Dear colleagues, here’s a link to a self-archived author’s postprint (Open Access) version of my contribution to the recently published The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies (eds. Javier Múñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, and Manuel Delgado).

For purposes of academic publication, please cite publisher’s version of record: Wacks, David A. “An Inter…[Read more]

What would you assign in English to give 100-level gen ed students a broad yet critical (think Howard Zinn’s People’s History)  overview of medieval Iberian cultural history? I have good material for Latin America and Modern Spain, but nothing for premodernity (or whatever you want to call it). Thanks! David

Representing the Nonhuman: A panel on Jewish and/or Hebrew animal narratives, zoopoetics, nature writing, ecocriticism, and posthumanist literature and cinema.
Contact: Naama Harel, nh2508@columbia.edu
Deadline: March 15, 2017

Literary depictions of walls, borders, fences and other barriers.  Modern Hebrew literature as a discursive space of bridging or division

Contact: Phillip Hollander, phollander@wisc.edu

Deadline: March 20, 2017

Literature and the economy — circulation, economic networks, poetic currency, real estate, commodities, fetishes and Marxist critique in modern Hebrew writing.

Contact — Barbara Mann, bamann@jtsa.edu

Deadline — March 20, 2017

This fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…

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Please contribute any ideas you may have.  CFPs for the 2018 convention will go out at the end of February.