Volume XV Preface

It is such an honor to welcome to our readers to our 2025 volume of The Kennesaw Tower! This particular volume offers a plethora of topics, and in a variety of languages, to our esteemed readers. Among these, we include studies on the late Medieval Spanish work La Celestina, racial and ethnic heterogeneity in the Haitian novel, Feminism and Mysticism in Hispanic poetics, Interculturality and Transculturalism in Germanic Cultures, essential figures of German computing, the biodiversity of Taiwan, German visual propaganda. As you can imagine, this diverse group of voices and topics highlights both the variety of ideas available for study and the connections which bring us together in the task of viewing our world critically.

As the voices of undergraduate researches grow in authority and in mastery of their topics, the need for a space such as this to hear the voices of the next generation becomes that much clearer. The intellectual vitality these authors’ work expresses, in its breadth and depth of content and analysis, reveals the continued and realized potential for the work in our fields of inquiry. Their words endure, throughout the generations, as a testament to the power of the mind. With this, I invite you to enjoy Volume XV of The Kennesaw Tower!

Dr. Robert Simon
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese,
Coordinator of the Spanish Program,
Editor-in-Chief, The Kennesaw Tower