Acknowledgements
First and foremost, we want to express our deepest gratitude to all our contributors for being a part of this project and composing the interesting and insightful chapters of this volume. Your diligence and patience are truly appreciated. We would like to thank our very tolerant and very kind editor Professor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe; the completion of this collection would have been impossible without your continued support and understanding. We are also indebted to Dr Christa Stevens at Brill | Rodopi for her invaluable help in making this collection of essays a reality. Our heartfelt appreciation goes to Professor Elana Gomel for contributing a chapter to this volume, and for being an inspiration for many academic endeavours past, present and future. Last but not least, we would like to acknowledge our colleague, Shawn Edrei, who has been instrumental in the early stages of this project.