Cristina E. Pardo Porto

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Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Challenging anthropocentric perspectives by highlighting cultural representations of plants and animals across Latin American historyThe first book to integr...

PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION, edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez, explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production. #UFPress

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563 - Thinking with Plants and Animals through Latin American Texts Saturday, 10 January 2026 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM MTCC - 602B Description Panelists explore the intersection of critical plant studies and critical animal studies in Latin American cultural production, reconsidering the ethics, agency, and representation of nonhuman life by examining literature, film, and visual arts from the region. Discussion focuses on how plants and animals shape multispecies narratives, challenging human-centered frameworks in the humanities.

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez Published by: University of Florida Press

Join us Saturday, 01/10, to talk about plants and animals in Latin America. @vanesamiseres.bsky.social, Jonathan Mulki, Kate Ostrom, Niall Peach, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, @sierramatute.bsky.social, and I will share perspectives from ‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production.’ #MLA26

Jobs | City University of New York

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**

Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.

Applications due February 1, 2026.

Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Reframing Archives from the Venezuelan Diaspora: Ángela Bonadies’s Photographs Ángela Bonadies (b. 1970), a Venezuelan photographer based in Madrid, Spain, delves into the complexities of preserving cultural heritage amidst Venezuela’s ongoing global migration crisis. This ar...

just out! @cristinaele.bsky.social's Reframing Archives from the Venezuelan Diaspora: Ángela Bonadies’s Photographs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

thanks for sharing 💌

Cover of Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

First page of the article Cattle Intimacies: Animal Voice and Literary Speech in João Guimarães Rosa and Marília Floôr Kosby, by Thomaz Amancio

Just got this in the mail yesterday. So happy to have contributed to this project! Thanks and kudos to @oaperez.bsky.social and @cristinaele.bsky.social for the guidance and vision. Out in January from @floridapress.bsky.social

can’t wait!

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...

Sky Imaginaries in Latin American Literature, Film, and Art (Edited Volume) Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Editor: Oscar A. Pérez Abstracts due: August 15, 2025 Chapter first drafts due: March 30, 2026 Expected publication date: 2027 Call for Proposals pdf Lat…

I am editing a new volume that explores how Latin American writers, artists, and filmmakers engage with imaginaries of the skies! Please share CfP broadly.
#LatinAmericanStudies #CFP #Sky #FilmStudies #ArtHistory #Literature #SpaceAndCulture oaperez.com/sky-imaginar...

A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry This article argues that the figure of Garcilaso de la Vega as the foundational “prince of Spanish lyric poetry” emerged through two distinct yet related processes of textual construction and reint...

Almost in summer mode, but first… my article on the posthumous canonization of Garcilaso (aka the bittersweet story of how two friends sparked a poetic revolution and only one walked away with the crown) just came out online in @romancequarterly.bsky.social! 👉🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Learn more about this book at UPF.com

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production is available for pre-order (Jan 2026). Honored to have contributed to this volume under the brilliant vision and guidance of @cristinaele.bsky.social and @oaperez.bsky.social , and excited to read and teach all of it:

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Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Learn more about this book at UPF.com

‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production’ is now available for pre-order! This book has been years in the making and includes works by a wonderful and talented group of scholars. #AnimalStudies #PlantStudies #EnvHum #LatinAmericanStudies upf.com/book.asp?id=...

Joiri Minaya: (Un)seeing the Tropics — The Latinx Project at NYU When you walk into Joiri Minaya’s exhibition at the Syracuse University Art Museum, one of the first things you see is a white steel-wire postcard rack—the kind you’d expect to find in any packed, sli...

New on Intervenxions — Joiri Minaya: (Un)seeing the Tropics

“Minaya’s sly wit begins to chip away at that tropical fantasy by twisting its familiar visual tropes.”

By Lu Han (@hanlu-ul.bsky.social)

One week left to see the exhibition I had the pleasure of curating at @suartmuseum.bsky.social!

Big thanks to Lu Han for the fantastic review 🔥

My department (Spanish and Portuguese @ CU Boulder) is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor/Continuing Ed Liaison -- super quick turn around because you know how sometimes those things go.
Deadline to apply May 8, 2025

Estrategias e imaginarios barrocos en La sombra de don Quijote (2014) de Patricio Clarey y Lara Fuentes* Published in Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Spain performed a grand act of quixotism yesterday: a national blackout.

Today, my article on postapocalyptic quixotism in the graphic novel La sombra de Don Quijote went online at @spanishbulletin.bsky.social

The timing could not be better—alas. Check it out:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow!

Join artist Joiri Minaya and me next week for a public gallery conversation on opacity and tropical images at the @suartmuseum.bsky.social

Don’t miss this exhibition I curated, now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum!

The 19th-Century Latin American Forum at the MLA is organizing two panels and a workshop for the 2026 convention in Toronto. Send us your abstracts and share this call with your colleagues!

For those in the NYC area, come see Stolen Photo on the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Colombia.
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@aadeleon.bsky.social

The gorgeous front cover of Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas. It shows a pixelated cursor half of it is made of binding stitches.

The spines of ten copies of the book.

Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print!
Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...