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Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has transformed countless lives. More than an anthology, Personal Effects represents an author case study and an example for modern Italian American interdisciplinary scholarship. Personal Effects examines DeSalvo's memoirs as works that push the boundaries of the most controversial genre of the past few decades. In these works, the author fearlessly explores issues such as immigration, domesticity, war, adultery, illness, mental health, sexuality, the environment, and trauma through the lens of gender, ethnic, and working-class identity. Alongside her groundbreaking scholarship, DeSalvo's memoirs attest to the power and influence of this feminist Italian American writer.

What is not remembered is forgotten.

Ellis and Giunta focus on the ways that editorial work enabled them to establish a network of collaborative partnerships among editors, authors, designers, artists, board members, educational institutions, teachers, activists, and students. As is evident in their discussion, working toward that goal, was in part, a matter of detailed, meticulous -- sometimes routine and repetitive -- labor. These daily tasks were nevertheless essential to editing, as much as they are to teaching, writing, and, more broadly, to the work of creating a more just and equal world.

[...] I wish to thank our contributors, our colleagues who have generously given their time to write sharp reports essential to the quality of a peer-reviewed journal, and our readers for valuing and supporting Transformations.