Follow the Debate on the "State of the Field." Read Robert McKee Irwin's response to Ignacio López-Calvo in the new issue of FORMA: www.formajournal.org/essays/publi...

Follow the Debate on the "State of the Field." Read Samuel Steinberg's response to Patrick Dove in the new issue of FORMA: www.formajournal.org/essays/exped...

Follow the Debate on the "State of the Field." Read Leila Gómez's response to Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra in the new issue of FORMA: www.formajournal.org/essays/respo...

FORMA Volume 4, no. 1 is now available on the journal website: www.formajournal.org ! The issue includes three responses to position papers included in the "State of the Field" Debate, published in 2025. Check in with FORMA later this summer for more! www.formajournal.org/news

In the final article for FORMA's Debate issue, José Eduardo Gonzalez takes a quantitative approach to Spanish American literary studies, referencing Ángel Rama’s essay “El boom en perspectiva.” Read more and consider responding at buff.ly/vB1FL1y.

Can we continue to affirm that what we do as scholars, critics, and teachers today is defined by a set of shared and debated problems and questions, and that the totality of our academic labor is auto-regenerative? Read Patrick Dove's article and respond at buff.ly/3Xgl9tb!

The geopolitical transformations that marked the end of the twentieth century engendered a “global” or “transnational turn.” In literary studies this was most clearly manifest in renewed interest in the notion of world literature. Read and respond to Armillas-Tiseyra's article at buff.ly/3Xgl9tb.

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Patrick Dove consider this question in FORMA's Debate issue, which looks at the state of the field of Latin American Criticism and Theory in light of the past twenty-five years. Consider contributing to the debate at buff.ly/3Xgl9tb.

De Castro presents The Failure of Latin America (2019) as an intellectual testament that sums up Beverley’s evolution, together with that of the region as a civilizational location for social hopes from the 1960s to our post-utopian present. Read more at buff.ly/3ESmhNl!

David William Foster's Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2003) was the point of departure for research into non-normative Latin American cinema in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Read Vinodh Venkatesh's article and join the debate at buff.ly/438Hj4w!

FORMA has launched its inaugural Debate series! Organized and edited by @jose-eduardo.bsky.social and Steve Buttes, established scholars address the current state of the field by examining the past 25 years and projecting forward. See the first two installments: www.formajournal.org/debate