Cornell Chapter of the AAUP Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

"When adjusted for inflation, the cost of faculty across the UN system declined by 10% in the past 10 years, while administrative and professional costs grew by 54%."

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech. hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

Congratulations @isanchezprado.bsky.social on the wonderful new Object Lesson on the taco 🌮!! But buyer beware: this book makes your mouth water 😋

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳 wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

Cornell alums! Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding. Please consider signing this petition! Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Devastated by the sudden passing of my colleague and mentor, Debra Castillo. She was a force of nature, endlessly supportive and generous with her time. Not only was her work decisive for the field of Mexican studies, she endlessly pushed the field to build outward and prioritize community.

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A small bright spot. Does this mean that university administrators will stop doing this administration’s illegal work for them??

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Great data-driven explainer about the three booms of literature in translation in the US, including the Latin American boom in the seventies and eighties: www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

With summer nearly done, now is the time for you to pick out a new book to read (and review 😜) this Fall. Check out my terrific list of new (ish) work just waiting for reviewers! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #animalstudies #conservation #envtech #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Modern Foreign Languages degrees are the most starkly affected, with the number of courses nearly halved since 2011" 👇

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Chilling

Tras año y medio de haber sido publicado, subí mi libro a Archive, para lectura libre. Hasta que el musgo (Universidad Veracruzana, 2024). archive.org/details/rca-...

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

Loved this novel! Highly recommend

Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.

Spotted my nemesis lounging on the porch. Destroyer of brassica. Devourer of broccoli, cauliflower, and kale 😡

"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

"The proposed rule set to publish Thursday would allow for foreign students... to stay up to the duration of the program they are participating in, not to exceed a 4-year period." This is insane and would kill PhD programs in Latin American studies, and beyond 😡

Check out @c4noff.bsky.social's review of David J. Vázquez's "Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production," published in 2025 by @utexaspress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Three essays by one of Mexico's foremost Indigenous thinkers, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, now out in translation and open access!!

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

"Netanyahu ranks with the likes of Sudan’s previous dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in terms of the way that he’s used starvation as a weapon." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors? Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."

Don't forget your fish purse!

Israel's announced "tactical pause" in Gaza is desperately insufficient while it commits genocide against Palestinians, who are facing the catastrophic conditions Israel deliberately engineered. There must be an immediate & sustained ceasefire, and an end to Israel’s genocide.

Totally obsessed with my baby acorn squash

Cover reveal! Teaching the Mexican Revolution, a collection of 16 essays on strategies for the language, literature and culture classroom is ready for pre-order and will release Spring 2026. It is published by the MLA’s Options for Teaching series. Members get a discount. www.mla.org/Publications...

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.

Basically instead of performing layoffs they want to force people to quit 😑

This man fled fascism in Chile just to find it here. Horrific

Con la gentil invitación y generosa presentación de Javier Garciadiego, hoy presenta la Capilla Alfonsina una charla virtual mía sobre Alfonso Reyes y la gastronomía! Está acá abajo! Ojalá sea de interés. www.facebook.com/CapillaAlfon...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...