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Jorge Quintana Navarrete
@jorgeqn.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Spanish at Dartmouth. Author of “Biocosmism”
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“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP!

It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.

www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...
Biocosmism – Vanderbilt University Press
Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, ...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com
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Spanish professor @jorgeqn.bsky.social will expand his interdisciplinary study of 19th-century Mexico through a 2025 New Directions Fellowship awarded by the Mellon Foundation. The prestigious grant supports faculty in acquiring training outside their areas of expertise.
Jorge Quintana Navarrete Named New Directions Fellow
The prestigious fellowship will enable the Spanish professor to expand his interdisciplinary study of 19th-century Mexico.
faculty.dartmouth.edu
April 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Me gusta la historia porque me gusta la ciencia ficción. El pasado y el futuro son dos territorios desconocidos: tenemos ideas aproximadas sobre ellos, pero siempre rebasan nuestras nociones preconcebidas
February 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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My book, Caribbean Inhospitality, considers what Caribbean literature, film, and digital culture can tell us sovereignty and belonging, especially in our current global crisis. I start with the Caribbean’s violent origins as a place of hospitality to strangers and look to the present.
January 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Raúl Zurita: “Todo lo que escuchamos y decimos es la grandiosa reinterpretación que los vivos hacen de la sinfonía que han ejecutado los muertos”
December 24, 2024 at 5:46 PM
@jasondeleon.bsky.social Jason de León’s “Soldiers and Kings” is so relentless I could hardly breathe while reading it
December 4, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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New publication on 19th C Latin America. Wonderfully edited by Graciela Montaldo and Agnes Lugo Ortiz
December 4, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Geographer and critical theorist Kathryn Yusoff is under attack by the right-wing media for arguing that geological practice and theories have been entwined with structures of colonialism and racism.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
Geology is racist, claims university professor
Queen Mary lecturer links science to ‘white supremacy’ and and colonialism
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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New review by José C. Díaz Zanelli of the Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics, edited by Vic Saramago, Gabriel Giorgi & un servidor. Check out: lalrp.net/articles/10....
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics, edited by Jens Andermann, Gabriel Giorgi, and Victoria Saramago. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. 506 pages. | Latin American Literary Review
The Latin American Literary Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the literatures of Latin America. Committed to advancing a critical view of the literary field that includes related ...
lalrp.net
November 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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📣Take a look at the Clusters on GeoSemantics I co-ed w/ Estefi Bournot at ASAP/J! Creative and critical essays on Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in Global South and Latin America Archives of Extractivism. Part II just out!
I asapjournal.com/cluster/geos...
II asapjournal.com/clusters/
November 20, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Here’s my review of Carolyn Fornoff’s outstanding book “Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change.” My two cents: it will make a lasting impact on the fields of Mexican cultural studies and Latin American environmental studies. chasquirll.org/wp-content/u...
chasquirll.org
November 19, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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November 19, 2024 at 4:16 PM
“The earth is not just a rock. In fact, a rock is not just a rock” - Thomas Nail

Photo: rock formations from the Cretaceous period in Purmamarca, Argentina
November 17, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Comparto el índice de la primera parte de #MateriaViva, ensayos y crónicas dedicados al encuentro y el conflicto con el mundo natural. Publicado por Ediciones Antílope, ¡ya está en librerías! 👇
November 16, 2024 at 5:23 PM
“Biocosmism. Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico” is out with Vanderbilt UP!

It explores a wide assortment of cultural interventions touching on the vitality of the universe and its utopian potential.

www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...
Biocosmism – Vanderbilt University Press
Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, ...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com
November 16, 2024 at 10:41 PM