Excited to be presenting tomorrow at Rutgers University–New Brunswick! I’ll talk about my research and leading a workshop for graduate students. Many thanks to @francantero.bsky.social for inviting me and organizing it! ⬇️

Nesta quarta-feira, estarei falando sobre Gabriela Rábago Palafox para além dos vampiros, na Universidade Estadual Paulista-Assis. Obrigado à Maira Pandolfi pelo convite para conversar com seus alunos de pós-graduação!

En el pròxim Diàleg de la NACS (North American Catalan Society) conversaré amb en Marc Gandarillas (U of North Dakota) sobre "Entre dos mons: La pervivència de la cultura mallorquina a San Pedro (Argentina)". Data i hora: Divendres 25 d'abril, 11h CST/18h CET (Barcelona)

Just got back from the International Comic Arts Forum #ICAF25 — my first conference dedicated to comics! I presented on how to teach Juan Sepúlveda's El violeta (Drakul Editorial, 2018).

Here’s a sneak peek of our upcoming translation of La voz de la sangre by Gabriela Rábago Palafox (The Voice of Blood), published in the latest issue of Studies in the Fantastic/Tales of the Fantastic by the University of Tampa Press.

Call for Papers! Join us at #MLA2026 in Toronto for the session Republican Radical Poethics in Exile. We seek papers on exile, radical poethics, and literary resistance. Submit your proposal (500–700 words) by March 25 to [email protected] #CFP Modern Language Association

Please circulate widely and consider submitting your abstracts mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

I am thrilled to announce my forthcoming translation with the University of Tampa Press! Over the past two years, Libby Ginway and I have worked on translating Gabriela Rábago Palafox's La voz de la sangre (1990) into English under the title The Voice of Blood. Forthcoming this October!

#MLA2025 in New Orleans has been amazing! Thank you to everyone that made it possible. An special thanks to my panel colleagues, @benitasampedro.bsky.social, Fran Cantero Soriano, and Jacqueline Sheean for such great presentations. See you next year in Toronto!

La escritora mexicana Maricela Guerrero escribe en homenaje a la gran Marisa Paredes.

I can't wait to hear my colleagues presenting on invisibilities during Francoism! Join as at #mla25 in NOLA!

Gender Studies 2 year post doc position at Notre Dame. Deadline December 10! 👉 genderstudies.nd.edu/people/postd...

🐉🌹📖 Bringing Catalan traditions to SPAN 102 and SPAN 202 students.

We're hiring in my department! Please share widely. Position: Assistant Professor of Latine and/or Latin American Studies Application review starts on December 15. More information in the ad, but happy to answer any questions here also. utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

OMG… I didn't know I needed this until I found it!

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures is looking for a new executive editor; please share widely. (muse.jhu.edu/journal/550).

Let's meet during #MLA24 #MLA2024 in Philly this week! If you like exile and literature and want to learn more about Catalan culture, come to hear us talk about testimonies of joy and sorrow from Catalan exile. I can't wait! @modernlanguage.bsky.social

“By rooting our identity in the Holocaust, we continue to reproduce generational trauma. And in reproducing this trauma, we give ourselves permission to participate in genocide as a way of pretending to protect ourselves from the past” - by Maura Finkelstein allegralaboratory.net/never-again-...

“Una fugida de la realitat és, sempre, un encarament de l’escriptor amb la seva realitat més profunda.” Llarga vida a la Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983), que avui fa 115 anys del seu naixement.

Great workshop today! I just pre-ordered my copy of "The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook." You can do it too, get 30% off with the code UCPNEW! More info about upcoming workshops: dissertationtobook.com

CFP para nuestro número 11 "REGRESOS". Más info en www.revistaimpetu.org/callforpapers. Fecha límite 20 de octubre 23:59 PM. Se agradece difusión. ¡Gracias!

Grad students Interested in teaching language, writing, or lit at a community college? www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Committees/Committee-Listings/Professional-Issues/Committee-on-Community-Colleges/A-Community-College-Teaching-Career rb.gy/lcz3j

The use of Catalan, along with Basque and Galician, is allowed in the Spanish Parliament for the first time. The extreme right didn’t like it, so they left. Will Spanish ever be heard in the U.S. Congress? El català s'estrena al Congrés enmig de protestes del PP i Vox www.ara.cat/1_495068

First week here and I already found two interesting jobs openings within the academia! I started applying to job positions to start in August: Spanish, Hispanic Studies, Peninsular Studies, Global Hispanophone Studies, Iberian Studies, Catalan Studies... Wish me luck! #academiagoals #jobseeker

Despite National Pushback, West Virginia Will Cut Faculty, Programs A month of intense public and on-campus pressure did not dissuade the Board of Governors from siding with the administration to slash programs and positions. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

If you are a #MLA member, consider signing this proposed resolution pressuring pension funds to divest from fossil fuels and deforestation. Yay collective action! 💚 www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...

First post. Just landed. I hope to find interesting posts and people here! Thanks for the code, @antoniocordoba.bsky.social!