Ada Torres

bueno, no todos son madrileños. españoles**

YouTube video by NPR Music Rusowsky: Tiny Desk Concert

Este verano me he pasado escuchando puros músicos madrileños que se inspiran en todos los géneros habidos y por haber, muuuuuchos sonidos latinoamericanos y qué inventos chulos. Aquí el Rusowsky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo89...

a cartoon of spongebob standing in front of a rock ALT: a cartoon of spongebob standing in front of a rock

Wearing a Bernie shirt in public in the United States in July 2025: "Why does your shirt say Bernie?" "Remember the election, the primaries?" "My name is Bernie." "Yeah, remember Bernie Sanders the presidential candidate?" "Yes, I am a huge fan."

A dissertation that sometimes begs me to write her in Spanish

The prose and ideas of Gerald Graff

The relationship between writing history and grief

#LibrosALosQueSeVuelve

These days little things come to mind like how my mom always put extra food on my lunch box for me to share with whoever needed it.

"Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born." - Elena Ferrante

The best historians are constantly in conversation with the present, with the awareness that the present might look like but is never a carbon copy of the past.

A book I return to often:

How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions If endowments are fundamentally creatures of restriction, they are also in smaller measure creatures of interpretation and discretion. Universities should use what flexibility they do have to stand up...

Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. Wealthy universities do have some wiggle room in how they can deploy their endowments to cushion (some) of the Trump shock, as this article shows. lpeproject.org/blog/how-to-...

I still have a recurring dream where I go to grad school application portals to check my application status in PhD programs, some schools still haven’t informed me whether I got in or not. The nerve!

If I can write a history that pays hommage to all who have taught me
history, I’ll be happy.

When a book has the word coloniality on the title ya me entra el tucutú.

“The word holistic is too associated to wellness culture nowadays” #ThoughtsFromWriting

A history about the internet from when people were genuinely excited to join chatrooms and talk to real strangers to now, when it is very likely you are just talking to a bot.

Contestar con erudición > contestar con teoría

I couldn’t have fully predicted the paths my research was going to take me through but enjoying them keeps me going. Today, George Bernard Shaw on Ibsenism (but so much more than Ibsenism.)

Granted a lot of the sources I am working with are in Spanish.

The better I write in English, the worse my spoken English. Why?

Maybe it’s less about the medium, more about the content?

George L. Mosse writing on Max Nordau in 1966. (The person who annotated the book before me seemed to think movies bridged the gap between intellectual culture and popular culture. I don’t disagree, but, a lot of the world is still fascist and/or narrow-minded?!)

I want to read a book about the idiosincrasies and the universals of humor, like how certain things are funny across languages but also how learning to be funny in another language and another context is so hard.

Todos los mundillos que te abre la historia intelectual: de pronto en una obra de Ibsen, de pronto en los Estados Unidos de Martí.

El libro sobre el pasado se llama: Sobre el financiamiento de las guerras entre naciones y el nacionalismo, una dialéctica.

También es un libro sobre el pasado, pero la inacción de Washington es como muy del ¿presente? ¿cómo que hay elecciones en el 2024?

Un libro sobre el presente: El dinero en la política, el nacionalismo y por qué Palestina no importa. #CeasefireNow

De paseo por Broadway y Ainslie, Chicago. Echen gasolina.