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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I started a substack. Goal: to talk about literature (and stuff) with no jargon. Ideal reader: my father. Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms. alikulez.substack.com

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I’m always drawn to images of food: “Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Pedro Páramo pairs well with this artisanal mezcal from Oaxaca. Side effect: I want to answer every question with “un rencor vivo.” Example: —How is grading going? —Un rencor vivo.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There was this couple at Costco with a black plastic sheet and electric candles on one of the dining tables, sharing a plate of hot chocolate cookies over champagne (or Gatorade who knows) in plastic glasses. I’m not sure if it’s a level of nof.csgiven to aspire for or be afraid of. #happyvalentines

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Truly the gift most desired. Along with chocolate-dipped strawberries and a couple’s massage.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I had no idea Baldwin had a strict religious upbringing and had even become a preacher for the Pentecostal church when he was 14. It’s a novel full of heartbreak, racial violence, and familial dysphoria, but also of transcendence and religious ecstasy.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cooking with my students—still the best pedagogical experience for me. While listening to the latest tunes of Bad Bunny, the students of #foodandidentity learned how to cook mofongo.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Already done. It’s being repatriated.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Just when I’m teaching a course on indigeneity in Latin America.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...

The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce that in 2025 the journal will once again offer a Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available [link]

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake

It's Timothee Chalamet with his cunty little moustache with a "hmmm why not" expression

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María Angélica Tamayo @angelicatp.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Choose your fighter

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What do you think is the bigger problem in higher ed? Woke indoctrination or half the profs making $3,000 per semester? Hard to say

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Preparing a course on indigeneity in Latin American culture, and came across this fantastic game called Mulaka, developed through a collaboration with anthropologists and Tarahumara leaders. Can’t wait to play and “read” it with the students.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 6

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

chop from top chop from the cop chop from the coach

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sabbatical rental posts are the closest academia gets to MTV Cribs

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

🔊🔔🎤 Check out a sneak peek of my edited volume! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Cover of the edited collection Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds.

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Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?

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Natalie Belisle @nataliebelisle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My book (February 2025) , Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home, is available for pre-order at Rutgers University Press. 😀 www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/caribbean-in...

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Proofs are in! It’s a pleasure to publish an article on Aslı Erdoğan, an award-winning, exiled Turkish author still little known in the US. I can’t think of a better home for this essay than Comparative Literature Studies. #newpub #globalSouth

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

When your favorite artist reposts you on #bluesky. This made my day, and it was only 7am.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Jorge Amado: "The attitude of pious admiration for European and North American culture while continuing to close our eyes to the rest of the world keeps us in a narrow, provincial, and colonial position. Why should we know everything about France and nothing about Syria or Lebanon?" #globalSouth

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

how power pushes one into self-contradiction. Those two final adverbs do "interfere," big time: "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Spirit animal => Spirit animal after the holidays

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Check out this opportunity at BC

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Tell me you’re Turkish without telling me you’re Turkish

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 6

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

'The Politics of Food & Hunger in Spanish Literature, 1945–2015', by Deborah Madden @Lancaster University In Franco's Spain, food & hunger were politicized and its ‘hunger years’ (1939–1952) pervade Spanish fiction... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Politics of Food and Hunger in Spanish Literature, 1945–2015

In Francoist Spain, food and hunger were empathically politicized and, though conspicuously absent from State discourses, Spain’s infamous ‘hunger years’ (1939–1952) pervade Spanish fiction. Litera...

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I’m thankful alright. I hate, though, what a cowardly affect it is on a political level. Thankfulness is an affirmation of *my* world, of what *I* have, despite—or more precisely, in the face of—the world’s dispossession at large.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 5

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 4

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

bracing myself for the turkey/Turkey jokes on Thanksgiving (luckily they happen mostly in my inner monologue)

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

It’s here, a *start* of an Islamic Studies Starter Pack. Please spread the word. This is a work in progress… Scholars of Islam in all regions and periods, let me know, and I’ll happily add you. go.bsky.app/EYU1bFe

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 3

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Although trade between Cuba and Russia collapses after 1991, having been built on political logic instead of economic ones, surprised to learn that it partially boomerangs back around before the end of the 90s This means rebuilding of relations actually precedes Putin era

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 2

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 1

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