Volume 1, Issue 1 (2025) MidSummer

Emplaced scholarship and the stories of belonging with nature

In the following pages, we hope you find a beautiful representation of what we are striving to achieve. In our very first issue you will see interdisciplinary works exploring nature-based relationships, stories of place, belonging and dwelling, and experiential and embodied scholarship rooted in relationship with natural spaces.

Take a moment to consider the wild diversity of cicadas, their natural histories, their overlapping lives, their deep connections to human communities. The Cicadian strives to represent our wild natures, diversity of experiences, our overlapping lives and deep connections to both our natural and human communities. We also strive in each issue to challenge the static and monolithic writings often produced in conservative academic spaces.

The editorial team for The Cicadian consists of Cheryl Hunter, Editor-in-Chief, Rebecca Romsdahl, Faculty Associate Editor, and Joshua Hunter, Faculty Associate Editor. This issue was also made possible by our dedicated and artistic student editors, Lacey Anderson, Mary Moroney-Fernandez, and Giovanni Whyte.

A very special thanks to Stephen Torhaus and Zeineb Yousif who fielded innumerable questions to help us get this first issue out to the public. Your kindness and patience are so appreciated.