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Víctor Sierra Matute looks at the figure and ideological function of the ‘prince of Spanish lyric poetry’ Garcilaso de la Vega to trace how literary canonization is a historically layered process shaped by evolving disciplinary frameworks in RQ vol. 72.3. doi.org/10.1080/0883...

I am editing a new volume that explores how Latin American writers, artists, and filmmakers engage with imaginaries of the skies! Please share CfP broadly. #LatinAmericanStudies #CFP #Sky #FilmStudies #ArtHistory #Literature #SpaceAndCulture oaperez.com/sky-imaginar...

Almost in summer mode, but first… my article on the posthumous canonization of Garcilaso (aka the bittersweet story of how two friends sparked a poetic revolution and only one walked away with the crown) just came out online in @romancequarterly.bsky.social! 👉🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production is available for pre-order (Jan 2026). Honored to have contributed to this volume under the brilliant vision and guidance of @cristinaele.bsky.social and @oaperez.bsky.social , and excited to read and teach all of it: upf.com/book.asp?id=...

‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production’ is now available for pre-order! This book has been years in the making and includes works by a wonderful and talented group of scholars. #AnimalStudies #PlantStudies #EnvHum #LatinAmericanStudies upf.com/book.asp?id=...

New on Intervenxions — Joiri Minaya: (Un)seeing the Tropics “Minaya’s sly wit begins to chip away at that tropical fantasy by twisting its familiar visual tropes.” By Lu Han (@hanlu-ul.bsky.social)

One week left to see the exhibition I had the pleasure of curating at @suartmuseum.bsky.social! Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥

My department (Spanish and Portuguese @ CU Boulder) is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor/Continuing Ed Liaison -- super quick turn around because you know how sometimes those things go. Deadline to apply May 8, 2025

Spain performed a grand act of quixotism yesterday: a national blackout. Today, my article on postapocalyptic quixotism in the graphic novel La sombra de Don Quijote went online at @spanishbulletin.bsky.social The timing could not be better—alas. Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow!

Join artist Joiri Minaya and me next week for a public gallery conversation on opacity and tropical images at the @suartmuseum.bsky.social

Don’t miss this exhibition I curated, now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum!

The 19th-Century Latin American Forum at the MLA is organizing two panels and a workshop for the 2026 convention in Toronto. Send us your abstracts and share this call with your colleagues!

For those in the NYC area, come see Stolen Photo on the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Colombia. shorturl.at/iHyFd @aadeleon.bsky.social

Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print! Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...

Don’t miss @kevinpcoleman.bsky.social and FOTO ROBADA tomorrow at Syracuse U

In three weeks! We're taking sound studies beyond campus! With @latinxvisions.bsky.social @drcaromaldo.bsky.social @drbexphd.bsky.social, among others. Stay tuned!

Teaching the "Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies" seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center next semester! If you know a grad student in the NYC area looking for classes, please send them my way. I’ll share more details once everything is finalized...

My latest newsletter of Latin American Studies Collections at Penn Libraries: mailchi.mp/e9076f9aee7f...

omw to NOLA #MLA25 🔜

you can subscribe to our newsletter here, all are welcome! mexicanists.org

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

Fully funded MA in Spanish! Please share ‼️

Our Santo Domingo book haul 📚 @cristinaele.bsky.social

🔊🔔🎤 Check out a sneak peek of my edited volume! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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

Escribí sobre Gaza, Mia Couto y narrativas multiespecie. Gracias a la Revista de la Universidad de México por brindar ese espacio. Qué honor más grande poder colaborar en su número actual sobre la paz. www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/1f5...

Last academic school year, I had the honor of co-chairing the now inaugural Central American Futurities Conference along with @miparhizkar.bsky.social and María de los Ángeles Aguilar. I’m so excited that Dartmouth is leading the 2nd iteration! Submissions are due tomorrow, please spread the word 🙏🏼

If you are interested in the history of photography and do not know about Photographica, you should! Last issue on decentered histories of early photo with great authors (Olubukola Gbadegesin, Ece Zerman and many others). Free access here: journals.openedition.org/photographica/

learning to do Polaroid emulsion lifts and transfers!

I made a CUNY Graduate Center starter pack containing GC community members and alumni. Please let me know if I've missed you! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social go.bsky.app/5Sto6Kf

One month to go! Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds hits the shelves soon! www.routledge.com/Soundscapes-...

For @publicbooks.bsky.social I reviewed Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide, a novel about the Panama Canal and the working people from across the hemisphere who came together in the shadow of this vast and unprecedented infrastructural project. www.publicbooks.org/drawn-togeth...

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. decolonizing visualities & Latinx art 2. pigeons photographers

I made a starter pack for art historians, art critics, other people who write about art, and a few friendly historians of other things that include visual culture. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/AcqTDgg

“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP! It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential. www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...

I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join! go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg

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Hello! I began a starter pack with some folks working on Latina/o/x Studies, it's broadly defined and a work in progress for sure. Please share and also send more recommendations of folks to include! go.bsky.app/Rmi3sGW

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW MLN Volume 139, Number 2, March 2024 (Hispanic Issue) ow.ly/el7I50U0uEF

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 📸

Save the date! @siobhanangus.bsky.social and her Camera Geologica are coming to SyracuseU

Very soon! “Mexico from the Northeast: A Symposium.” RSVP: shorturl.at/bLPTY

CFP “Affective Economies of the (Greater) Caribbean” for MLA25

Bécquer Seguín is visiting Syracuse University this week to present "The Op-Ed Novel" (Harvard UP, 2024) and conduct a public humanities writing workshop. See you there! Register here for Zoom attendance: humcenter.syr.edu/calendar/deb...