I had a fascinating conversation with @nicoabu.bsky.social about his 4 decade history of the Francoist dictatorship, 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre'. We discuss the Spanish path to fascism, how it diverged from the Germany & Italy & how the dictatorship evolved post-WWII while demolishing any idea

What a great privilege to get to know and support the truly stellar faculty at Johns Hopkins, especially early in their career. We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients. This award will allow them to move into new bold directions. research.jhu.edu/major-initia...

Congratulations! 🎉

Many congratulations to our Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social who has just been honored with a prestigious award for early career faculty. ¡Bien merecido! hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...

I still can't believe this happened. Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...

Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds. Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.

Hoy en @elpais.com, escribo sobre Trump, Emilia Pardo Bazán y el auge de la censura de libros en EE.UU. elpais.com/babelia/2025...

Hace bien el movimiento MAGA en censurar "El Cuento de la Criada", porque el dedo de Margaret Atwood apunta directamente al ojo de Trump.

@becquer.bsky.social: Su ineptitud literaria se ve reflejada en la selección de títulos censurados. “No parece que los censores hubieran leído casi ninguno de los libros prohibidos” ...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood. elpais.com/babelia/2025...

Shout out to Baltimore! Courtesy of @becquer.bsky.social

“For Estela and Felice—as for Chile and Italy—fascism is in the past. And yet its horrors endure.”

As our Italian issue is prepared for printing, we're reviewing proofs for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social with @albertlloret.bsky.social as one of our guest editors for a dossier on Catalan studies. With managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social

From MLN Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social-- for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social

I reviewed Zakir Paul’s “Disarming Intelligence (@princetonupress.bsky.social ) for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...

"Intelligence . . . also has a literary history, one that might help free us from the shackles of narrow-minded thinking about what intelligence was, what it is, and what it could be." New in review, Bécquer Seguín on Zakir Paul's Disarming Intelligence: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...

A reminder that today is the last day to submit to the MLN Hispanic issue-- we will consider full-length (7k-9k words) original scholarly articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

These are all amazing projects, and well deserved. But yet again, the ACLS only awards projects on Latin America by historians. No one from a Spanish dept in sight. 🙄

In the latest issue of @blnreview.bsky.social, I make by debut with a piece that is nominally a review of Fernando Aramburu's novel "El niño," but is really an essay on how Aramburu deals with historical facts in his novels, where he triumphs, and where he falls short. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln

wrote an essay about writing in english, my first for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

“A shocking criminality and the diffusion of traditional Mexican images in the stream of global entertainment have erased any trace of a ‘special relationship’ between the national culture and death.” From the archive:

People in the tri-state area! On Tuesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking at Yale about my book, “The Op-Ed Novel.” We will also talk about journalism as an object of study and praxis. If you are in the area and have time, please join us!

Come over if you are in the area!

Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book at the Five Colleges in western Mass. If you’re in the area and have some time, please join us. I’ll be talking about journalism, literature, and the politics of fictionalizing current affairs.

More from the latest “On Our Nightstands”: @becquer.bsky.social suggests “Canoes” by Maylis de Kerangal, trans. Jessica Moore. “Alaska haunts the collection’s metaphorical title as well as de Kerangal’s insatiable inquiry into the role of place in North America.”

TRIBUNA | Cuando la IA comenzó a devorar a la universidad desde dentro 📄 "Me pregunto qué hacer para salvar la educación y la democracia mientras los veranos cada vez son más tórridos y el capitalismo parece devorar a sus hijos." ✍🏼 Escribe Ana Luengo. ctxt.es/es/20250301/...

These get confused with one another. Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news. The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences. The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out. The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

Looking forward to @becquer.bsky.social's visit in a month.

Please note that the new deadline for submission to our Hispanic issue (edited by @becquer.bsky.social) is May 1

Another beautiful essay by Charlotte Rogers on language and aphasia, this time at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Absolutely cannot wait for the memoir.

If you are an early career humanist or humanistically oriented social scientist and are looking for a six-month fellowship, I strongly recommend the @kwi-essen.bsky.social. A great research experience and environment. Truly. Deadline: 28 February 2025 www.kulturwissenschaften.de/calls-fellow...

"Eludía los debates sobre lo que Nietzsche llamaba la Gran Política y se centraba en... la política con p minúscula." Este sábado me estreno en @elpais.com con un ensayo sobre Almudena Grandes y la mujer columnista desde la transición. elpais.com/babelia/2025...

Este texto de @becquer.bsky.social es muy bonito porque nos regresa al tiempo de un columnismo literario posible, menos histriónico y capaz de una mirada al pasado más plural

elpais.com/babelia/2025... @becquer.bsky.social

Qué interesante, me dice un amigo que no puedo colgar esto en otra red muy conocida, por qué será. Yo creo que esta conversación es extremadamente urgente ahora, así que comentad y compartid 💪 @ctxt.es @sebasfaber.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social @lmcabrera.bsky.social @antoniocordoba.bsky.social

please also follow our ultra-smart and very likeable current and former fellows: go.bsky.app/U1wgZkJ

Today at @publicbooks.bsky.social, Charlotte Rogers has an amazing essay up on aphasia (a disorder that affects one's ability to communicate), Carlos Fonseca's "Austral" @fsgbooks.bsky.social & James Marcus's bio of Emerson @princetonupress.bsky.social. www.publicbooks.org/when-languag...

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

#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"?

And while I'm at it, let me put in a plug for my friend @becquer.bsky.social's wonderful book "The Op-Ed Novel," a fascinating exploration of the interplay between journalism and literature in contemporary Spain. It's also part of the HUP sale. Read more here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

A uno a veces le dan ganas de explotar de rabia ante el genocidio israelí. Aquí Thomas Meaney sostiene cualquier atisbo de rabia y cualquier juicio para ofrecer una lista de hechos descarnados sobre la dominación y la violencia con que Israel controla la esfera pública alemana y destruye Gaza.

Finally got around to reading Thomas Meaney’s latest, this time for @newleftreview.bsky.social. Delivered in pitch perfect deadpan with no editorializing, it is equal parts funny, infuriating, depressing, and perplexing. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

I published several things this year that I’d love for you to check out, if you’re so inclined. The most important of these was my first book, “The Op-Ed Novel” (@harvardpress.bsky.social). Officially, it’s an academic book, but it’s really much more than that. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

1. The Op-Ed Novel - El País and Contemporary Spanish Literature with @becquer.bsky.social t.co/ITzrgYya0b

La lectura schmittiana de legitimidad y legalidad que hace aquí @alexalonsonogueira.bsky.social y también de porqué el PSOE todavía confunde los dos mientras que la derecha se aprovecha, sigue siendo relevante. Lawfare + culture war = right wing populism www.sinpermiso.info/textos/en-un...

I chose Layla Martínez’s “Woodworm” @twolinespress.bsky.social/@amordemadreed.bsky.social) as my @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Pick for this year. It is equal parts surgical and mesmerizing, unsettling and unforgettable. You can see all our picks here. Enjoy! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

And www.publicbooks.org/whats-in-a-b... @publicbooks.bsky.social @skimmel.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social

So UNC Chapel Hill can hire Bill Belichick for $30 million but humanities courses at UNC Asheville and UNC Greensboro cost too much money 🤔