Tess Renker
@tessrenker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgetown | literature & film of the Andes & Latin America | race, political violence, migration | she/her/ella 🌈
I'm happy to share that my article on Cuban filmmaker Camila Guzmán Urzúa's "El telón de azúcar" (2006) is out in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. For years I've been obsessed with this film and its dialogue with Patricio Guzmán's cinematic response to Chile's military dictatorship.
August 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm happy to share that my article on Cuban filmmaker Camila Guzmán Urzúa's "El telón de azúcar" (2006) is out in the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. For years I've been obsessed with this film and its dialogue with Patricio Guzmán's cinematic response to Chile's military dictatorship.
I'm happy to share that my article on Melina León's 'Canción sin nombre' (2019) was just published in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos among great company!
You can find the full text on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/.../952113
You can find the full text on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/.../952113
February 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I'm happy to share that my article on Melina León's 'Canción sin nombre' (2019) was just published in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos among great company!
You can find the full text on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/.../952113
You can find the full text on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/.../952113
Please consider submitting an abstract for a panel I'm looking to organize for MLA 2026 on Latin American literatures of internal migrations. Feel free to share with any colleagues or graduate students who might be interested in participating. Thanks!
February 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Please consider submitting an abstract for a panel I'm looking to organize for MLA 2026 on Latin American literatures of internal migrations. Feel free to share with any colleagues or graduate students who might be interested in participating. Thanks!
Tomorrow at 5pm at Georgetown Juan Ramos will be giving a talk on Andean modernismo! Don’t miss it!
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Tomorrow at 5pm at Georgetown Juan Ramos will be giving a talk on Andean modernismo! Don’t miss it!
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Interested in collaborating? If you would like to workshop an essay or book chapter, present research in progress, share a CfP or conference session, celebrate a publication, or just say hi, you can get in touch with us at msrc [at] mexicanists [dot] org
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Interested in collaborating? If you would like to workshop an essay or book chapter, present research in progress, share a CfP or conference session, celebrate a publication, or just say hi, you can get in touch with us at msrc [at] mexicanists [dot] org
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I woke up early this morning to talk with @rteradio1.bsky.social’s @clairebyrne.bsky.social about Trump, Panama, and the climate (and imperialist) threats to the canal. The interview is now up online. Listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The Panama Canal and climate change
Dennis M. Hogan, History and Literature program at Harvard University
www.rte.ie
January 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I woke up early this morning to talk with @rteradio1.bsky.social’s @clairebyrne.bsky.social about Trump, Panama, and the climate (and imperialist) threats to the canal. The interview is now up online. Listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Excited to participate in these two MLA events! One is a panel on landscape and ecology in Latin American aesthetics, and the other is a round table I organized with Regina Pieck on Hemispheric Indigeneities. See you all in New Orleans!
January 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Excited to participate in these two MLA events! One is a panel on landscape and ecology in Latin American aesthetics, and the other is a round table I organized with Regina Pieck on Hemispheric Indigeneities. See you all in New Orleans!
I’m trying to write something on the figure of “el pongo” in Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos and I’m wondering if anyone could recommend bibliography related to conditions of Indigenous servitude on the mid-century Peruvian hacienda. Many thanks in advance!
January 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’m trying to write something on the figure of “el pongo” in Arguedas’s Los ríos profundos and I’m wondering if anyone could recommend bibliography related to conditions of Indigenous servitude on the mid-century Peruvian hacienda. Many thanks in advance!
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Our last pub day of 2024! We’re thrilled to share:
📚The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi
📚Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850 by Anne Greenwood MacKinney
📚The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi
📚Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850 by Anne Greenwood MacKinney
December 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Our last pub day of 2024! We’re thrilled to share:
📚The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi
📚Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850 by Anne Greenwood MacKinney
📚The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi
📚Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850 by Anne Greenwood MacKinney
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I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
January 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Reposted by Tess Renker
My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...
There Is No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote”
Colonialism and racism fueled the invention of “Latino” as a category and continue to distort U.S. politics today.
hammerandhope.org
December 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...
As a fan of Pink Floyd and Renata Flores, I'm very happy to have discovered her bilingual (Quechua-Spanish) cover of "Another Brick in the Wall":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjL...
Renata Flores- Qam hina- Pink floyd-Another Brick in the Wall-MASHUP #PitaqKaniSESSION 01
YouTube video by Renata Flores
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December 24, 2024 at 2:34 PM
As a fan of Pink Floyd and Renata Flores, I'm very happy to have discovered her bilingual (Quechua-Spanish) cover of "Another Brick in the Wall":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjL...
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During #slavery, the holiday season was a brief chance for the enslaved to plan escapes and rebellions amid distracted owners. A historian tells the story of resistance: https://buff.ly/3BGaYXo
🗃️ #BlackSky #EnslavedPeople #christmas
🗃️ #BlackSky #EnslavedPeople #christmas
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back
Whether it was spent feasting or plotting escapes, the week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved men, women and children to reclaim their humanity.
buff.ly
December 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM
During #slavery, the holiday season was a brief chance for the enslaved to plan escapes and rebellions amid distracted owners. A historian tells the story of resistance: https://buff.ly/3BGaYXo
🗃️ #BlackSky #EnslavedPeople #christmas
🗃️ #BlackSky #EnslavedPeople #christmas
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Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
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The 1522 Christmas Day rebellion on Diego Columbus’s sugar plantation is another example. It is the first large-scale revolt of enslaved people. Festive! #merrychristmas #tistheseasonforrebellion
Enslaved people planned rebellions between #Christmas and #NewYear. Two examples: the Aponte Rebellion in #Cuba in 1812 and the Christmas Rebellion – or Baptist War in 1832 in #Jamaica. More in my The Conversation US article #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/for-enslaved...
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back
Whether it was spent feasting or plotting escapes, the week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved men, women and children to reclaim their humanity.
theconversation.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:36 AM
The 1522 Christmas Day rebellion on Diego Columbus’s sugar plantation is another example. It is the first large-scale revolt of enslaved people. Festive! #merrychristmas #tistheseasonforrebellion
I left DC for the holidays with about 20 books in my suitcase, and the 1 book I actually need right now is sitting in my Georgetown office 🤦🏻♀️
December 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
I left DC for the holidays with about 20 books in my suitcase, and the 1 book I actually need right now is sitting in my Georgetown office 🤦🏻♀️
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Table of Contents posted online for Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992-2020 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
December 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Table of Contents posted online for Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992-2020 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...
Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote
In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate …
lithub.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:06 PM
BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...
Writing about Yuyachkani's "El bus de la fuga" post-election has been absolutely therapeutic. It's a brilliant work of performance/satire. "Fujimori" flips-off the gathered audience, performs a choreographed tecnocumbia with his cronies, and flaunts fake bars of gold.
hdl.handle.net/2333.1/bvq83...
hdl.handle.net/2333.1/bvq83...
Video: El bus de la fuga.
Street action created by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani in May 2002 and performed during the 'Semana Anticorrupción' (AntiCorruption week) in Lima, Peru. After the fall of the Fujimori Presidency in 2001, ...
hdl.handle.net
December 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Writing about Yuyachkani's "El bus de la fuga" post-election has been absolutely therapeutic. It's a brilliant work of performance/satire. "Fujimori" flips-off the gathered audience, performs a choreographed tecnocumbia with his cronies, and flaunts fake bars of gold.
hdl.handle.net/2333.1/bvq83...
hdl.handle.net/2333.1/bvq83...
Grading distracted me from the book challenge; now I’m back!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9:
December 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Grading distracted me from the book challenge; now I’m back!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 9:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8:
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8:
December 7, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8:
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 8:
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7:
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7:
December 6, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7:
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7:
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For the new colleagues following me here: this is one of my writings I am the most proud, an essay in the present and future of Mexicanist cultural studies. It was written for the centennial issue of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and is fully open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Endless Proliferations of Signifiers: Mexican Cultural Studies in the Future Tense
This piece argues that Mexican literary and cultural studies are on the verge of a series of paradigm changes. The essay begins with an imagined walk through Mexico City to illustrate the ways in w...
www.tandfonline.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:29 AM
For the new colleagues following me here: this is one of my writings I am the most proud, an essay in the present and future of Mexicanist cultural studies. It was written for the centennial issue of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and is fully open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Tess Renker
If anyone loves and/or hates the roguish Clemente Palma, as one does, I have an article (“El impulso autorial malévolo…”) in the latest MLN on Palma’s intertextual borrowings from French lit…
(And I also love this cover and the article related to it!)
#literature
#shortstory
#literaturaperuana
(And I also love this cover and the article related to it!)
#literature
#shortstory
#literaturaperuana
On the cover of our recently published Hispanic issue: “Pasado y presente se cruzan en un sofá y su fotografía, gracias a la memoria y sus herencias" (Margarita Montealegre). For more on Montealegre's photography, check out the article by @cristinaele.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53573
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53573
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 AM
If anyone loves and/or hates the roguish Clemente Palma, as one does, I have an article (“El impulso autorial malévolo…”) in the latest MLN on Palma’s intertextual borrowings from French lit…
(And I also love this cover and the article related to it!)
#literature
#shortstory
#literaturaperuana
(And I also love this cover and the article related to it!)
#literature
#shortstory
#literaturaperuana
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6:
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6:
December 5, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6:
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6: