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Élika Ortega

@elikaortega.bsky.social

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Assist. Prof. of Spanish Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025) Dog person. Rose person. Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish https://elikaortega.net

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · Mar 4

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

Binding Media | Stanford University Press

Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 20h

Hahaha. Lettuce can be great but is not meant to be a main ingredient.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21h

Salads should have less lettuce.
I want the more substantial vegetables in there because I get bored of lettuce very quickly.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21h

Unpopular opinion: too much lettuce is used on salads.

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

Very sorry to hear! She truly was a force of nature.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

Fortuitously saw my car keys placed atop a campus sign as I was walking to my car. The set of keys I didn't notice I had lost a few hours earlier and wouldn't have missed until I tried to open my car parked half a mile away.
Panic and relief all at once.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 2d

New a-little-too-on-the-nose anxiety dream unlocked:

I’m trying to find the boarding gate for my flight but in order to do so I have to go through several terminals via elevators with an unintelligible interface and I’m literally carrying too much baggage.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 2d

Leaves were peeped again.

Colorado blue sky and golden fluttery aspens

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 4d

Same

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 4d

Same

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 5d

I love that! Thank you!
For labeling purposes, would you be interested in the design suggestions I gave the publisher? they're pretty funny 😆

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 5d

So sorry to hear Ryan. Thinking of you and fam.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 6d

I made a lil game inspired by the Wordle universe. It's called Versedle (pronounced Verse-a-dle). You guess who wrote famous lines of literature.

As my parents can attest, it's hard! I made them an Easy Mode, but it's still kinda hard. Maybe you'll like it!

▶️ 📚: melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/

VERSEDLE

Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!

melaniewalsh.github.io

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow! 👇🎉
Join me and @apprecovery.bsky.social for a full blown nerd out on Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas!

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 13d

Book talk: join us to talk about Binding Media on Friday October 3 with the amazingest team of @apprecovery.bsky.social
RSVP for link!

A flier reading:
UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON ARTE PÚBLICO
2025 Fall Speaker series on Digital Humanities
The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy. USLDH provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using Latino and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; and administers a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to US Latino digital humanities.
To RSVP, please visit:
bit.ly /bindingmedia
"Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas"
PUBLIC LECTURE
Open to all
Friday, Oct. 3
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11:00am-12:0pm CT
Virtual
RSVP required
Far from signaling the "death of the book," digital technologies have enabled new literary forms that merge print and digital media. Binding Media explores these hybrid works across the Americas, showing how they challenge conventional literary, regional and linguistic boundaries.
While often marginalized due to technological and commercial constraints, these projects leave a rich legacy that illuminates cultural hybridization in the digital age.
Élika Ortega-Guzmán, PhD
Élika Ortega-Guzmán is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital and print publishing, digital literature, cultural hybridity, digital humanities and multilingualism in academia. Ortega-Guzmán's work on these topics has appeared in venues such as ASAP Journal, PMLA, Hispanic Review, Debates in the Digital Humanities, EBR and others. She has also created literary bots, including Twitter bots dedicated to the work of Mexican writer and artist Ulises Carrión, which were featured in Antología LitELat Vol. 1 and have more recently been ported to Bluesky as @BotCarrión.
USLD!:
US LATINO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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Jorge Téllez @jorgetellez.bsky.social · Aug 31

Job!

Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · Aug 31

Our department is hiring! Join us and be part of a wonderful community of faculty, students, and staff. Apply here and/or please share: www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Assistant Professor - Modern Languages (Spanish Peninsular) - New York, NY - Indeed.com

The City University of New York (CUNY)

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

My writing career summed up in one image:

Small chicken sitting at a big table. Looks confused.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 7d

HELLO EVERYBODY IT'S THAT TIME (LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTH) AGAIN, HERE IS MY THREADDDD

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 4

OKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT*
MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS

*nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

Same idea as "agua de calcetín"--literally sock watter--in Mexican Spanish.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

"Network at conferences, maybe you'll meet your besties"

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't know her so I just hoped she'd be cool because it was clear that our work would continue to intersect for the duration of our careers.
We became wives.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 6d

Explaining the importance of networking at conferences to a group of graduate students made me remember how I first met @alexsaum.bsky.social because she had an MLA special session CfP that was a perfect fit for my work.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

F*ck!
So sorry, hon, here for you. Anything I can do?

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

LOL. Not in these cases thankfully!

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

nothing like a 12hr work day to make you question your life decisions...
no time to walk the dogs, no time to run--F that.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

Huge kudos for people who will let others speak at meetings before speaking a second, third, fourth, fifth time...

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