Bécquer Seguín
@becquer.bsky.social
Scholar of Spain at Hopkins • Author of The Op-Ed Novel • Regular contributor at The Nation and elsewhere
Website: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/directory/becquer-seguin/
Book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674260108
Website: https://krieger.jhu.edu/modern-languages-literatures/directory/becquer-seguin/
Book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674260108
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For the latest On Our Nightstands, Literature in Translation editor @becquer.bsky.social recommends All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld.
On Our Nightstands: September 2025 - Public Books
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.
www.publicbooks.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For the latest On Our Nightstands, Literature in Translation editor @becquer.bsky.social recommends All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld.
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I had a fascinating conversation with
@nicoabu.bsky.social about his 4 decade history of the Francoist dictatorship, 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre'.
We discuss the Spanish path to fascism, how it diverged from the Germany & Italy & how the dictatorship evolved post-WWII while demolishing any idea
@nicoabu.bsky.social about his 4 decade history of the Francoist dictatorship, 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre'.
We discuss the Spanish path to fascism, how it diverged from the Germany & Italy & how the dictatorship evolved post-WWII while demolishing any idea
New Episode!
The Spanish Path to Fascism & the Evolution of Franco's Dictatorship
Historian @nicoabu.bsky.social speaks to
@eoghangilmartin.bsky.social about his book 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre' - a history of the 40 year Francoist dictatorship
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The Spanish Path to Fascism & the Evolution of Franco's Dictatorship
Historian @nicoabu.bsky.social speaks to
@eoghangilmartin.bsky.social about his book 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre' - a history of the 40 year Francoist dictatorship
Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3JGU...
The Spanish Path to Fascism and the Evolution of Franco's Dictatorship
The Sobremesa Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I had a fascinating conversation with
@nicoabu.bsky.social about his 4 decade history of the Francoist dictatorship, 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre'.
We discuss the Spanish path to fascism, how it diverged from the Germany & Italy & how the dictatorship evolved post-WWII while demolishing any idea
@nicoabu.bsky.social about his 4 decade history of the Francoist dictatorship, 'Ni una, ni grande, ni libre'.
We discuss the Spanish path to fascism, how it diverged from the Germany & Italy & how the dictatorship evolved post-WWII while demolishing any idea
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What a great privilege to get to know and support the truly stellar faculty at Johns Hopkins, especially early in their career.
We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients.
This award will allow them to move into new bold directions.
research.jhu.edu/major-initia...
We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients.
This award will allow them to move into new bold directions.
research.jhu.edu/major-initia...
June 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What a great privilege to get to know and support the truly stellar faculty at Johns Hopkins, especially early in their career.
We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients.
This award will allow them to move into new bold directions.
research.jhu.edu/major-initia...
We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients.
This award will allow them to move into new bold directions.
research.jhu.edu/major-initia...
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Congratulations! 🎉
I still can't believe this happened.
Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
Catalyst Awards presented to 20 early-career Johns Hopkins faculty
Faculty across dozens of disciplines awarded $100K to pursue their work
hub.jhu.edu
June 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Congratulations! 🎉
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Many congratulations to our Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social who has just been honored with a prestigious award for early career faculty.
¡Bien merecido!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
¡Bien merecido!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
Catalyst Awards presented to 20 early-career Johns Hopkins faculty
Faculty across dozens of disciplines awarded $100K to pursue their work
hub.jhu.edu
June 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Many congratulations to our Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social who has just been honored with a prestigious award for early career faculty.
¡Bien merecido!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
¡Bien merecido!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
I still can't believe this happened.
Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
Catalyst Awards presented to 20 early-career Johns Hopkins faculty
Faculty across dozens of disciplines awarded $100K to pursue their work
hub.jhu.edu
June 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I still can't believe this happened.
Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
Many thanks to @jhu.edu, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, and @deniswirtz.bsky.social's office for this very, very generous award.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...
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Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds.
Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.
Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.
June 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds.
Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.
Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.
Hoy en @elpais.com, escribo sobre Trump, Emilia Pardo Bazán y el auge de la censura de libros en EE.UU.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
Trump contra Emilia Pardo Bazán
Un estudio sobre la escritora gallega es uno de los libros retirados de la biblioteca de la Academia Naval de Estados Unidos
elpais.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hoy en @elpais.com, escribo sobre Trump, Emilia Pardo Bazán y el auge de la censura de libros en EE.UU.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
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Hace bien el movimiento MAGA en censurar "El Cuento de la Criada", porque el dedo de Margaret Atwood apunta directamente al ojo de Trump.
@becquer.bsky.social: Su ineptitud literaria se ve reflejada en la selección de títulos censurados. “No parece que los censores hubieran leído casi ninguno de los libros prohibidos”
...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
Trump contra Emilia Pardo Bazán
Un estudio sobre la escritora gallega es uno de los libros retirados de la biblioteca de la Academia Naval de Estados Unidos
elpais.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hace bien el movimiento MAGA en censurar "El Cuento de la Criada", porque el dedo de Margaret Atwood apunta directamente al ojo de Trump.
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@becquer.bsky.social: Su ineptitud literaria se ve reflejada en la selección de títulos censurados. “No parece que los censores hubieran leído casi ninguno de los libros prohibidos”
...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
Trump contra Emilia Pardo Bazán
Un estudio sobre la escritora gallega es uno de los libros retirados de la biblioteca de la Academia Naval de Estados Unidos
elpais.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
@becquer.bsky.social: Su ineptitud literaria se ve reflejada en la selección de títulos censurados. “No parece que los censores hubieran leído casi ninguno de los libros prohibidos”
...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
...entre ellos también se encuentra El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood.
elpais.com/babelia/2025...
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Shout out to Baltimore! Courtesy of @becquer.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Shout out to Baltimore! Courtesy of @becquer.bsky.social
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“For Estela and Felice—as for Chile and Italy—fascism is in the past. And yet its horrors endure.”
“The Door’s Still Locked”: Fiction after Fascism
“Labor” forces us to ask: Who has power? “Horror” forces us to ask: Who is the monster? And the combination of the two, “Labor-as-Horror,” tells us to beware the uncomfortable fractures in our…
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June 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“For Estela and Felice—as for Chile and Italy—fascism is in the past. And yet its horrors endure.”
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As our Italian issue is prepared for printing, we're reviewing proofs for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social with @albertlloret.bsky.social as one of our guest editors for a dossier on Catalan studies. With managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social
Correcting proofs: space, presence, and lyrics from the Catalan Baroque.
The essay belongs to a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies", forthcoming in @mlnjournal.bsky.social, which I have coedited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra. Stay tuned!
The essay belongs to a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies", forthcoming in @mlnjournal.bsky.social, which I have coedited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra. Stay tuned!
June 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As our Italian issue is prepared for printing, we're reviewing proofs for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social with @albertlloret.bsky.social as one of our guest editors for a dossier on Catalan studies. With managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social
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From MLN Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social-- for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
I reviewed Zakir Paul’s “Disarming Intelligence (@princetonupress.bsky.social ) for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
May 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
From MLN Hispanic issue editor @becquer.bsky.social-- for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
I reviewed Zakir Paul’s “Disarming Intelligence (@princetonupress.bsky.social ) for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
May 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I reviewed Zakir Paul’s “Disarming Intelligence (@princetonupress.bsky.social ) for @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
It’s an excellent book that breathes life into the study of a staid critical concept.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
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"Intelligence . . . also has a literary history, one that might help free us from the shackles of narrow-minded thinking about what intelligence was, what it is, and what it could be."
New in review, Bécquer Seguín on Zakir Paul's Disarming Intelligence: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
New in review, Bécquer Seguín on Zakir Paul's Disarming Intelligence: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
May 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Intelligence . . . also has a literary history, one that might help free us from the shackles of narrow-minded thinking about what intelligence was, what it is, and what it could be."
New in review, Bécquer Seguín on Zakir Paul's Disarming Intelligence: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
New in review, Bécquer Seguín on Zakir Paul's Disarming Intelligence: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/becquer_segu...
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A reminder that today is the last day to submit to the MLN Hispanic issue-- we will consider full-length (7k-9k words) original scholarly articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln
May 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A reminder that today is the last day to submit to the MLN Hispanic issue-- we will consider full-length (7k-9k words) original scholarly articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
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These are all amazing projects, and well deserved. But yet again, the ACLS only awards projects on Latin America by historians. No one from a Spanish dept in sight. 🙄
We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq
American Council of Learned Societies Awards 62 ACLS Fellowships
ACLS Fellowships award $3.5 million to scholars in recognition of excellence in humanities and social sciences research
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April 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
These are all amazing projects, and well deserved. But yet again, the ACLS only awards projects on Latin America by historians. No one from a Spanish dept in sight. 🙄
In the latest issue of @blnreview.bsky.social, I make by debut with a piece that is nominally a review of Fernando Aramburu's novel "El niño," but is really an essay on how Aramburu deals with historical facts in his novels, where he triumphs, and where he falls short.
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Bécquer Seguín · Mind the Gap Between Novel and Newspaper
With millions in sales, royalties from big-time TV, and widely read op-eds on the Basque question, Fernando Aramburu is a star in the Spanish literary scene. While his best-selling novels show a lack ...
blnreview.de
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In the latest issue of @blnreview.bsky.social, I make by debut with a piece that is nominally a review of Fernando Aramburu's novel "El niño," but is really an essay on how Aramburu deals with historical facts in his novels, where he triumphs, and where he falls short.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln
April 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We extended our deadline for general submissions to the Hispanic issue. Send us your work! mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mln
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“A shocking criminality and the diffusion of traditional Mexican images in the stream of global entertainment have erased any trace of a ‘special relationship’ between the national culture and death.”
From the archive:
From the archive:
Death in Mexico Means Something Different Now
Mexico once cultivated a “special relationship” with death. But cultural globalization and rising violence is weakening that bond.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“A shocking criminality and the diffusion of traditional Mexican images in the stream of global entertainment have erased any trace of a ‘special relationship’ between the national culture and death.”
From the archive:
From the archive:
People in the tri-state area!
On Tuesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking at Yale about my book, “The Op-Ed Novel.” We will also talk about journalism as an object of study and praxis. If you are in the area and have time, please join us!
On Tuesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking at Yale about my book, “The Op-Ed Novel.” We will also talk about journalism as an object of study and praxis. If you are in the area and have time, please join us!
April 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
People in the tri-state area!
On Tuesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking at Yale about my book, “The Op-Ed Novel.” We will also talk about journalism as an object of study and praxis. If you are in the area and have time, please join us!
On Tuesday at 5pm, I’ll be speaking at Yale about my book, “The Op-Ed Novel.” We will also talk about journalism as an object of study and praxis. If you are in the area and have time, please join us!
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Come over if you are in the area!
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book at the Five Colleges in western Mass. If you’re in the area and have some time, please join us. I’ll be talking about journalism, literature, and the politics of fictionalizing current affairs.
April 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Come over if you are in the area!
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book at the Five Colleges in western Mass. If you’re in the area and have some time, please join us. I’ll be talking about journalism, literature, and the politics of fictionalizing current affairs.
April 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book at the Five Colleges in western Mass. If you’re in the area and have some time, please join us. I’ll be talking about journalism, literature, and the politics of fictionalizing current affairs.