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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m excited to be joining Virginia Tech as a VAP of Spanish! Looking forward to researching, teaching, and exploring in this corner of the Appalachians in SW Virginia.

Human and Hokie Bird making celebratory gestures at new faculty orientation.

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Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Today is Día de les Lletres Asturianes - Asturian Literature Day! Why not plonk yourself down beneath the nearest horru and have a read of Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias, at @wwborders.bsky.social #lletresasturianes #lleernasturianu2026 wordswithoutborders.org/read/collect...

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Every Stone a Seed: Writing from Asturias Archives - Words Without Borders

Guest editors Robin Munby and Will Howard present a selection of new Asturian prose and poetry.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love seeing this in print! Thank you to @mlnjournal.bsky.social @becquer.bsky.social and especially @victoriajane.bsky.social for getting this out into the world

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Took my Spanish Lit and Pop Culture class to the Kenyon Farm today to cap off our unit on food studies. So cool to think through comparative notions of culture, identity, and rurality here in Ohio and in the Spanish context we’ve been studying all semester.

Students strolling through the Kenyon Farm as a prof hold up a non-canonical but still decent tortilla de patatas con shiitakes in the foreground.

One of two massive but friendly livestock guardian dogs here. Part Great Pyrenees, part Anatolian shepherd, mostly fluff and slobber

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Also in our new issue: @lmbowe.bsky.social uses ecocriticism to analyze this Francoist retelling of Armando Palacio Valdes' novel La aldea perdida, in which Asturias must sacrifice her lands and people to the destructive mining industry for the sake of the nation. OA via @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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Asturian Studies / SAnTINA @asturianstudies.com · 27/02/2026

📣 ¿Vas al #MLA 2027 (7–10 enero, LA)? ¡Súmate! Rethinking Green Spain, organizada por Eva Álvarez Vázquez y @lmbowe.bsky.social, ALCESXXI y el Foro Galego, invita a repensar Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria y el País Vasco. 📄 250 palabras + bionota 📅 15 marzo 📧 ealvarezvazq@umass.edu/ bowe1@kenyon.edu

The image has a poster with this text: 2027 MLA Convention. January 7-10, 2027, Los Angeles. ALCESXXI and LLC Galician Studies Forum. Rethinking Green Spain. This roundtable invites proposals interrogating the discursive and institutional framework of "Green Spain" by analyzing the diverse sociocultural, historical, and linguistic constructions of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country. Submission Deadline: March 15. (250-word abstract and short bio). Eva Alvarez Vazquez ealvarezvazq@umass.edu. Luke Bowe bowe1@kenyon.edu. It has an image of a map of those regions in green.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

CFP for MLA 2027 Come think about Green Spain with us in Los Angeles next year! Excited to see what comparative conversations come out of this roundtable.

Call for papers for the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. “Rethinking Green Spain” This roundtable invites proposals interrogating the discursive and institutional framework of ‘Green Spain’ by analyzing the diverse sociocultural, historical, and linguistic constructions of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Happy to share that my research on the fitful reconstruction of Tarna, an Asturian mountain village destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, has been awarded the Watt Prize by ALBA @lincolnbrigade.bsky.social. It’s an honor to contribute to their antifascist legacy. albavolunteer.org/2026/02/alba...

Orderly lines of whitewashed houses sit incongruously against the mountainous terrain surrounding the Asturian village of Tarna, destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. The village was personally ‘adopted’ by Franco, who promised its reconstruction as a testament to his supposed commitment to rural Spaniards. The archives tell a different story: a decades-long project plagued by institutional incompetence and paternalistic attitudes towards the villagers, whose complaints were haughtily dismissed by the regime. Rather than rehabilitate the pueblo in line with the real needs of the villagers, the fascist politicians and engineers instead looked to construct a Francoist social space. Photo from the Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

“Blackface y otras vergüenzas” es una obra fenomenal, y Silvia una fuerza.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Entering my Midwest emo phase as I start as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. So excited to teach courses here on Spanish language, culture, film, comics, music, and everything else I can cram in. 🌽👨🏻‍🏫

A newly arrived VAP of Spanish on Kenyon’s leafy Middle Path

Moody wood paneled lecture hall with light coming through stained glass windows

Cover art for my upcoming Midwest emo album. The smiling visage of the Wendy’s girl clashes with the haunting message “Misfortune Awaits / Lucky You” against a backdrop of clouds chasing the sun to the horizon.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

What a night for New Yorkers!

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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life. This Friday, 12pm-2pm (EST). An online roundtable on three great recent books on everyday life and space in the Iberian context with their authors Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and @susanlarson.bsky.social. Moderated by yours truly. An eltaller@kjcc event.

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life

Please join us online on Friday, May 9th at 12:00PM for our fourth event of 2025, an online roundtable between Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson. The event will take place online and will be moderated by Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. This event is free. Please register at this link to attend.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r8IKLNkRIalYZe4JcRUtYos-h03VgnzVaZU7IloMCRk/viewform?edit_requested=true

Megan Saltzman teaches at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Her research combines literary and visual arts with ethnographic fieldwork to expose how everyday public practices carve out autonomy and resistance from below. Megan has published on urban culture in Spain related to gentrification, spatial in/exclusion, undocumented immigration, waste, urban furniture, grassroots cultural centers, street vending, and “artivism.” These themes come together in Megan’s most recent publication, the book Public Everyday Space. Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona (2024).

Enric Bou is Emeritus Professor on Iberian Studies at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He is specialized in the study of 20th century literature and has published on autobiography, the relationship between art and literature, visual poetry and on Salvador Dalí, among others. His latest publications include Sabor y Saber: Acerca de los Paisajes Alimentarios Ibéricos (2023), and Cartographies of Disappearance in Literature. From the Routine to the Extraordinary (2024).

Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, Editor of the Romance Quarterly and co-editor (with Benjamin Fraser) of Palgrave Macmillan’s Urban Cultural Studies book series.

Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is Lecturer at Fordham University. His book Un país entre dos tiempos. Una década de experimentación política is about to be published by Lengua de Trapo/Circulo de Bellas Artes in Spain.

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Susan Larson @susanlarson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Join the 'Spatial Politics of Everyday Life' ZOOM roundtable hosted by NYU's King Juan Carlos I Center (KJCC) on Friday, May 9th at 12:00 EST by registering with the QR code in the announcement below. A discussion of recent books by Megan Saltzman, Enric Bou and Susan Larson.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Yesterday I defended my dissertation “Mythologized Modernization: Asturias and the Construction of Franco’s Spain” and passed with distinction. So grateful to my committee for all the guidance along the way and a fantastic conversation to map the road ahead!

Celebratory photo with the five amazing members of my dissertation committee

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A picture is worth (7)1,000words, they say. What a time to finish writing—for now—about authoritarianism, labor, extraction, and the mythologies of nation.

Submission of my doctoral dissertation “Mythologized Modernization: Asturias and the Construction of Franco’s Spain”

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Working on exciting classroom initiatives? Harnessing new technologies? Collaborating with colleagues or across disciplines? Showcase your pedagogical and curricular developments at the #MLA26 Innovation Room! Apply by April 15. @modernlanguage.bsky.social @lydiatang.bsky.social shorturl.at/QE2u0

Presenters and audience chat around posters highlighting new pedagogical and curricular initiatives in the humanities in the Innovation Room at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans. Photo by David C. Aleman.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I participated in a seminar this year on mining and extractivism in Spain and Latin America. Working intensively across several days with a diverse group of scholars was a fantastic way to share work, learn about the field, and forge connections for future collaboration. Highly recommended!

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Meca meca qué ye esto?? 📍Greenwich Village NYC

Pegatina que dice “I ❤️ cachopo” en Greenwich Village

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

¡Ampliación de plazo hasta el 1 de abril! encuentrofranquismo2025.com/2024/12/10/c...

Poster announcing extended deadline of April 1 to send in proposals for presentations at the XII International Conference of Research on Francoism

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Miguel F. Turuelo @fturuelo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Se ha publicado EN ABIERTO "Invertidos, provincianos y maleantes. Disidencias sexogenéricas y peligrosidad social en el franquismo asturiano" 📖 Os dejo el enlace, por si os presta un paseo por la Asturias invertida del franquismo: memoriademocratica.asturias.es/invertidos-p...

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Invertidos, provincianos y maleantes: Disidencias sexogenéricas y peligrosidad social en el franquismo asturiano - MemoriaDemocratica

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

No smoking in the library, por favor 🚭📖

A burner corner of the April 15, 1963 New York-based Spanish opposition publication _Ibérica_

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Next week! Don’t miss the Cervantine Blackness book launch with @bibliophilenick.bsky.social and an amazing roundtable of scholars. Space is limited, so sign up before it’s full! (Trust me, you’ll want to be there!) 👉 www.kjcc.org/event/to-cer... @monicadstyles.bsky.social

Black History Month: To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness. Book launch roundtable with author Nicholas Jones, Eva Copeland, David Sterling Brown, Monica Styles, Aurélie Vialette, Emily Wilbourne. Moderated by Víctor Sierra Matute. Wednesday, February 5,.2025. 7PM. KJCC, NYC.

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vrupu @vrupu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is the type of thing we need to be reading, thinking about today. Thanks Tressie McMillan Cottom. On recovering the sense of the collective to fight for democracy and against anomie.

As sad as many are that Americans chose Trump, a lot of us are also grieving the end of a social movement, the extended cumulative shock of a pandemic and the end of Barack Obama’s multiracial coalition. That’s not just grief; that’s something akin to what sociologists call anomie. That’s a collective sense that a social contract — the norms on which we rely to navigate the vicissitudes of society — is broken.

Anomie is a shared experience. It happens because the hallmarks of identity that we rely on to give us the safety to go to work, to make families and to trust strangers have eroded. A lot of Black Americans, especially, feel as if a promise was made when this country elected President Obama. They sensed a fulfillment of King’s vision of multiracial liberal democracy.

I fear that we forget how King saw that multiracial liberal democracy coming to pass. It was not only a project of moral remediation of this nation’s racism. It was also always a project of this nation’s fundamental crises, including inequality and militarism. That King is not the white liberal fantasy of a man obsessed with content of character. It is the harder truth of King the mobilizer and the organizer, who saw poverty as a twin evil of racism.

That King is the one we need to remember today. Because that King would not have been surprised that people scared of poverty would find a racist leader palatable.

Trump and other Republicans will likely remember King today the way we have come to expect disingenuous actors to do so: by focusing on “I Have a Dream” and ignoring his dream for fair housing, economic redistribution and anti-imperialism. In that, Trump’s party has something in common with a lot of Democrats who do the same.

But that is not the King who can comfort those of us today who are living in the grief of social abandonment, with the anomie of shifting sands beneath our sense of selves. In every crisis there is a disaster, but there is also an opportunity. Maybe this year is a…

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Un gran libro, y más necesario hoy que nunca.

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Pablo Batalla @pablobatalla.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Güei ye un día venturiegu pa min: espublizo la mio primer columna n'asturianu. Voi dir sacando una mensual en 'MiGijón'. Nesta primera escribo sobro l'olvidu de la memoria industrial poles xeneraciones más nueves d'Asturies. «¿Qué ye un mineru pa ti?». migijon.com/que-ye-un-mi...

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¿Qué ye un mineru pa ti? - miGijón

Asturies va camín de convertise na Florida española; tán poniéndose a conciencia les bases pa que lo faiga Va unos años, un periódicu rexonal ufiertó a los sos llectores «El Parchís de Asturias», una ...

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

With #MLA2025 fast approaching, I wrote this post with some tips and tricks for graduate students attending this year's convention. Looking forward to seeing lots of familiar faces in New Orleans and meeting new people too! joblist.mla.org/article-deta...

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Search the latest jobs Modern Language | MLA Job List

Forging connections and building community are essential skills for graduate students to acquire as they develop as emerging scholars.

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Inaciu Galán @inaciugalan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Pa que tea per equí tamién. 👅💻 Comparto esta guía curtia que preparé cola rempuesta a duldes que me suelen consultar periodistes sobre cómo informar sobre l'#asturianu. Anímovos a compartila ente compañeros y compañeres de la profesión.

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The video from Friday’s round table is up, thank you to all our panelists and attendees!

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Patricia Martínez 🦋 @patriciamartinez.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Voy a dejar también por aquí este reportaje que ‘me traje’ de 🇨🇦. Charlé con dos de los hispanistas responsables de vscw.ca/es, el primer museo de la Guerra del 36 #museovirtualdelaguerracivil

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Home | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Luke Bowe @lmbowe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Making the move here and great to see lots of familiar faces! 👋🏻 Saludos, I’m a PhD Candidate at NYU finishing my dissertation on cultural representations of Asturias under Franco, and more broadly work on 20-21C film, lit, music, comics, and cultural history in Spain

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