Honored to be on this list! Thanks for reading, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social!

Congratulations to @rachelschine.bsky.social!

Congrats to @gautambhatia88.bsky.social!

I just learned that my book Taco is now available as an audiobook across all major platforms! Here is a sampling of options!

For The Indian Express Bangalore’s Writer’s Corner, I talked about how my undergraduate years in Bangalore, and the many hours spent in Blossom bookshop, shaped my science fiction writing: indianexpress.com/article/citi...

Hivemind: I’m sharing an inquiry from a colleague. Can you suggest readings about the attack on Middle East and South Asian Studies programs, post 9/11 and now? Or other readings related to the challenges confronting area studies programs and centers? Thanks, in advance, for your suggestions!

It feels bad, frankly, to ask anyone to pay attention to this right now. But my book is out! www.ucpress.edu/books/values... Proud to say it’s open-access. (But please recommend to your libraries!) If you read any of it, let it be the acknowledgements. None of this was possible without them.

I’m delighted to share my interview with journalist Osama Esber about my latest book, “On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus": www.majalla.com/node/325522/... @harvardpress.bsky.social

If you are attending #Kzoo2025, please join us at session 404: Queer Theorizing in Medieval Iberian Studies (A Roundtable), Saturday, May 10, at 3:30 pm, Sangren 1310

What are your favorite books (or shorter texts) about Cádiz (or about Cádiz province)? I’m going to spend a week in Cádiz in June, and I’d like to bring some reading material!

I read this book initially just to better understand the place of al-Andalus in my Moroccan family’s imagination. But it was also very interesting to read about the feminist, Palestinian, and other takes that are important today, including musical! Bravo @ericcalderwood.bsky.social

Glimpses from today afternoon at the Walkingfairs Bookshop, Cuttack, talking about how science fiction tackles themes of transitional justice and collective memory.

What a thrill to see that my book, "On Earth or in Poems," has made it to bookstores in India. Thanks for sharing this picture, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social.

Updated poster! 🔊 In two weeks. Step outside the usual academic walls and tune into deep listening and critical sound dialogues.

On Friday night, I ate dinner at a restaurant in Florida where the waiter told me, without a hint of irony, that the fish I ordered had come "straight from the Gulf of America."

Look what just arrived, a modern classic! Feels great to have my own signed copy of Colonial al-Andalus. Big thanks to @ericcalderwood.bsky.social!

Congrats @rebeccaoh.bsky.social! Can't wait to read this!

Thank you so much @ericcalderwood.bsky.social for sending me a copy of your book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. Looking forward to reading and assigning it! 🥳

Is there a word for a great show whose weakest episodes are the first and last? If not, may I suggest that we call it a “Shogun”?

2025, the year I eat my feelings.

I didn’t watch the Grammys on Sunday, but I was thrilled to read that Doechii won a Grammy for “Alligator Bites Never Heal,” one of my favorite albums from 2024. If you haven’t checked out Doechii yet, you’re in for a treat. I recommend starting with her Tiny Desk Concert: youtu.be/-91vymvIH0c?...

The Five Colleges will host the 101st meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. 📅 March 19-21, 2026 📍Campuses of UMass Amherst and Amherst College, with events at Mt. Holyoke College and Smith College. maa2026.wordpress.amherst.edu/home/call-fo...

I think the word you’re all looking for this week is “valido.”

Tchubi’s “Diary of a Dead Men” was one of my favorite albums of 2024. Not content to rest on his laurels, Tchubi has now released a fantastic live version of the album. Make sure you listen to the end to catch Tchubi’s freestyle. youtu.be/f7EP-BCmfx4?...

Moroccan hip hop alert: Muslim is dropping a new single and video on Jan. 31! Look forward to checking it out.

Prepping the syllabus for a new course on global hip hop studies. Watching this to get in mood: youtu.be/ByNvjJKrsKw?...

📘 En el último número de la REIM Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla reseña "On Earth or in Poems", obra de Eric Calderwood. Puedes acceder a la reseña aquí: revistas.uam.es/reim/article...

Looking forward to presenting my book this week in NYC: - Thursday Jan. 23, 5pm: Conversation at @fordham.edu with Barbra Lukunka from @iom.int - hosted by Isaie Dougnon. - Friday Jan. 24, 5pm at the office of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie: conversation about the novel.

My first book, “Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues” (Purdue, 2011), is now available for free download from Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Check it out!

Thank you, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, for these kind words about my book! @harvardpress.bsky.social

I've realized I keep doing this thing where I talk about my book while assuming that folks know I wrote a book. So, uh, some bashful PR. I wrote a book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... If you've also read it and thought it was worth it, plz don't hesitate to drop a review with the seller(s)!

Humbled to share that "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" has received honorable mention for the International Studies Association's Book Award (Diplomatic Studies Section)! Many thanks to the awards committee for this honor 🙏🏾 📚

Three thoughts on a Sunday morning: 1) It really bothers me when a TV show doesn't have a "previously on" at the beginning of each episode.

Today's the last day to get 40% off on recent titles from @harvardpress.bsky.social, including my book "On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus." Browse the sale and use promo code MLA25 here: hup.harvard.edu/mla

New arrivals for the classics reading project mostly

New Medieval Books: On Earth or in Poems https://www.medievalists.net/2024/01/new-medieval-books-on-earth-or-in-poems/ #BookSky

I'm VERY happy to see this brilliant article in print: from brilliant UIUC PhD student Alexis Schmidt, a history and critique of Change of Air travel--the travel we do for health and relaxation. Alexis brings a fresh energy/environmental humanities lens to leisure 👏 edgeeffects.net/change-of-ai...

Does anyone in my network have experience teaching selections from Issa Boullata's translation of Ibn 'Abd Rabbih's "The Unique Necklace": www.ipgbook.com/the-unique-n...? I'm curious to know what you assigned and how the reading went over with students. Thanks!

The news outlet al-ʿArabi al-Jadid has published a nice article about my book, “On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus” (@harvardpress.bsky.social). Stay tuned for the Arabic translation, slated for 2026. www.alaraby.co.uk/culture/%D8%...

Did we see you at #MLA25 this weekend? Our author @ericcalderwood.bsky.social was there to rep his award-winning book, On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus. Congratulations, Eric! Now through 1/19, save 40% on selected literary studies titles with the code MLA25. Links below.

Prepping for the 2030 World Cup...

everyone talks about killing your darlings in articles and essays and books but no one ever talks about killing your darlings in syllabi

I second this.

Do you want to know what I have in common with Dickinson, Kafka, and Proust? Visit this wonderful @harvardpress.bsky.social website and find out! Hint: #MLA25 Also ➡️ @ericcalderwood.bsky.social @briankgoodman.bsky.social @thesaramarcus.bsky.social @ksgruesz.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/mla

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow (Jan 10) at #mla25 on the "Iberian Exteriorities" roundtable, with @benitasampedro.bsky.social, @mahanellison.bsky.social, @rpnewcomb.bsky.social, and other colleagues. I'll be talking about the work of Moroccan artists Amine Asselman and Randa Maroufi.

Reception sponsored by LLC Medieval Iberian, Colonial Latin American, 16th- &17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama, and 16th- &17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on Friday at 7:15pm, Hilton--Canal (3rd floor). #MLA2025

#mla2025 attendees and friends following from home: @harvardpress.bsky.social is having a sale! Use promo code for MLA25 to get 40% off select HUP titles. Might I humbly/shamelessly suggest my book, "On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus"?

Looking forward to presenting this Friday at #mla2025 at the “Iberian Exteriorities” roundtable, chaired by @benitasampedro.bsky.social, with @ericcalderwood.bsky.social and other colleagues.

La corónica is a refereed journal published by the MLA Forum LLC Medieval Iberian. Devoted to Hispanomedievalism in its broadest sense, La corónica welcomes scholarship that transcends the linguistic and/or cultural borders of Spanish and explores the interconnectedness of those regions.