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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
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The voice of BSS & BSVS: International academic journals focused on langs, lits, cultures, histories, incl visual, of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Based at Queen's University, Belfast.
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New issue out!
Feat. Sarah Bowskill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on how prize network marginalises Mexican women authors; Sandra González Basanta @universidadoviedo.bsky.social 'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos de Ana María Matute'

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Volume 102, Issue 7 of Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Listen to our editor-in-chief Prof. Isabel Torres on: 'Figuring Forth: Cervantes’ Don Quijote, Poet in Prose'
She explores how poiesis comes alive in the creative madness of Cervantes’ protagonist, & the power of lyric in early modern Spain.

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November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos (1958), de Ana María Matute', de Sandra González Basanta

- Power relations in Matute's work, articulated around space, time, race and religion, reflecting policies of exclusion in post-war Spain.

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'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos (1958), de Ana María Matute', de Sandra González Basanta - Power relations in Matute's work, articulated around space, time, race and religion, reflecting policies of exclusion in post-war Spain.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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'Debility and the Politics of Mourning in Nicolás Rincón Gille’s Tantas almas',
By Marcelo Carosi @ Hamilton College

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Sra Muñoz and José examine her book of the dead. Still from Tantas almas (2019), Nicolás Rincón Gille.
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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'Contested Nobility: Politics, Astrology, Religion and Geography in Agustín de Rojas’ El buen repúblico',
John Giblin

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Contested Nobility: Politics, Astrology, Religion and Geography in Agustín de Rojas’ El buen repúblico
This article draws on the concepts of miscellany, self-fashioning and imitation to analyse how the former actor, author and playwright, Agustín de Rojas, informs a wide audience while fashioning a ...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Get your video essays in for our special issue!

Moving Images/Moving Geographies:
Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures

- which examine & develop this innovative mode of presenting film, TV, screen, media, & moving image research in the area of Hispanic visual studies

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November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Out now: 'Visualizing the Prize Network As a Means of Understanding the Marginalization of Mexican Women Authors', Sarah E. L. Bowskill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Visualization of the prize network showing the relationship between the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (‘XV’), the Premio Bellas Artes de Narrativa Colima para Obra Publicada (‘Colima’) and the Medalla Bellas Artes (‘Medalla’).
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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'"Esto no es un juego": el rol y la incipiente cultura friki en el cine de Álex de la Iglesia. Análisis de Acción mutante (1993) y El día de la bestia (1995)', de Sergio García Maeso

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October 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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'Sed tengo: fe y cosmovisión en Emilia Pardo Bazán', by
Denise Dupont, Southern Methodist University
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Sed tengo: fe y cosmovisión en Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán ofreció un antídoto al catolicismo de su tiempo: frecuentemente politizado, dominado por hombres, temeroso de la modernidad y carente de imaginación. Este trabajo explora cinco t...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Reminder: we're seeking video essays which examine and develop this innovative mode in the area of Hispanic visual studies

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Moving Images/Moving Geographies: Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures
Advance an idea and/or argument relating to Hispanic visual studies in a way that prioritizes the medium of the scholarly video essay and exploits its potential
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October 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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October 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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#CallForPapers

Moving Images/Moving Geographies:
Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures

We're looking for video essays which examine and develop this innovative mode of presenting film, TV, screen, media, and moving image research in the area of Hispanic visual studies

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September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Check out this special issue: 'Las narrativas obreras. Un espacio de posibilidad'. 'Frente a la incertidumbre social y la denominada "muerte de las clases sociales", el territorio de la cultura mueve los sentidos sobre la clase obrera...' Ángela Martínez Fernández
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Las narrativas obreras. Un espacio de posibilidad
El presente dosier se propone rastrear la existencia de una nueva experiencia de clase compartida que circula por el espacio cultural, es decir, radiografiar la red de referencias, costumbres y her...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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'Cosas vivas de Munir Hachemi y la imposible simbolización de lo real de la explotación capitalista', David Becerra Mayor @uam.es
Una análisis del libro de Hachemi en relación con los conceptos psicoanalíticos de lo real y acto...
El libro 'Cosas vivas' de Munir Hachemi
September 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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'Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa’s El buen patrón (2021)', by Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social‬ (Uni. Stirling) & Sarah Gilligan (Northumbria Uni.)

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Julio (Javier Bardem) and his employees at the entrance to the Básculas Blanco factory. Film still from El buen patrón ( Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021).
August 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The protagonists of these Central American films rebel against societal norms, thereby crafting powerful counternarratives: 'Disrupting the Heteropatriarchy in Temblores (2019) and Clara Sola (2021)', by Liz Harvey-Kattou @ University of Westminster

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Images from Temblores (Jayro Bustamante, 2019) & Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, 2021)
August 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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'Les traduccions de Josep Carner de la literatura (infantil) de Sui Sin Far', de Maria Dasca @upf.edu

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Les traduccions de Josep Carner de la literatura (infantil) de Sui Sin Far*
L’objectiu d’aquest article és analitzar les traduccions que va fer l’escriptor català Josep Carner de tres contes de Sui Sin Far (pseudònim de l’escriptora nord-americana d’origen xinès Edith Maud...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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‘Hermosamente posible’: Challenges to the Heteropatriarchal Narrative of ‘la gran familia puertorriqueña’ in the work of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, by Sarah Simpson @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

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‘Hermosamente posible’: Challenges to the Heteropatriarchal Narrative of ‘la gran familia puertorriqueña’ in the work of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
This article explores representations of family within a selection of prose works by Puerto Rican author Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro. These characters’ race, sexuality and gender place them outside of t...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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'The Male Virgin Martyr: A Boy’s Tale' by
Elizabeth Rhodes @bostoncollege.bsky.social
Learn the story of Pelayo, the only male martyr to be tempted with male-male sex in the early modern Spanish Catholic canon

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The Martyrdom of Saint Pelayo/ El martirio de San Pelayo, by the Maestro de Becerril (School of Pedro de Berruguete; fl. c.1520), formerly of Málaga Cathedral, now private collection. Available online at Wiki Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maestro_de_becerril-san_pelayo.jpg> (accessed 31 January 2025). Reproduced with the kind permission of David Durán, Durán Arte y Subastas.
July 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The Politics of Food and Hunger in Spanish Literature, 1945–2015

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Deborah Madden @lancasteruni
July 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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'Anarchy in the Age of ‘Political Atheism’: The Authoritarian Political Theology of La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) by Alberto Edwards Vives', by William J. Ryan ‪@temple.edu‬
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Anarchy in the Age of ‘Political Atheism’: The Authoritarian Political Theology of La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) by Alberto Edwards Vives*
By placing La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) in dialogue with the work of controversial German jurist Carl Schmitt, this article conceptualizes Alberto Edwards’ authoritarian political theolo...
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July 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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"Anarchy in the Age of ‘Political Atheism’: The Authoritarian Political Theology of La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) by Alberto Edwards Vives", by William J. Ryan
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Anarchy in the Age of ‘Political Atheism’: The Authoritarian Political Theology of La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) by Alberto Edwards Vives
By placing La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) in dialogue with the work of controversial German jurist Carl Schmitt, this article conceptualizes Alberto Edwards’ authoritarian political theolo...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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'Henry W. Sullivan (1942–2023) Polyglot, Polymath and Opsimath. A Personal Memoir', by José María Ruano de la Haza
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Henry W. Sullivan (1942–2023) Polyglot, Polymath and Opsimath A Personal Memoir
This article discusses the life and writings of a Hispanist with many talents and varied interests, from Lacanian philosophy to the Beatles and Rock ‘n’ Roll, but who specialized in Golden-Age dram...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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'Ideation, Direction and Executive Production: Women in Decision-Making in the Audiovisual Industry. The Case of Spain'
Rocío Gago Gelado,‪ Mercedes Herrero de la Fuente &
Marta Saavedra Llamas @nebrija.bsky.social

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Ideation, Direction and Executive Production: Women in Decision-Making in the Audiovisual Industry. The Case of Spain*
The presence of women in the Spanish audiovisual sector is scarce. Our study is an examination of the creators, directors and executive producers in series in recent years. It begins with a review ...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Comparing Roberto Bolaño´s novel and Giuseppe Arcimboldo´s paintings, author Fan Wu says 2666 is structurally related to the kaleidoscopic technique of “composite heads” created by the Italian artist. Fan Wu, Guangzhou College of Commerce
Vertumnus, one of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's 'composite heads', c. 1590
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June 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM