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a space for academic dialogue, exchange, and collaboration in the fields of Mexican literary and cultural studies | mexicanists.org
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Fellowship Opportunity!

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College

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Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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February 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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"With its brilliant prose and unrelenting darkness and pessimism, José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night towers over Chilean literature." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Chasing Ghosts | Larry Rohter
With its brilliant prose and unrelenting darkness and pessimism, José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night towers over Chilean literature.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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The Obscene Bird of Night
Fiction by José Donoso. unabridged, centennial edition. Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades www.ndbooks.com/book/the-obs...
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso | New Directions
Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent o...
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February 13, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Silvers Grants for Work in Progress silversfoundation.org/grants/
Application for Grants - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation
The 2026 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress   Anglophone writers of any nationality may apply for up to $10,000 to support long-form writing in the fields of literary criticism, arts writing, politic...
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February 13, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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The joint @AustModernist & MSIA Conference will be held in Adelaide on 19-21 November, on the theme "Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication." Further details at the link below. Send us your abstracts! amsn.org.au/amsn-confere...
Call for Papers: Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication
The Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present: JOINT AMSN / MSIA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026 ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY Bradley Forum, Hawke Level 6, CCCW Organising…
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February 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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'he struck back, suing the producer to reclaim the rights to his story...On Friday “The Museum of Innocence” will launch as a nine-part series'
Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Finally Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
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February 12, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Book launch very soon! Join us🪴
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Contra la narrativa del progreso: reescritura del milagro mexicano en Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué de Cristina Rivera Garza, by Missael Duarte Somoza
Missael Duarte Somoza | Lehman College
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February 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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CfP - Porosidad y posibilidad de la poesía | Porosity and Possibility of Poetry, editor invitado @cruzarzabal.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info
Call for book review essays - book list
C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and …
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February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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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