Enfilade

As the newsletter editor for HECAA, I hope to make this forum as useful as possible. When consulting a sampling of members about what kinds of information they hoped the newsletter might supply, I repeatedly encountered enthusiastic assertions that the newsletter could fill a vital niche. I heard overwhelming consensus that it would ideally not simply report upon members’ scholarly activities but also serve as a clearing house for information about eighteenth-century studies, that it would not simply mark past events but look even more diligently to the future. I envision entries on upcoming exhibitions, conferences and calls for papers, reviews, and notes on pertinent books and articles. I also hope that the forum will create a space for musings and observations from members that just don’t quite fit anywhere else in the world of scholarly expression. All of these functions should be served quite well by a blog, which can be easily updated and conveniently accessed. I am especially grateful to our former editor, Susan Dixon, who was especially helpful with the transition.

Finally, I should stress that Enfilade is very much a work in progress. I welcome your comments and suggestions.

-Craig Hanson