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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy start of fall from Quebéc ✨✨🍂

Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy to see this go live today! “Computational Approaches to Latin American Literary Production” is now available in the Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. The editors were a joy to work with, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute ✨ link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m thrilled that my book- Digital Literary Redlining- has received the 2026 Ángel David Nieves Book award for best monograph from the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus! Thanks to the series editors and all at Stanford UP. I believe this is the 3rd book award in the series!

Picture of the book cover of digital literary redlining from the press announcing the book award.

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CFP: "Geo-Medical Syndemics: Earthquakes, Geotrauma & Mental Health in the Planetary Imagination," Université de Montréal, Feb 5-7, 2027. I'm co-organizing ✨ Deadline extended✨ still accepting papers, panels & posters from scholars, artists & practitioners across disciplines! viral-conjunctures.com

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Home - Viral Conjunctures

The Research Group Viral Conjunctures Founded in 2024, “Viral Conjunctures” is an open, interuniversity, and multidisciplinary research group based at the Université de Montréal. Consisting of establi...

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 We’re hiring in Russian Studies at McGill! ✨ Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Russian Literature and Culture. Join our vibrant, multilingual community in Montréal. Bonus ⭐ I’ll be your department chair for at least your first year Please share widely mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Assistant Professor

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you! Hope all is well. Happy memories from your talk here in MTL 💫

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy to share that I’ve joined Amelia Acker and Meredith Martin as a co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Analytics. ⚡ Send us your new work at the intersection of culture, computation, and critical inquiry. Delighted to receive innovative, high quality articles. culturalanalytics.org

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thanks for taking these awesome shots, Crystal! And I appreciated your thoughtful questions.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Slides from today’s DHSI keynote on “regional language models and knowledge production”.

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Multilingual Digital Humanities Supervision at McGill (2017-Present)
2017-2020
2020-2024
2025-

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
LaRissa Ituze - ICT development in Uganda & Brazil; digital inequality across multillingual policy contexts
Rhian Lewis — Spanish-language Twitter networks; digital affect & gendered violence Katherine Edge — Spanish-language digital religious communities; platform economies & transnational identity formation

GRADUATE & DOCTORAL COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH
Alayne Moody — Topic modeling & sentiment analysis of multilingual migrant letter archives in translation
Robyn Wang — Diasporic Chinese-American literary networks through digital correspondence
Lidia Ponce de la Vega — GIS & text modeling of Spanish/Portuguese biodiversity archives Katherine Bundy — Ibero-American short films; multilingual metadata & digital nationalism
Kaylin Land — Computational comparison of Russian & American space memoirs

Al & COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Anna Legault - Spatial models of language & large language models
"If language is spatial, what are L.L.Ms designing?"
Digital archives → Computational modeling → AT epistemology

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DIGITAL
ENCOUNTERS
Envisioning Connectivity in
Latin American Cultural Production

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Home About Us Resources® FAQ
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LatamGPT
A language model made in Latin America, for Latin America
Why do we need a Latin American LLM?
It's important that we develop capabilities in the region to have independence and make decisions about how this technology impacts society. Until now, we don't have a regional language model, and this task cannot be undertaken by just one group or country: it's a challenge that requires the effort of the entire region.

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Selected Regional and Sovereign AI Models
Selected examples by region — not exhaustive
LATIN AMERICA
• Latam-GPT (Pan-Latin America)
• Sabiá (Brazil)
• GAIA (Brazil)
• Amazônia IA (Brazil)
AFRICA
• InkubaLM / Lelapa (South Africa)
• UlizaLlama (Kenya)
• AfriGPT (Africa)
EUROPE
• Latxa (Basque Country)
• Poro (Finland / EU)
• Bielik (Poland)
• Teuken-7B / OpenGPT-X (Germany)
• EuroLL (Europe)
OpenEuroLLM (EU)
Apertus (Switzerland)
• Mistral Al (France)
MIDDLE EAST
• Jais (United Arab Emirates)
• ALLaM (Saudi Arabia)
ASIA
• SEA-LION (Singapore / Southeast Asia)
• Sarvam-1 (India)
• HyperCLOVA X (South Korea)
• Taiwan-LLM (Taiwan)
• OpenThaiGPT (Thailand)
INDIGENOUS / COMMUNITY-LED
• Papa Reo (Mãori / Aotearoa New Zealand)

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hey, DHSI! Looking forward to seeing you today at 12:00 p.m. for the final lecture of the Institute’s summer programming. Really looking forward to the discussion to follow :)

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The MLA AI and Research Working Group's new "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" offers questions and case studies on AI literacy, human-centered expertise, and responsibility and ethics to guide discussion and reflection. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

At LASA 2026, I presented work from our in-progress edited volume on new forms of migration in LatAm. A Paris highlight was a meeting between my PhD supervisee, Lara Bourdin & her cotutelle co-supervisor, Leonardo Tonus (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle): in person for the first time in 5 years! ✨

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.

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No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Closing out our Crisis and Care speaker series with Claire Battershill (University of Toronto) on May 14, 4:00–5:30 pm (680 Sherbrooke, Rm 1041). Her talk, “Slow Looking and Close Reading,” reflects on care, collaboration, and craft in humanities research in the age of AI. See you there!

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 13/04/2026

Tuned into the Global DH Symposium today! Very grateful for the livestream available here: www.youtube.com/@GlobalDHSym... Thank you @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social !!! #msuglobaldh

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Global Digital Humanites Symposium

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’m very happy to invite you to the next talk in our Crisis and Care speaker series! In “Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning,” Carolyn Fornoff will examine how activists and artists in Latin America remember murdered land defenders and resist the erasure of lives lost to extractive violence.

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hey MTL! Our 3rd Crisis and Care speaker is Julia Alekseyeva on 03/19 at 4:30pm. Julia’s talk examines how Soviet avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov conceived documentary cinema as a tool for transforming perception and consciousness, modelling what she calls a form of revolutionary phenomenology.

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

At ACLA this week, I’ll be speaking on “From Residue to Renewal: Transmedia Storytelling and the Afterlives of Extraction,” as part of the panel “Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time.” Come talk rot, residue, and renewal with us. 🍂#ACLA #Transmedia #EnvironmentalHumanities

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Delighted to participate in the 3rd Intl Symposium on Humanities and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University 🇭🇰 My talk,“Regional GPTs, Linguistic Pluralism, and the Reconfiguration of Global AI Power,” probes how locally grounded AI is reshaping language and knowledge. Spoiler: AI is never neutral.

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Montréal-based folks: join us for our second Crisis and Care speaker: Anette Schwarz “The Politics of Care: Empathy as Intervention.” 02/19/2026, 4:00–5:30 PM A conversation on care, empathy, and intervention drawing on Medical Humanities and German critical thought. All welcome. @mcgill.ca

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Montreal-based Folks, Our department is launching a five-speaker series this semester titled Crisis and Care. We’re delighted to welcome our first speaker, Elisa Brilli (@utoronto.ca) on January 14th. Please share widely; we hope to see many of you there ✨

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I remember meeting Laleh years ago when I was a student in London. Very excited to see this!

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A really lovely night celebrating the release of Dilemmas of Working Women at @argobookshop.bsky.social with a reading (in Japanese as well as English 😅) and a great discussion with @cecilyraynor.bsky.social (who also took the pic of me with my translated babies)! Thanks to everyone who came out 🥰

I am wearing a blue shirt and standing next to a table display of the books I've translated in whole or in part (in the case of anthologies): Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto, Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō, Hotel Lucky Seven by Kōtarō Isaka, Trinity Trinity Trinity and Sunrise by Erika Kobayashi, Animals Brag about Their Bottoms by Maki Saitō, Unusual Fragments, and The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories *phew

I am perched on a small, high chair, talking to Cecily Raynor, who is also perched. I am wearing a blue shirt and gray pants, while Cecily is in a nice black dress with a sliver necklace. There's a wall of bookshelves behind us, as we are at Argo Bookshop in Montréal

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Hey Montreal Book Lovers, Tomorrow at 7pm at @argobookshop.bsky.social, I'll be sitting down with the talented @brianbergstrom.bsky.social to talk about his translation of The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto. Join us! You won't regret it :)

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Somewhere in the historical centre. I wish I had written down where!

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Hi Blue Skyers, Sharing this awesome CFP for a conference at Tulane this December entitled, "Moving Media in the Americas." Submission deadline is July 15th. Have a look and please share widely!

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Possibly one of the beautiful bookstores I've seen. Guadalajara, México 📚☁️📚

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Dear Friends in San Francisco for LASA 2025, Our panel, Brazilian Literature In Motion II, is happening tonight at 5:15 PM PST—hope you can join us! I'll be presenting virtually but am very much with you in spirit. Since my talk is pre-recorded, I took the opportunity to add a couple of slides here.

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 15/05/2025

Spring looks good on you, McGill 🌸 📸: Louis Alson

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

For the last two days, my office was at @modernlanguage.bsky.social 🙌 Delighted to have discussed the 2026 convention program with insightful and sharp colleagues on the MLA Program Committee.

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Now that it’s official, I’m delighted to share that I’ve been appointed Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for a three-year term beginning June 1st 🥳 It’s quite a time to be taking this on. Advice and wisdom from fellow Chairs in the Humanities are warmly welcome!

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

That yellow is magnificent on you 💛

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

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Binding Media | Stanford University Press

Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Amigues de CDMX, aparten la fecha para la presentación de Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across de Americas el 26 de marzo en la FFyL de la UNAM con @epriani.bsky.social @jonathangp.bsky.social y Miriam Peña Pimentel. Espero verles y reconectar con todes!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

From your friends at #ReviewsInDH: "We firmly believe that the integrity of knowledge production depends on a commitment to championing a broad range of perspectives, voices, and stories, and we will continue to honor our commitment."

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Coming in November from @sunypress.bsky.social: PRIETA IS DREAMING by feminist writer, theorist, & icon Gloria Anzaldúa (!!)—a collection of 19 stories, 14 previously unpub’d. Huge thanks to @stuartbernstein.bsky.social & the incredible editors. Can’t wait to share this wonderful work w/ all of you!

Cultural/feminist theorist and author of BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA the late Gloria Anzaldúa’s PRIETA IS DREAMING: A CUENTOS-NOVELA, a collection of 19 linked stories, 14 of which have never before been published, blending reality with story and autobiography with fiction, to Rebecca Colesworthy at SUNY Press, for publication in November 2025, by Stuart Bernstein at Stuart Bernstein Representation on behalf of The Anzaldúa Literary Trust and editors Kelli Zaytoun, AnaLouise Keating, and Suzanne Bost (world English).

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🌍 Join us @mcgill.ca on March 17th for the Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of International Development! 🌱Many presentations are directly related to Latin America. "LAND AT THE CENTRE – Perspectives on Land and Development"

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Nos vemos el 28 de febrero. ¡Hasta pronto!

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