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Nicolás Fernández-Medina

@nicolasfmedina.bsky.social

Professor of Spanish & Iberian Studies; Dept. of Romance Studies at Boston University; Series Editor-MQUP's Iberian and Latin American Cultures

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Rebecca M. Bender @rebeccadactyl.bsky.social · last mo.

Non-Motherhood, (In)Fertility, and Choice in Two Recent Spanish Narratives - preview of my recent article published with the Hispanic Studies Review, where you can access the PDF (links in my blog post) rebeccambender.com/2026/09/03/n...

Non-Motherhood, (In)Fertility, and Choice in Two Recent Spanish Narratives

This post shares my recent article, published in the Hispanic Studies Review, which analyzes two Spanish “hybrid narratives”: Míriam Aguilar’s “¿Y ahora qué?” (2024) a…

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⌛️ Reminder! The deadline to apply for the Medical Humanities International PhD Summer School 2026 is Monday 16 February10am CET. It is open to active PhD students who have not been awarded a PhD before the application deadline. More information and apply: medhumsplatform.org/medical-huma...

Medical Humanities International PhD Summer School 2026

The Medical Humanities International Summer School is open for applications from PhD students.

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 10mo ago

CHECK OUT #MQUP’s new website! www.mqup.ca Check here for the McGill-Queen's Iberian and Latin American Cultures Series: www.mqup.ca/Series/M/McG... Check here for new releases: www.mqup.ca/Recent-News/...

Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thanks for this fascinating contribution to our Reading Bodies takeover this week, @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social! 🩺👇

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In Part 3 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines the Spanish avant-garde’s response to the biomedical sciences through the lens of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s pioneering avant-gardism. thepolyphony.org/2025/10/22/b...

Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Olivia Glaze@oliviaglaze.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm

Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · last yr.

**NeMLA Session** The Worlds of Science and Religion in Modern Spanish Literature, organized by Íñigo Huércanos Esparza (Boston U) The session will be held in-person, with limited remote presentations Abstracts (max. 300 words) by Sept 30 Decisions by Oct 16. cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · last yr.

**New from MQUP's Iberian & Latin Am Cultures Series** From Griffin to Axolotl: Reimagining the Bestiary in Contemporary Hispanic Literature, by Ailen Cruz "What the resurgence of a medieval literary genre reveals about contemporary Latin America and Spain" www.mqup.ca/from-griffin...

The fox is cunning, the lion is brave. These familiar ideas span back to the medieval bestiary – short, animal-centred texts, often illustrated, used to disseminate Christian teachings in medieval society. Translated into dozens of languages, bestiaries were wildly popular until the twelfth century.

After centuries of obscurity, six of Latin America’s most prominent writers – Juan José Arreola, Jorge Luis Borges, Nicolás Guillén, Augusto Monterroso, Pablo Neruda, and José Emilio Pacheco – took up the bestiary during the experimental Latin American avant-garde and Boom periods. From Griffin to Axolotl presents the bestiary as a distinct genre within Hispanic literature, examining its resurgence in the contemporary canon. Analyzing a corpus of over eighty bestiaries collected through field research in Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain, Ailén Cruz explores the evolutions of the genre. Reimagined through both prose and art, and moving beyond religious teachings, these bestiaries range from the rebellious to the nonsensical, touching on a spectrum of topics – from preservation of Indigenous Latin American cultures to environmental crises and the human condition.

From Griffin to Axolotl promotes an understudied genre of Hispanic literature, demonstrating that the bestiary is not extinct, but has been remoulded for modern society.

Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · last yr.

**New from MQUP's Iberian & Latin Am Culture Series** Pasting Up Protest: The Art of Memorializing Violence in Mexican Printmaking, by Annik Bilodeau "How artistic activism challenges political and gender-based violence in Mexico and reshapes collective memory" www.mqup.ca/pasting-up-p...

Across Mexico, human rights abuses take many forms, as do the strategies designed to denounce and resist them. Political street art thrives; murals, stencils, and posters challenge authorities and commemorate the missing and the disappeared.

Pasting Up Protest explores the sociopolitical engagement of contemporary Mexican artists, introducing the concept of memory activism, the guiding philosophy behind their efforts to expose human rights violations such as forced disappearances and feminicides. Through her analysis of street art interventions from the collectives ASARO, URT-Arte, ARMARTE, and MuGRe over the past decade, Annik Bilodeau argues that these artists are shaping a new collective memory. By depicting real-life victims and referencing past acts of state-sponsored violence, their works create a familiar visual vocabulary that elicits empathy and compassion in the viewer. A reliance on a tradition of printmaking, a highly reproducible medium, further amplifies the emotional impact of the images.

A critical examination of the role of art in creating public memory, Pasting Up Protest sheds light on how Mexican artists document crimes of the state, transforming citizens into political agents of change.

Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... @readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social

Renowned author Sarah Moss set for public talk on her writing and the human body

An acclaimed novelist whose work has regularly explored themes of health and the human body will give a public interview next month for an international research project. Sarah Moss – a three-time Wel...

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · last yr.

The Iberian & Latin American Cultures Series at McGill-Queen's UP is opening a call for single-authored, English language manuscripts. Details of the submission procedure for proposals can be found here: www.mqup.ca/submitting-a... For questions, feel free to reach out to me: nfm@bu.edu Thanks!

Carles Ferrando Valero @ferrandovalero.bsky.social · last yr.

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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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!

Rebecca M. Bender @rebeccadactyl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us next Friday 4/11 at 3pm ET for the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas’s virtual Feria del Libro. Each presentation is 20-minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A - great for students, too! Register here for zoom: dartmouth.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 2y ago

New book by Andrew W. Keitt on the linkages between medicine and politics in nineteenth-century Spain: A Physician in the Age of Liberal Reform: Ildefonso Martínez y Fernández and Medical Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain Check it out here: lsupress.org/978080718228...

Betsy Franklin Lewis @bandrlewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

CfP 2026 MLA Toronto Jan 8-11 1. Can You Guess My Name? Pen Names, Pseudonyms, and Anonymous Authorship in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Texts elewis@umw.edu 2. “On the Mend!”: Healing in 18th and 19th Century Iberian Literature and Art Sara.munoz@dartmouth.edu 250-word proposals. DEADLINE 3/15

Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!

Betsy Franklin Lewis @bandrlewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to make my first post on BlueSky to spread the news about this great volume! 'The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century' by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/02/17/t...

‘The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century’ by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley

The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities, edited by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, has recently been published in the Oxf…

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Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 2y ago

New from MQUP! Y Tu Mamá También, by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez A critical study of the musical legacy, new media afterlives, and queer significance of the 2001 hit. www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important disciplinary discussion happening tomorrow at @bibliophilenick.bsky.social's book launch. Don’t miss it! @monicadstyles.bsky.social

To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness book launch.

Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 2y ago

Students & faculty from BU Dept of Romance Studies have collaborated on the first-ever exhibition on the archive of poet Federico García Lorca. The exhibition Lorca y el archivo: Memoria en movimiento is the largest ever organized by the Centro Federico García Lorca. www.bu.edu/rs/2025/01/2...

https://www.bu.edu/rs/2025/01/28/bu-rs-faculty-students-collaborate-on-lorca-exhibition/

Nicolás Fernández-Medina @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social · 2y ago

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!