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Cecily Raynor
@cecilyraynor.bsky.social
Chair of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at McGill University
Contemporary LatAm Cultural Studies + DH
Academia, parenting, city life
she/her/hers, own opinions
I remember meeting Laleh years ago when I was a student in London. Very excited to see this!
Well, there goes my afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...
July 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A really lovely night celebrating the release of Dilemmas of Working Women at @argobookshop.bsky.social with a reading (in Japanese as well as English 😅) and a great discussion with @cecilyraynor.bsky.social (who also took the pic of me with my translated babies)!

Thanks to everyone who came out 🥰
August 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hey Montreal Book Lovers,

Tomorrow at 7pm at @argobookshop.bsky.social, I'll be sitting down with the talented @brianbergstrom.bsky.social to talk about his translation of The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto.

Join us! You won't regret it :)
August 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!
August 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hi Blue Skyers, Sharing this awesome CFP for a conference at Tulane this December entitled, "Moving Media in the Americas." Submission deadline is July 15th. Have a look and please share widely!
June 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Possibly one of the beautiful bookstores I've seen.
Guadalajara, México 📚☁️📚
May 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Dear Friends in San Francisco for LASA 2025,
Our panel, Brazilian Literature In Motion II, is happening tonight at 5:15 PM PST—hope you can join us! I'll be presenting virtually but am very much with you in spirit. Since my talk is pre-recorded, I took the opportunity to add a couple of slides here.
May 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Spring looks good on you, McGill 🌸

📸: Louis Alson
May 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
For the last two days, my office was at @modernlanguage.bsky.social 🙌

Delighted to have discussed the 2026 convention program with insightful and sharp colleagues on the MLA Program Committee.
May 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
April 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Now that it’s official, I’m delighted to share that I’ve been appointed Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for a three-year term beginning June 1st 🥳 It’s quite a time to be taking this on. Advice and wisdom from fellow Chairs in the Humanities are warmly welcome!
April 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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With quotes from me on how the federal government can and should improve university funding. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
Amidst a US Brain Drain, the Parties Pledge Little for Universities | The Tyee
We could be attracting American talent, prof says. Instead, institutions face cuts.
thetyee.ca
April 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/
Binding Media | Stanford University Press
Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....
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March 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Amigues de CDMX, aparten la fecha para la presentación de Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across de Americas el 26 de marzo en la FFyL de la UNAM con @epriani.bsky.social @jonathangp.bsky.social y Miriam Peña Pimentel.
Espero verles y reconectar con todes!
February 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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From your friends at #ReviewsInDH: "We firmly believe that the integrity of knowledge production depends on a commitment to championing a broad range of perspectives, voices, and stories, and we will continue to honor our commitment."
This month: check out our editors’ note where we discuss our continued commitment to diverse perspectives and the incredible framing of Black joy for digital humanities from our topic editors. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/editors-... #ReviewsInDH
Editors' Notes: February 2025
Editors' note on the February 2025 issue of Review in Digital Humanities, guest edited by Cherice Escobar Jones and Tinashe Mushakavanhu
reviewsindh.pubpub.org
February 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Coming in November from @sunypress.bsky.social: PRIETA IS DREAMING by feminist writer, theorist, & icon Gloria Anzaldúa (!!)—a collection of 19 stories, 14 previously unpub’d. Huge thanks to @stuartbernstein.bsky.social & the incredible editors. Can’t wait to share this wonderful work w/ all of you!
February 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🌍 Join us @mcgill.ca on March 17th for the Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of International Development! 🌱Many presentations are directly related to Latin America.

"LAND AT THE CENTRE – Perspectives on Land and Development"
February 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Nos vemos el 28 de febrero. ¡Hasta pronto!
February 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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In his new book, "A Resonant Ecology," Max Ritts "demonstrates how digital technologies allow industry to sonically map new shipping lanes + facilitate new ways of experiencing sound—premised not on listening, but on #sound’s exploitable status as a data resource." #ecoacoustics #academicsky #music
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Some seriously awesome programming for McGill Libraries' Love Data Week! Great work @marceswisdom.bsky.social et al. Full program can be found here: libraryguides.mcgill.ca/LoveDataWeek...
January 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Can't believe this is finally happening! 😱
January 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM