Estão abertas, até 25 de maio, as inscrições para os simpósios temáticos da Abralic, em novembro de 2026, em Porto Alegre. Estou organizando este simpósio "Escritas do Capitaloceno" junto com os colegas João G. Dayrell (UFRGS) e André Cechinel (UFSC). Inscrevam-se em abralic.org.br e compartilhem

Love seeing this in print! Thank you to @mlnjournal.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social and especially @victoriajane.bsky.social for getting this out into the world

Great new project from @veritas44.bsky.social who guest edited our Italian issue last year. Reti di Carta is a data visualization project that maps the transnational relationships organized and mediated by Italian American periodicals between 1890 and 1980: reti.stefanomorello.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

MLN author Rodrigo Lopes de Barros has just released his film about the Brazilian poet Ricardo Aleixo. “Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlantic” is the winner of the Pierre Verger Award in Ethnographic Films by the Brazilian Anthropology Association. It has been screened widely. youtu.be/wGy8-EhXknM

Li apenas o começo por enquanto, mas esse artigo parece espetacular!

Também em nosso novo número: Em "Punks e sem-terra", Rodrigo Lopes de Barros traça a influência do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em bandas de hardcore punk brasileiras atuantes nas décadas de 1990 e 2000, tais como Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, Dead Fish.

In our recent Hispanic issue, Romina Wainberg reviews Nicolás Campisi’s The Return of the Contemporary (pub @upittpress.bsky.social) interrogating whether Latin American novels illustrate theory or produce it—and why that distinction matters today. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

More reading!

Have you ever thought about what sort of "feminist" María de Zayas was, if she was one at all? Have you noticed the many female slaves in her fiction? For more, check out Elizabeth Rhodes's article "Women Enslaved in Zayas's 'La esclava de su amante'" in our new issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56754

Also in our new issue: @lmbowe.bsky.social uses ecocriticism to analyze this Francoist retelling of Armando Palacio Valdes' novel La aldea perdida, in which Asturias must sacrifice her lands and people to the destructive mining industry for the sake of the nation. OA via @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Our new Hispanic issue opens with an article by Song No, who reads Garcilaso’s La Florida del Inca through the concepts of epistemic infrastructure and environmental knowledge. The essay reveals fractures in colonial ways of understanding nature.

Our 2026 Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social, is now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access. The cover image is adapted from a 1985 poster for the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)-- check out the article by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros for full context.

A reminder of the approaching deadline for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social We will consider articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese (and on literature in those languages + Catalan, etc.)

Our most recent Italian issue is out now, and open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Scholars of Jewish literature, thought, and culture: Please share and consider submitting to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

Deadline extended to April 1! Spring break is a perfect time to finish that essay...

Deadline for the "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" CFP is March 15! 👇

Friends: I have been recently appointed to the Global South MLA Forum executive committee and the CFP below is backed by the forum. **** World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons **** Please consider submitting your abstract and/or kindly repost! Thank you!

If you would like to review Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @culturalcritique.bsky.social, please see 👇!

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

Don't miss our lively conversation with Christian Rivoletti and @mlnjournal.bsky.social editors Leonardo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social from the Hopkins Press Podcast about the Auerbach dossier! www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h...

Great week for Auerbach! Read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's essay in New Literary History and also MLN's latest Comparative Literature issue, which includes a dossier on Auerbach (from researcher Christian Rivoletti) All from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Not to be missed!

At the center of our new comp lit issue is a dossier featuring a rediscovered text written by Auerbach during his exile in Turkey: the same period in which his masterpiece Mimesis took shape. The typescript appears alongside new critical perspectives on his work and legacy. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

In our new Comparative Literature issue: Yael Segalovitz examines 4 recent books on close reading, asking how they converge on a bold though often implicit premise: that close reading operates through the bodily and cognitive training of the reader. muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Also in our new comp lit issue: Iván Hofman, Emily Apter, Bruno Bosteels, and Alex Verdolini discuss Severo Sarduy’s Barroco and Other Writings (pub by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, translated by Verdolini). Hofman writes, "after a century, Barroco retains the capacity to decenter and unsettle."

Among other treasures in our new comparative literature issue: an article by Jeppe Barnwell that examines a genre he calls "fictional documentarism"-- texts that imitate or creatively engage with documentary forms while still openly presenting themselves as invented.. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I am very happy to share that the new comparative issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social has just been published (open access), with articles not only on the translations of Zimmermann‘s „Einsamkeit“ (by me), but also on Erich Auerbach and on current close reading research! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303

New issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56303! open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social This issue includes an archival find: a typescript of a lecture Erich Auerbach gave in 1941, during his exile in Turkey. The subject is literature and war (who gets to write about war? Who feels they have agency? etc.) +..

New issue (up on @projectmuse.bsky.social soon)! This issue includes an archival find: the typescript of a lecture Auerbach gave (in exile, in 1941) on literature and war (who gets to write about war? who feels they have agency?) + an essay on close reading + more @hopkinspress.bsky.social

If you're in Toronto at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social convention, come discuss journal publishing with us @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Join us at the MLA for a roundtable discussion on journal publishing. Led by MLN managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social with Laurence Roth, editor of Modern Language Studies and Hank Scotch, managing editor of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Among the topics we'll be discussing at the MLA this Saturday

Come find us at the @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Toronto next week!

Who gets to write about war? Christian Rivoletti discusses a lecture Erich Auerbach delivered in 1940 during his exile in Turkey. Plus Leo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social highlight other parts of this issue (available very soon) and discuss what they are looking for at @mlnjournal.bsky.social

Just arrived! From Christy Wampole's essay on the Zeitgeist (including a discussion of the origin of the term) to editor Derek Schilling's reflection on experimental poetics-- this issue explores a quarter century of literature in French. OA! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Happy to see @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social getting great press-- nice essay by Johanna here. Our Comparative Literature issue (now in proofs-- coming soon) has a terrific essay on the subject by Yael Segalovitz. Stay tuned! www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A reminder that we are open for submissions for our French issue-- deadline January 30. Articles in French or English. Email [email protected] with any questions. Please share with interested colleagues!

📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review 👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance” 📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026 📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026 Please share widely! ❓Reach out if you have any questions!

Reflections on a quarter century of writing in French. Check out this beautiful special issue edited by Derek Schilling. It's open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social

After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited! Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

We're excited that the MLA's archives have found such a perfect home! Thanks to @jhu.edu for ensuring these historic materials about the profession will be preserved and made available to researchers.

"Publishers are encouraged to submit outstanding translations from German into English published in the US or Canada in the previous year (2025)." www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ku...

Exciting news! Hopkins has acquired the records of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social The history of MLN intersects with the founding of the Modern Language Association @jhu.edu blogs.library.jhu.edu/2025/10/hist...

MLN's German Issue 2025 (MLN, Volume 140, Number 3, April 2025) has been published, containing my review of Chiara Caradonna and Vivian Liska, editors: Zäsuren: Paul Celans Spätwerk. | Caesurae: Paul Celan’s Later Work (Wallstein, 2024). Direct link to my review, OA: muse.jhu.edu/article/972237

Highly recommended, featuring an article by yours truly on Johann Peter Hebel: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Now up on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access @hopkinspress.bsky.social Guest edited by Daniel Carranza and Bryan Norton, this issue addresses how considerations of the planetary have been informed by—and themselves inform—German literature and philosophy between the 18th and 19th centuries.

Congrats, @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social! Stay tuned for a review essay on close reading (that includes a discussion of this book) in our upcoming comparative literature issue.