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

Correcting proofs: space, presence, and lyrics from the Catalan Baroque. The essay belongs to a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies", forthcoming in @mlnjournal.bsky.social, which I have coedited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra. Stay tuned!

Rereading my notes on this amazing book and finding passages like these:

Accepting proposals until June 10.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Llatí de primer de primer carrera. Troncal de filologies. Anual. A més de traduir, examen de mites segons la versió de les Metamorfosis. Anava identificant on començava el mite mentre llegia per repassar per a l’Examen.

New issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Vol. 14, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54736 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Big Data & Manuscript Studies: Some Reflections on a Methodology @leoba.bsky.social @danielsawyer.bsky.social @julialilinoe.bsky.social

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

S'entaulen @jordinopca.bsky.social i @rgsait.bsky.social i en surt una conversa interessantíssima amb perles com ara: "Auden té una frase que diu: 'El perill de l'art és que el confonguem amb la màgia'" "Jesús està dient que ve a destruir la família". llegim.ara.cat/128_51bd21?u...

Analogy is a weak instrument of historical thinking. Metahistory at its best in a 2008 essay by Gabrielle Spiegel. www.historians.org/perspectives...

For the April episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum Editor in Chief @tinariversryan.bsky.social interviews @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social about how a medievalist became interested in AI, the role of AI in the divestment from public and higher education, and more. www.artforum.com/video/sonja-...

Contra l'espoli d'obres, la precarització laboral, l'empobriment de la llengua, la robotització del pensament i les pràctiques opaques per enriquir uns pocs, reivindiquem una traducció humana, sensible i conscient. Els lectors no mereixen altra cosa.

2025 ICMS is fast approaching. La corónica is sponsoring several events of interest. #Kzoo2025 Please join us!

@mourelle.bsky.social and I have been busy organizing this three-day seminar, which will take place at the FaberLlull Residency in Olot (Catalonia), from June 12-15. If you happen to be nearby and would like to come listen to us or say hi, do let us know! faberllull.cat/en/residenci...

La llegenda de Sant Jordi, recollida i copiada al segle XV per l'arxiver Pere Miquel Carbonell:

Charlé un rato con @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social sobre los comuneros para @elsaltodiario.com. Feliz Villalar a todo el mundo! ⚡🌱🟪 www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...

Happy 2778th birthday, Rome! 👶👶🐺 [Giovanni Paolo Pannini, View of the Forum Looking towards the Capitol, 1751, Oil on canvas, 58 x 94 cm (Private collection)]