Laura Colaneri
@lauracolaneri.bsky.social
PhD in Latin American literature, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, UChicago.
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Un día como hoy de 1974, el general Carlos Prats fue asesinado junto a su esposa Sofía Cuthbert en un atentado perpetrado en Buenos Aires. Fue uno de los primeros crímenes de la Operación Cóndor, que operaba sin nombre en clave.
September 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Un día como hoy de 1974, el general Carlos Prats fue asesinado junto a su esposa Sofía Cuthbert en un atentado perpetrado en Buenos Aires. Fue uno de los primeros crímenes de la Operación Cóndor, que operaba sin nombre en clave.
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Time to lock in @lauracolaneri.bsky.social
NUNSPLOITATION ❤️🔥
Coming to criterion channel in September!
Coming to criterion channel in September!
August 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Time to lock in @lauracolaneri.bsky.social
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In Chicago/Chicagoland or anywhere else in Illinois:
-Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244
-Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper...
-Ask others to do the same
7/7
-Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244
-Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper...
-Ask others to do the same
7/7
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
In Chicago/Chicagoland or anywhere else in Illinois:
-Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244
-Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper...
-Ask others to do the same
7/7
-Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244
-Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper...
-Ask others to do the same
7/7
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¡CFP! The LASA 19th Century Section invites proposals (papers or full panels) for LASA 2026 in Paris. We're casting a wide net to see what work is shaping the field now. Deadline: Aug 22. Email abstracts to lasasigloxix@gmail.com. Spread the word!
July 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
¡CFP! The LASA 19th Century Section invites proposals (papers or full panels) for LASA 2026 in Paris. We're casting a wide net to see what work is shaping the field now. Deadline: Aug 22. Email abstracts to lasasigloxix@gmail.com. Spread the word!
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Job! Assistant Professor of Spanish @caiuscollege.bsky.social and Emmanuel College. Nine months from 1 October 2025 to cover my teaching while I’m on leave. Latin American literature, cinema or thought.
Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.
Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.
Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College at University of Cambridge
Apply for the Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply n...
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June 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Job! Assistant Professor of Spanish @caiuscollege.bsky.social and Emmanuel College. Nine months from 1 October 2025 to cover my teaching while I’m on leave. Latin American literature, cinema or thought.
Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.
Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.
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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:
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production
Learn more about this book at UPF.com
upf.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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:
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
upf.com/book.asp?id=...
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Ah yes, as a Latin Americanist it will be so easy to write projects focused on the US's "moral leadership" 🙄🤪
June 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ah yes, as a Latin Americanist it will be so easy to write projects focused on the US's "moral leadership" 🙄🤪
Well deserved!!!
Feliz/sem jeito que minha tese ganhou o prêmio da LASA Brasil 😳
Two days ago I was celebrating one year of my defense, and now I'm very honored to share that my dissertation, Field Work: Labor and Culture in Rural Brazil, was awarded by LASA Brazil with the best dissertation prize. !!
June 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Well deserved!!!
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So messed up! The state Dept is implementing new vetting standards of foreign students' social media to look for "terrorist and antisemitic" sympathies. A front to slow student enrollments, chill free speech, and dissuade students from studying in the US 😡
*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO
Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting
The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So messed up! The state Dept is implementing new vetting standards of foreign students' social media to look for "terrorist and antisemitic" sympathies. A front to slow student enrollments, chill free speech, and dissuade students from studying in the US 😡
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The Trump administration is unlawfully seeking to destroy higher education in the United States. It now demands that we sacrifice our international students in the process. Universities cannot acquiesce to such extortion.
New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/05/23/a...
AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter Executive Committee Condemns Trump Administration’s Termination of Harvard’s SEVP Certification
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement was issued yesterday in response to a decision earlier that day by the Department of Homeland Security to revoke Harvard University’s certifica…
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May 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Trump administration is unlawfully seeking to destroy higher education in the United States. It now demands that we sacrifice our international students in the process. Universities cannot acquiesce to such extortion.
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Review of dear @ambliopia.bsky.social’s not to be missed The Company — finally published in English! @cetracey.bsky.social does a great job threading Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s previous work, so if you’re new to her fabulous books, this is a good starting point.
Thank you @cetracey.bsky.social for your generous review of «The Company»: lareviewofbooks.org/article/form...
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Form, Object, Art | Los Angeles Review of Books
Caroline Tracey probes the experimental book-art of Mexican author Verónica Gerber Bicecci.
lareviewofbooks.org
May 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Review of dear @ambliopia.bsky.social’s not to be missed The Company — finally published in English! @cetracey.bsky.social does a great job threading Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s previous work, so if you’re new to her fabulous books, this is a good starting point.
Although I’m mostly off social media at this point, I did want to mark my last day teaching at UChicago. It’s been a truly rich experience getting to work with such wonderful students. Happily, I’ll be continuing my career as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wartburg College this fall!
May 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Although I’m mostly off social media at this point, I did want to mark my last day teaching at UChicago. It’s been a truly rich experience getting to work with such wonderful students. Happily, I’ll be continuing my career as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wartburg College this fall!
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"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
www.bostonreview.net
March 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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My book is out! I was waiting to post a pic holding it IRL, but alas, it is yet to arrive. I hope you will check it out, and ask your library to buy a copy! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...
February 2, 2024 at 6:37 PM
My book is out! I was waiting to post a pic holding it IRL, but alas, it is yet to arrive. I hope you will check it out, and ask your library to buy a copy! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...
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The latest installment of my column for Atlas Obscura, "Eerie Feeling," on places and spaces that generate that sense of the eerie, is live. It's about lake monsters! Who doesn't love a lake monster?
Toward a Unifying Theory of Lake Monsters
From Champ to Bessie to lake sturgeon, these cryptids represent what lies beneath the surface of the familiar.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 18, 2024 at 4:35 PM
The latest installment of my column for Atlas Obscura, "Eerie Feeling," on places and spaces that generate that sense of the eerie, is live. It's about lake monsters! Who doesn't love a lake monster?
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I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!
January 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!
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Typeset and finished. Will be getting in touch with people who might want to write endorsements over the next few days.
January 3, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Typeset and finished. Will be getting in touch with people who might want to write endorsements over the next few days.
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It has never been more urgent to strategize and to build a more democratic university.
If you’re around on Sunday at MLA, I would love to see you for our discussion of how unions and senates have worked together (or not) in the past and the present.
If you’re around on Sunday at MLA, I would love to see you for our discussion of how unions and senates have worked together (or not) in the past and the present.
January 3, 2024 at 2:41 PM
It has never been more urgent to strategize and to build a more democratic university.
If you’re around on Sunday at MLA, I would love to see you for our discussion of how unions and senates have worked together (or not) in the past and the present.
If you’re around on Sunday at MLA, I would love to see you for our discussion of how unions and senates have worked together (or not) in the past and the present.
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For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo:
It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am.
We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.
It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am.
We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.
January 3, 2024 at 3:15 PM
For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo:
It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am.
We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.
It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am.
We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.
I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!
January 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!
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Shameless reminder that the best Xmas gift you can get me is to ask your library to order my book! 😁 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
An account of the intersection of the Gothic and the medical imaginations in the Romantic era. This book demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagination and the medical imagi...
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December 24, 2023 at 2:47 PM
Shameless reminder that the best Xmas gift you can get me is to ask your library to order my book! 😁 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Hey all, I've started a new column at Atlas Obscura!
It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history.
You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:
It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history.
You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:
Airing Out the Mystery of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon
What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 4, 2023 at 8:52 PM
Hey all, I've started a new column at Atlas Obscura!
It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history.
You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:
It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history.
You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:
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There is something pretty galling about the fact that Agnes Callard gets space in major outlets to free-associate about "Why are the humanities?" and Why It's Actually Fine To Marry Your Student, while some of us are applying to dozens of jobs and polishing manuscripts that may get rejected anyway.
December 4, 2023 at 3:30 AM
There is something pretty galling about the fact that Agnes Callard gets space in major outlets to free-associate about "Why are the humanities?" and Why It's Actually Fine To Marry Your Student, while some of us are applying to dozens of jobs and polishing manuscripts that may get rejected anyway.
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Kissinger, the war criminal who, amidst many horrific crimes, was responsible for the support for Pinochet and the coup in Allende’s Chile
One of the great hopes and potency for Latin America brutally snuffed out and stamped out there.
We remember!
One of the great hopes and potency for Latin America brutally snuffed out and stamped out there.
We remember!
November 30, 2023 at 2:39 AM
Kissinger, the war criminal who, amidst many horrific crimes, was responsible for the support for Pinochet and the coup in Allende’s Chile
One of the great hopes and potency for Latin America brutally snuffed out and stamped out there.
We remember!
One of the great hopes and potency for Latin America brutally snuffed out and stamped out there.
We remember!