Sofía Ruvira

@sofiaruvira.bsky.social

✍️ | phd @ Yale

This is a sunrise I’ve wanted to see for a while—more so with Shem Tov by my side. An essay on the value of language work, inside Jewish Castile and out, in the Hispanic Review, linked below.

Bild

Whenever I am afraid of mean academics (rarely, since everyone has been so nice to me, but sometimes however) I remember I already belonged to the toughest industry: the world of classical ballet.

Eclipses and volcanoes, the "stale peace of old bedtimes" that fills Geryon's room, swimming pools still at night, forged or earnest etymologies, illegible papiri fragments, and how Motalbetti describes it: "Si p entonces q / esa es la teoría del poema de A. Carson / pero sólo si p es falso"

Bild

La lengua extranjera se publica el 22 de octubre, con Random House gracias a Albert y Roberta, queridísimos editores la traducción, como siempre, de María Alonso Seisdedos 📷 y la portada nace de la mirada brillante de Wolfgang Tillmans y de las cosas que hacen los químicos durante el revelado

Bild

It feels so soothing to receive revisions where, even though the manuscript you submit to peer review require major revisions, the comments are kind and not destroy your self steem/ make you believe that you are a terrible writer/researcher to the point where you believe you should quit.