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Editing Canon for the past year and a half has been an extremely rewarding, if sometimes challenging experience. Our major effort has been to make Canon once again reflect the quality and diversity of graduate student research at the New School. To this end, previous issues have had politically oriented themes and have made the attempt to put student research in a public forum. In keeping with this general goal, we are proud to present the current issue of Canon, which focuses on the politics of Gender Studies and Queer Theory within and outside of academia.
We have been extremely fortunate in publishing this issue in having the cooperation and encouragement of the organizers of two conferences at the New School in Spring 2010: “No Longer in Exile” and “Politically Queer”. Several of the articles in the current edition are new versions of papers presented at one of these conferences while others are written in dialogue with one or both of the events. We hope that this kind of cooperation between Canon and student-organized conferences and research groups continues in the future. Attending these conferences, conversing with the organizers and participants, and working on this issue of Canon has been a learning experience for both of us in many ways, and we hope our readership experiences the same benefits from the research and thought that went into the pieces published here.
This is the last issue under our editorship. Starting next fall three new editors, Diana Mattison, Abigail Johnson, and Mary Dooe will take over as editors. We have great confidence that they will build on the work we have done to make Canon a truly exemplary graduate student publication.
Yours,
Justin Humphreys and Rachel Signer,
editors