Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban

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Un día como hoy de 1974, el general Carlos Prats fue asesinado junto a su esposa Sofía Cuthbert en un atentado perpetrado en Buenos Aires. Fue uno de los primeros crímenes de la Operación Cóndor, que operaba sin nombre en clave.

Time to lock in @lauracolaneri.bsky.social

In Chicago/Chicagoland or anywhere else in Illinois:

-Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244
-Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper...
-Ask others to do the same
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Illinois Coalition for immigrant and refugee rights family support network, for ICE sightings, arrests, immigration legal help 7am-9pm: 855-435-7693 Cook County public defender’s arrest response hotline, free lawyers for people in custody or in court Chicago/Cook County 24/7: 844-817-4448 First Defense Legal Aid Help Not Jail Hotline: 1-800-LAW-REP4 / 529-7374 National Lawyers Guild Chicago, free lawyers if arrested during protests or for political activity while in custody or in court: 872-4NLG-CHI / 872-465-4244

Get ready #chicago Save and share this image. It will be helpful when the #iceraids begin

¡CFP! The LASA 19th Century Section invites proposals (papers or full panels) for LASA 2026 in Paris. We're casting a wide net to see what work is shaping the field now. Deadline: Aug 22. Email abstracts to lasasigloxix@gmail.com. Spread the word!

Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College at University of Cambridge Apply for the Assistant Professor in Spanish of Gonville & Caius College and Emmanuel College role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply n...

Job! Assistant Professor of Spanish @caiuscollege.bsky.social and Emmanuel College. Nine months from 1 October 2025 to cover my teaching while I’m on leave. Latin American literature, cinema or thought.

Details here: tinyurl.com/33m6d389.

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Learn more about this book at UPF.com

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production is available for pre-order (Jan 2026). Honored to have contributed to this volume under the brilliant vision and guidance of @cristinaele.bsky.social and @oaperez.bsky.social , and excited to read and teach all of it:

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Ah yes, as a Latin Americanist it will be so easy to write projects focused on the US's "moral leadership" 🙄🤪

Well deserved!!!

So messed up! The state Dept is implementing new vetting standards of foreign students' social media to look for "terrorist and antisemitic" sympathies. A front to slow student enrollments, chill free speech, and dissuade students from studying in the US 😡

The Trump administration is unlawfully seeking to destroy higher education in the United States. It now demands that we sacrifice our international students in the process. Universities cannot acquiesce to such extortion.

Review of dear @ambliopia.bsky.social’s not to be missed The Company — finally published in English! @cetracey.bsky.social does a great job threading Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s previous work, so if you’re new to her fabulous books, this is a good starting point.

Although I’m mostly off social media at this point, I did want to mark my last day teaching at UChicago. It’s been a truly rich experience getting to work with such wonderful students. Happily, I’ll be continuing my career as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wartburg College this fall!

The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"

Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang

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Congratulations!

My book is out! I was waiting to post a pic holding it IRL, but alas, it is yet to arrive. I hope you will check it out, and ask your library to buy a copy! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...

Toward a Unifying Theory of Lake Monsters From Champ to Bessie to lake sturgeon, these cryptids represent what lies beneath the surface of the familiar.

The latest installment of my column for Atlas Obscura, "Eerie Feeling," on places and spaces that generate that sense of the eerie, is live. It's about lake monsters! Who doesn't love a lake monster?

I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!

Incredible!

The title page for a book. The title is Capitalism A Horror story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination. It is by Jon Greenaway and published by Repeater Books

Typeset and finished. Will be getting in touch with people who might want to write endorsements over the next few days.

It has never been more urgent to strategize and to build a more democratic university.

If you’re around on Sunday at MLA, I would love to see you for our discussion of how unions and senates have worked together (or not) in the past and the present.

Description of an MLA 2024 roundtable, titled "Jerks," on the dyspeptic, cantankerous, and disagreeable in literature.

For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo:

It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am.

We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.

I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination An account of the intersection of the Gothic and the medical imaginations in the Romantic era.   This book demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagination and the medical imagi...

Shameless reminder that the best Xmas gift you can get me is to ask your library to order my book! 😁 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Airing Out the Mystery of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.

Hey all, I've started a new column at Atlas Obscura!

It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history.

You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:

There is something pretty galling about the fact that Agnes Callard gets space in major outlets to free-associate about "Why are the humanities?" and Why It's Actually Fine To Marry Your Student, while some of us are applying to dozens of jobs and polishing manuscripts that may get rejected anyway.

Kissinger, the war criminal who, amidst many horrific crimes, was responsible for the support for Pinochet and the coup in Allende’s Chile

One of the great hopes and potency for Latin America brutally snuffed out and stamped out there.
We remember!

SINIESTRO TOTAL - Bailaré sobre tu tumba (Tocata) Miguel Costas y sus secuaces Julián Hernández, Alberto Torrado y Javier Soto (o sea, SINIESTRO TOTAL) en el programa TOCATA, con su éxito mundial "Bailaré so...

MANDATORY DANCE PARTY

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