Raquel Menéndez
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Raquel Menéndez
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✒️ Life Writing (diaries) | 🗣️ Gender and Canonicity | 📚 Contemporary Spanish Lit

🏛Theory of Literature @ Universidad de Salamanca | #Humboldtian
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While I'm trying to get used to @bsky.app, I think it's the right time for a reintroduction. I'm currently working in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Salamanca (Spain). I have previously worked at the University of Alcalá, Utrecht, and Oviedo,
La @usaloficial.bsky.social y el teatro universitario nos dio esta joya dirigida por Sara Ratón González👏🏻
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This morning at @usaloficial.bsky.social @bibliotecasusal.bsky.social I found my latest article on the printed edition of Hispanic Research Journal!
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by Raquel Menéndez
“Muñoz Molina has what we might call a hypermoral sensibility, which drives his newspaper writing and, I argue, simultaneously drives his novel writing.”

New at PB: @becquer.bsky.social on the novelists who became Spain’s premiere op-ed columnists.
“Not So Ephemeral After All”: Talking Op-Eds, War, and Memory with Bécquer Seguín - Public Books
“Why does the op-ed still hold sway over writers who want to be intellectuals or want to have some public presence?”
www.publicbooks.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Raquel Menéndez
Yokohama Station in the snow. Tokyo, Japan
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I saw the exhibition last September in Oxford and it was awesome…
Where music and art come together 🤝

This Is What You Get offers a closer look at the creative forces behind some of the most important and influential music of the past few decades.
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Visiting Páramo bookshop in Urueña (ES), a town for book and cat lovers alike.
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We all need… #Salamancamehabla
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Se ha publicado mi artículo "El museo, el canon y el archivo: la teoría literaria feminista y los retos de la divulgación" en Lectora. Revista de Dones i Textualitat. ACCESO ABIERTO:
revistes.ub.edu/index.php/le...
El museo, el canon y el archivo: la teoría literaria feminista y los retos de la divulgación | Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat
revistes.ub.edu
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hasta el 15 de noviembre recibimos propuestas para las I Jornadas Docentes en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, que celebraremos en la @usaloficial.bsky.social los días 12 y 13 de febrero de 2026.
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Se acaba de publicar un artículo que escribí originalmente en 2021: "Una redefinición de las nociones de género y autoría en la etapa franquista: Carmen Conde, lectora de Teresa de Jesús". 50 personas podrán acceder a él gratuitamente a través de este enlace: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MYV6G...
Una redefinición de las nociones de género y autoría en la etapa franquista: Carmen Conde, lectora de Teresa de Jesús
En este artículo se estudian los ensayos que Carmen Conde (Cartagena, Murcia, 1907—Madrid, 1996) dedica a la figura de Teresa de Jesús en fechas próximas a la celebración del IV Centenario de la Re...
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Rainy Salamanca this morning 🌧️
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Martín Gaite exhibition @ Palacio de la Salina (Salamanca). Junk journaling before it was cool.
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is a masterpiece in literary theory and should be read beyond the Japanese context.//¡que se traduzca al español!
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reposted by Raquel Menéndez
From the archives-- pages from the first issue (1886) of MLN which invited advertisers at $10/page while the journal built a subscription list. The pages of early issues were a hodgepodge of advertisements (mostly for books and language classes), philological notes, and lists of new books.
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
El próximo martes participaré en la presentación de ‘Textos vivos. Notas de un reencuentro’, de José Carlos Mainer, publicado por @renacimientoed.bsky.social Será en el Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica de Salamanca y estoy segura de que será un encuentro memorable. Os esperamos.
October 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Uncanny and beautiful. ‘El espíritu de la colmena’, the perfect autumn movie.
September 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Incredibly happy to be back in Oxford! Hannie Lawlor and I are coordinating a workshop on comparative perspectives in contemporary women’s life writing at the Taylorian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk , and @lmhoxford.bsky.social. Supported by @torchoxford.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by Raquel Menéndez
Desmoralizarte significa, literalmente, quitarte tus valores morales, es la herramienta del poder, no lo consientas, mantengamos alta la moral, hagamos cosas con otras personas.
September 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Why are academic journals shortening and shortening the length of the articles they accept for submission (max 8,000 words)? It’s getting so hard to find one that allows anything longer.
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Recently, @drrachelbarr.bsky.social commented about the trend of using ChatGPT as a substitute for therapy.
August 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Research assistant…
August 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by Raquel Menéndez
COPOS BOARD

copos.usal.es
August 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
How I feel after finally getting a tenure-track position (ayudante doctor) at a Spanish university after almost four years of postdoctoral positions and temporary teaching contracts…

Incredibly grateful and happy to continue working at @usaloficial.bsky.social, though.
July 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
No one, like Xuan Bello, made me realize the importance of combining a deep knowledge of the Asturian language with a rigorous reading of world literatures. This bilingual edition (Spanish-Asturian) of his poetry attests to his sensitivity and his unique way of seeing the world. Rest in peace.
July 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Yesterday, Hannie Lawlor, Álvaro González Montero, and I presented our panel, ‘Anti/Exemplarity and Life Writing: Transforming the Self and the Social in Contemporary Life Writing in Spanish and Catalan,’ at the International Autobiography Association’s European Conference at @ucoimbra.bsky.social.
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM