Sara Potter

Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 ...

Free ebook from University of Illinois Press this month:

Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930

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Hope and Dystopia: Learning from Climate Fiction A new literary prize asks how storytelling can drive greater optimism – and action – in the face of climate change.

We're so excited to share our first book review, part of a new series here at EHN. Kate Prengel discusses #clifi and the new Climate Fiction Prize shortlist envhistnow.com/2025/07/22/h...

Read Like a Criminal Big Gay Read 2025 Keynote Speech

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

Thrilled to share my new article in Hispanófila! I explore madams & witches as celestinas in mid-20th C. Mexican comics & crime magazines. The popular meets the political in these cultural products that employ gendered archetypes for social commentary. Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/210/arti...

That looks amazing! Can't wait to read it!

Nun Involved In Katy Perry Convent Lawsuit Collapses And Dies In Court Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, who had battled Perry and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles over a property sale, was in court for a post-judgment hearing related to the case.

😳 Nun Involved In Katy Perry Convent Lawsuit Collapses And Dies In Court : The Two-Way

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10-week graduate STUDENT FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! See more info at : www.facebook.com/SIInvertebra... OR download info here

Por cierto, habrá zoom :D
Tema: Rumbo a lo inimaginable
Hora: 13 mar 2025 05:00 p. m. Ciudad de México
Únase a la reunión de Zoom
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Very thankful to Remy Attig & Roshawnda Derrick for inviting me to be in their edited volume, Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics) forthcoming June 2025. Includes my essay "The Queer Politics of Spanglish.”

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I checked my phone in disbelief and then I cursed. A lot.

Mexico, Interrupted Join us on February 17, 2025 at 3-4pm CT for a book presentation and conversation with Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin College) on the publication of Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the …

let's talk economic imaginaries of post-independence Mexico, join us for a conversation with @sergiocarlos.bsky.social on his recent Mexico, Interrupted, February 17, 3pm CT, registration open!

Teaching Diversity in Divisive Times. Join professors from the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including @lnakamura.bsky.social for this event on Wednesday, January 29, at 4:00pm, 3512 Haven Hall.

Today is the official publication date for my book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations & the Aesthetics of Violence! I‘m so proud of it and so thankful for everyone (too many to name here) who helped along the way, especially the amazing team at @dukepress.bsky.social Thank you! 🥳🙏 Link below:

Book Publishing Resources Redux Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

A round up some new and helpful resources for those of you embarking on your writing or book publishing journey. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

Instructor of English - Spartanburg, SC The English Department at Converse University invites applications for an Instructor of English position. This is a one-year position with the possibility of renewal. This position offers the opportun...

This job is not tenure track, but it is renewable w/ benefits and is not all composition. We really need History of the Eng Lang, but open to a lot of other interests esp media studies & environmental humanities. Happy to answer any questions
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Every book has a story. This is the 1st I’ve acquired where a reviewer emailed me to see when it was coming out b/c they were so excited for it.

Full contents coming soon to the website—Angela Lewis-Maddox, Robin Turner, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Sharon Wright Austin, Julia Jorden-Zachery & more.

Mugs, a black pit-German shepherd mix, is wearing a red fair isle sweater and snuggled into a beige fuzzy blanket. His ears are perked up and his eyes are reproachful as if he’d prefer to be eating or sleeping.

We're hiring in my department! Please share widely.

Position: Assistant Professor of Latine and/or Latin American Studies

Application review starts on December 15. More information in the ad, but happy to answer any questions here also.

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Mining Books: Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the National Avant-Garde (image of book cover, with the title, author, and image of Bernardo Fernández (BEF)'s 2023 work CyberVenus, a blue woman with flowing blue-black hair, glowing white eyes and golden wires on her face, neck, and forehead, looking slightly down and to the left) Technified Muses examines discourses of post-revolutionary Mexican identity through the lens of gender and technology in various avant-garde texts from 1920 to the present. When: Thursday, November 21 5:30-7:30pm Where: El Paso Museum of Art (Head shot of white woman with blonde hair, with cranberry lipstick and silver hoop earrings, smiling and looking slightly to the right) with text: Dr. Sara A. Potter, Associate Professor of Spanish) For more information contact: Dr. Marion Rohrleitner Email: mcrohrleitner@utep.edu Thank you to our sponsors: The Department of English and the Museum of Art

I'm really looking forward to my very first book talk on Technified Muses from @floridapress.bsky.social this Thursday, November 21 at 5:30pm at the El Paso Museum of Art! Many thanks to Dr. Marion Christina Rohrleitner and Mining Books for the invitation. Hope to see you there!

…I was, indeed, doomscrolling. This helped. ❤️

Technified Muses “Offers a highly engaging and original approach to feminine embodiment in Mexican literature through the critical figure of the muse. This book represents an important contribution to Mexican liter…

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This link went live today! I am very relieved and excited to see the book out in the world and UPF was wonderful. If this helps convince your libraries, the discount code is HOL24 and it’s good through 12/16/24. 💙💛🩵

We've been at 29 donors since yesterday morning? Want to make it a nice, round 30?

YouTube video by Samantha Ege Bravura by Camila Cortina Bello (in honor of the South Side Impresarios)

WAKE UP BABE NEW DR. SAMANTHA EGE PERFORMANCE DROPPED

Dr. Ege is an incredible pianist and musicologist who's done a ton of work highlighting Black women composers through history. This Camila Cortina Bello piece is inspired by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, two composers Ege's work highlights

I’m a few payments over 120 and have 119 that officially count as of a few weeks ago. The other four should be eligible as well but it’s taking a while to sort out with the SAVE pause. I am cautiously optimistic but also nervous. As another poster said, I want forgiveness for everyone!

US map with the 10 states highlighted

If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.

Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do