Texas Tech Prof. Deena Varner on the Creighton memoranda and the administrative takeover of higher education. 👏👏⬇️
How to Occupy a University
Project 2025, Texas Tech, and the Administrative Remaking of Higher Education
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Susan Larson
@susanlarson.bsky.social
Professor of 20th Century Iberian Studies | Texas Tech University | Editor, Romance Quarterly | Madrid, Spain and Lubbock, Texas.
🆕 OBITUARIO / Jordi Borja: bandera roja a media asta o la revolución de una muerte digna Quien fue dirigente y disidente, diputado y concejal, intelectual y militante del PSUC, no ignoró ni dejó de confrontar el nuevo fascismo en ascenso ✍️ @mandreu.bsky.social ctxt.es/es/20260701/...
These vague directives result in an ongoing chilling effect that stifles debate, undermines students’ education, and sidelines the expertise that university faculty have earned via years of education and cutting-edge research. Full complaint here: drive.google.com/file/d/18xp2...
AAUP and Texas AAUP Complaint - July 2026.pdf
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Faculty groups sued Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton + the system’s regents Wednesday, asking a federal judge to block classroom restrictions they say have censored professors who teach about race, gender identity and sexual orientation + intentionally discriminated against Black faculty.
Texas Tech sued over limits on race, gender instruction
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to halt the restrictions as discriminatory, improperly vague and a violation of free speech.
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🚨🚨”Texas Tech University faculty say restrictions on instruction about race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation prompted changes or requests for changes in 277 courses.” Faculty teaching conditions are student learning conditions! www.texastribune.org/2026/05/29/t...
Texas Tech’s restrictions on race, gender lessons prompt changes
A faculty senate survey found professors altered or were asked to change material in 277 courses after Texas Tech’s restrictions on race, sexuality and gender.
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A new issue of the RQ is out today. Articles on the comics of Alex Saló, the prose of Manuel de Pedrolo, the novels of Fernanda Trías, Camila Sosa Villada and Silvia Nanclares, Spanish theater in New York (1965-75), and books reviews. Many thanks to all involved! www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/c...
My review of Enric Bou's beautiful book _Cartographies of Disappearance: Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature_ has been published in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2DENB...
Cartographies of disappearance: vestiges of everyday life in literature
Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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On this day on 14 April 1931 the 2nd Spanish Republic was declared. Its arrival was greeted with euphoria by progressive Spain, including initially by anarchist masses. Its greatest material achievement: creating some 16,000 schools until crushed by Franco and his Nazi-fascist allies in 1939.
The Finale of our “Close Reading For The 21st Century” trilogy is out in the world. I promise it will make you laugh, make you cry, make you wish you were dead, & make you rage against the dying of the light. Okay?
Connie L. Scarborough closes the Romance Quarterly 73.1 with a review of Robin M. Bower’s In the Doorway of All Worlds. Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints. 🔗 Link below
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
404 Media@404media.co · 5mo agoThis is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (@ruthyuste.bsky.social) reviews Heather Jerónimo’s Performing Parenthood. Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film (2024) in the RQ 73.1. 🔗 Link below
Eric Salazar reads the generative power of instability in Cristobal Colon’s letters in “Ninguno puede dar razón cierta: incertidumbre, ruina y adversidad en las cartas de Cristobal Colón”. 🔗 Link below 📷 Carta a Luis de Santángel (1493)
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...
Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies
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I’m pretty psyched about this visit to Penn State’s Humanities Institute next month.
🚨On widespread censorship at Texas Tech: “When they say faculty aren’t allowed to advocate for something, what we read that as is, they aren’t allowed to mention it,” said one academic adviser, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliatory discipline. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/t...
Texas Tech struggles with new policy on gender, race
The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”
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Danny Barreto@danburrito.bsky.social · 7mo agoCFP: Estudos galegos en @romancequarterly.bsky.social ❕Rogamos máxima difusión Dende hai unha década os estudos galegos teñen máis presenza na academia norteamérica. Este número pretende difundir a investigación que xurde dos distintos encontros e redes de galicianistas nestes lares #estudosgalegos
Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.” Link below. 🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions
ETHICS IS NOW CANCELED AT TEXAS A&M Statement from Dr. Leonard Bright....
Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/13/t...
Were your Texas college courses changed this semester?
Amid new policies restricting instruction on race, gender and sexuality, The Texas Tribune seeks examples of college course changes from students and instructors.
texastribune.org
I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay. I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet. Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. - Leonard Cohen
Short video about my new book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social out now in the UK and Spain, and in the rest of Europe, the US, etc on January 5. Many thanks
Alejandro Palma Castro proposes a moving necropoetic reading in “Hacia una necropoetica en la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: Sujetos de duelo en La mata de Eliana Hernández y La muerte golpea en lunes de Maricarmen Velasco” Link below 🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
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Zohran Mamdani Victory Speech: NY Political Shift, Change Mandate, Cuomo
New York Politics: Zohran Mamdani's victory as new NYC mayor challenges old norms, overturns Cuomo's legacy. His win signifies a shift to a hopeful, inclusive political landscape. Hear his plans on re...
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There is a new addition to Palgrave Macmillan’s Hispanic Urban Studies series. _Urban Memories: The Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s Public Space, 1979-1992_ by Teresa Pinheiro of the Institute for European Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
