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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Melodrama in Playing and Brazilian Peripheral Modernism" by Vitor Soster at formajournal.org

FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An interview with Alejo Moguillansky. May 17, 2024. Read more of Gabriela Copertari & Adriana Johnson's article at formajournal.org!

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Diego Rivera on Record in Spanish: What is the Social Role of the Artist? translated to English by Stephen Buttes formajournal.org

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The late 1940s and 1950s in Brazil were a transitional phase in which artists across media actively experimented with embodied approaches to poetics, and with breath as key to formal organization... Read more of Adrian Anagnost's article at formajournal.org

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

FORMA Volume 4, no. 2 is now available on the journal website: www.formajournal.org !

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Follow the Debate on the "State of the Field." Read Robert McKee Irwin's response to Ignacio López-Calvo in the new issue of FORMA: www.formajournal.org/essays/publi...

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Follow the Debate on the "State of the Field." Read Samuel Steinberg's response to Patrick Dove in the new issue of FORMA: www.formajournal.org/essays/exped...

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Follow the Debate on the "State of the Field." Read Leila Gómez's response to Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra in the new issue of FORMA: www.formajournal.org/essays/respo...

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

FORMA Volume 4, no. 1 is now available on the journal website: www.formajournal.org ! The issue includes three responses to position papers included in the "State of the Field" Debate, published in 2025. Check in with FORMA later this summer for more! www.formajournal.org/news

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In the final article for FORMA's Debate issue, José Eduardo Gonzalez takes a quantitative approach to Spanish American literary studies, referencing Ángel Rama’s essay “El boom en perspectiva.” Read more and consider responding at buff.ly/vB1FL1y.

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Can we continue to affirm that what we do as scholars, critics, and teachers today is defined by a set of shared and debated problems and questions, and that the totality of our academic labor is auto-regenerative? Read Patrick Dove's article and respond at buff.ly/3Xgl9tb!

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The geopolitical transformations that marked the end of the twentieth century engendered a “global” or “transnational turn.” In literary studies this was most clearly manifest in renewed interest in the notion of world literature. Read and respond to Armillas-Tiseyra's article at buff.ly/3Xgl9tb.

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Patrick Dove consider this question in FORMA's Debate issue, which looks at the state of the field of Latin American Criticism and Theory in light of the past twenty-five years. Consider contributing to the debate at buff.ly/3Xgl9tb.

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

De Castro presents The Failure of Latin America (2019) as an intellectual testament that sums up Beverley’s evolution, together with that of the region as a civilizational location for social hopes from the 1960s to our post-utopian present. Read more at buff.ly/3ESmhNl!

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

David William Foster's Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2003) was the point of departure for research into non-normative Latin American cinema in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Read Vinodh Venkatesh's article and join the debate at buff.ly/438Hj4w!

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FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory @formajournal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

FORMA has launched its inaugural Debate series! Organized and edited by @jose-eduardo.bsky.social and Steve Buttes, established scholars address the current state of the field by examining the past 25 years and projecting forward. See the first two installments: www.formajournal.org/debate

How has scholarship in the field of Latin American criticism and theory developed over the past two decades, and what questions or concerns should shape its trajectory over the next 25 years?

FORMA invites experts in the field of Latin American criticism and theory to contribute their perspectives on the "state of the field" by writing 1,000-2,000 word responses to one or more of the position papers.

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