José Eduardo González
@jose-eduardo.bsky.social
Latin American Literary History and Digital Humanities. _Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges_ (2025) https://tinyurl.com/2nj7dfkn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8899-3021
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Today I am filled with gratitude that this book went from being an idea to an object that exists in the real world. Last evening I finally got my copies and I would like to highlight a couple of the chapters in it 🧵
And Engrish for all!
A couple of years ago it would have been unimaginable to see a national televised broadcast regularly include misspelling in their graphics. ESPN's "English" is the result of using AI. We are now the U of Nebraska's "CONRHUSKERS"!
A couple of years ago it would have been unimaginable to see a national televised broadcast regularly include misspelling in their graphics. ESPN's "English" is the result of using AI. We are now the U of Nebraska's "CONRHUSKERS"!
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And Engrish for all!
A couple of years ago it would have been unimaginable to see a national televised broadcast regularly include misspelling in their graphics. ESPN's "English" is the result of using AI. We are now the U of Nebraska's "CONRHUSKERS"!
A couple of years ago it would have been unimaginable to see a national televised broadcast regularly include misspelling in their graphics. ESPN's "English" is the result of using AI. We are now the U of Nebraska's "CONRHUSKERS"!
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With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets
GitHub - Gorcenski/skeeter-deleter: A script for auto-deleting Bluesky posts
A script for auto-deleting Bluesky posts. Contribute to Gorcenski/skeeter-deleter development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets
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I am very happy to not be repeating the AI class I did in fall 2023, but this is the first piece of AI-themed writing that made me laugh so hard I almost wish I could put it on the syllabus.
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am very happy to not be repeating the AI class I did in fall 2023, but this is the first piece of AI-themed writing that made me laugh so hard I almost wish I could put it on the syllabus.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
Never had the pleasure of meeting Kristal, but he had a brilliant mind and his book on Borges has been canonical for a long time for those studying the Argentine writer's work. RIP.
So sorry to hear this. I worked with Efraín as a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa, I met him a couple of times later, he was a great scholar and his passing is a huge loss to the academic community
Efraín Kristal, author of one of the best books on Vargas Llosa, and of a brilliant book on Borges and translation, dead at 66. Mi más sentido pésame. I once had the pleasure of meeting him, in Quebec City. He was both dazzling and modest.
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Never had the pleasure of meeting Kristal, but he had a brilliant mind and his book on Borges has been canonical for a long time for those studying the Argentine writer's work. RIP.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I am supposed to teach an "Intro to Literary Theory" next year, but I am wondering if these courses are helpful or even necessary nowadays? I might just call it "Intro to Lit. Theory--The Skeptic's Version"
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I am supposed to teach an "Intro to Literary Theory" next year, but I am wondering if these courses are helpful or even necessary nowadays? I might just call it "Intro to Lit. Theory--The Skeptic's Version"
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I'm thrilled that my weird essay on babble, the avant-garde, and the confining language of capitalism found a home in Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/
May 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'm thrilled that my weird essay on babble, the avant-garde, and the confining language of capitalism found a home in Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/
Just received my copy of Stephen Buttes's exciting new book "Poverty and Antitheatricality"
Thank you @rutgersupress.bsky.social
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/poverty-and-...
@formajournal.bsky.social
Thank you @rutgersupress.bsky.social
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/poverty-and-...
@formajournal.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just received my copy of Stephen Buttes's exciting new book "Poverty and Antitheatricality"
Thank you @rutgersupress.bsky.social
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/poverty-and-...
@formajournal.bsky.social
Thank you @rutgersupress.bsky.social
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/poverty-and-...
@formajournal.bsky.social
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This essay is a mix of invented language + references to thinkers who don't typically fit into the same category: Shel Silverstein, A.A. Milne, Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Vicente Huidobro etc.
Just saying: I do not think that AI could produce something so weird.
www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/
Just saying: I do not think that AI could produce something so weird.
www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/
Aquaduhka
Mothers and young children, however, recreate an original and innovative language… a form of communication that exists outside of hierarchies. Babble is “an overlooked path of insurgency.”
www.guernicamag.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This essay is a mix of invented language + references to thinkers who don't typically fit into the same category: Shel Silverstein, A.A. Milne, Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Vicente Huidobro etc.
Just saying: I do not think that AI could produce something so weird.
www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/
Just saying: I do not think that AI could produce something so weird.
www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/
You weren’t doing DH right if you didn’t have “close reading makes a comeback around 2025” on your bingo card
May 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
You weren’t doing DH right if you didn’t have “close reading makes a comeback around 2025” on your bingo card
I'm going to both sympathize with and disagree with @isanchezprado.bsky.social 's reading of @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay. On the one hand, I agree that the essay "would be stronger if Lawrence weaved in transnationalism." However, on the other hand, is it fair to say that about an essay?
March 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm going to both sympathize with and disagree with @isanchezprado.bsky.social 's reading of @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay. On the one hand, I agree that the essay "would be stronger if Lawrence weaved in transnationalism." However, on the other hand, is it fair to say that about an essay?
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Nine responses to my 2024 ELH essay "Mobilizing Literature: Social Movements and Post-1945 US Literary Studies" just went live on @atpost45.bsky.social. I'm grateful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @franciscondine.bsky.social
for organizing the cluster.
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
for organizing the cluster.
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
Introduction - Post45
Rarely does the publication of a peer-reviewed essay generate the excitement that accompanied Jeffrey Lawrence’s “Mobilizing Literature” in the Fall 2024 issue of ELH. Lawrence aims for an ambitious i...
post45.org
March 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Nine responses to my 2024 ELH essay "Mobilizing Literature: Social Movements and Post-1945 US Literary Studies" just went live on @atpost45.bsky.social. I'm grateful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @franciscondine.bsky.social
for organizing the cluster.
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
for organizing the cluster.
post45.org/2025/03/intr...
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In the final article for FORMA's Debate issue, José Eduardo Gonzalez takes a quantitative approach to Spanish American literary studies, referencing Ángel Rama’s essay “El boom en perspectiva.” Read more and consider responding at buff.ly/vB1FL1y.
March 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In the final article for FORMA's Debate issue, José Eduardo Gonzalez takes a quantitative approach to Spanish American literary studies, referencing Ángel Rama’s essay “El boom en perspectiva.” Read more and consider responding at buff.ly/vB1FL1y.
The final article in our Forma Journal's state of the field special issue is an article I wrote using data about the annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
www.formajournal.org/essays/asses...
www.formajournal.org/essays/asses...
Assessing Research and Progress in a Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies Conference - Forma
www.formajournal.org
March 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The final article in our Forma Journal's state of the field special issue is an article I wrote using data about the annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
www.formajournal.org/essays/asses...
www.formajournal.org/essays/asses...
This week we are publishing position papers by @magarmtis.bsky.social and Patrick Dove as part of the special issue on the state of the field in Latin American studies
www.formajournal.org/essays/dista...
www.formajournal.org/essays/dista...
Distant Lands and Climes: Latin American Criticism, World Literature, and Other Axes for Comparison - Forma
www.formajournal.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This week we are publishing position papers by @magarmtis.bsky.social and Patrick Dove as part of the special issue on the state of the field in Latin American studies
www.formajournal.org/essays/dista...
www.formajournal.org/essays/dista...
Two new position papers on the state of Latin American literary criticism published in Forma (www.formajournal.org/debate) this week.
"The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America" by @juanedecastro.bsky.social and "Affects and Forms in LGBTQ Cinema" by Vinodh Venkatesh
"The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America" by @juanedecastro.bsky.social and "Affects and Forms in LGBTQ Cinema" by Vinodh Venkatesh
February 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Two new position papers on the state of Latin American literary criticism published in Forma (www.formajournal.org/debate) this week.
"The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America" by @juanedecastro.bsky.social and "Affects and Forms in LGBTQ Cinema" by Vinodh Venkatesh
"The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America" by @juanedecastro.bsky.social and "Affects and Forms in LGBTQ Cinema" by Vinodh Venkatesh
FORMA's "State of the Field" Debate series has launched! In the first set of "position papers," Ignacio López-Calvo and Mark Anderson examine the sets of subdisciplines comprising the field. Read more at www.formajournal.org/debate
February 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
FORMA's "State of the Field" Debate series has launched! In the first set of "position papers," Ignacio López-Calvo and Mark Anderson examine the sets of subdisciplines comprising the field. Read more at www.formajournal.org/debate
Today I am filled with gratitude that this book went from being an idea to an object that exists in the real world. Last evening I finally got my copies and I would like to highlight a couple of the chapters in it 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today I am filled with gratitude that this book went from being an idea to an object that exists in the real world. Last evening I finally got my copies and I would like to highlight a couple of the chapters in it 🧵