This issue of ANQ introduces three changes. It is the first to be published from my new academic home, the Department of English at Fudan University. The journal will continue to be supported by ...Russell Palmer as its Editorial Assistant. In moving to a new institution, I wish to acknowledge the support the School of Foreign Studies at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics has given to my editorial work over the past three years. This period was a formative one in which two further changes to the journal were contemplated and decided on. Never before has the journal had such a broad international contributor base. But the significantly increased volume of submissions has also necessitated reflection about what material ANQ can and should publish and how the journal can best serve the scholarly community. Readers of the journal will have noticed that the past two issues were significantly longer than those published in previous years. In fact, the volume of submissions of a publishable standard has increased exponentially over the first decade of my editorship. As a result, Taylor & Francis has increased the available page budget to make possible a speedy print publication process. The submissions of articles on the recent past have posed a major challenge for the journal in that the large number of peer reviewers on which the journal relies did not match the expertise necessary to evaluate these articles. In fact, repeatedly reviewers for these submissions could not be identified, a frustrating experience both for me, as editor, and for the author submitting their work. Given the extent of the subject-specific breadth the journal has always fostered, but also ensuring that the submissions to the journal are processed efficiently and in a timely manner, ANQ will no longer consider articles devoted to the literature of the past 15 years. In addition to its original, core focus on notes and short articles, the journal has, over the course of the past decade, also published longer works. The journal’s understanding of the discipline has broadened with developments that embrace all literatures in English. Including longer articles (of up to 6500 words) will become standard for the journal, at the same time that ANQ will revive the publishing of archival materials that characterized the very beginning of the journal.
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