Two University Press books out in 2013:

Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool UP)
http://www.amazon.com/Disability-Studies-Spanish-Culture-Representations/dp/184631870X/

Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives (U South Carolina…[Read more]

Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.

Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!

I’ve just started a series of podcasts at:
UrbanCulturalStudies Podcasts
The first one is a conversational interview inspired by scholar Stephen Vilaseca’s recent article “From Graffiti to Street Art: How Urban Artists Are Democratizing Spanish City Centers and Streets,” originally published in the journal Trans…[Read more]

It looks like there are at least four e-lit oriented CFPs for MLA14, including mine: Electronic Literature after Flash. http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_6103

When does service become scholarship? When does anything become scholarship? I ask—and answer—here: http://www.samplereality.com/2013/02/08/when-does-service-become-scholarship/

My Mason colleague Sean Takats has posted some thoughts about going up for tenure (in History) partly based on his digital work. His post (and comments from me) might be of interest to the MLA community: http://quintessenceofham.org/2013/01/17/dh-tenure-1-the-talk/

“Why Inaccessibility is the Norm in Higher Ed” http://ow.ly/gQ3HA

From Fish to Print, my 2012 was a very busy year. Here’s what happened: http://www.samplereality.com/2013/01/12/from-fish-to-print-my-2012-in-review/

Consider joining “Aggregating MLA13” to help collect the digital ephemera associated with this year’s annual conference: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/aggregating-mla13/