BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8
Carles Ferrando Valero
@ferrandovalero.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Spanish Lit & Cultures | Iberian Peninsula | Infrastructures | 19th-21st C. | Modernist at Heart https://bgsu.academia.edu/CarlesFerrandoValero
While Spain and France were in negotiations to determine where one country ended and the other one began, Carolina Coronado remarked on the deterritorializing force of nature she experienced on her "Paseo desde el Tajo al Rhin." Read about it in my latest article: muse.jhu.edu/article/987684
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sci... Assistant Teaching Professor, Spanish World Languages and Cultures at Bowling Green State University invites applications for a full-time, non-renewable (one-year) Assistant Teaching Professor position with a start date of August 10, 2026
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World Languages and Cultured Vacancy Announcement: Assistant Teaching Professor, Spanish World Languages and Cultures at Bowling Green State University
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Looking forward to participating in the special session "Catalonia and the Ends of Empire" this Thursday. If you are attending #MLA26, come join us! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
Catalonia and the Ends of Empire: Memorialization and Erasure in the Philippines and Morocco
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Available Open Access as part of @mlnjournal.bsky.social's latest issue. My article "Shaping the Nation through Its North-African Other: The Castilianization of Spain and the Hispano-Moroccan War" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Shaping the Nation through Its North-African Other: The Castilianization of Spain and the Hispano-Moroccan War
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Our latest Hispanic issue just printed and will be up on @projectmuse.bsky.social very soon. Edited by @becquer.bsky.social with a dossier on Catalan studies edited by @albertlloret.bsky.social, Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer
Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....
Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds. Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.
Looking forward to participating in this ACLA seminar! Join us Friday and Saturday to discuss extractivism and nation building in the long 19th century www.acla.org/virtual-conf...
Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century | American Comparative Literature Association
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BGSU World Languages and Cultures invites applications for two full-time, one-year assistant teaching professors in Spanish. Start date is August 11, 2025. For a complete job description & instructions on how to apply visit www.schooljobs.com/careers/bgsu.
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On Monday, April 14 @ 3pm EST/US the Iberian Modernist Studies Forum @ Boston U will be hosting Christopher Maurer, Prof of Spanish, Boston U. The title of his Zoom presentation is: “Lorca’s American Archive.” Please reach out for the Zoom link to nfm@bu.edu or inh@bu.edu. Hope you can join us!
Iberian Modernist Studies Forum @ BU will be hosting Max Jensen, Asst. Prof. Spanish & Comp Lit, U of Pittsburgh, Bradford, Monday, Mar 24 @ 3pm US/EST. Title of Zoom presentation is: “Garcilasismo: The End of Peninsular Modernism?” Reach out for link or with questions. I hope you can join us!
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
Please circulate widely and consider submitting your abstracts mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...
Call for Papers: Technocracy in the Modern Hispanic World (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
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“The fact that they have chosen a culture war education bill to start off with in this General Assembly really shows that they’re out of touch..." Ohio students and faculty slam higher ed overhaul bill: ‘We’re not going to stop fighting it.’ ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/30/o...
Ohio students and faculty slam higher ed overhaul bill: 'We're not going to stop fighting it.' • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio college students and faculty members are speaking out against a controversial bill that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices, prevent faculty from striking, place rules around classr...
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Iberian Modernist Studies Forum @ BU presents: Rafael Cabañas Alamán, SLU, Madrid Campus "Los objetos insólitos y el alma en las minificciones de Ramón Gómez de la Serna" Monday, Feb 24, 3-4pm US/EST Zoom Presentation For Zoom link, pls reach out to nfm@bu.edu or inh@bu.edu Thanks!
www.dispatch.com/story/news/p... SB1 would also curb faculty's expression of views on “climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion.” Please share and email your state representatives and Gov. DeWine.
Ohio GOP lawmakers want to eliminate DEI, ban faculty strikes at public universities
Lawmakers say higher education is broken. They want to fix it by ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs and prohibiting faculty from striking
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Free access to my JSCS article below until March 1, 2025!
Reading the automobile in Antonio de Espina’s 1929 novel “Luna de copas”, Carles Ferrando Valero examines the tensions between urban and rural effected by Primo de Rivera’s infrastructure projects that offered new ways of engaging the Spanish countryside doi.org/10.1080/1463...