We are now accepting submissions for volume 8 (2026).

As 2025 draws to a close, let’s take a look at the research Translat Library has published over the past year. 👇👇👇

The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”. ‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin. Pairs like this are called doublets. Episode 7 of my series: Catalan. Next: Galician.

Catalans abonyegats, us ho diuen a vosaltres:

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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Coming soon! We are excited to share our first issue in just a few months. We are also accepting submissions for issue 2 onwards! Feel free to send any questions or ideas to @calthalas.bsky.social @sihonglin.bsky.social or me on here, or with the editors via email tinyurl.com/tph5wvmd

I translated a couple of texts from 16th-C. Spanish for this anthology on “Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765,“ edited by my colleague in the Philosophy Department, Julia Jorati. The entire book looks terrific. Take a look: academic.oup.com/book/61633

Working on this was a lot of fun! Kudos to @translatlibrary.bsky.social for the wonderful editorial process.

In vol. 7, no. 4, Giovanni Cascio (U di Messina) studies an intriguing reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s "Liber sine nomine" in which Italy and the main Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch's epistles are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

💥Han entrevistat al Mésnit de @3catinfo.bsky.social a Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, autora d'UN NOSALTRES SENSE ESTAT! Aquí teniu l'entrevista completa:

Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés ctxt.es/es/20251201/...

El viernes pasado falleció a sus 100 años Margit Frenk, maestra absoluta de literatura del Siglo de Oro y de cultura popular. No sé por dónde empezar, pero quiero hablar de ella. Pocas obras de investigación humanística tienen la trascendencia de su legado

Doctoral funding opportunities here at the University of Birmingham: “We are delighted to launch our PhD funding opportunities for arts, humanities and law doctoral study at the University of Birmingham.

CFP: Les Metamorfosis d’Ovidi a través del temps: paratextos, traduccions i iconografia (Universitat de Barcelona, July 2-3). Deadline: January 15, 2026.

REMINDER -- CFP Hispanic Studies - Medieval, Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, 16-19 Apr. 2026. For more information, contact Christina Ivers ([email protected]) or Isidro Rivera ([email protected]) or click on the following link: lcclacoronica.org/announcement...

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

I miss translating literature so much. last week I read a chapter from henry berlin’s “alone together” for @albertlloret.bsky.social’s class and couldn’t resist trying to translate the ausiàs march excerpts into portuguese. here’s one example (lines 9-12) from poem XIII.

In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Classic literature has no relevance to contemporary readers. Even novels published last month are full of outmoded conventions. Only fiction that is written literally right this instant can capture the zeitgeist of the present moment

Proofs

New deadline, Nov. 1, 2025.

Per aquí es pot baixar sencer aquest homenatge a Francisco Rico, amb un munt de contribucions interessants: drive.google.com/file/d/1vHU2...

La definición de Rico y Amat (1855) de opinión pública.

Rellegint #SergiPàmies.

In practically a wink, thanks to clunky but reliable Wordpress, I have moved all of my publications from the repository I had used to archive and organize them since I was in grad school to a new site: websites.umass.edu/lloret/

#JosepPla #CosesVistes

Muy contento de haber podido contribuir a este número de Hispanic Review, que nos obligó a releer un texto clave. La cultura del Barroco, de José Antonio Maravall, @guerraenlauni.bsky.social @ucm.es @filologiaucm.bsky.social @santiperezisasi.bsky.social @cesarr muse.jhu.edu/issue/55575 @eldiario.es

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

Call for Papers 5th Summer Seminar - V Seminari d’estiu North American Catalan Society Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona July 1, 2026 - 9.30-14.30

Call for Contributions: postmedieval cluster, “Approaching Premodern Critical Race Studies in Iberia and Latin America” Titles, format of submission, and abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by October 15th, 2025. #CFP #postmedieval #medievalsky #criticalracestudies

Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....

Our department is hiring! Join us and be part of a wonderful community of faculty, students, and staff. Apply here and/or please share: www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

La corónica invites book reviews for the following books. Contact David Arbesú, (see lcclacoronica.org/journal/book... )

2026 NACS Award. Nominate monographs, editions, translations... Deadline 12/1/25.

Our latest Hispanic issue just printed and will be up on @projectmuse.bsky.social very soon. Edited by @becquer.bsky.social with a dossier on Catalan studies edited by @albertlloret.bsky.social, Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer

You hear stories about what an academic household does to children but today at bedtime my precocious rising kindergartner said “father will you read me a story about university leaders who believe LLM-based chatbots have made language teaching irrelevant?” and fortunately I had just the thing

In June, while gathered @ the Medieval Modernities seminar in Olot, we visited the Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa.The local TV station wanted to know what had brought us there & what it was like to study & teach medieval Catalan culture & its modern legacies in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAc...

CFP - Survival, Resistance, Rebirth - 20th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, The State University of New York at Buffalo, April 16-18, 2026. Paper and panel proposals due by 10/15/2025 @berlihe.bsky.social

Obre-la per la pàgina que vulguis. Traducció de pedra picada. Registre, lèxic, fluïdesa. #RamonFarrés, #StefanZweig.

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.

where do the pages fall open when you prop a book lightly? this precious copy of Soledades de Buçaco at the National Library of Portugal has a “desire part” on romance X — a poetic rendering of discalced carmelite monastery life. the pages are also more translucent. #FLAD #BNP #FLADBNPfellowship