, and the previous strictures of organization, exhausting and not that inviting for prospective contributors.

As for this issue, it kicks off most wonderfully with an interview with American poet Carla Harryman, who was kind enough to talk to us about her many exciting projects, and wait for us to emerge from our various workaholic stupors to produce this belated December issue. All in all, let me end by saying that although the spirit of Judith Butler hovers most pleasantly over our October-December [Inter]sections, this one is not (yet) a gender and sexuality special issue (when we do that we’ll advertise it high and low well in advance). It may not make for as nimble a read as our previous issues, but we believe the papers published here say a lot of exciting things about the new and old members of our team and some of our favorite bones of contention.