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CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism: Gender, Race and Eurocentrism mexicanists.org/2026/02/06/m...
Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism: Gender, Race and Eurocentrism
Edited by Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi Bristol University Press Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ‘mode of production debate…
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February 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Looking forward to these upcoming conversations with the editors and some of the contributors to the volume Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production. I'll share a little bit about my own chapter on the 13th. All online.
Schedule of the two Virtual book launches of Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural production. The post includes the names of moderators, presenters, and respondents, as well as QR codes for registration and a discount code for buying the book online.
February 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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T’áalk’u’ Iknalítico: Omniausencias, Omnipresencias y Ubicuidades Mayas mexicanists.org/2026/02/03/t...
T’áalk’u’ Iknalítico: Omniausencias, Omnipresencias y Ubicuidades Mayas
by Juan A. Castillo Cocom (coord.) Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo “T’áalk’u’ Iknalítico: Omniausencias, Omnipresencias y Ubicuidades Mayas” es un libro que ilustra varios aspectos d…
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February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming mexicanists.org/2026/01/16/t...
Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming
by Paul Julian Smith Edinburgh University Press Studies the current artistic and industrial transformation of TV series in Mexico – the biggest and most dynamic Spanish-language market Presen…
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February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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El nuevo cine y la revolución congelada, de Israel Rodríguez R., descarga gratuita www.filmoteca.unam.mx/wp-content/u...
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February 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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introducing AntiAnte, a platform for critical thought into politics and culture in and across Latin American, Caribbean, and Hemispheric contexts antiante.org
AntiAnte
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January 27, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Trilce is a blazingly vivid revelation of what poetry can be, at once a love poem, a poem of erotic urgency and frustration, a poem of family life, of political fury, a lament for the dead, a work of intense privacy and an address to the world. www.nyrb.com/products/tri...
Trilce
A new translation of the Peruvian poet's most groundbreaking, infamously obstuse work, a collection that stretches the limits of human language and predicted the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 3...
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January 26, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming mexicanists.org/2026/01/16/t...
Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming
by Paul Julian Smith Edinburgh University Press Studies the current artistic and industrial transformation of TV series in Mexico – the biggest and most dynamic Spanish-language market Presen…
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January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/13/t...
Were your Texas college courses changed this semester?
Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies - Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies - Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin American Studies - Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) ---- Hiring Department: Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin Ame...
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January 14, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/13/t...
Were your Texas college courses changed this semester?
Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors.
www.texastribune.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft mexicanists.org/2026/01/13/t...
The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft
by Sandra Rozental Duke University Press Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patri…
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January 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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My latest newsletter of Latin American collections at Penn Libraries! View the new issue or past ones and sign up to receive them in the future! mailchi.mp/f9fd44465891...
New Year, New Latin American Collections at Penn!
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January 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance mexicanists.org/2025/12/22/m...
Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance
by Claudio Palomares-Salas Oxford University Press Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance explores the vibrant history of Canto Nuevo, a musical and cultural movement that influenced …
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December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism mexicanists.org/2025/12/22/g...
Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism
by Vanesa Miseres University of Toronto Press Covering the post-independence era to World War II, Gender Battles uncovers Latin American women writers and activists’ engagement with war to challeng…
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December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Global South Cinephilias: What, Where, and When is Cinephilia? modernismmodernity.org/forums/globa...
Global South Cinephilias | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Though the term cinephilia simply means “love of cinema,” historically it has been used to mark a love of cinema with a difference.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Macholiteratura: hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012 mexicanists.org/2025/12/15/m...
Macholiteratura: hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012
by Emily Hind translated by Carl Good Bonilla Artigas Editores ¿Cómo es que los hombres se convirtieron en las estrellas de la escena intelectual mexicana? Macholiteratura analiza las mañas del ofi…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Cambridge Amplify Grant to support for early career scholars in History and Areas Studies as they work toward the publication of their first book www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Amplifying voices
New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish
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December 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile mexicanists.org/2025/12/17/m...
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile
by Katia Chornik Oxford University Press Over 1,000 political imprisonment and torture centers existed across Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Music was often pr…
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December 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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A Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a Moroccan. Monzer Masri, translated by Robyn Creswell www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8448/...
A Palestinian, a Sudanese, and the third was a Moroccan by Monzer Masri, translated by Robyn Creswell
it’s impossible for me even to guesssince as they sayhe really has no country of his own.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org
Call for Papers 51st Annual Meeting of the Social Sciences History Association Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia – November 19th-22nd, 2026 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026 Decentering Modernity Since the inception of social science disciplines in the nineteenth century, modernity has been viewed as a unique phenomenon originating in the West and radiating to the rest of the world. This understanding of modernity has served as the foundation of modern social sciences. It has also been embraced by both Western imperialists, who believed in their “civilizing mission,” and postcolonial nationalist elites striving to implement “modernizing programs” in their new nations. Over the last three decades, social science history has witnessed a flourishing of works that challenge this Western-centric notion of world development. They demonstrate that modernizing processes that have long been assumed to be unique to early modern Europe – such as the rationalization and centralization of the state, marketization of the economy, the rise of new ideologies pursuing individual freedom and political representation, and the transition away from the demographic ancien régime – have been parallel processes across different civilizations in the post-Mongol world. Embedded in diverging cultural idioms and manifesting local variations, the multiple forms of early modernities interacted with one another in the integrated global economy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. As such, the rising domination of the Western form of modernity in the Age of Imperialism is far from a unidirectional imposition of Western institutions, but a constant process of power, resistance, hybridization, and negotiation. In today’s world, we see the center of gravity of capitalist development moving away from traditional Western countries with the emergence of new centers of capital accumulation in the Global East and Global South. While the ongoing democratic backsliding does not spare man…
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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As always, we're happy to bring you a lit studies companion to our yearly history book/article lists. Assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
2025 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Makina the Debtor, Makina the Creditor, Ángel Díaz-Dávalos via Latin American Literary Review lalrp.net/articles/10....
Makina the Debtor, Makina the Creditor: Migrant Bodies and Symbolic Debt in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo. | Latin American Literary Review
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December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Looking to finish, propose, or submit an international history (broadly defined) book in 2026? We'd love to see it at InterConnections: The Global 20th Century series at UNC @uncpress.bsky.social @juliairwin.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social 🗃️ uncpress.org/series/inter...
InterConnections: The Global 20th Century
InterConnections: The Global 20th Century is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century. We also publish cutting-edge histories of the US and t...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM