Susan Larson
@susanlarson.bsky.social
Professor of 20th Century Iberian Studies | Texas Tech University | Editor, Romance Quarterly | Madrid, Spain and Lubbock, Texas.
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I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.
I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.
Democracy is coming
to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen
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Short video about my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social out now in the UK and Spain, and in the rest of Europe, the US, etc on January 5. Many thanks
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Short video about my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social out now in the UK and Spain, and in the rest of Europe, the US, etc on January 5. Many thanks
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Alejandro Palma Castro proposes a moving necropoetic reading in “Hacia una necropoetica en la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: Sujetos de duelo en La mata de Eliana Hernández y La muerte golpea en lunes de Maricarmen Velasco”
Link below
🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
Link below
🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Alejandro Palma Castro proposes a moving necropoetic reading in “Hacia una necropoetica en la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: Sujetos de duelo en La mata de Eliana Hernández y La muerte golpea en lunes de Maricarmen Velasco”
Link below
🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
Link below
🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
There is a new addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies series. _Urban Memories: The Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s Public Space, 1979-1992_ by Teresa Pinheiro of the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There is a new addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies series. _Urban Memories: The Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s Public Space, 1979-1992_ by Teresa Pinheiro of the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice mexicanists.org/2025/08/12/a...
Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Join us on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 4-5pm CT for a work-in-progress workshop with Diana Aldrete (Trinity College) on “Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s…
mexicanists.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Assembling Justice: Archival Interventions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice mexicanists.org/2025/08/12/a...
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⭐️⭐️Statement from Dr. Tom Alter following his firing today from Texas State University. This is a massive loss for #academicfreedom and First Amendment rights at Texas State. Our fight for Dr. Alter will continue. ✊
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
⭐️⭐️Statement from Dr. Tom Alter following his firing today from Texas State University. This is a massive loss for #academicfreedom and First Amendment rights at Texas State. Our fight for Dr. Alter will continue. ✊
Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...
Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI
Pensar el pasado colonial en clave de desplazamiento permite interrogar no solo las exclusiones del presente, sino también las formas históricas de propiedad, ciudadanía y racialización que sostuviero...
www.elsaltodiario.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Memorias desplazadas: el legado colonial de la hispanidad en el siglo XXI @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
September 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
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I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.
Who is this advertising for?
Who is this advertising for?
September 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
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And we're back to the question of who gets to define what counts as disciplinary knowledge. Does the expert who has spent their lives studying the subject get to define it in the classroom? Or the 20 year old right wing activist who literally believes the president can make laws by dictate?
September 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
And we're back to the question of who gets to define what counts as disciplinary knowledge. Does the expert who has spent their lives studying the subject get to define it in the classroom? Or the 20 year old right wing activist who literally believes the president can make laws by dictate?
John Oliver talks about Donald Trump’s war on higher education, the history of right-wing attacks on what universities research and teach, and how a weird little tree frog might – might! – just save us all. 👍♥️😁
#JohnOliver #Trump #HBO #BlueSky
#JohnOliver #Trump #HBO #BlueSky
Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Aquí empiezan mis colaboraciones con @ctxt.es
Mil gracias por la invitación 😊
Abecedario para unas lecturas en común ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
Mil gracias por la invitación 😊
Abecedario para unas lecturas en común ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
Abecedario para unas lecturas en común
Agustín (de Hipona) y Benito (Pérez Galdós)
ctxt.es
September 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Aquí empiezan mis colaboraciones con @ctxt.es
Mil gracias por la invitación 😊
Abecedario para unas lecturas en común ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
Mil gracias por la invitación 😊
Abecedario para unas lecturas en común ctxt.es/es/20250901/...
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no matter what the tech grift oligarchs sell, no matter how much the authoritarians intimidate, people hunger for the freedom to learn
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
As The Fall Semester Opens, Major Universities Tout Record Enrollments
In a year where American colleges face mounting political & financial challenges, several major institutions are touting record enrollments for the fall, 2025 semester.
www.forbes.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
no matter what the tech grift oligarchs sell, no matter how much the authoritarians intimidate, people hunger for the freedom to learn
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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Joins HELU for “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT, with Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Bernie Sanders, and Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/11/a...
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/11/a...
August 18 – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back! – Higher Education Labor United
higheredlaborunited.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Joins HELU for “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT, with Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Bernie Sanders, and Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/11/a...
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/11/a...
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Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.
is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me
August 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.
François-Nicolas Vozel traces the afterlife of May ‘68 in the thinking of Marguerite Duras in RQ 72.3.
Keywords: Duras – Blanchot – Deleuze – J.S. Bach – May ’68. doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Keywords: Duras – Blanchot – Deleuze – J.S. Bach – May ’68. doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible! May-ssianic Realism in Duras’s Détruire dit-elle and Nathalie Granger
Like Blanchot, Duras experienced May ‘68 as a miraculous event, a messianic interruption of the order of things, which, despite its eventual failure, generated an enduring fascination on the writer...
doi.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
François-Nicolas Vozel traces the afterlife of May ‘68 in the thinking of Marguerite Duras in RQ 72.3.
Keywords: Duras – Blanchot – Deleuze – J.S. Bach – May ’68. doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Keywords: Duras – Blanchot – Deleuze – J.S. Bach – May ’68. doi.org/10.1080/0883...
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...
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
August 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
Thank you Aaron Hanlon, Eric Hayot and Anna Kornbluh for HUMANITIES WORKS: posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities. humanitiesworks.org/posters/
The Posters – HUMANITIES WORKS
humanitiesworks.org
August 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thank you Aaron Hanlon, Eric Hayot and Anna Kornbluh for HUMANITIES WORKS: posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities. humanitiesworks.org/posters/
Footage from Les Blank’s 1976 film about norteño music captures the quintessential Texas sound of the accordion of Flaco Jimenez, RIP.
youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0?...
youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0?...
Flaco Jimenez - En Vivo (1976)
YouTube video by drcossnuevoleon
youtu.be
August 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Footage from Les Blank’s 1976 film about norteño music captures the quintessential Texas sound of the accordion of Flaco Jimenez, RIP.
youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0?...
youtu.be/CXrwwHaBrb0?...
Caglar Erteber's review of Agnese Codebò's'The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires,' tells the story of how slums matter as spaces that produce new aesthetics and social alliances. Just out in RQ vol. 72.3.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
July 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Caglar Erteber's review of Agnese Codebò's'The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires,' tells the story of how slums matter as spaces that produce new aesthetics and social alliances. Just out in RQ vol. 72.3.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
Hot off the press: Pavel Andrade's review of a new book about the Mexican intelligentsia’s obsession with labor and idleness in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation between 1821-1852. Romance Quarterly, vol. 72(3). doi.org/10.1080/0883...
July 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Hot off the press: Pavel Andrade's review of a new book about the Mexican intelligentsia’s obsession with labor and idleness in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation between 1821-1852. Romance Quarterly, vol. 72(3). doi.org/10.1080/0883...