Luke Bowe

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.

A thoughtful meditation on what comes after coal, in words and images. 📷 Lys Arango 🖋️ Paul Reyes 📕 @vqr.bsky.social Gracias por la recomendación @aitanacd.bsky.social

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...

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

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.

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

📣 ¿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

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.

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...

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

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. 🌽👨🏻‍🏫

What a night for New Yorkers!

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.

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

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.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social opening for @mjlenderman.bsky.social is peak Brooklyn 👏🏻

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.

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

Action alert: fight back against recently announced cuts to the Department of Education and language programs by contacting your representatives. Learn more:

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!

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

Meca meca qué ye esto?? 📍Greenwich Village NYC

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

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...

CFP: XII Encuentro Internacional Sobre Investigaciones del Franquismo, 5-7 nov de 2025 en la Universidad de Oviedo. Abierto hasta el 1 de marzo. encuentrofranquismo2025.com/2024/12/10/c...

No smoking in the library, por favor 🚭📖

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

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.

Un gran libro, y más necesario hoy que nunca.

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...

A gorgeous portrait of DC

Starting up tomorrow!

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...

Un gran paso para la cultura asturiana! www.lne.es/asturias/202...

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.

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

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

Mañana!

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