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Cristina E. Pardo Porto
@cristinaele.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @SyracuseU 🎞️ scholar of Latinx diasporas, CentAm&Caribbean, histories of photography and visual culture, environmental humanities
can’t wait!
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
September 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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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...
August 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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...
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…
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June 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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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....
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...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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
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June 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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‘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=...
Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production
Learn more about this book at UPF.com
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May 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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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)
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...
www.latinxproject.nyu.edu
May 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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 🔥
May 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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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
Assistant Teaching Professor/CE Liaison - Spanish & Portuguese
jobs.colorado.edu
April 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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....
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)
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April 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Tomorrow!
Join artist Joiri Minaya and me next week for a public gallery conversation on opacity and tropical images at the @suartmuseum.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Join artist Joiri Minaya and me next week for a public gallery conversation on opacity and tropical images at the @suartmuseum.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Don’t miss this exhibition I curated, now on view at the Syracuse University Art Museum!
March 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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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!
February 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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For those in the NYC area, come see Stolen Photo on the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Colombia.
shorturl.at/iHyFd
@aadeleon.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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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...
January 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Don’t miss @kevinpcoleman.bsky.social and FOTO ROBADA tomorrow at Syracuse U
February 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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In three weeks! We're taking sound studies beyond campus! With @latinxvisions.bsky.social @drcaromaldo.bsky.social @drbexphd.bsky.social, among others. Stay tuned!
February 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Teaching the "Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies" seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center next semester! If you know a grad student in the NYC area looking for classes, please send them my way. I’ll share more details once everything is finalized...
February 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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My latest newsletter of Latin American Studies Collections at Penn Libraries: mailchi.mp/e9076f9aee7f...
New in Latin American Studies Collections at Penn Libraries!
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February 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
omw to NOLA #MLA25 🔜
January 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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January 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM