@susanlarson.bsky.social
Professor of 20th Century Iberian Studies | Texas Tech University | Editor, Romance Quarterly | Madrid, Spain and Lubbock, Texas.
There is a new addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies series. _Urban Memories: The Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s Public Space, 1979-1992_ by Teresa Pinheiro of the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice mexicanists.org/2025/08/12/a...
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Black text on shaded blue background moving from teal to pale blue. “Committee to Defend Tom Alter” in bold black and red.
⭐️⭐️Statement from Dr. Tom Alter following his firing today from Texas State University. This is a massive loss for #academicfreedom and First Amendment rights at Texas State. Our fight for Dr. Alter will continue. ✊
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Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...
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Thanks to my colleague Pavel Andrade.
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This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
23.09.2025 03:24 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
12.09.2025 18:12 — 👍 49 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2And we're back to the question of who gets to define what counts as disciplinary knowledge. Does the expert who has spent their lives studying the subject get to define it in the classroom? Or the 20 year old right wing activist who literally believes the president can make laws by dictate?
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Aquí empiezan mis colaboraciones con @ctxt.es
Mil gracias por la invitación 😊
Abecedario para unas lecturas en común ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
We can’t wait to see you in West Texas.
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no matter what the tech grift oligarchs sell, no matter how much the authoritarians intimidate, people hunger for the freedom to learn
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
Joins HELU for “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT, with Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Bernie Sanders, and Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/11/a...
Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.
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François-Nicolas Vozel traces the afterlife of May ‘68 in the thinking of Marguerite Duras in RQ 72.3.
Keywords: Duras – Blanchot – Deleuze – J.S. Bach – May ’68. doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Víctor Sierra Matute looks at the figure and ideological function of the ‘prince of Spanish lyric poetry’ Garcilaso de la Vega to trace how literary canonization is a historically layered process shaped by evolving disciplinary frameworks in RQ vol. 72.3.
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Thank you Aaron Hanlon, Eric Hayot and Anna Kornbluh for HUMANITIES WORKS: posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities. humanitiesworks.org/posters/
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Footage from Les Blank’s 1976 film about norteño music captures the quintessential Texas sound of the accordion of Flaco Jimenez, RIP.
youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0?...
Caglar Erteber's review of Agnese Codebò's'The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires,' tells the story of how slums matter as spaces that produce new aesthetics and social alliances. Just out in RQ vol. 72.3.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
Hot off the press: Pavel Andrade's review of a new book about the Mexican intelligentsia’s obsession with labor and idleness in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation between 1821-1852. Romance Quarterly, vol. 72(3). doi.org/10.1080/0883...
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The brilliant Luis Prádanos strikes again: this time proposing a series of tactics for a "pedagogy of degrowth that minimizes the use of unnecessary corporative technologies while discussing the political ecology of technology." An inspiring read for the year ahead. DOI: 10.4324/9781032650159-24
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Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
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Bárbara Espinosa's ES PA ÑO LA is a great novel about migration, underemployment and domestic labor that WOW -- has an ending that I did not see coming.
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