Welcome to Issue 20.1 of Xchanges!

Xchanges is now in its 25th year! That is a really incredible fact for me to write, as I sit here reflecting on everything that has happened with this journal over the last quarter-century. That seems a huge span of years and during all of those years, I have been this journal’s Editor-in-Chief, a role that has been incredibly fulfilling and has allowed me to engage with hundreds of awe-inspiring works of undergraduate-student and graduate-student research writing and multimodal texts. As we set the stage for our next era, we have many big developments ahead, including a new journal website, multimodal histories of the journal, expanded social media presence, and staffing reinventions. We also have a full special issue coming up in the Fall of 2026 to celebrate our momentous birthday, co-edited by Sweta Baniya and Jason Tham. Keep your eyes peeled for all of these birthday celebrations.

But, in the meantime, we’re continuing to do what we’ve always done: publish incredible pieces of original research by emerging scholars at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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