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Christofer Rodelo

@chrisrodelo.bsky.social

Assistant professor at UC Irvine | writes on Latinx performance & literature since the 19th century | they/he | 🇨🇴🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=7102

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Christofer Rodelo@chrisrodelo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out my latest essay on the politics of recovery in C19 trans Latinx studies in the latest issue of TSQ! Thanks to the editors for the invitation to contribute: read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/...

How Do You Solve a Problem like Loreta?: Or, Notes on Deidealizing the Archives of the Trans Nineteenth Century

Abstract. This essay reflects on the politics of recovering a trans Latinx past through an examination on the nineteenth‐century figure Loreta Velazquez. She was a Cuban‐born woman who migrated to the...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 10mo ago

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Rachel Weil@racheljweil.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey fellow terminated #NEH fellows @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info Sharing my #NEH Appeal of Termination, which I uploaded into the eGMS system. Mine is for an individual fellowship. Another example below. It is recommended that if you were terminated you get an appeal in today.

Screenshot of my letter appealing the termination of my individual NEH fellowship.
Amalia Skilton@amaliaskilton.bsky.social · last yr.

This is probably fruitless but I submitted the attached appeal letter to the termination of my #NEH/#NSF individual fellowship yesterday. Sent via eGMS Reach to PO, asking to forward to the senior deputy chairman (who has to receive it per T&C). Sharing as a resource in case

To: Senior Deputy Chairman National Endowment for the Humanities Via: eGMS Reach Re: Appeal of NEH Termination Action Dear Senior Deputy Chairman, I am writing to formally appeal the termination of my NEH fellowship grant FN29861124. Background My grant FN29861124 is an award to individuals. Therefore it is subject to the terms and conditions given at https://www.neh.gov/general-terms-and-conditions-awards-individuals (“NEH Individual Terms and Conditions”). In the NEH Individual Terms and Conditions, Section VIII.Y “Termination” states that “NEH may terminate your award if, for any reason, you choose to discontinue the proposed project before the end of the period of performance or fail to observe the award’s terms and conditions.” This is the only provision of Section VIII.Y which provides for termination of the award by NEH, rather than by the grantee. Termination Notice Is Not Compliant with the NEH Individual Terms and Conditions I received a notice of termination of this grant via email on April 3, 2025. It listed April 3 as the effective date and was signed by Michael McDonald. The termination notice which I received states the reason for termination as follows: “Your grant no longer effectuates the agency’s needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340.” However, “no longer effectuating” needs and priorities is not included in the possible reasons for termination laid out in Section VIII of the NEH Individual Terms and Conditions. In fact, the words “effectuate”, “needs” and “priorities” do not appear anywhere in the NEH Individual Terms and Conditions. Furthermore, the termination notice does not list any reason which is included in Section VIII. Specifically, it does not state that I have “[chosen] to discontinue the proposed project before the end of the period of performance” or “[failed] to observe the award’s terms and conditions.”
NEH Union - AFGE L3403@nehafge3403.bsky.social · last yr.

It's been a week since #NEH staff arrived at our jobs as public servants and discovered DOGE circumvented our databases and terminated our #humanities grants. Over 1,400 grants have been terminated and the majority of staff have been placed on leave. We remain in shock at the scale and subterfuge.

NEH Union - AFGE L3403@nehafge3403.bsky.social · last yr.

"The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports #museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent." #NEH www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

On TAP@ontappodcast.bsky.social · last yr.

Ep. 079 is here, recorded live at the Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton! We hear from Brian and Anne García-Romero about their new book, Fornés in Context, Jacqueline Flores about the Latinx Theatre Commons, and Gwendolyn Alker about Fornés's biography. www.ontappod.com/home/2025/3/...

079 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

Recorded live at the María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton University's Lewis Arts Complex. Brian and Pannill welcome Anne García-Romero to talk about María Irene Fornés in Context, a ne...

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John Garcia@jgarc.bsky.social · last yr.

Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Many in higher education worry that President Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities leaders are not finding many vocal allies to defend them.

Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation

Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.

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Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · last yr.

I hear DOGE has come to NEH. NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (of the Navajo Nation) is out, and acting chair is Michael McDonald, best known for his legal career fighting affirmative action.

Jennifer R. Nájera@jennrnajera.bsky.social · 2y ago

Call for abstracts--Chicanx/Latinx Studies and the University. I'm co-editing a special issue of American Studies on the intersections between Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Critical University Studies. We'll be reviewing abstracts beginning April 15th! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Latinx University Studies CFP

Chicanx/Latinx Studies and the University Proposed special issue American Studies with guest editors Ben Chappell, University of Kansas and Jennifer R. Nájera, University of California, Riverside O...

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Juana María Rodríguez@radiorodriguez.bsky.social · 2y ago

J Butler “Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now. This does not, in my view, entail a negation of this world, but only a critical interrogation of the limits of the imaginable in light of radical democratic claims.” lithub.com/judith-butle...

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…

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