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Midwesterner in Texas. Current gig: Mexicanist/Latin Americanist at UTEP. Cover pic: Bernardo Fernández 💙💙💙
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Very thankful to Remy Attig & Roshawnda Derrick for inviting me to be in their edited volume, Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics) forthcoming June 2025. Includes my essay "The Queer Politics of Spanglish.” www.routledge.com/Translating-...

let's talk economic imaginaries of post-independence Mexico, join us for a conversation with @sergiocarlos.bsky.social on his recent Mexico, Interrupted, February 17, 3pm CT, registration open!

more job openings at texas monthly! our editorial coordinator got promoted so we are hiring a new one. this is an entry-level job for young journalists and recent grads. primarily an administrative role but includes some writing/editing/fact check opportunities www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-a...

Teaching Diversity in Divisive Times. Join professors from the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including @lnakamura.bsky.social for this event on Wednesday, January 29, at 4:00pm, 3512 Haven Hall.

Today is the official publication date for my book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations & the Aesthetics of Violence! I‘m so proud of it and so thankful for everyone (too many to name here) who helped along the way, especially the amazing team at @dukepress.bsky.social Thank you! 🥳🙏 Link below:

A round up some new and helpful resources for those of you embarking on your writing or book publishing journey. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

This job is not tenure track, but it is renewable w/ benefits and is not all composition. We really need History of the Eng Lang, but open to a lot of other interests esp media studies & environmental humanities. Happy to answer any questions converse.isolvedhire.com/jobs/1342025...

Every book has a story. This is the 1st I’ve acquired where a reviewer emailed me to see when it was coming out b/c they were so excited for it. Full contents coming soon to the website—Angela Lewis-Maddox, Robin Turner, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Sharon Wright Austin, Julia Jorden-Zachery & more.

He dedicado los últimos años a investigar y documentar el #NewLatinoBoom , movimiento literario en español propio de EE UU durante las primeras décadas del S. XXI. Luego de publicar un libro de ensayo al respecto en 2020, lancé una base de datos digital. ¡Pasen a mirar! www.newlatinoboom.com

So much amazing stuff going on !

We're hiring in my department! Please share widely. Position: Assistant Professor of Latine and/or Latin American Studies Application review starts on December 15. More information in the ad, but happy to answer any questions here also. utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

I'm really looking forward to my very first book talk on Technified Muses from @floridapress.bsky.social this Thursday, November 21 at 5:30pm at the El Paso Museum of Art! Many thanks to Dr. Marion Christina Rohrleitner and Mining Books for the invitation. Hope to see you there!

…I was, indeed, doomscrolling. This helped. ❤️

floridapress.blog/2024/10/29/t... This link went live today! I am very relieved and excited to see the book out in the world and UPF was wonderful. If this helps convince your libraries, the discount code is HOL24 and it’s good through 12/16/24. 💙💛🩵

We've been at 29 donors since yesterday morning? Want to make it a nice, round 30?

WAKE UP BABE NEW DR. SAMANTHA EGE PERFORMANCE DROPPED Dr. Ege is an incredible pianist and musicologist who's done a ton of work highlighting Black women composers through history. This Camila Cortina Bello piece is inspired by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, two composers Ege's work highlights

If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.

Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

Come work with me! We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of Early Islam (until ca. 1250). Please share widely!

Info/help about voter registration from Progress Texas, now available in Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, English, and Spanish: govotetexas.org You can also donate to help Progress Texas or scroll down for one of the other organizations listed.

Medieval job alert! Assistant Professor, Medieval or Early Modern History of Science, Technology, and/or Medicine at Rice.

One thing to prepare for the aftermath of November 5: Do you even know who, in your state*, is responsible for processing, counting, & certifying election results? Well, Bolts has a state-by-state resource that'll help you catch up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

A big welcome to everybody joining in from Brazil! This seems like a good moment to re-share the Strange Horizons special issue of Brazilian SFF, featuring incredible stories by Kali de los Santos, H. Pueyo, Sérgio Motta, Heitor Zen, and Isa Prospero! strangehorizons.com/issue/26-aug...

The pre-order kickstarter for EMBODIED EXEGESIS: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures is now ALIVE!! Get some weird transhuman transfem cyberpunk!!! Seventeen stories, two poems, and the most beautiful cyborg cover in cyberspace!

Hi. I'm going to be doing a podcast, "The HIstory of Comic Books in 500 Issues," about the global history of comic books. And I'd like your help. Assume I've got all the obvious choices. What's an outstanding comic/b.d./manga/manhua/manhwa/fumetti/etc. that I'm not likely to know about? Thanks!

Hey SFF community, can we help boost this small press doing big things like publishing bold new work and translating/publishing a story by Ihor Mysiak, who was killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine? [I know you already do a lot, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com but a share from you will help]

Voy a presentar mi libro de poesía/objeto de arte en Morelia el 6 de junio y en lo que era el DF el martes 11. De verdad que me encantaría que nos acompañaran

We're excited to help announce Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, an anthology of 22 stories of queer hope, joy, and triumph edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social! reactormag.com/amplitudes-s...

I need about 5 more people to sign up for this class to run, anybody willing to boost 😅

Studies in the Fantastic is back in Black! Read commentary on blaxploitation vamps, Afro-futurism/-pessimism in GET OUT - NOPE - US, color among the Stepford Wives + an interview w/ @tananarivedue.bsky.social. #ProjectMuse Ed. Stefanie Dunning #horror muse.jhu.edu/issue/52260

The schedule is up for the Jack Williamson Lectureship next week in Portales, New Mexico, at ENMU, where I'll be the keynote speaker: my.enmu.edu/jack-william...

Thursday Jan 11, at 7pm CT, I'll be in an online panel discussion with Cory Doctorow and Ken Liu to discuss AI, sponsored by Illinois Libraries Present. It's a zoom event, registration is required: bit.ly/ILP_Doctorow...

Today’s the day: English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch (Palgrave, 2024) is out today! Hoping I can post a discount code soon if you’d like to order a copy or ask your library to buy it! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I was reminded today that despite my bio, I have not yet posted pics of my dog. Here he is. ❤️

I was, indeed, automatically opted in. Have since opted out -- thanks for the heads up.