Luke Bowe

The image has a poster with this text: 2027 MLA Convention. January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles. ALCESXXI and LLC Galician Studies Forum. Rethinking Green Spain. This roundtable invites proposals interrogating the discursive and institutional framework of "Green Spain" by analyzing the diverse sociocultural, historical, and linguistic constructions of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country. Submission Deadline: March 15. (250-word abstract and short bio). Eva Alvarez Vazquez ealvarezvazq@umass.edu. Luke Bowe bowe1@kenyon.edu. It has an image of a map of those regions in green.

📣 ¿Vas al #MLA 2027 (7–10 enero, LA)? ¡Súmate!

Rethinking Green Spain, organizada por Eva Álvarez Vázquez y @lmbowe.bsky.social, ALCESXXI y el Foro Galego, invita a repensar Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria y el País Vasco.

📄 250 palabras + bionota
📅 15 marzo
📧 ealvarezvazq@umass.edu/ bowe1@kenyon.edu

Call for papers for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. “Rethinking Green Spain” This roundtable invites proposals interrogating the discursive and institutional framework of ‘Green Spain’ by analyzing the diverse sociocultural, historical, and linguistic constructions of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country.

CFP for MLA 2027
Come think about Green Spain with us in Los Angeles next year! Excited to see what comparative conversations come out of this roundtable.

Orderly lines of whitewashed houses sit incongruously against the mountainous terrain surrounding the Asturian village of Tarna, destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. The village was personally ‘adopted’ by Franco, who promised its reconstruction as a testament to his supposed commitment to rural Spaniards. The archives tell a different story: a decades-long project plagued by institutional incompetence and paternalistic attitudes towards the villagers, whose complaints were haughtily dismissed by the regime. Rather than rehabilitate the pueblo in line with the real needs of the villagers, the fascist politicians and engineers instead looked to construct a Francoist social space. Photo from the Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies.

Happy to share that my research on the fitful reconstruction of Tarna, an Asturian mountain village destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, has been awarded the Watt Prize by ALBA @lincolnbrigade.bsky.social. It’s an honor to contribute to their antifascist legacy.

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Obsidian works great for this! There’s a graph view that lets you visualize links between topics/sources/notes. It’s free and super powerful, I love it for organizing all my research obsidian.md

Qué envidia!!

Congratulations!! Can’t wait to get my copy

“Blackface y otras vergüenzas” es una obra fenomenal, y Silvia una fuerza.

A newly arrived VAP of Spanish on Kenyon’s leafy Middle Path

Moody wood paneled lecture hall with light coming through stained glass windows

Cover art for my upcoming Midwest emo album. The smiling visage of the Wendy’s girl clashes with the haunting message “Misfortune Awaits / Lucky You” against a backdrop of clouds chasing the sun to the horizon.

Entering my Midwest emo phase as I start as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. So excited to teach courses here on Spanish language, culture, film, comics, music, and everything else I can cram in. 🌽👨🏻‍🏫

What a night for New Yorkers!

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life Please join us online on Friday, May 9th at 12:00PM for our fourth event of 2025, an online roundtable between Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson. The event will take place online and will be moderated by Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. This event is free. Please register at this link to attend. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r8IKLNkRIalYZe4JcRUtYos-h03VgnzVaZU7IloMCRk/viewform?edit_requested=true Megan Saltzman teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Her research combines literary and visual arts with ethnographic fieldwork to expose how everyday public practices carve out autonomy and resistance from below. Megan has published on urban culture in Spain related to gentrification, spatial in/exclusion, undocumented immigration, waste, urban furniture, grassroots cultural centers, street vending, and “artivism.” These themes come together in Megan’s most recent publication, the book Public Everyday Space. Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona (2024). Enric Bou is Emeritus Professor on Iberian Studies at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He is specialized in the study of 20th century literature and has published on autobiography, the relationship between art and literature, visual poetry and on Salvador Dalí, among others. His latest publications include Sabor y Saber: Acerca de los Paisajes Alimentarios Ibéricos (2023), and Cartographies of Disappearance in Literature. From the Routine to the Extraordinary (2024). Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, Editor of the Romance Quarterly and co-editor (with Benjamin Fraser) of Palgrave Macmillan’s Urban Cultural Studies book series. Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is Lecturer at Fordham University. His book Un país entre dos tiempos. Una década de experimentación política is about to be published by Lengua de Trapo/Circulo de Bellas Artes in Spain.

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life.
This Friday, 12pm-2pm (EST).

An online roundtable on three great recent books on everyday life and space in the Iberian context with their authors Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and @susanlarson.bsky.social.

Moderated by yours truly.

An eltaller@kjcc event.

Cover of _Franquismo de cartón piedra: arquitectura efímera y de propaganda en los primeros años de la dictadura José Gómez del Collado (1942-1948)_ by Jorge Bogaerts

Brilliant episode! The portion about the set designer was fascinating. Jorge Bogaerts published this fantastic book on the architect of these papier-mâché spectacles, for those curious for more info on the subject

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Join the 'Spatial Politics of Everyday Life' ZOOM roundtable hosted by NYU's King Juan Carlos I Center (KJCC) on Friday, May 9th at 12:00 EST by registering with the QR code in the announcement below. A discussion of recent books by Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson.

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani amping up the crowd at the MJ Lenderman show

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social opening for @mjlenderman.bsky.social is peak Brooklyn 👏🏻

😂 Looking at myself in profile while conversing with Isa was not the sort of out of body experience I had expected while defending haha

Screen shot of several of the primary texts I analyzed in my dissertation

I analyzed the battle for discursive and material hegemony over the region through an array of cultural texts, historical archives, and theoretical lenses to better understand Francoism from an understudied regional perspective. 📸 by @isabelalvarez.bsky.social We wish she were there in person!

Celebratory photo with the five amazing members of my dissertation committee

Yesterday I defended my dissertation “Mythologized Modernization: Asturias and the Construction of Franco’s Spain” and passed with distinction. So grateful to my committee for all the guidance along the way and a fantastic conversation to map the road ahead!

Thank you Adam!!

Thank you! Our MLA panel was so key to my thinking here

Submission of my doctoral dissertation “Mythologized Modernization: Asturias and the Construction of Franco’s Spain”

A picture is worth (7)1,000words, they say.
What a time to finish writing—for now—about authoritarianism, labor, extraction, and the mythologies of nation.

Presenters and audience chat around posters highlighting new pedagogical and curricular initiatives in the humanities in the Innovation Room at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans. Photo by David C. Aleman.

Working on exciting classroom initiatives? Harnessing new technologies? Collaborating with colleagues or across disciplines? Showcase your pedagogical and curricular developments at the #MLA26 Innovation Room! Apply by April 15. @modernlanguage.bsky.social @lydiatang.bsky.social
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Urgent—Congress Must Act to Reverse Devastating Cuts to Language Education Offices! On Tuesday, March 11th, the US Department of Education announced that it was laying off close to 50% of its staff. Based on documents and media reports we have seen, it appears that the Office of…

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I participated in a seminar this year on mining and extractivism in Spain and Latin America. Working intensively across several days with a diverse group of scholars was a fantastic way to share work, learn about the field, and forge connections for future collaboration. Highly recommended!

🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

El cani barroco YouTube video by Cyberdemon

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Pegatina que dice “I ❤️ cachopo” en Greenwich Village

Meca meca qué ye esto??
📍Greenwich Village NYC

Poster announcing extended deadline of April 1 to send in proposals for presentations at the XII International Conference of Research on Francoism

¡Ampliación de plazo hasta el 1 de abril!

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A snow-covered, traditional Asturian teito, a thatched cottage to provide shelter for cattle herders.

In Asturleonese, teito or teitu, sharing an origin with the castillan word techo, for roof! One can see how that name came about. Some are still maintained, mostly in the Somiedo natural park, like this one

Qué ganas de leerlo!!