Víctor Sierra Matute
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses | @wolfhumanities.bsky.social & @futuresed.bsky.social fellow.
Pinned
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
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LARR 60.3 is out now! My article on Sor Juana and her transoceanic enigmas:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
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Buen día para leer mi libro Arqueología del esencialismo español y escuchar esta entrevista que me hizo Antonio Córdoba para New Books Network
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#antifascismo
#20denoviembre
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#antifascismo
#20denoviembre
Ana Luengo, "Arqueología del esencialismo español: Leyes, genealogía y herencias" (2023) - New Books Network ES
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November 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Buen día para leer mi libro Arqueología del esencialismo español y escuchar esta entrevista que me hizo Antonio Córdoba para New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com/es/ana-lueng...
#antifascismo
#20denoviembre
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#antifascismo
#20denoviembre
Happy 364th birthday, Sor Juana!
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy 364th birthday, Sor Juana!
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The University of Florida is hosting its first Colloquium on Guaman Poma to be held March 5-6, 2026, in Gainesville, Florida. The colloquium is organized by Dr. Paola Uparela, of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The University of Florida is hosting its first Colloquium on Guaman Poma to be held March 5-6, 2026, in Gainesville, Florida. The colloquium is organized by Dr. Paola Uparela, of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department.
So looking forward to @juanmaramive.bsky.social visit to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/jmrvtalk
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So looking forward to @juanmaramive.bsky.social visit to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/jmrvtalk
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www.gc.cuny.edu/events/certi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social has so many advanced certificates! Come find out!
Certificate Program Open House
Learn more about these Certificate Programs:
www.gc.cuny.edu
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/certi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social has so many advanced certificates! Come find out!
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But really... was Sor Juana a sphinx? @sierramatute.bsky.social weighs in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
But really... was Sor Juana a sphinx? @sierramatute.bsky.social weighs in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Víctor Sierra Matute
Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
LARR 60.3 is out now! My article on Sor Juana and her transoceanic enigmas:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
LARR 60.3 is out now! My article on Sor Juana and her transoceanic enigmas:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
Reposted by Víctor Sierra Matute
In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
Happy to organize this series of class visits where wonderful colleagues will join my students to re-read key texts from the early modern period @juanmaramive.bsky.social @baruch.cuny.edu
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Happy to organize this series of class visits where wonderful colleagues will join my students to re-read key texts from the early modern period @juanmaramive.bsky.social @baruch.cuny.edu
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🚀 Exciting news! FI’s very first podcast, “Why Innovation Needs Equity,” is now live!
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🚀 Exciting news! FI’s very first podcast, “Why Innovation Needs Equity,” is now live!
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future.
👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts!
#WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
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*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
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“telling stories about monsters isn’t simply a way of describing beings that are nothing like humans. It’s also how societies define and police who they think counts as fully human.”
My words in @aeon.co
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology 🧵/n
My words in @aeon.co
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology 🧵/n
Those declared ‘monsters’ are ejected from the human family | Aeon Essays
For centuries we’ve used the declaration of ‘monster’ to eject individuals and groups from being respected as fully human
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October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“telling stories about monsters isn’t simply a way of describing beings that are nothing like humans. It’s also how societies define and police who they think counts as fully human.”
My words in @aeon.co
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology 🧵/n
My words in @aeon.co
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology 🧵/n
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Streaming @sierramatute.bsky.social and @cleahy.bsky.social en conversación con Nicholas Jones sobre su nuevo libro Cervantine Blackness! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZi...
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Streaming @sierramatute.bsky.social and @cleahy.bsky.social en conversación con Nicholas Jones sobre su nuevo libro Cervantine Blackness! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZi...
This came out online a while ago, but now there are some free e-prints available: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This came out online a while ago, but now there are some free e-prints available: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Brief note just published in Calíope. I revisit Ignacio Navarrete’s visionary 2005 article, expanding on his reflections to recontextualize the "hows," "whats," and "whys" of teaching poetry in our present moment.
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Navarrete, Ignacio. “Teaching Golden Age Poetry: Modeling Intertextuality Through Hypertext.” Calíope. Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, 11, 2, 2005, pp. 91–109
How should we teach early modern Spanish poetry in today’s classrooms? How closely should our syllabi adhere to the established canon, and to what extent must they incorporate a variety of authors—onc...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Brief note just published in Calíope. I revisit Ignacio Navarrete’s visionary 2005 article, expanding on his reflections to recontextualize the "hows," "whats," and "whys" of teaching poetry in our present moment.
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/caliope...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/caliope...
A match made in ouch.
October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A match made in ouch.
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#medievalsky @cuny.edu Assistant Professor Medieval British Literature
Hunter College, full-time, tt area of medieval literature and culture, broadly defined (c. 600-1500), including but not limited to Old English, Old Norse, Middle English… @gsc-maa.bsky.social
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Hunter College, full-time, tt area of medieval literature and culture, broadly defined (c. 600-1500), including but not limited to Old English, Old Norse, Middle English… @gsc-maa.bsky.social
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September 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#medievalsky @cuny.edu Assistant Professor Medieval British Literature
Hunter College, full-time, tt area of medieval literature and culture, broadly defined (c. 600-1500), including but not limited to Old English, Old Norse, Middle English… @gsc-maa.bsky.social
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Hunter College, full-time, tt area of medieval literature and culture, broadly defined (c. 600-1500), including but not limited to Old English, Old Norse, Middle English… @gsc-maa.bsky.social
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Tomorrow!
In less than three weeks, I’ll be sharing material from my forthcoming monograph at @texastech.bsky.social. Many thanks to Prof. @pavelandrade.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to all the sponsors at TTU! #academicsky
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Tomorrow!
Budget cuts at Giza… or just Utah being Utah?
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Budget cuts at Giza… or just Utah being Utah?
Proofs, proofs, proofs!! 🧾
September 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Proofs, proofs, proofs!! 🧾
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This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
September 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
Next week!
In less than three weeks, I’ll be sharing material from my forthcoming monograph at @texastech.bsky.social. Many thanks to Prof. @pavelandrade.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to all the sponsors at TTU! #academicsky
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Next week!
"Rigatoni, mozzarella, tomato sauce" (ALDI 2025). Groceries, but properly cited.
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Rigatoni, mozzarella, tomato sauce" (ALDI 2025). Groceries, but properly cited.
The real pleasure of teaching a grad seminar on the Colonial/Global Early Modern is digging into edgy scholarship with amazing CUNY students! This week @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social, next week @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social 💯
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The real pleasure of teaching a grad seminar on the Colonial/Global Early Modern is digging into edgy scholarship with amazing CUNY students! This week @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social, next week @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social 💯