This issue of Utopian Studies: The Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies comes to you under new editorial leadership. Before introducing ourselves, I wish first of all to extend thanks to former editor Dr. Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University), who served the journal for fourteen years. Her consistent attention to the best scholarship in utopian studies throughout her editorial tenure is deeply appreciated by all who have worked in the field.
As a long-time member and former president of the Society for Utopian Studies, I have been engaged for thirty years in utopian studies, mostly from a literary perspective, and mostly focusing on feminist and queer utopian theory and expression. As a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, I am within walking distance of the University Libraries’ Arthur O. Lewis Utopia Collection, housed within Eberly Family Special Collections Library in University Park since...
