I'm happy to share that my article on Cuban filmmaker Camila Guzmán Urzúa's "El telón de azúcar" (2006) is out in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. For years I've been obsessed with this film and its dialogue with Patricio Guzmán's cinematic response to Chile's military dictatorship.

I'm happy to share that my article on Melina León's 'Canción sin nombre' (2019) was just published in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos among great company! You can find the full text on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/.../952113

Please consider submitting an abstract for a panel I'm looking to organize for MLA 2026 on Latin American literatures of internal migrations. Feel free to share with any colleagues or graduate students who might be interested in participating. Thanks!

Tomorrow at 5pm at Georgetown Juan Ramos will be giving a talk on Andean modernismo! Don’t miss it!

Interested in collaborating? If you would like to workshop an essay or book chapter, present research in progress, share a CfP or conference session, celebrate a publication, or just say hi, you can get in touch with us at msrc [at] mexicanists [dot] org

I woke up early this morning to talk with @rteradio1.bsky.social’s @clairebyrne.bsky.social about Trump, Panama, and the climate (and imperialist) threats to the canal. The interview is now up online. Listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Excited to participate in these two MLA events! One is a panel on landscape and ecology in Latin American aesthetics, and the other is a round table I organized with Regina Pieck on Hemispheric Indigeneities. See you all in New Orleans!

I’m trying to write something on the figure of “el pongo” in Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos and I’m wondering if anyone could recommend bibliography related to conditions of Indigenous servitude on the mid-century Peruvian hacienda. Many thanks in advance!

Our last pub day of 2024! We’re thrilled to share: 📚The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi 📚Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850 by Anne Greenwood MacKinney

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...

As a fan of Pink Floyd and Renata Flores, I'm very happy to have discovered her bilingual (Quechua-Spanish) cover of "Another Brick in the Wall": www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjL...

During #slavery, the holiday season was a brief chance for the enslaved to plan escapes and rebellions amid distracted owners. A historian tells the story of resistance: https://buff.ly/3BGaYXo 🗃️ #BlackSky #EnslavedPeople #christmas

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

The 1522 Christmas Day rebellion on Diego Columbus’s sugar plantation is another example. It is the first large-scale revolt of enslaved people. Festive! #merrychristmas #tistheseasonforrebellion

I left DC for the holidays with about 20 books in my suitcase, and the 1 book I actually need right now is sitting in my Georgetown office 🤦🏻‍♀️

Table of Contents posted online for Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992-2020 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...

Writing about Yuyachkani's "El bus de la fuga" post-election has been absolutely therapeutic. It's a brilliant work of performance/satire. "Fujimori" flips-off the gathered audience, performs a choreographed tecnocumbia with his cronies, and flaunts fake bars of gold. hdl.handle.net/2333.1/bvq83...

Grading distracted me from the book challenge; now I’m back! Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7:

For the new colleagues following me here: this is one of my writings I am the most proud, an essay in the present and future of Mexicanist cultural studies. It was written for the centennial issue of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and is fully open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If anyone loves and/or hates the roguish Clemente Palma, as one does, I have an article (“El impulso autorial malévolo…”) in the latest MLN on Palma’s intertextual borrowings from French lit… (And I also love this cover and the article related to it!) #literature #shortstory #literaturaperuana

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4:

Gender Studies 2 year post doc position at Notre Dame. Deadline December 10! 👉 genderstudies.nd.edu/people/postd...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1:

This will be my first online discussion of this astonishing text. If you still haven't read it, and you love poetry, theater, and sticking it to colonial powers, you should get yourself a copy and then come geek out with us on December 21.

Check out this opportunity at BC

Has anyone had luck finding out how many copies of a given text have been sold? In the age of Amazon, I can’t tell whether writing directly to the publisher would give me accurate data, but perhaps I’m wrong on this. Similarly, if folks have gotten data from Amazon, I’d love to know how! Thanks!

Am I the only one who was, until three days ago, unaware that Mario Vargas Llosa once punched Gabriel García Márquez in the face? I'm thankful to the grad student who gave me this chisme during our discussion of Claudia Llosa and La teta asustada...

New Book! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650725...

I want to see public conversations about the US role in creating the terrible conditions that force so many people to migrate here. As an immigrant from a place most people want to vacation at, I promise immigrants don’t leave home because they want to. They do because they have to.

This is a really great deal. I've seen "Hope in the Dark" recommended a lot lately and I can tell ya -- it's a good book to read right now.

CFP for “Entre lugares”, the Conference organized by the Grad Students at Yale’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese! We are really excited to welcome you to New Haven and get to know about your work. Please share widely! 💛

I'm writing something about performance, Fujimori, and Yuyachkani's "El bus de la fuga," and I've discovered a CBS news article from 2000 that includes the following (absolutely wild) line: "Fujimori electrified a nighttime crowd by climbing unaided up the 10-foot-high cement and wrought iron gate"

New #food podcast alert 🚨Our very first episode of the Thinking Food show is live! Our amazing postdoc Elizabeth talks to Chef Martin Draluck about the history of slavery, African American cuisine, and speculative cooking. Give it some love! 😍🐔 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Check out my latest article “Staging Analog Nostalgia in Nicaraguan Photography.” One of the photographs made it to the cover of the issue! Thanks to @mlnjournal.bsky.social 📸

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1. Indigenous authorship and/of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict 2. Literature and film of Mexican internal migrations

POSTDOC IN PALESTINE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Share WIDELY! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 palestinestudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Hello historians! I would like to mention that I have this initiative called the Iberian Colonial Repository, where I am gathering primary sources from archives that are not available online. If you have sources about colonial LatAm from previous projects collecting digital dust, please DM me