Susan Larson

Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (@ruthyuste.bsky.social) reviews Heather Jerónimo’s Performing Parenthood. Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film (2024) in the RQ 73.1.

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Eric Salazar reads the generative power of instability in Cristobal Colon’s letters in “Ninguno puede dar razón cierta: incertidumbre, ruina y adversidad en las cartas de Cristobal Colón”.

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📷 Carta a Luis de Santángel (1493)

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies

Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

I’m pretty psyched about this visit to Penn State’s Humanities Institute next month.

Texas Tech struggles with new policy on gender, race The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”

🚨On widespread censorship at Texas Tech: “When they say faculty aren’t allowed to advocate for something, what we read that as is, they aren’t allowed to mention it,” said one academic adviser, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliatory discipline.

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/t...

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Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.”

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🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions

Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright concerning the Bush School of Government and Public Service

ETHICS IS NOW CANCELED AT TEXAS A&M


Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright....

Were your Texas college courses changed this semester? Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors.

Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/13/t...

I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.

I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.

Democracy is coming

to the U.S.A.

- Leonard Cohen

Short video about my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social out now in the UK and Spain, and in the rest of Europe, the US, etc on January 5. Many thanks

Alejandro Palma Castro proposes a moving necropoetic reading in “Hacia una necropoetica en la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: Sujetos de duelo en La mata de Eliana Hernández y La muerte golpea en lunes de Maricarmen Velasco”

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🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things So they’re destroying higher education in the US. It was maybe the thing we should have been proudest of. For decades after the Baby Boom filled campuses to bursting and the National Defense …

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Zohran Mamdani Victory Speech: NY Political Shift, Change Mandate, Cuomo New York Politics: Zohran Mamdani's victory as new NYC mayor challenges old norms, overturns Cuomo's legacy. His win signifies a shift to a hopeful, inclusive political landscape. Hear his plans on re...

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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 Join us on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 4-5pm CT for a work-in-progress workshop with Diana Aldrete (Trinity College) on “Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s…

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...

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. ✊

Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI Pensar el pasado colonial en clave de desplazamiento permite interrogar no solo las exclusiones del presente, sino también las formas históricas de propiedad, ciudadanía y racialización que sostuviero...

Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...

Thanks to my colleague Pavel Andrade.

This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.

I 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.

And 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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Abecedario para unas lecturas en común Agustín (de Hipona) y Benito (Pérez Galdós)

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.

As The Fall Semester Opens, Major Universities Tout Record Enrollments In a year where American colleges face mounting political & financial challenges, several major institutions are touting record enrollments for the fall, 2025 semester.

no matter what the tech grift oligarchs sell, no matter how much the authoritarians intimidate, people hunger for the freedom to learn

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

AGAINST AI

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