This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.

I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.

And we're back to the question of who gets to define what counts as disciplinary knowledge. Does the expert who has spent their lives studying the subject get to define it in the classroom? Or the 20 year old right wing activist who literally believes the president can make laws by dictate?

Aquí empiezan mis colaboraciones con @ctxt.es Mil gracias por la invitación 😊 Abecedario para unas lecturas en común ctxt.es/es/20250901/...

no matter what the tech grift oligarchs sell, no matter how much the authoritarians intimidate, people hunger for the freedom to learn www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Joins HELU for “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT, with Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Bernie Sanders, and Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/11/a...

Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.

François-Nicolas Vozel traces the afterlife of May ‘68 in the thinking of Marguerite Duras in RQ 72.3. Keywords: Duras – Blanchot – Deleuze – J.S. Bach – May ’68. doi.org/10.1080/0883...

Víctor Sierra Matute looks at the figure and ideological function of the ‘prince of Spanish lyric poetry’ Garcilaso de la Vega to trace how literary canonization is a historically layered process shaped by evolving disciplinary frameworks in RQ vol. 72.3. doi.org/10.1080/0883...

Thank you Aaron Hanlon, Eric Hayot and Anna Kornbluh for HUMANITIES WORKS: posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities. humanitiesworks.org/posters/

Footage from Les Blank’s 1976 film about norteño music captures the quintessential Texas sound of the accordion of Flaco Jimenez, RIP. youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0?...

Caglar Erteber's review of Agnese Codebò's'The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires,' tells the story of how slums matter as spaces that produce new aesthetics and social alliances. Just out in RQ vol. 72.3. www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...

Hot off the press: Pavel Andrade's review of a new book about the Mexican intelligentsia’s obsession with labor and idleness in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation between 1821-1852. Romance Quarterly, vol. 72(3). doi.org/10.1080/0883...

The brilliant Luis Prádanos strikes again: this time proposing a series of tactics for a "pedagogy of degrowth that minimizes the use of unnecessary corporative technologies while discussing the political ecology of technology." An inspiring read for the year ahead. DOI: 10.4324/9781032650159-24

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Bárbara Espinosa's ES PA ÑO LA is a great novel about migration, underemployment and domestic labor that WOW -- has an ending that I did not see coming.

Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o... ‘The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.’

Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o... ‘The problem with liberal education today does not lie with our students. The real threat to liberal learning is from an administration that is content to offer students far less than they deserve’

El ruido y el cinismo nos han hecho olvidar que España fue, hace no tanto, un laboratorio político admirado mundialmente. Aquí @waleedshahid.bsky.social toma las experiencias municipalistas de Madrid y Barcelona como modelo para la NYC de Zohran Mamdani.

Raymond Williams trabajó a partir de la noción de "estructura de sentimiento" para analizar las experiencias sociales a partir de la dimensión afectiva, que también es ideología. Vivimos tiempos en los que la crueldad se premia así que tenemos que hacer espacio para la amabilidad y la ternura.

SIGN+ RT "When a long train of abuses evinces a design to reduce U.S. higher ed under absolute despotism, it is our duty to speak out against the escalating attacks on diversity pluralism scholarship learning academic freedom student dissent +on democracy itself" www.sunyufs.us/uploads/1/1/...

The latest issue of _ZARCH: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism_ is out in the world. Many thanks to Maite Zubiaurre for her review of the edited volume _Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain_. papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

naacp.org/campaigns/ju... Highly recommend the NAACP’s Juneteenth playlist (bottom of this page) to help celebrate the day.

'Deberíamos construir una gran unión en la diversidad, alrededor de la idea de una “nueva abundancia” que comienza con la tarea cultural que es descolonizar la imaginación: más tiempo libre, más salud, más erotismo, más libros, más cine, más naturaleza, más comunidad.' ctxt.es/es/20250601/...

Andy Reynolds reviews the book 'Eyes on Amazonia' on the transnational rubber boom by Jessica Carey-Webb in the latest issue of the Romance Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/share/PZ7CUV...

Read Claudio Fogu's review of 'Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy' by David Escudero in the latest issue of the Romance Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/share/MHCFEP...

Michael Martínez reviews Bill Nichols' 'The Paradox of Paradise' on the rise of coastal tourism in contemporary Spain on the latest issue of the Romance Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/share/SQJUAG...

Ah yes, as a Latin Americanist it will be so easy to write projects focused on the US's "moral leadership" 🙄🤪

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o... Studying math and language might turn out to be the only way to be flexible enough to face a rapidly changing market. It’s also a way to deepen our humanity in the face of these strange machines we have built, and to understand them.

“The #TXlege is poised to pass SB37, which would place ideological litmus tests on courses in the state core curriculum. This proposal is based, at least in part, on the belief that conservative views are being stifled at our universities by professors like me. I vehemently disagree…”

I am, as always, deeply in love with the flashing red lights at the Biblioteca Nacional that tell me my books are ready for pickup.

📢📢 Call for Action! TX faculty, students, parents + allies please contact the House Calendars Committee + ask that SB37 NOT be scheduled on the House calendar! This bill will do irreparable harm to TX colleges universities. 👇 #FreedomtoTeach #FreedomtoLearn house.texas.gov/committees/com…

SB 37, which attacks public colleges + universities in TX, is headed for a vote on the house floor. It has already passed the senate, so it could be sent quickly to the governor’s desk. Please 🙏 call your House Rep + ask them to oppose SB37 before it’s too late! ⏰

📨 CARTA A LA COMUNIDAD | Elección infalible Una semana más, tenemos nueva carta a la comunidad ctxtera. Hoy, de la mano de @emiliodelape.bsky.social ctxt.es/es/20250501/... Recuerda que este es el único contenido de CTXT cerrado y exclusivo para suscriptores. Entra en agora.ctxt.es/suscripciones/

Just a friendly reminder to contact the members of the House Higher Ed Committee to oppose SB37 in ALL 👏 ITS 👏FORMS!👏 Please share with friends, family and community members. The strength of our public colleges + universities benefits us all!! secure.everyaction.com/0zggTzaLTEmP...

✊We showed up in droves at the #txlege this week to oppose SB37 in ALL its forms! Although the House committee introduced a substitute of the bill, we oppose all versions of SB37! Watch highlighted testimony + read an overview of the hearing below!👇

⏰ There is still time to STOP SB37 in the House Higher Ed committee! 💪💪 1️⃣ Reach out to the members of the House Committee on Higher Ed + your Texas House representative! Automatic emails and click-to-call resources below. ⬇️ 2️⃣ Ask your friends, family, and colleagues to do the same!

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o... ‘But when all news is fake, all stories are true, and they might be the last tools we have to convince one another of anything at all.’ — John Cameron Mitchell in the NYT today.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

😲Nearly 12 hours after adjourning, the Texas House Higher Education Committee is finally reconvening! Thank you to everyone who has waited all day to testify! 👏👏👏 You can watch the live broadcast here: house.texas.gov/videos/22054

🥰THANK YOU to the many AAUP members, students, staff, alumni + community members who came from across the state to the Capitol today + stayed all night to testify against SB37! Your voices matter, not only for this committee hearing, but for the future of higher ed in Texas!👏👏👏

⭐️⭐️⭐️UPDATE: SB 37 will be heard in the House Higher Ed Committee on Tuesday. Please contact the committee members every day until then to oppose the bill. Use this handy tool ⬇️