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Víctor Sierra Matute

@sierramatute.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses

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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the mailbox this morning... really looking forward to reading it!
Yolanda Martinez San Miguel's Caribbean Archipelagoes monograph.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department | H-Net
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
¿Quién me invita a un panel para LASA2027? Normalmente no voy, pero en mi ciudad, en el campus de mi alma mater, sí quiero.
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Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sweat, blood and tears! I am delighted to announce our forthcoming book: Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire, 1498–1822, which I've co-edited with António Camões Gouveia (Nova University-Lisbon) and Federico Palomo (Complutense University-Madrid). www.routledge.com/Public-Ritua...
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Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire, 1498–1822
Public Rituals charts the study of public rituals in the Portuguese Empire between 1498 and 1822 approximately, with a view to introducing both new and seasoned readers to the contexts, sources, probl...
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What a nail-biter! 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Book review coming Comparative Literature Studies soon @psupress.bsky.social 😃
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
One of the best parts of editing a dossier: the day the physical copies arrive!
Copies of Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Special edition. The Past Awakened: Cultural Reimagination in the Global Hispanophone. Vol. 29, 2025.
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Happy to see this in print form!
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My chapter, “The Quixotic Sensorium,” is forthcoming soon in this beautiful volume. A small contribution on the history of the senses and Don Quixote. Kudos to Nick and Paul for putting together such a great volume! Description and ToC here: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650047...
Book cover for Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes After the Critical Turn. Edited by Nicholas R. Jones and Paul Michael Johnson.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is happening tomorrow!
Póster Conversatorio "La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión".
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Looking forward to talking about Úrsula next month!
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Also of note! The entire dossier is fantastic @sierramatute.bsky.social, congratulations! Project MUSE - "Tanbién son ellos de carne y güeso": Guaman Poma de Ayala's Radical Abolitionism muse.jhu.edu/article/986860.
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
¡El 31 de marzo, en el @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Registro: www.tinyurl.com/archivogc
Poster "La tra(d)ición del archivo: memorias, desvíos, reescrituras.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
¡El 31 de marzo, en el @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Registro: www.tinyurl.com/archivogc
Poster "La tra(d)ición del archivo: memorias, desvíos, reescrituras.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Tomorrow! @diegojavierluis.bsky.social @mia1va.bsky.social
"Colonial Interventions Speaker Series" poster.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Join us tomorrow and Friday! people.clas.ufl.edu/paolauparela... Beautifully organized by @paola-uparela.bsky.social !
Poster of pf "First Colloquium on Guaman Poma at the University of Florida."
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Join us!
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Ran my New Year’s Resolution 5K two weeks ago. I’m not fast, but I’m showing up, and I’ve already started training for the New York Marathon (November 2027).
On the right, Virtual NYRR Resolution Run 5k badge (completed). On the left, runner on pink sweater and blue beanie.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Late to the party. First read of 2026 @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Book Humans: A Monstrous History, by Surekha Davies. Book cover is red and black, with the title in yellow letters.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Check it out!
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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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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This post gives me a little hope for the internet.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 15/12/2025
I'm so happy to share my article "Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?" is available in Inks! #AcademicSky #LatinxStudies #ComicsStudies
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Project MUSE - Latinx Identity Uprooted: Tracing Destierro in the Comic Biography Who Is Ana Mendieta?
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Working on this was a lot of fun! Kudos to @translatlibrary.bsky.social for the wonderful editorial process.
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Inés Vañó García @inesvano.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
📢 Call for Papers – Now Open! I’m thrilled to share that Shawna Brandle, @lauriehurson.bsky.social & I are serving as editors for the upcoming general issue of the @jitp.bsky.social! We welcome innovative work at the intersection of tech & teaching. Submit & share! shorturl.at/xgVMF
call for paper for the general issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
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Inés Vañó García @inesvano.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review 👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance” 📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026 📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026 Please share widely! ❓Reach out if you have any questions!
The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 1)The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 2)The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 3)The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 4)
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Anyone in the greater NYC area with a spare hour or few Thursday December 4 630pm come learn about MEDIEVAL STUDIES and many other wonderful graduate certificate programs @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The call for submissions for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 5 are still open. Please share!
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Ana Luengo (ella) @analuengo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Buen día para leer mi libro Arqueología del esencialismo español y escuchar esta entrevista que me hizo Antonio Córdoba para New Books Network newbooksnetwork.com/es/ana-lueng... #antifascismo #20denoviembre
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Ana Luengo, "Arqueología del esencialismo español: Leyes, genealogía y herencias" (2023) - New Books Network ES
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Happy 364th birthday, Sor Juana!
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The University of Florida is hosting its first Colloquium on Guaman Poma to be held March 5-6, 2026, in Gainesville, Florida. The colloquium is organized by Dr. Paola Uparela, of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
So looking forward to @juanmaramive.bsky.social visit to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/jmrvtalk
Talk "The Saya and the Ship: Gendered Passing in the Spaces of Colonial Bureaucracy", by Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez (Colgate University). Thursday, December 4th, 4:30-6pm. Room 9205. Reception will follow. Sponsored by The Program in Global Early Modern Studies and MA in Liberal Studies.
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/certi... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social has so many advanced certificates! Come find out!
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Certificate Program Open House
Learn more about these Certificate Programs:
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 31/10/2025
But really... was Sor Juana a sphinx? @sierramatute.bsky.social weighs in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
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Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
LARR 60.3 is out now! My article on Sor Juana and her transoceanic enigmas: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lasabluesky.bsky.social
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas - Volume 60 Issue 3
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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
Manuscript Letter edited and studied by Montserrat Ferrer
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Happy to organize this series of class visits where wonderful colleagues will join my students to re-read key texts from the early modern period @juanmaramive.bsky.social @baruch.cuny.edu
Re-reading Early Modern Spain series.
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚀 Exciting news! FI’s very first podcast, “Why Innovation Needs Equity,” is now live! 🎧 Tune in now and be part of the dialogue that’s shaping the future. 👉 Check out the QR code— you can watch on YouTube or listen anywhere you find your podcasts! #WhyInnovationNeedsEquity #Innovation #Equity
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Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
“telling stories about monsters isn’t simply a way of describing beings that are nothing like humans. It’s also how societies define and police who they think counts as fully human.” My words in @aeon.co 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #psychology 🧵/n
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Those declared ‘monsters’ are ejected from the human family | Aeon Essays
For centuries we’ve used the declaration of ‘monster’ to eject individuals and groups from being respected as fully human
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Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Streaming @sierramatute.bsky.social and @cleahy.bsky.social en conversación con Nicholas Jones sobre su nuevo libro Cervantine Blackness! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZi...
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This came out online a while ago, but now there are some free e-prints available: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Public Monuments and the Colonial Legacies of the ‘Tongue of Cervantes’
This article examines the ideological and colonial legacies embedded in the phrase ‘la lengua de Cervantes’ and its material manifestations through public monuments. It argues that the global monum...
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Brief note just published in Calíope. I revisit Ignacio Navarrete’s visionary 2005 article, expanding on his reflections to recontextualize the "hows," "whats," and "whys" of teaching poetry in our present moment. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/caliope...
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Navarrete, Ignacio. “Teaching Golden Age Poetry: Modeling Intertextuality Through Hypertext.” Calíope. Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, 11, 2, 2005, pp. 91–109
How should we teach early modern Spanish poetry in today’s classrooms? How closely should our syllabi adhere to the established canon, and to what extent must they incorporate a variety of authors—onc...
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A match made in ouch.
Keychain featuring a small red voodoo-style doll and a blue stress relief aluminum capsule with spikes.
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#medievalsky @cuny.edu Assistant Professor Medieval British Literature Hunter College, full-time, tt area of medieval literature and culture, broadly defined (c. 600-1500), including but not limited to Old English, Old Norse, Middle English… @gsc-maa.bsky.social cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Tomorrow!
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Budget cuts at Giza… or just Utah being Utah?
Guy-faced sphinx at Gilgai Sculpture Park, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Proofs, proofs, proofs!! 🧾
Proofs of "The Spatial Display of Poetry in the Recibimiento al obispo Pimentel (1629)", by Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, The City University of New York.
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Susan Larson @susanlarson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.
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