Jennifer Tuttle named editor in chief of Legacy journal

Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature and Health, was recently named Editor in Chief of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, the premier journal in the field of U.S. women's writing.

Legacy publishes scholarly essays on American women writers, texts, and material culture from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries and actively supports the rediscovery and circulation of women's texts (historic primary sources).  Now in its 28th year, the journal is published by the University of Nebraska Press and is the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.