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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations!! Can’t wait to get my copy

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Blackface y otras vergüenzas” es una obra fenomenal, y Silvia una fuerza.

Nortes @nortes1.bsky.social · Sep 1

◾️▪️Blackface “a la española” y la historia de los bebés robados este noviembre en el Centro Niemeyer
'Blackface y otras vergüenzas' y "Revelando ausencias" podrán verse en el contexto del Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores en Estudios Teatrales. #Asturias

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Blackface "a la española" y la historia de los bebés robados este noviembre en el Centro Niemeyer - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia

'Blackface y otras vergüenzas' y "Revelando ausencias" podrán verse en el contexto del Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores en Estudios Teatrales.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Aug 26

Entering my Midwest emo phase as I start as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. So excited to teach courses here on Spanish language, culture, film, comics, music, and everything else I can cram in. 🌽👨🏻‍🏫

A newly arrived VAP of Spanish on Kenyon’s leafy Middle Path

Moody wood paneled lecture hall with light coming through stained glass windows

Cover art for my upcoming Midwest emo album. The smiling visage of the Wendy’s girl clashes with the haunting message “Misfortune Awaits / Lucky You” against a backdrop of clouds chasing the sun to the horizon.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Jun 25

What a night for New Yorkers!

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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · May 7

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life.
This Friday, 12pm-2pm (EST).

An online roundtable on three great recent books on everyday life and space in the Iberian context with their authors Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and @susanlarson.bsky.social.

Moderated by yours truly.

An eltaller@kjcc event.

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life

Please join us online on Friday, May 9th at 12:00PM for our fourth event of 2025, an online roundtable between Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson. The event will take place online and will be moderated by Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. This event is free. Please register at this link to attend.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r8IKLNkRIalYZe4JcRUtYos-h03VgnzVaZU7IloMCRk/viewform?edit_requested=true

Megan Saltzman teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Her research combines literary and visual arts with ethnographic fieldwork to expose how everyday public practices carve out autonomy and resistance from below. Megan has published on urban culture in Spain related to gentrification, spatial in/exclusion, undocumented immigration, waste, urban furniture, grassroots cultural centers, street vending, and “artivism.” These themes come together in Megan’s most recent publication, the book Public Everyday Space. Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona (2024).

Enric Bou is Emeritus Professor on Iberian Studies at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He is specialized in the study of 20th century literature and has published on autobiography, the relationship between art and literature, visual poetry and on Salvador Dalí, among others. His latest publications include Sabor y Saber: Acerca de los Paisajes Alimentarios Ibéricos (2023), and Cartographies of Disappearance in Literature. From the Routine to the Extraordinary (2024).

Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, Editor of the Romance Quarterly and co-editor (with Benjamin Fraser) of Palgrave Macmillan’s Urban Cultural Studies book series.

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is Lecturer at Fordham University. His book Un país entre dos tiempos. Una década de experimentación política is about to be published by Lengua de Trapo/Circulo de Bellas Artes in Spain.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · May 7

Brilliant episode! The portion about the set designer was fascinating. Jorge Bogaerts published this fantastic book on the architect of these papier-mâché spectacles, for those curious for more info on the subject

Cover of _Franquismo de cartón piedra: arquitectura efímera y de propaganda en los primeros años de la dictadura
José Gómez del Collado (1942-1948)_ by Jorge Bogaerts

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · May 3

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · May 1

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Joint Lawsuit over Dismantling of National Endowment for the...

(New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Association (AHA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA) filed a lawsuit in federal district court today,...

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Susan Larson @susanlarson.bsky.social · Apr 30

Join the 'Spatial Politics of Everyday Life' ZOOM roundtable hosted by NYU's King Juan Carlos I Center (KJCC) on Friday, May 9th at 12:00 EST by registering with the QR code in the announcement below. A discussion of recent books by Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 29

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social opening for @mjlenderman.bsky.social is peak Brooklyn 👏🏻

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani amping up the crowd at the MJ Lenderman show

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 25

😂 Looking at myself in profile while conversing with Isa was not the sort of out of body experience I had expected while defending haha

Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 25

I analyzed the battle for discursive and material hegemony over the region through an array of cultural texts, historical archives, and theoretical lenses to better understand Francoism from an understudied regional perspective. 📸 by @isabelalvarez.bsky.social We wish she were there in person!

Screen shot of several of the primary texts I analyzed in my dissertation

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 25

Yesterday I defended my dissertation “Mythologized Modernization: Asturias and the Construction of Franco’s Spain” and passed with distinction. So grateful to my committee for all the guidance along the way and a fantastic conversation to map the road ahead!

Celebratory photo with the five amazing members of my dissertation committee

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you Adam!!

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you! Our MLA panel was so key to my thinking here

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Apr 10

A picture is worth (7)1,000words, they say.
What a time to finish writing—for now—about authoritarianism, labor, extraction, and the mythologies of nation.

Submission of my doctoral dissertation “Mythologized Modernization: Asturias and the Construction of Franco’s Spain”

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Mar 20

Working on exciting classroom initiatives? Harnessing new technologies? Collaborating with colleagues or across disciplines? Showcase your pedagogical and curricular developments at the #MLA26 Innovation Room! Apply by April 15. @modernlanguage.bsky.social @lydiatang.bsky.social
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Presenters and audience chat around posters highlighting new pedagogical and curricular initiatives in the humanities in the Innovation Room at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans. Photo by David C. Aleman.

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · Mar 18

Action alert: fight back against recently announced cuts to the Department of Education and language programs by contacting your representatives. Learn more:

Urgent—Congress Must Act to Reverse Devastating Cuts to Language Education Offices!

On Tuesday, March 11th, the US Department of Education announced that it was laying off close to 50% of its staff. Based on documents and media reports we have seen, it appears that the Office of…

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Mar 18

I participated in a seminar this year on mining and extractivism in Spain and Latin America. Working intensively across several days with a diverse group of scholars was a fantastic way to share work, learn about the field, and forge connections for future collaboration. Highly recommended!

Janine Utell @janineutell.bsky.social · Mar 17

Did you know @modernlanguage.bsky.social members can propose seminars for #mla26? These innovative sessions bring together folks at all career stages on a topic of shared scholarly interest—a great way to share work in progress!

Learn more: www.mla.org/Events/MLA-C...

MLA Convention Seminars

MLA convention seminars, one of several types of innovative sessions that may be proposed by members at the annual meeting, are meant to catalyze scholarship on research topics that cross areas of stu...

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UAW @uaw.org · Mar 14

🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Mar 5

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El cani barroco

YouTube video by Cyberdemon

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Mar 3

Meca meca qué ye esto??
📍Greenwich Village NYC

Pegatina que dice “I ❤️ cachopo” en Greenwich Village

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Feb 28

¡Ampliación de plazo hasta el 1 de abril!

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Poster announcing extended deadline of April 1 to send in proposals for presentations at the XII International Conference of Research on Francoism

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Feb 26

In Asturleonese, teito or teitu, sharing an origin with the castillan word techo, for roof! One can see how that name came about. Some are still maintained, mostly in the Somiedo natural park, like this one

A snow-covered, traditional Asturian teito, a thatched cottage to provide shelter for cattle herders.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · Feb 20

Qué ganas de leerlo!!

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