After a period being away from our time editing Reflections, we were pleased to step in to fill the gap between the end of Deborah Mutnick and Laurie Grobman’s editorship and the beginning of Laura Gonzales’ term. It soon became apparent that under Deborah and Laurie’s leadership, Reflections had extended its scholarly profile, expanding categories of academic writing and readership. Laura will be in an enviable situation when her term begins in 2022.
We were also grateful to work with scholars who we admired for this issue. Though, it should be noted, the vision, content, and insights of this issue emerge from the special issue editors: Jasmine Villa, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, and Isabel Baca. And, in that same spirit, we want to be sure to note the specific efforts of: Victoria Scholz, who served as an Associate Editor for this issue; Heather Lang, who has been a consistent resource for the journal in the role of Web Editor; and Romeo García, who continues his thorough work guiding and supporting writers as Book Review Editor.
We will be “in charge” for one more issue, a Fall issue focused on COVID-19. After that, we will return to status of Reflections readers, continuing to learn and benefit from the great work the journal shares with the field.
Jessica Pauszek, Boston College
Steve Parks, University of Virginia
Interim Editors, Reflections
Jessica Pauszek
Jessica Pauszek is an Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. Her work brings together community literacy, working class studies, and critical archival studies through the creation of print and digital archives with members from the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (fwwcpdigitalcollection.org). The basis of this work stems from her dissertation which was awarded honorable mention for the 2018 James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award. She is co-editor (with Steve Parks) of the Working and Writing for Change Series and co-editor (with Kristi Girdharry and Charles Lesh) of Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition Series. Her work has been published in Across the Disciplines, College Composition and Communication, Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, Reflections, and more.
Steve Parks
Steve Parks is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Class Politics: The Movement for Students’ Right to Their Own Language as well as Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love. He is founder of New City Community Press (newcitycommunitypress.com), cofounder of Syrians for Truth and Justice, (stj-sy.org), and co-founder of The Twiza Project (twizaproject.org). He is editor of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series, co-editor (with Jessica Pauszek) of the Working and Writing for Change Series, and co-editor (with Eileen SchelI) of the Writing, Culture and Material Practices series. He has also served as editor of Reflections. His current book project is Activism (Reconsidered).
