MLA 2019 Session: Expanding Colonial Geographies

This panel aims to re-conceptualize traditional colonial geographies in the Spanish speaking world by considering the transactions between Colonial Latin America and the Global Hispanophone world. How did colonial commercial and knowledge networks between Latin America and the Global Hispanophone…[Read more]

MLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone

As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]

MLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)

Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS
KIOSK LITERATURE IN SILVER AGE SPAIN: MODERNITY AND MASS CULTURE
Editors: Jeffrey Zamostny (University of West Georgia) and
Susan Larson (University of Kentucky)

Starting in 1907 with the appearance of the novelette collection El Cuento Semanal, an astonishing array of literary texts flooded kiosks throughout Spain. Kiosk…[Read more]