"Good scholarship is good scholarship, wherever it comes from."

Janet Wasserman, The New York Sun (Oct 15, 2004); Knickerbocker Section, page 16.

 Introduction

This site is designed to share my research and papers – published and unpublished – with anyone who is interested in the subjects of my research.  I copyright my material since it represents years of labor.  Some of these papers and articles have not been subjected to peer review other than the reviews of readers on the Internet who were willing to offer a critique, and by editors who prepared them for publication. May I say that I do not take kindly to the theft of intellectual property.  All that I as a scholar can ask is that you provide the courtesy of a standard citation to any of my work that you cite, quote from (limited to the number of words set by US copyright law), refer to, or allude to.  The challenge and exchange of ideas and information is a sine qua non for healthy intellectual discourse.  The opportunity to respond is, likewise, a desirable and necessary event. 
 
JANET WASSERMAN
Copyright©2009 Janet I. Wasserman

TO THE READER.  My web site is the beneficiary of a free service from weebly.com.  It has enabled me to publish many of my scholarly articles most of which contain footnotes.  However, despite the footnote’s appearance as a live link, the host service does not provide the capability to click on a footnote and go immediately to the link.  If you want to look at a footnote shown in the text, do not click on it.  Clicking on the footnote will take you to the host’s home page and away from my pages.  I suggest that you either read the article to the end where the footnotes are or else scroll down as you read the text to see the relevant footnote.  You will then have to scroll back up to that point in the text where you can resume reading.  Both methods are inconvenient.  My apologies: “there’s no such thing as free lunch.”