Acknowledgements

This publication would not be possible without the exceptional dedication of the faculty who nominated essays for publication. Instructors whose students' work appears in this volume include Emily Barber, Annie Coleman, Sandra M. Gustafson, Anna Hayden, Whitney Lew James, Ijeoma Kola, Johannes Junge Ruhland, Tina Lupton, Miranda Macfarlane, Michelle Marvin, Aaron Michka, CSC, Olivier Morel, Cliona C. Ni Riordain, Elyse Speaks, Jessica Shumake, Jessica Thomas, and Joanna Lin Want.

Special thanks are due to members of the editorial board, a team of volunteers who devoted their professional expertise to reading this year’s exceptionally large and diverse group of submitted essays. We are especially grateful to Assistant Editor Letitia Johnston for her adept contributions to reading and selecting the student writing for this volume.

We also thank our colleagues in the University Writing Program, including Sheila Christophorou, Program Coordinator for the UWP, who gave ready assistance throughout the year to the editorial team, and our fellow faculty, who shared principled counsel on important questions of privacy and publication ethics in the evolving context of digital publication. The previous Co-Editor of Fresh Writing, Damian Zurro, smoothed the path toward publication with his generous help and wisdom at crucial junctures throughout the publication process.

We owe great thanks to Bridget Hoyt, Curator of Education at the Raclin Museum, for her support with the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Essay Competition; the team at Notre Dame Creative for providing crucial training in publishing students’ work on our website; and Matthew Bizoe, Web and Digital Content Strategist, for supporting our editorial process.

We thank the many students who submitted such fine essays for publication. While we could not include every submitted essay, we benefited greatly from reading your work. Finally, to the authors included in this volume, thank you for sharing your example of intellectual vitality and ethical discourse. We look forward to continuing to hear your voices in our community at Notre Dame, and beyond.

As always, thanks for your support of Fresh Writing.

Whitney Lew James and Elizabeth Capdevielle, Co-Editors