New @hopkinspress.bsky.social podcast! Star translator Edward Snow reads 6 previously unpublished translations of Rilke poems. The poems appear in latest (open-access!) issue-- MLN vol. 141.3. www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h...

We are open for general submissions for our next German issue! Please email MLNJournal@jh.edu with any questions.

New graphic to reflect our new issue-- inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue coming soon (January 2027) from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Stephen D. Dowde in "Poetry as Embodied Language in Rilke" ”It may well be that we reach out with speech much as we use our hands. "I relate to the word," says Merleau-Ponty, "just as my hand reaches for the place on my body being stung."“

MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 4w ago

Out now! Edited by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, this issue marks a century since the death of Rilke. It traces the reverberations of Rilke’s 'afterlives' across visual art, translation, philosophy, literary criticism, and wider culture. @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Read "Requiem for a Friend" + 5 other new translations of Rilke (transl. Edward Snow) here: www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

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Victoria Livingstone@victoriajane.bsky.social · 4w ago

These lines! From Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend," translated by Edward Snow. Written for Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her daughter. Read the full poem + 5 other new translations in the new open-access issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social

And, coming soon: audio recordings of 6 new translations of Rilke poems-- translations by Edward Snow. In print in this issue (open access!) and audio (soon) via the Hopkins Press podcast @hopkinspress.bsky.social

MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 4w ago

Out now! Edited by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, this issue marks a century since the death of Rilke. It traces the reverberations of Rilke’s 'afterlives' across visual art, translation, philosophy, literary criticism, and wider culture. @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Out now! Edited by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, this issue marks a century since the death of Rilke. It traces the reverberations of Rilke’s 'afterlives' across visual art, translation, philosophy, literary criticism, and wider culture. @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

Parenting offers intimate witness to another individual’s dynamic becoming. Heather Jerónimo offers a view of Spanish parenthood that goes beyond normative assumptions, toward a larger process of societal realization. Check out @akkendrick.bsky.social's review in our most recent Hispanic issue.

Estão abertas, até 25 de maio, as inscrições para os simpósios temáticos da Abralic, em novembro de 2026, em Porto Alegre. Estou organizando este simpósio "Escritas do Capitaloceno" junto com os colegas João G. Dayrell (UFRGS) e André Cechinel (UFSC). Inscrevam-se em abralic.org.br e compartilhem

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

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

Great new project from @veritas44.bsky.social who guest edited our Italian issue last year. Reti di Carta is a data visualization project that maps the transnational relationships organized and mediated by Italian American periodicals between 1890 and 1980: reti.stefanomorello.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

MLN author Rodrigo Lopes de Barros has just released his film about the Brazilian poet Ricardo Aleixo. “Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlantic” is the winner of the Pierre Verger Award in Ethnographic Films by the Brazilian Anthropology Association. It has been screened widely. youtu.be/wGy8-EhXknM

Ricardo Aleixo: Afro-Atlântico

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Li apenas o começo por enquanto, mas esse artigo parece espetacular!

MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Também em nosso novo número: Em "Punks e sem-terra", Rodrigo Lopes de Barros traça a influência do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em bandas de hardcore punk brasileiras atuantes nas décadas de 1990 e 2000, tais como Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, Dead Fish.

Também em nosso novo número: Em "Punks e sem-terra", Rodrigo Lopes de Barros traça a influência do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) em bandas de hardcore punk brasileiras atuantes nas décadas de 1990 e 2000, tais como Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, Dead Fish.

In our recent Hispanic issue, Romina Wainberg reviews Nicolás Campisi’s The Return of the Contemporary (pub @upittpress.bsky.social) interrogating whether Latin American novels illustrate theory or produce it—and why that distinction matters today. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/journal/128

More reading!

MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our 2026 Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social, is now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access. The cover image is adapted from a 1985 poster for the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)-- check out the article by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros for full context.

Have you ever thought about what sort of "feminist" María de Zayas was, if she was one at all? Have you noticed the many female slaves in her fiction? For more, check out Elizabeth Rhodes's article "Women Enslaved in Zayas's 'La esclava de su amante'" in our new issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/56754

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

Our new Hispanic issue opens with an article by Song No, who reads Garcilaso’s La Florida del Inca through the concepts of epistemic infrastructure and environmental knowledge. The essay reveals fractures in colonial ways of understanding nature.

Our 2026 Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social, is now on @projectmuse.bsky.social and open access. The cover image is adapted from a 1985 poster for the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)-- check out the article by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros for full context.

A reminder of the approaching deadline for our Hispanic issue, edited by @becquer.bsky.social We will consider articles in English, Spanish, or Portuguese (and on literature in those languages + Catalan, etc.)

Our most recent Italian issue is out now, and open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Scholars of Jewish literature, thought, and culture: Please share and consider submitting to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

Deadline extended to April 1! Spring break is a perfect time to finish that essay...

MLN Journal@mlnjournal.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Deadline for the "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" CFP is March 15! 👇

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Friends: I have been recently appointed to the Global South MLA Forum executive committee and the CFP below is backed by the forum. **** World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons **** Please consider submitting your abstract and/or kindly repost! Thank you!

Friends: I have been recently appointed to the Global South MLA Forum executive committee and the CFP below is backed by the forum. **** World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons **** Please consider submitting your abstract and/or kindly repost! Thank you!

If you would like to review Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @culturalcritique.bsky.social, please see 👇!

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Friends: I was recently in touch with the journal @culturalcritique.bsky.social and if you'd like to review Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, I can put you in touch with them, or you can do so directly. The journal should be able to arrange for you to get a copy through the press.

Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

Don't miss our lively conversation with Christian Rivoletti and @mlnjournal.bsky.social editors Leonardo Lisi and @victoriajane.bsky.social from the Hopkins Press Podcast about the Auerbach dossier! www.press.jhu.edu/multimedia/h...

Hopkins Press Podcast 4.13: MLN on Literature, War, and Exile: A Rediscovered Typescript by Erich Auerbach

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Hopkins Press@hopkinspress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW MLN 140.5, Dec 2025 
 Special Issue: Literature, War and Exile: A Rediscovered Typescript by Erich Auerbach (Istanbul, 1940-41) #S2O #OpenAccess at Project MUSE  tinyurl.com/3nz5bxtt CONTRIBUTORS
 Christian Rivoletti Erich Auerbach Haun Saussy Jeppe Barnwell and more

Great week for Auerbach! Read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's essay in New Literary History and also MLN's latest Comparative Literature issue, which includes a dossier on Auerbach (from researcher Christian Rivoletti) All from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

José Eduardo González@jose-eduardo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pretty good week for Mr. Auerbach! Adding these 2 to my weekend reading list. @victoriajane.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/vict...