This was a year of firsts for the journal: this issue contains the first non-English piece and the first paper from a student attending a school other than Virginia Tech. In fact, this was the first year Philologia has accepted submissions from outside of our university, and we hope that opening our college’s journal to student work from other universities will help make Philologia increasingly visible and will enhance its national presence. We are proud to continue Philologia’s tradition of interdisciplinarity, publishing work from across the wide range of fields represented in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.