Departmental Lecturer in Global and Area Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ374/d...

Women Walkers in Latin America’ will investigate and analyse women’s walking experiences in Latin America from independence in the nineteenth century to the present day. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO186/r...

special dossier on border abolition in Latin American literature now out! lalrp.net/27/volume/53...

CfP - Conservative Feminisms in the Americas frontierswsjournal.org/call-for-pap...

"College students and professors are protesting with mock funerals across Texas, saying universities are dying from political interference." www.texastribune.org/2026/05/20/u...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

special dossier on border abolition in Latin American literature now out! lalrp.net/27/volume/53...

Jameson lector de Benjamin: apocatástasis y totalización utópica bellasletras.cl/jameson-lect...

the strangeness of realism, dialectical reading, and the role of style in literary criticism with @annakornbluh.bsky.social

I'm excited to share a podcast I recorded with University of Minnesota Press, with my colleagues Maritza Cardenas (U of Arizona) and Jason Ruíz (Notre Dame), out now on all major podcast platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

political solidarity and state power, @fritamoreno.bsky.social talks states of defeat open.spotify.com/episode/1kn7...

The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order mexicanists.org/2026/05/17/t...

Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.

Mexican Singer-Songwriter Julieta Venegas in Conversation & Performance www.democracynow.org/2026/5/5/mex...

The Sordid Image: The Naturalist Cinema of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego mexicanists.org/2026/05/14/t...

One more comment about this. You thought A&M was bad for censoring Plato's Symposium? Well, Texas Tech said "hold my beer" and banned Plato's REPUBLIC from a philosophy class because there's a brief mention of homosexual love in it.

There are stories from all over about universities' dismantling of the humanities. I have a small but dismaying data point from my university to contribute to the discourse. Harvard University now has NO assistant professors of English. That's how long it has been since we were allowed to hire.

"a very smart show about labor in capitalist economies" www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...

Thank you for featuring! This book with @ucpress.bsky.social officially launches in less than one week on 19 May! When it does, you can read for free thanks to Luminos Open Access!

The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite, by @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social mexicanists.org/2026/05/13/t...

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

now available for pre-order, @erickabeckman.bsky.social's Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism www.versobooks.com/products/317...

You can MTC May Newsletter in the link below. And if you are not a subscriber to our monthly newsletter, then please join us to be in the loop on what we are up to. We promise not to spam! mid-theory.com?mailpoet_rou...

Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City mexicanists.org/2026/05/11/s...

Intellectuals - Is it possible that we might know something of the world, share what we know, decide together what’s best, and work toward a world that is free, fair, and might endure? Guest-edited by @mckenziewark.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/163

"courses were canceled, programs eliminated, syllabi altered, readings scrapped, and beloved professors are choosing to leave their institutions, and in some cases, the state." pen.org/texas-tech-a...

100 años del inicio de la Guerra Cristera en México. Coloquio en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco, Ciudad de México. Lunes 1 y martes 2 de junio de 2026. www.xoc.uam.mx/events/la-gu...

Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014 mexicanists.org/2026/05/05/a... @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

"Graduate students and higher education experts say that approach could leave students learning too late that Texas Tech will not allow the work they want to pursue." www.texastribune.org/2026/05/06/t...

new! The Future of Totality Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory @dukepress.bsky.social has the intro available for download in advance of publication thanks as ever to the wonderful @roberttally.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

Ephemeral Aurality: Media, Performance, and Sound Archives in (Greater) Mexico, review essay by @tamaramitchell.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The preface and introduction for THE FUTURE OF TOTALITY are up at Duke University Press: www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...

We must be very clear-eyed about what is lost when instructors can no longer assign out-of-class writing. thepointmag.substack.com/p/classroom-...

MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first United States survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles this fall. The exhibition will bring together select works across the artist’s various confrontations of murder and violence along the US-Mexico border.

New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.

now available for pre-order, @erickabeckman.bsky.social's Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism www.versobooks.com/products/317...

Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014 mexicanists.org/2026/05/05/a... @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social

Ephemeral Aurality: Media, Performance, and Sound Archives in (Greater) Mexico, review essay by @tamaramitchell.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨: My new monograph ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA, 1926-2014 is available for preorder from OXFORD UP, with 30 percent discount.

“Nuevas visiones de lo (post)humano: La narrativa de formación en español en el siglo XXI”. Simposio Internacional de Estudios Literarios, 17-19 de septiembre 2026.

Do you have big ideas about how to get a small magazine into more hands? Strong feelings about newsletter strategy? Can you write a Bluesky post better than this one? Apply to be n+1’s Audience Manager! We’re accepting applications through May 18. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Acadia proposes restructuring as university faces 'critical moment' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW today in the New York Times: In the face of unprecedented authoritarian attacks, the AAUP is building a powerful and militant resistance movement in defense of American higher education, the freedom to learn, and our democracy. Join Us!

"This is the first policy at any major American university system that extends content censorship to student work itself"

JOB: Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, Penn One or more positions; PhD preferred; initial one-year appointment, renewable for two more years and potentially beyond that apply.interfolio.com/184641

Border Biomes: Ecological Imaginaries of Mexico's Edges mexicanists.org/2026/04/24/b...