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An international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critical inquiry, cultural analysis, and theoretical debate since 1954. www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/curr…

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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Martin Repinecz closes issue 73.2 with his review of Erin K. Hogan’s Patriarchy’s Remains: An Autopsy of Iberian Cinematic Dark Humor (2024). 🔗 Link below to access
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Alfredo Martínez-Expósito reviews Catalan Cinema: The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde (2024), edited by Anton Pujol and Jaume Martí-Olivella in the RQ 73.2. 🔗 Get Access: doi.org/10.1080/0883...
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social) reviews Andrew A. Anderson’s Lorca’s Experimental Theater: Breaking the Guardrails of Convention (2024) in the RQ 73.2. 🔗 Link below
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ramón Espejo Romero provides a first comprehensive review of the history of Spanish plays in New York from 1965 to 1975 in the Romance Quarterly 73.2. 🔗 Link below 📸 Image available in the website of Repertorio Español, theatre company existing in NYC since 1968.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Fiorella Gallardo and María Paz Oliver highlight “the political potential of the margins and the imagination of possible worlds that escape dominant structures” in their new article with the RQ. 🔗 Link below 📸 Detail of the cover of Las malas published by Tusquets.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Dinorah Cossío’s “Entre el deseo y el diagnóstico: esterilidad y medicalización en Quién quiere ser madre (2017) de Silvia Nanclares” explores how the medicalization of women’s bodies articulates a critique of contemporary reproductive policies in the RQ 73.2. 🔗 Link below
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Dinorah Cossío’s “Entre el deseo y el diagnóstico: esterilidad y medicalización en Quién quiere ser madre (2017) de Silvia Nanclares” explores how the medicalization of women’s bodies articulates a critique of contemporary reproductive policies in the RQ 73.2. 🔗 Link below
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Fiorella Gallardo and María Paz Oliver highlight “the political potential of the margins and the imagination of possible worlds that escape dominant structures” in their new article with the RQ. 🔗 Link below 📸 Detail of the cover of Las malas published by Tusquets.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In “Del conte a la novel·la: gиnesi i transformaciу d’Es vessa una sang fàcil, de Manuel de Pedrolo”, Carme Gregori Soldevila tracks the transformations and transvaluations in Manuel de Pedrolo rewriting of Es vessa una sang fàcil (1954). 🔗 Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Eduardo Matos-Martín opens Romance Quarterly volume 73 issue 2 with a reading of Aleix Saló’s nonfiction comic book continuing his question about How Spain Was Filled with ‘Fascists’ Until the Fascists Arrived (2020). 🔗 Link below. 📸Cover of Todos Nazis (2020) published with Reservoir Books.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Romance Quarterly Volume 73 Number 2 is now out and ready with articles and book reviews you cannot miss. 🔗 Tap the link below to get access
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Connie L. Scarborough closes the Romance Quarterly 73.1 with a review of Robin M. Bower’s In the Doorway of All Worlds. Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints. 🔗 Link below
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ruth Z. Yuste-Alonso (@ruthyuste.bsky.social) reviews Heather Jerónimo’s Performing Parenthood. Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film (2024) in the RQ 73.1. 🔗 Link below
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Marina Barba Dávalos and Ana Isabel Ballesteros Dorado connect theatre and music with “Entre lo popular vasco y el bel canto: variaciones semánticas de la música incidental compuesta por Carnicer para La batelera de Pasajes, de Manuel Bretón de los Herreros.” 🔗 Link below
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A disembodied notion of the humanities faces the physical bodies from which they emerge in Katie Vater’s article “Embodying the Humanities in Antonio Orejudo’s Un momento de descanso (2011)”. 🔗 Link below 📷 Detail of the cover of Un momento de descanso published by Tusquets.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Eric Salazar reads the generative power of instability in Cristobal Colon’s letters in “Ninguno puede dar razón cierta: incertidumbre, ruina y adversidad en las cartas de Cristobal Colón”. 🔗 Link below 📷 Carta a Luis de Santángel (1493)
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Jaime Hanneken opens issue 73.1 of the Romance Quarterly with “The roto Unearthed: Chilean Mestizaje and the Technic of Revelation”. 🔗 Link below. 📷 Monument to the Chilean roto, Plaza Yungay, Santiago
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Romance Quarterly 73.1 is now available. Visit the link below to read its exciting and varied articles and book reviews.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Mary T. Hartson closes issue 72.4. of the Romance Quarterly reviewing Iker González-Allende’s Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea. 🔗 Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Jeffrey K. Coleman reviews Martin Repinecz’s Volatile Whiteness: Race, Cinema, and Europeanization in Spain in the RQ 72.4. 🔗 Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Mary T. Hartson closes issue 72.4. of the Romance Quarterly reviewing Iker González-Allende’s Masculinidades gays y maricas en la cultura española contemporánea. 🔗 Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Jeffrey K. Coleman reviews Martin Repinecz’s Volatile Whiteness: Race, Cinema, and Europeanization in Spain in the RQ 72.4. 🔗 Link below.
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Danny Barreto @danburrito.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
CFP: Estudos galegos en @romancequarterly.bsky.social ❕Rogamos máxima difusión Dende hai unha década os estudos galegos teñen máis presenza na academia norteamérica. Este número pretende difundir a investigación que xurde dos distintos encontros e redes de galicianistas nestes lares #estudosgalegos
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.” Link below. 🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Alejandra Rengifo visits the spectrality of La Pampa in Luciana Sousa’s Cuando nadie nos nombre (2022). Link below. 🎨 Detail of the cover of Cuando nadie nos nombre published by Tusquets
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Marita Lopera guides us through what she has named “spectral spaces” (“espacios espectrales”) in Magda Moreno’s Las hijas de Gracia (1951) in her latest article in the Romance Quarterly. Link below. 📷 Detail of the cover of Las hijas de Gracia published by Editorial Bedout
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Alicia V. Ramírez Olivares (dis)orientates the readers of the RQ towards a lesbian occupation of space in two contemporary anthologies in “Espacio de costumbre, desorientación y vulnerabilidad en la espectralidad de la literatura lésbica en México.” Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Alicia V. Ramírez Olivares (dis)orientates the readers of the RQ towards a lesbian occupation of space in two contemporary anthologies in “Espacio de costumbre, desorientación y vulnerabilidad en la espectralidad de la literatura lésbica en México.” Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Marita Lopera guides us through what she has named “spectral spaces” (“espacios espectrales”) in Magda Moreno’s Las hijas de Gracia (1951) in her latest article in the Romance Quarterly. Link below. 📷 Detail of the cover of Las hijas de Gracia published by Editorial Bedout
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Alejandra Rengifo visits the spectrality of La Pampa in Luciana Sousa’s Cuando nadie nos nombre (2022). Link below. 🎨 Detail of the cover of Cuando nadie nos nombre published by Tusquets
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Alejandro Palma Castro proposes a moving necropoetic reading in “Hacia una necropoetica en la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea: Sujetos de duelo en La mata de Eliana Hernández y La muerte golpea en lunes de Maricarmen Velasco” Link below 🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) and Alejandro Palma Castro introduce us to the Special Issue: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas. See below for Open Access 📷 Mendieta, Ana. Sin título (Nicho de Culiacán), 1973.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Romance Quarterly: Vol 72, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
We are so grateful and happy to read the authors in the new Special Issue of the Romance Quarterly: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas Have you visited their articles yet? Visit the link below!
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Pavel Andrade closes issue 72.3 of the RQ with his review of Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Caglar Erteber reviews The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires in the RQ 72.3.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
In “Tridentine Passions: The Cult of Iberian Saints in Counter-Reformation Spain and Martyrdom Motifs in La noche oscura by San Juan de la Cruz,” Ksenia Bonch Reeves situates La noche oscura in its Counter-Reformation context. 🎨 El martirio de Santa Eulalia (1753-1759) by Roberto Michel
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Julián Chaves González connects literature and philosophy in the RQ 72.3 with his article “Los mares de los galeones. Intenciones, contextos y filosofías de la hipotaxis de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio”.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
50 eprints of my article! Here ➡️ urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry
This article argues that the figure of Garcilaso de la Vega as the foundational “prince of Spanish lyric poetry” emerged through two distinct yet related processes of textual construction and reint...
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
François-Nicolas Vozel’s “Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible! May-ssianic Realism in Duras’s Détruire dit-elle and Nathalie Granger” brings the hope you may be craving this Tuesday. Available now in the RQ 72.3. 📸 Portrait of Marguerite Duras smoking a cigarette, taken on Nov. 15, 1972. (AP Photo)
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Víctor Sierra Matute (@sierramatute.bsky.social) opens issue 72.3 of the Romance Quarterly with “A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry”. 🎨 Copy of Garcilaso de la Vega y Guzmán by Ojeda y Siles, Manuel (1835-1904) circa 1887
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Issue 72.3 of the Romance Quarterly is out now! Dive into these fresh stimulating articles and book reviews this August. 🔗 Link below
Romance Quarterly 72.3

Articles

A Prince Through the Mirrow: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry
Víctor Sierra Matute

Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible! May-ssianic Realism in Duras’s Détruire dit-elle and Nathalie Granger
François-Nicolas Vozel

Domna Tarsia, Regina de Portugal: Reassessing the Legacy of the First Queen of Portugal
Matthew Bailey

Los mares de los galeones. Intenciones, contextos y filosofías de la hipotaxis de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Julián Chaves González 

Tridentine Passions: The Cult of Iberian Saints in Counter-Reformation Spain and Martyrdom Motifs in La noche oscura by San Juan de la Cruz
Ksneia Bonch Reeves 

Book Reviews

Codebò, Agnese (2024). The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires
Caglar Erteber

Gutiérrez Negrón, Sergio (2023). Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence 
Pavel Andrade
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Almost in summer mode, but first… my article on the posthumous canonization of Garcilaso (aka the bittersweet story of how two friends sparked a poetic revolution and only one walked away with the crown) just came out online in @romancequarterly.bsky.social! 👉🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A Prince Through the Mirror: Garcilaso de la Vega and the Lyricization of Early Modern Poetry
This article argues that the figure of Garcilaso de la Vega as the foundational “prince of Spanish lyric poetry” emerged through two distinct yet related processes of textual construction and reint...
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Romance Quarterly 72.2 is here already, have you checked it out yet? www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/c...
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Justin Berner opens Romance Quarterly 72.2 with “Transforming Barnacles and Profaning the Human: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Experience (2008)” in Open Access. Link below.
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Romance Quarterly 72.2 is an exciting number, and it is so in part because it includes Jack Martínez Arias’ “El otro indigenismo: voces desde los centros mineros de Perú (1920-1940)”. 📸 Mineros carrilanos en la mina de Morococha. Repositorio de la PUCP
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Romance Quarterly @romancequarterly.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Alexander Gannuscio is in the Romance Quarterly 72.2 with “Neorromanticismo fenomenológico and the Crisis: Ernesto Sabato and Edmund Husserl”. 📸 Detalle de la portada de Abbadón el Exterminador publicada en 1979 por Seix Barral.
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