This issue of Pacific Coast Philology comes in the shape of a double issue, and it also marks a transition in the journal’s editorial team: we very much thank Cheryl Edelson for her service as the journal’s coeditor and for her broader contributions to our association, serving PAMLA over many years in various roles, including President. Richard Hishmeh remains coeditor and is now joined by Martin Japtok, also a longtime member of PAMLA. We gladly note that this double issue is a good example of the catholicity of our association’s journal, reflecting its annual conference: we offer essays ranging from topics such as Old English onomastics to Japanese web novels, from a cultural history of the word “vamp” to a literary history of Hawai’ian plays, from visual representations of women in a nineteenth century Mexican almanac to the dystopic landscape of an early twentieth century Russian science-fiction novel.
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