🚨🚨”Texas Tech University faculty say restrictions on instruction about race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation prompted changes or requests for changes in 277 courses.” Faculty teaching conditions are student learning conditions! www.texastribune.org/2026/05/29/t...

A new issue of the RQ is out today. Articles on the comics of Alex Saló, the prose of Manuel de Pedrolo, the novels of Fernanda Trías, Camila Sosa Villada and Silvia Nanclares, Spanish theater in New York (1965-75), and books reviews. Many thanks to all involved! www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/c...

My review of Enric Bou's beautiful book _Cartographies of Disappearance: Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature_ has been published in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2DENB...

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On this day on 14 April 1931 the 2nd Spanish Republic was declared. Its arrival was greeted with euphoria by progressive Spain, including initially by anarchist masses. Its greatest material achievement: creating some 16,000 schools until crushed by Franco and his Nazi-fascist allies in 1939.

The Finale of our “Close Reading For The 21st Century” trilogy is out in the world. I promise it will make you laugh, make you cry, make you wish you were dead, & make you rage against the dying of the light. Okay?

Connie L. Scarborough closes the Romance Quarterly 73.1 with a review of Robin M. Bower’s In the Doorway of All Worlds. Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints. 🔗 Link below

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (@ruthyuste.bsky.social) reviews Heather Jerónimo’s Performing Parenthood. Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film (2024) in the RQ 73.1. 🔗 Link below

Eric Salazar reads the generative power of instability in Cristobal Colon’s letters in “Ninguno puede dar razón cierta: incertidumbre, ruina y adversidad en las cartas de Cristobal Colón”. 🔗 Link below 📷 Carta a Luis de Santángel (1493)

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

I’m pretty psyched about this visit to Penn State’s Humanities Institute next month.

🚨On widespread censorship at Texas Tech: “When they say faculty aren’t allowed to advocate for something, what we read that as is, they aren’t allowed to mention it,” said one academic adviser, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliatory discipline. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/t...

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Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.” Link below. 🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions

ETHICS IS NOW CANCELED AT TEXAS A&M Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright....

Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/13/t...

I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay. I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet. Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. - Leonard Cohen

Short video about my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social out now in the UK and Spain, and in the rest of Europe, the US, etc on January 5. Many thanks

Alejandro Palma Castro proposes a moving necropoetic reading in “Hacia una necropoetica en la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: Sujetos de duelo en La mata de Eliana Hernández y La muerte golpea en lunes de Maricarmen Velasco” Link below 🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros

There is a new addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies series. _Urban Memories: The Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s Public Space, 1979-1992_ by Teresa Pinheiro of the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice mexicanists.org/2025/08/12/a...

⭐️⭐️Statement from Dr. Tom Alter following his firing today from Texas State University. This is a massive loss for #academicfreedom and First Amendment rights at Texas State. Our fight for Dr. Alter will continue. ✊

Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...

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.’