Spanish professor @jorgeqn.bsky.social will expand his interdisciplinary study of 19th-century Mexico through a 2025 New Directions Fellowship awarded by the Mellon Foundation. The prestigious grant supports faculty in acquiring training outside their areas of expertise.

Me gusta la historia porque me gusta la ciencia ficción. El pasado y el futuro son dos territorios desconocidos: tenemos ideas aproximadas sobre ellos, pero siempre rebasan nuestras nociones preconcebidas

My book, Caribbean Inhospitality, considers what Caribbean literature, film, and digital culture can tell us sovereignty and belonging, especially in our current global crisis. I start with the Caribbean’s violent origins as a place of hospitality to strangers and look to the present.

Raúl Zurita: “Todo lo que escuchamos y decimos es la grandiosa reinterpretación que los vivos hacen de la sinfonía que han ejecutado los muertos”

@jasondeleon.bsky.social Jason de León’s “Soldiers and Kings” is so relentless I could hardly breathe while reading it

New publication on 19th C Latin America. Wonderfully edited by Graciela Montaldo and Agnes Lugo Ortiz

Geographer and critical theorist Kathryn Yusoff is under attack by the right-wing media for arguing that geological practice and theories have been entwined with structures of colonialism and racism. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

New review by José C. Díaz Zanelli of the Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics, edited by Vic Saramago, Gabriel Giorgi & un servidor. Check out: lalrp.net/articles/10....

📣Take a look at the Clusters on GeoSemantics I co-ed w/ Estefi Bournot at ASAP/J! Creative and critical essays on Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in Global South and Latin America Archives of Extractivism. Part II just out! I asapjournal.com/cluster/geos... II asapjournal.com/clusters/

Here’s my review of Carolyn Fornoff’s outstanding book “Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change.” My two cents: it will make a lasting impact on the fields of Mexican cultural studies and Latin American environmental studies. chasquirll.org/wp-content/u...

“The earth is not just a rock. In fact, a rock is not just a rock” - Thomas Nail Photo: rock formations from the Cretaceous period in Purmamarca, Argentina

Comparto el índice de la primera parte de #MateriaViva, ensayos y crónicas dedicados al encuentro y el conflicto con el mundo natural. Publicado por Ediciones Antílope, ¡ya está en librerías! 👇

“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP! It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential. www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...