Something Less than Retirement

Beginning with Volume 17, the Journal of Beckett Studies will alter its editorial structure and change its publishing home. After operating from Florida State University since 1992, the Journal’s operations will move to the University of Western Australia in 2008 under the general editorship of Anthony Uhlmann. Uhlmann will oversee a consortium of editors for this new incarnation of the Journal, which began its life in 1976 at the University of Reading, UK, under the editorship of and James Knowlson (who oversaw the first series) and then under John Pilling. It moved to Tallahassee, Florida, under the editorship of Stan Gontarski in 1989, and he oversaw the end of the first series with issue number 13 and the beginning of a second series in 1992. Anthony Uhlmann will edit the Journal from Sydney, Australia, and Sydney will be the site from which the production of the journal will be coordinated. He will be working with a consortium which includes S. E. Gontarksi (in Florida), Chris Ackerley (in New Zealand), and Dirk Van Hulle (in Belgium). Mark Nixon (in Reading, UK) has agreed to serve as Review Editor. A new advisory board will be drawn together from scholars working in the field in the coming months. We look forward to working collaboratively with scholars and organizations related to Beckett to ensure that the Journal of Beckett Studies remains the Journal of record for all matters Beckettian.

The Journal will continue to publish two issues per year, but under a new pricing structure which more accurately reflects costs and the realities of the contemporary market. Further details with regard to the plans for the new series, including information about forthcoming issues (the first two of which will carry over from work begun in the second series) will be posted shortly. For the moment, however, we can confirm the new address for correspondence and subscriptions:

Associate Professor Anthony Uhlmann
School of Humanities and Languages
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC, NSW 1797
AUSTRALIA
Email: a.uhlmann@uws.edu.au