Víctor Sierra Matute

Standing faculty at Penn in the humanities and allied departments are invited to apply for 2026–27 research fellowships on the Wolf Humanities Center’s annual theme, Practice. Apply by October 1, 2025.

Full fellowship and application details: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/...

Thank you very much, Susan!

This came out a couple of months ago, but I'm very happy to see it featured by Romance Quarterly today! Publishing with RQ was a truly rewarding experience, rigorous and generous throughout.

Still a jam-packed day, though!

Pues sí. A mí lo que me parece anticlimático es entre que sale a la venta y que empiezan a llegar reseñas...

Opportunity: Kellogg Visiting Fellows (postdoc, faculty, and non-traditional scholars and practitioners tracks). While KI themes (democracy, development) tend to attract social science folk, historians should apply! Generous terms, great community. kellogg.nd.edu/opportunitie...

My copy arrives on August 9, looking forward to reading it!

Donna Zakowska: Fashioning Costumes, Costuming Fashion Donna Zakowska is an award-winning American cost

Join us tomorrow for a free master class with Donna Zakowska, an Emmy-award-winning costume designer. Register here: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/donna...

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If you're working on a thesis or diss you might have heard people mention Scrivener as a useful writing platform @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social . Thinking about trying it? Here's a video tutorial from @minareeslibrary.bsky.social to get you started. #WritingCommunity #WritingTools buff.ly/QvqzoB6

Backstage picture at Repertorio Español before the play Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega and directed by Bibiana Torres.

This afternoon I gave a brief intro talk at Repertorio Español on Fuenteovejuna, by Lope de Vega (dir. Bibiana Torres). It was so nice to hear from folks afterwards who found the context helpful. Big thanks to Tramoya: Hispanic Classics in Conversation. More projects like this, please!
*Bckstage pic

This weekend!

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)

The CUNY Climate Assembly Project (CCAP) is a new democratic initiative for CUNY students to advance climate solutions at CUNY. We are seeking applications from CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students for 2 ($10,000) fellowship positions. APPLY & learn more: centerforthehumanities.org/call-for-app...

Repost to help share my new course! Fall 2025 @huntercollege.bsky.social

I wish I could have taken a lab class on Native American x African American science and history as an undergraduate. So now I’m teaching one as a prof and yes, we’re whale watching in Manhattan. And learning to DJ.

Now accepting applications for our 2026–2027 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships on the general theme of "Practice."

Eligibility guidelines and application instructions: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc

Application deadline: November 2, 2025.

Some good news: I've been selected as a Regional Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania for 2025–2026! This year’s forum topic is "Truth", a timely (and slippery) theme to think about with a brilliant group of scholars.

wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/truth

¡Gracias, Ana!

¡Muchas gracias!

¡Muchas gracias, Miguel! Va un abrazo.

Public Monuments and the Colonial Legacies of the ‘Tongue of Cervantes’ This article examines the ideological and colonial legacies embedded in the phrase ‘la lengua de Cervantes’ and its material manifestations through public monuments. It argues that the global monum...

My new article on "La lengua de Cervantes" is now out in Romance Studies!

Fuenteovejuna at Repertorio Español. By Lope de Vega, directed by Bibiana Torres. Charlas: Hispanic Classics in Conversation. Saturday, July 26 at 7 pm: 30 min post-shiw Q&A with students with cast. Sunday, July 27: 2:30 pm, 30 min pre show talk in Spanish with Professor Víctor Sierra Matute.

NYC friends, I hope you're ready for a 400-year-old true crime: "¿Quién mató al comendador?" Join us at Repertorio for a Lope classic and some post-show gossip.

Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...

Can digitization preserve the past, or does it merely reinvent it? My latest article traces the metadata anomalies and hidden labor that haunt one digital surrogate: Thomas May’s The Tragedie of Cleopatra. Check it out here!

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Missed our workshop on the op-ed @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ? The Op-Ed Project is a wonderful resources that can help you learn about the genre, identify a target publication, and craft a provocative lede. Check out their website: buff.ly/qzzJNLM #PublicWriting #WritingCommunity

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....

Honored to join this volume among stellar company. Huge kudos to the editors for their superb work!

Accepting proposals until June 10.

Join us for our last talk of the spring term!
WRITING IN IMPOSSIBLE TIMES:
THINKING WITH AND BEYOND THE FIRST BOOK
Ken Wissoker in discussion with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET
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Radio Preservation Task Force | About This Program | National Recording Preservation Plan | Programs | Library of Congress The Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF), created early in 2014, grows out of the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan (December 2012, see: www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-...

Our gigantic applied policy public humanities project observes its 12th anniversary this month. We're currently running 50 faculty and archivist directors and something over 350 current and recent research associates. Update posted at the LOC.