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Luke Bowe

@lmbowe.bsky.social

VAP of Spanish at Kenyon College | Currently writing about rurality, industrialization, and labor in Asturias under Franco.

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Alberdi 🔻@alberdi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

La Mina La Camocha reconocida como Lugar de Memoria por su lucha obrera y golpe al Sindicato Vertical, y ser germen fundacional de Comisiones Obreras www.lne.es/gijon/2026/0...

La Mina La Camocha reconocida como Lugar de Memoria por su lucha obrera y golpe al Sindicato Vertical, y ser germen fundacional de Comisiones Obreras

El BOE recoge que las movilizaciones mineras de los años de dictadura 'son un verdadero ejemplo de resistencia y de lucha por la democracia porque lograron asestar con éxito un duro golpe al Sindicato...

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Robin Munby@robmunb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today is Día de les Lletres Asturianes - Asturian Literature Day! Why not plonk yourself down beneath the nearest horru and have a read of Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias, at @wwborders.bsky.social #lletresasturianes #lleernasturianu2026 wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias Archives - Words Without Borders

Guest editors Robin Munby and Will Howard present a selection of new Asturian prose and poetry.

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Luke Bowe@lmbowe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Love seeing this in print! Thank you to @mlnjournal.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social and especially @victoriajane.bsky.social for getting this out into the world

Hand holding 2026 MLN Hispanic Issue
MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Also in our new issue: @lmbowe.bsky.social uses ecocriticism to analyze this Francoist retelling of Armando Palacio Valdes' novel La aldea perdida, in which Asturias must sacrifice her lands and people to the destructive mining industry for the sake of the nation. OA via @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Poster for the film La aldea perdida
Luke Bowe@lmbowe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Took my Spanish Lit and Pop Culture class to the Kenyon Farm today to cap off our unit on food studies. So cool to think through comparative notions of culture, identity, and rurality here in Ohio and in the Spanish context we’ve been studying all semester.

Students strolling through the Kenyon Farm as a prof hold up a non-canonical but still decent tortilla de patatas con shiitakes in the foreground. Eggs and shrooms from the Kenyon FarmOne of two massive but friendly livestock guardian dogs here. Part Great Pyrenees, part Anatolian shepherd, mostly fluff and slobber Sheep pals 🐑
Luke Bowe@lmbowe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CFP for MLA 2027 Come think about Green Spain with us in Los Angeles next year! Excited to see what comparative conversations come out of this roundtable.

Call for papers for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. “Rethinking Green Spain” This roundtable invites proposals interrogating the discursive and institutional framework of ‘Green Spain’ by analyzing the diverse sociocultural, historical, and linguistic constructions of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country.
Luke Bowe@lmbowe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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 PathMoody 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.
vrupu@vrupu.bsky.social · last yr.

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.
Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Paving the Way: For the Future of the Humanities

Students and faculty members in the humanities face mounting challenges—from skepticism about the value of humanities education to deteriorating pay and working conditions. The MLA is committed to res...

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Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · last yr.

3 ways to fight for the NEH: 1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming 2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have. 3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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
Luke Bowe@lmbowe.bsky.social · last yr.

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”
Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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...

UAW@uaw.org · last yr.

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

Miguel F. Turuelo@fturuelo.bsky.social · last yr.

Se ha publicado EN ABIERTO "Invertidos, provincianos y maleantes. Disidencias sexogenéricas y peligrosidad social en el franquismo asturiano" 📖 Os dejo el enlace, por si os presta un paseo por la Asturias invertida del franquismo: memoriademocratica.asturias.es/invertidos-p...

Invertidos, provincianos y maleantes: Disidencias sexogenéricas y peligrosidad social en el franquismo asturiano - MemoriaDemocratica

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vrupu@vrupu.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is the type of thing we need to be reading, thinking about today. Thanks Tressie McMillan Cottom. On recovering the sense of the collective to fight for democracy and against anomie.

Left unresolved, the inherent conflicts of democracy will produce its extremes Author Headshot By Tressie McMillan Cottom Donald Trump will be inaugurated today, on the federal holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The moment feels portentous. A president arrested not for justice but for fraud, who ran on promises to export “illegals,” christened “Black jobs” and made punching down a political art form, will officially preside over the nation’s memory project for the man who tried to make his style of racial politics an ancient artifact. The juxtaposition of King and Trump, a president who thinks of himself as king, feels very American. The two figures embody two different visions of this country. One rehashes our nation’s racist repositories of demagoguery and isolationism. The other organized and mobilized to make the Bill of Rights a working document, governed and governable by living up to the full franchise for all Americans. A lot of people still seem stunned, dismayed and despondent by the start of a second Trump presidency, but it feels oddly right to me that these two visions of America meet, after the nation chose a president who promises to Make America Great Again by turning backward to an America that only ever existed for a few, mostly white, male citizens. When you do not resolve the inherent conflicts of democracy, you will produce its extremes.A lot of my peers, especially, are mourning today. I received an email from someone asking me about my self-care plan for the day. That person expects Trump’s second installment to be so personally devastating to me that I should have a mental health strategy. That belief matches the mood of coverage that followed the 2024 election. Black Americans — especially Black women — were said to be divesting and dissociating from politics. We had organized and hustled and played by the rules. Some of us felt abandoned by white voters and Black men and Hispanic men. Some of us felt betrayed by the Democratic Party and caricatured by the Republican Party. The former first lady Michelle Obama is sitting out the inauguration. A lot of Black women see it as a silent protest from a woman who bore the brunt of the racist, sexist stereotyping that Trump turned into his political brand. They also see it as a model for how the rest of us should approach this second Trump administration. I don’t have a position on that, except my belief that Obama has done enough. If she doesn’t want to sit on the dais with a man whose rhetoric likely inspired his acolytes to make racist, sexist attacks on her character, that seems fine. Laudable, even. It certainly shows she has more sense of worth than the many Republican candidates now playing footsie with Trump after he insulted them, their wives and their mothers. I do have a position on the grief that so many voters are feeling today. And I do believe that it is grief. That’s why there are appeals to self-care. “Self-care” is the term we now have for managing big emotions, because we do not have collective means of caring for our mental health. But I don’t think self-care is going to cure what ails us. As sad as many are that Americans chose Trump, a lot of us are also grieving the end of a social movement, the extended cumulative shock of a pandemic and the end of Barack Obama’s multiracial coalition. That’s not just grief; that’s something akin to what sociologists call anomie. That’s a collective sense that a social contract — the norms on which we rely to navigate the vicissitudes of society — is broken. Anomie is a shared experience. It happens because the hallmarks of identity that we rely on to give us the safety to go to work, to make families and to trust strangers have eroded. A lot of Black Americans, especially, feel as if a promise was made when this country elected President Obama. They sensed a fulfillment of King’s vision of multiracial liberal democracy. I fear that we forget how King saw that multiracial liberal democracy coming to pass. It was not only a project of moral remediation of this nation’s racism. It was also always a project of this nation’s fundamental crises, including inequality and militarism. That King is not the white liberal fantasy of a man obsessed with content of character. It is the harder truth of King the mobilizer and the organizer, who saw poverty as a twin evil of racism. That King is the one we need to remember today. Because that King would not have been surprised that people scared of poverty would find a racist leader palatable. Trump and other Republicans will likely remember King today the way we have come to expect disingenuous actors to do so: by focusing on “I Have a Dream” and ignoring his dream for fair housing, economic redistribution and anti-imperialism. In that, Trump’s party has something in common with a lot of Democrats who do the same. But that is not the King who can comfort those of us today who are living in the grief of social abandonment, with the anomie of shifting sands beneath our sense of selves. In every crisis there is a disaster, but there is also an opportunity. Maybe this year is a…