Current Issue: Fall 2025

Editor's Note

Evolution is dependent on continuity. That has become clear during my time at Clamantis. Since joining as an Editor for the Spring 2024 issue, I have been privileged to partake in the subtle and profound growth of this journal.

The last three issues have been characterized by productive calm, providing the basis for the leaps that this present issue has taken. For that, I must thank the two previous Editors-in-Chief: Vibha Vasanth and Jacob Campbell, who introduced me to Clamantis and whose stable and sound leadership functioned as the necessary preamble for the journal’s next phase. It is fitting that, along with the theme of this issue being “Newly gathered: fresh collections and recent discoveries,” it is also the final issue of 2025, Clamantis’s 20th anniversary. The start of a new decade serves as both a time to reflect on how far the journal has come, as well as to gather and project new ideas of what it could be.

The Fall 2025 issue has been defined by the spirit of gathering and discovery. Within our Editorial Board, there appeared an unstoppable vigor for assessing and implementing both new and dormant ideas. In addition, we were greeted by a host of new faces: Board Members, Editors, and Authors who brought new vitality and insights to our established ways. This spirit of newness, of gathering people and ideas, led to some of the greatest evolutions I have witnessed for Clamantis.

Just as the leaves fall each year, allowing for a season of transformation, I confidently believe that this issue has been a fruitful autumn in our journal’s history. I want to thank the Editorial Board of Clamantis: Chelsee Niebergall, Mackintosh Bennett, Andrew Moore, Keehan White, and Cosima Pellis, for their dedication and initiative toward bringing the artistic fruits of MALS and Guarini into the open. They have led critical evolutions to this journal that future Boards, Editors, Authors, and Readers alike will reap for years to come: in particular, Chelsee for her organizational support and work toward integrating new and veteran members with our mission; Keehan, for his contributions and initiative toward the financial and logistical aspects that keep our journal running; Andrew, for expanding Clamantis’s network and creating new ways to connect writers, editors, and readers; Cosima, for her meticulous supervision of the many pieces we received for this issue; and Mackintosh, for revolutionizing the printing process and (as always) raising the standards we at Clamantis hold ourselves to. One could not ask for a better board to work with.

Thank you to Clamantis’s gracious and wise ‘Memory of the Journal’, Faculty Advisor, Professor Anna Minardi. Her presence and guidance are the lynchpins holding the journal together. I also wish to thank our noble Editors, Assistant Editors, and Alumni Editors who have devoted their time and thoughtful analysis to the pieces in this issue. Their ardent reading is the greatest gauge we have for elevating authors within MALS and Guarini. I also would like to thank the MALS Faculty: Chairperson Donald Pease, Director Wole Ojerongbe, Registrar Colleen Andrasko, and Admissions Coordinator Amanda Watson, for their unceasing devotion to Clamantis and the students who are part of it. Thank you for the work that you do.

The Board and I present Clamantis: Vol XVII Issue 2. We hope you will be as invigorated and transformed by its contents as we have been.