Pere Borrell del Caso, Escaping Criticism (1874)

Postdoctoral Award - The British Society of Aesthetics The British Society for Aesthetics invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral award in philosophical aesthetics, to the value of £30,000 per annum with up to £3,000 additional geographical allow...

Postdoc anyone?
british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/po...

some of my fave emails to receive if not my absolute fave are ones where authors ask for/let me know they need more time to finish their manuscript for peer review because they're ones where I truly *can* reply speedily w/o doing other legwork and say "ok totes fine! thanks for letting me know!"

Background of lichen in blue, green, and red hues. Black strip across center with sans-serif font: Earth Day books collection.

Happy Earth Day! Browse our beautiful books collection: www.upress.umn.edu/earth-day-co...

"romance is precisely that form in which the worldness of world reveals or manifests itself, in which, in other words, world in the technical sense of the transcendental horizon of our experience becomes visible in an inner-worldly sense." Jameson

Las universidades, base del pensamiento - Gaceta UNAM Hace 30 años el geógrafo David Harvey dejó de leer literatura marxista y se acercó directamente a la obra escrita por Carl Marx, hecho por el que recibió muchas críticas, pero lo hizo debido a que con...

Las universidades, base del pensamiento www.gaceta.unam.mx/entrevista-d...

editing Candela Potente, PhD

developmental editing in the humanities and social sciences! www.candelapotente.com/editing

Love’s Work — Parapraxis The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh

'Twelfth-century romance was a genre and twentieth-century romance was a fantasy of desire, but twenty-first-century romance is a melancholia of work.' @annakornbluh.bsky.social on the generic pleasures of romance www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...

Revolución - 57:2 - LASA Forum

LASA Forum: Revolución forum.lasaweb.org/issues/vol57...

The Generosity of Fredric Jameson – Spectre Journal Robert T. Tally pays tribute to Fredric Jameson's tremendous generosity, that is, the late theorist's drive to both know the world and change it for the better.

whatever else was also happening in Jameson’s work, he was having a good deal of fun spectrejournal.com/the-generosi...

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

Read the book, not the summary.

Write the piece, not the prompt.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas by Emilio Sauri Northwestern University Press Demonstrating how art and literature remain vital to alternative imaginaries beyond the power of imperialism and modernization Imperial Decay: Literatu…

Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas mexicanists.org/2026/04/08/i...

Harvey en filos!

Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work by Annie McClanahan

In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.

Out now (2 June UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Sociology

Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations: Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation by David S. Dalton Rutgers University Press Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations analyzes Mexico’s rich history of digital activism, which is among the most vibrant of any country in the Hispani…

Digital Activism in the Mexican Nations: Resistance, Catharsis, Transformation mexicanists.org/2026/04/08/d...

Kristin Grogan on Stitch, Unstitch - Columbia University Press Blog In this Q&A, Kristin Grogan discusses Stitch, Unstitch and how modernist poetry reimagines labor, art, and life beyond work.

for national poetry month (which is every month if you're living right) here's a q&a for the @columbiaup.bsky.social blog about my book, STITCH, UNSTITCH: cupblog.org/2026/04/07/k...

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars!

We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history

❗Deadline: 31 July 2026

Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

UIC English is hiring 3 NTT faculty, part of our United Faculty Union. professional writing, english language learning, literature/culture generalism. hmu w questions!

uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

✍️ Wonderful job opportunity for you writers in academia - the Harvard Writing Center is looking for 2 postdocs to join their team ⬇️

academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16154

This major collection of modern Mexican art, now creating controversy over its potential move outside of Mexico, includes this Frida Kahlo painting ("Diego on My Mind," 1943) that has to be one of the most stunning & luminous self-portraits I've ever seen in my decades as an art historian

A little birdy told me that Wayne State University is hiring a new Director for their Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies--looks like a great job! www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...

Macholiteratura. Hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012, de Emily Hind. YouTube video by Hablemos Escritoras

Macholiteratura. Hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012, de @emilyhind.bsky.social

Protests in Mexico Challenge Move of Frida Kahlo Trove to Spain

Kahlo drama

Imperial Decay - Northwestern University Press Demonstrating how art and literature remain vital to alternative imaginaries beyond the power of imperialism and modernizationImperial Decay: Literature, Aut...

pre-order: nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948042...

portrait of Imperial Decay, by Emilio Sauri

Imperial Decay: Literature, Autonomy, and the End of Modernization in the Americas, by Emilio Sauri - Demonstrating how art and literature remain vital to alternative imaginaries beyond the power of imperialism and modernization

@tamaramitchell.bsky.social

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English.

"Shea’s translation deftly captures the essence of Ponce’s serial poems on creation and absence, offering them with an apt, skillful contradiction that melds appropriate ambiguity and admirable precision"

big congrats, @immanentfields.bsky.social! 2026 PEN Award winner for Poetry in Translation! @penamerica.bsky.social

Writing and Publishing posts and links A list of some of the posts about writing and publishing from this blog. It’s followed by some links I’ve previously shared which may still be useful. If I say something about someone e…

Writing and Publishing posts and links