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[Expo. 3.2 (2009) 139] Expositions (print) ISSN 1747-5368  
doi:10.1558/expo.v3i2.139 Expositions (online) ISSN 1747-5376 

Editors’ Preface

JohN A. DooDy AND PEtEr BUSch

This fall marks an end as well as a beginning for us.  
Expositions has always been an unusual addition to the ranks of aca-

demic journals. With features like Academic roundtables, overheard 
in the Academy, and Notes, Insights, and Flashes, we let our authors be 
more experimental, conversational, and timely than is possible when 
writing the typical scholarly article. We remain convinced of the need 
for such a forum in the academy today.  We have also found, however, 
that a print publication may not be the best way to offer it.  

Even as Expositions hearkens back to a time when most serious publi-
cations were broadly interdisciplinary, we also have much in common 
with the new electronic media. Next year, therefore, Expositions will 
return as an all-electronic journal published by Villanova University.  
our new website will offer more of the features that distinguish us 
from other academic journals as well as free access to archives of our 
first three volumes. Please stop by in the coming months for calls for 
papers and other announcements. We expect to begin reviewing man-
uscripts in summer 2010.

our heartfelt thanks go to Equinox Publications for investing a great 
deal of time, money, and expertise in an uncertain venture. We are 
especially grateful to Janet Joyce, our managing editor, and russell  
Adams, our production editor, for maintaining such high standards 
and for helping us learn to do the same.