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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 21d

Fantastic! Great to see all the effort materialize in print.

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Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 23d

Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 23d

Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm

Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3

This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Jun 27

**NeMLA Session**
The Worlds of Science and Religion in Modern Spanish Literature, organized by Íñigo Huércanos Esparza (Boston U)

The session will be held in-person, with limited remote presentations
Abstracts (max. 300 words) by Sept 30
Decisions by Oct 16.

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Jun 8

**New from MQUP's Iberian & Latin Am Cultures Series**

From Griffin to Axolotl: Reimagining the Bestiary in Contemporary Hispanic Literature, by Ailen Cruz

"What the resurgence of a medieval literary genre reveals about contemporary Latin America and Spain"

www.mqup.ca/from-griffin...

The fox is cunning, the lion is brave. These familiar ideas span back to the medieval bestiary – short, animal-centred texts, often illustrated, used to disseminate Christian teachings in medieval society. Translated into dozens of languages, bestiaries were wildly popular until the twelfth century.

After centuries of obscurity, six of Latin America’s most prominent writers – Juan José Arreola, Jorge Luis Borges, Nicolás Guillén, Augusto Monterroso, Pablo Neruda, and José Emilio Pacheco – took up the bestiary during the experimental Latin American avant-garde and Boom periods. From Griffin to Axolotl presents the bestiary as a distinct genre within Hispanic literature, examining its resurgence in the contemporary canon. Analyzing a corpus of over eighty bestiaries collected through field research in Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain, Ailén Cruz explores the evolutions of the genre. Reimagined through both prose and art, and moving beyond religious teachings, these bestiaries range from the rebellious to the nonsensical, touching on a spectrum of topics – from preservation of Indigenous Latin American cultures to environmental crises and the human condition.

From Griffin to Axolotl promotes an understudied genre of Hispanic literature, demonstrating that the bestiary is not extinct, but has been remoulded for modern society.

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Jun 8

**New from MQUP's Iberian & Latin Am Culture Series**

Pasting Up Protest: The Art of Memorializing Violence in Mexican Printmaking, by Annik Bilodeau

"How artistic activism challenges political and gender-based violence in Mexico and reshapes collective memory"

www.mqup.ca/pasting-up-p...

Across Mexico, human rights abuses take many forms, as do the strategies designed to denounce and resist them. Political street art thrives; murals, stencils, and posters challenge authorities and commemorate the missing and the disappeared.

Pasting Up Protest explores the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary Mexican artists, introducing the concept of memory activism, the guiding philosophy behind their efforts to expose human rights violations such as forced disappearances and feminicides. Through her analysis of street art interventions from the collectives ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe over the past decade, Annik Bilodeau argues that these artists are shaping a new collective memory. By depicting real-life victims and referencing past acts of state-sponsored violence, their works create a familiar visual vocabulary that elicits empathy and compassion in the viewer. A reliance on a tradition of printmaking, a highly reproducible medium, further amplifies the emotional impact of the images.

A critical examination of the role of art in creating public memory, Pasting Up Protest sheds light on how Mexican artists document crimes of the state, transforming citizens into political agents of change.

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Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30

A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social

Renowned author Sarah Moss set for public talk on her writing and the human body

An acclaimed novelist whose work has regularly explored themes of health and the human body will give a public interview next month for an international research project. Sarah Moss – a three-time Wel...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Apr 16

The Iberian & Latin American Cultures Series at McGill-Queen's UP is opening a call for single-authored, English language manuscripts. Details of the submission procedure for proposals can be found here:

www.mqup.ca/submitting-a...

For questions, feel free to reach out to me: [email protected]

Thanks!

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Carles Ferrando Valero @ferrandovalero.bsky.social · Apr 9

BGSU World Languages and Cultures invites applications for two full-time, one-year assistant teaching professors in Spanish. Start date is August 11, 2025.

For a complete job description & instructions on how to apply visit www.schooljobs.com/careers/bgsu.

Career Opportunities | BGSU Careers

www.schooljobs.com

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Apr 1

On Monday, April 14 @ 3pm EST/US the Iberian Modernist Studies Forum @ Boston U will be hosting Christopher Maurer, Prof of Spanish, Boston U. The title of his Zoom presentation is: “Lorca’s American Archive.”

Please reach out for the Zoom link to [email protected] or [email protected].

Hope you can join us!

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Rebecca M. Bender @rebeccadactyl.bsky.social · Mar 31

Join us next Friday 4/11 at 3pm ET for the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas’s virtual Feria del Libro. Each presentation is 20-minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A - great for students, too!
Register here for zoom: dartmouth.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Mar 19

New book by Andrew W. Keitt on the linkages between medicine and politics in nineteenth-century Spain:

A Physician in the Age of Liberal Reform:
Ildefonso Martínez y Fernández and Medical Politics
in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Check it out here:

lsupress.org/978080718228...

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Betsy Franklin Lewis @bandrlewis.bsky.social · Mar 8

CfP 2026 MLA Toronto Jan 8-11
1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts [email protected]
2. “On the Mend!”: Healing in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Literature and Art
[email protected]

250-word proposals. DEADLINE 3/15

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Mar 4

Iberian Modernist Studies Forum @ BU will be hosting Max Jensen, Asst. Prof. Spanish & Comp Lit, U of Pittsburgh, Bradford, Monday, Mar 24 @ 3pm US/EST.

Title of Zoom presentation is: “Garcilasismo: The End of Peninsular Modernism?”

Reach out for link or with questions. I hope you can join us!

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Feb 23

Welcome!

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Betsy Franklin Lewis @bandrlewis.bsky.social · Feb 21

Happy to make my first post on BlueSky to spread the news about this great volume! 'The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century' by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/02/17/t...

‘The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century’ by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley

The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities, edited by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, has recently been published in the Oxf…

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Feb 20

New from MQUP!

Y Tu Mamá También, by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

A critical study of the musical legacy, new media afterlives, and queer significance of the 2001 hit.

www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...

https://www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---tambi--n-products-9780228023791.php#!prettyPhoto

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · Feb 4

Important disciplinary discussion happening tomorrow at @bibliophilenick.bsky.social's book launch. Don’t miss it! @monicadstyles.bsky.social

To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness book launch.

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Jan 30

Students & faculty from BU Dept of Romance Studies have collaborated on the first-ever exhibition on the archive of poet Federico García Lorca. The exhibition Lorca y el archivo: Memoria en movimiento is the largest ever organized by the Centro Federico García Lorca.
www.bu.edu/rs/2025/01/2...

https://www.bu.edu/rs/2025/01/28/bu-rs-faculty-students-collaborate-on-lorca-exhibition/

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · Jan 29

Iberian Modernist Studies Forum @ BU presents:

Rafael Cabañas Alamán, SLU, Madrid Campus
"Los objetos insólitos y el alma en las minificciones de Ramón Gómez de la Serna"
Monday, Feb 24, 3-4pm US/EST
Zoom Presentation

For Zoom link, pls reach out to [email protected] or [email protected]

Thanks!

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