years. 3 MLA editions. 16 professorial voices. 37 art contributions. 58 authors. 111 editors. 656 footnotes. 1,503 pages. 33,300 hours of work done by student editors. aspeers by the numbers gives an indication of the scope of a project that began over a decade ago with a seemingly simple question: "Is there a demand for a graduate-level publication in European American Studies?" (Koenen and Herrmann iii). In each of the years to follow, this question was answered in the affirmative, and so the journal grew and prospered, offering graduate students a space for inquiry and analysis, debate and exploration. While the mere numbers give evidence of the productivity of the student editors, contributors, and faculty members in terms of quantity on the one hand, they also show the quality of our teamwork, of the collaboration efforts, and-yes-of the resilience involved.
he foreword is a tricky genre of writing. Positioned prominently, it demands the reader's immediate attention, and yet, at the same time, it is all too easily dismissed as an inessential distraction on the way to the actual text. The foreword for a serial publication such as aspeers is even more challenging-there are, after all, eleven forewords preceding this one, and the task of continuing the conversation begun in them is not an easy one. As is the case in any series, the dynamics at play here is one of repetition and variation, of doing justice to the core function of the foreword while adding something new and compelling.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.