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‘The Non-Agreed Memory of Lucia Murat: Women During Dictatorship from a Filmic Perspective‘ by Rosane Carneiro Ramos analyses memory in women’s political resistance to dictatorship in the work of Lucia Murat. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Ramos @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @rebracweb.bsky.social

‘The Revolutions in Hugo Gonçalves’s Revolução‘ by Gustavo Infante considers the title of Gonçalves’s novel in a polysemic manner. 🔗 bit.ly/MLO-Infante @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @rebracweb.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

‘Brazil and the Events of 25 April 1974: Monitoring, Following and Repressing‘ by @enioviterbo.bsky.social outlines the Brazilian military regime’s perception of the Portuguese Revolution. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Viterbo @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @rebracweb.bsky.social

‘Traces of Repression in History & Literature: Indigenous Voices Represented by Márcia Kambeba & Sandra Godinho‘ by Cimara Valim de Melo examines Brazilian military dictatorship through an ecocriticical lens. 🔗 bit.ly/MLO-Melo @rebracweb.bsky.social @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social

'The Shadow of the Absent: The Impact of Disappearances on Contemporary Brazilian Culture‘ by Christian Dutilleux discusses the disappearance of citizens during the dictatorship (1964 to 1985), and beyond. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Dutilleux @ilcs.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

'The Long Twentieth Century in Portuguese: An Age Tending to One Extreme' by César Zanin @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social 🔗

Read the introduction to 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' by Rosane Carneiro Ramos (@bristoluni.bsky.social) which reflects on the experiences of dictatorships in Brazil and Portugal in the 20th Century. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-DIP1 @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social

NEW | 'Dictatorships in Portuguese: Legacies and Repercussions' ed. Rosane Carneiro Ramos is a new Special Collection offering interdisciplinary analysis of 20th century dictatorships in Brazil & Portugal. @apamferreira.bsky.social @amklobucka.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Ramos-blog

⁉️ HAVE YOU APPLIED? MLO offers Early Career Researchers the opportunity to apply for an APC waiver provided by the @livunipress.bsky.social #OpenAccess Author Fund. Find out more and how to apply online via MLO: bit.ly/MLO-APCs 🔐 #APCwaiver #ECR #AcademicSky

'Moving Texts, Moving Communities: Emotions, E. Marlitt’s Fiction and the Circulation of Controversial Texts in Periodicals across Linguistic & Cultural Borders in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe' by @hpartzsch.bsky.social. ➡️bit.ly/MLO-RRIT-Partzsch @saraharens.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE: '“I’m a Bitch”: Eurovision and the Anti-Gender Backlash – a Spanish Case Study' by Marcel Obst & Anja Louis examines the controversy of Spain’s 2024 Eurovision entry, “Zorra”. ➡️bit.ly/MLO-Obst-Louis @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social @eurovision.tv @thateurosite.bsky.social

'Navigating Platform Economies in Afrofuturist Publishing in Brazil: Editora Kitembo, Hip-Hop & Literatura Marginal' by Victoria Adams looks at how São Paulo’s hip-hop inspired Brazil’s first Afrofuturist publisher. 🔗 bit.ly/MLO-Adams @ilcs.bsky.social @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE | MLO 'The Sublime and the Sewer: Gothic Dualism and Symbolic Space in Dario Argento’s The Phantom of the Opera' by Giulio Luciano Giusti (of @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social @europeinthepub.bsky.social) Read it for free, #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-LucGiusti #Gothic #OA

⁉️ DID YOU KNOW? MLO offers Early Career Researchers the opportunity to apply for an APC waiver provided by the @livunipress.bsky.social #OpenAccess Author Fund. Find out more and how to apply via bit.ly/MLO-APCs 🔐 #APCwaiver #ECR #AcademicSky

Most read | 'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, @saramarzagora.bsky.social & Francesca Orsini @soasuni.bsky.social interrogates theoretical approaches to world literature. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Multilingual-Locals

MLO | Most Read 'Italo Pizzi’s Shahnameh: Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation' by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social ➡️ Read it freely #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Hartley @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social

NEW | 'Language and the Next Billion Users' is an interview with Payal Arora & @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social on language diversity in the digital sphere and cultivating the vitality of minoritized languages. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Arora-Zaugg @mcmasterhum.bsky.social @reshapingwork.bsky.social

NEW | 'Typography Beyond Latin: Cultivating Visual Culture at the Crossroads of Digital Access and Technical Policy': An interview with Kamal Mansour @artgriot.bsky.social & @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Mansour-Zaugg @politonaiz.bsky.social @typographica.org @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social

NEW | 'Unsettled Scripts: Script Invention and the Bind of Digital Recognition' by Anushah Hossain investigates “neographies" in a digital age. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Hossain @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social @stanfordpacs.bsky.social @viewsproject.bsky.social

NEW | 'Language Justice and Machine Translation on Social Media' by Amandalynne Paullada & Levon Haroutunian advocates for a language justice orientation in MT system development and design. 🔓️ Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Paullada-Haroutunian @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social

NEW | '“No Language Left Behind?” Predictive Text, Generative AI and Dilemmas of Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Languages' by @petechonka.bsky.social, Stephanie Diepeveen & Yidnekachew Haile. ➡️ Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Chonka @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @aiatkings.bsky.social

NEW | In 'Language 4R: Discussing the Roots of Language Identity in the African American Community' Kyra Ann Dawkins presents language reparation, reappropriation, reclamation & restoration in African American identity. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Dawkins @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social

NEW | 'Harnessing AI to Build the Ecology of Indigenous Thoughts': An Interview with @runningwolf.bsky.social by @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social on accountability among AI researchers working on Indigenous languages. Read it #OA: 🔗bit.ly/MLO-Wolf-Zaugg @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social

NEW | 'Reconquering our Capacity to Dream in Revitalizing our Languages': A Conversation between HE Manssour Bin Mussallam and @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Mussallam-Zaugg @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social #mflbluesky

NEW | 'Technology Rewriting: Testimonio as a Methodology to Learn from People’s Stories' by Alvarez Malvido examines the dialectical tensions between people and digital tools. ➡️ bit.ly/MLO-Malvido @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social

NEW | 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' Edited by @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social, this collection considers how digital tools shape and are shaped by Greater South language communities. @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/Digital-Lives-Blog

MOST READ | 'Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature' by Karima Laachir, @saramarzagora.bsky.social & Francesca Orsini. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-LMO @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social

MOST READ | 'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by @fmussgnug.bsky.social. Read it #OA for free online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Mussgnug @saraharens.bsky.social‬ @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social‬ @saramarzagora.bsky.social‬ @hpartzsch.bsky.social‬ @fmussgnug.bsky.social‬

NEW paper out with @modlangopen.bsky.social published by @livunipress.bsky.social 🎉👇 modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/10....

NEW ARTICLE: 📣 'Linguistic Blind Spots in Platform Content Moderation in Ethiopia: The Case of Facebook' by @yohannes-ayalew.bsky.social @yaleisp.bsky.social Read it freely, #OpenAccess online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Ayalew

NEW ARTICLE: 'Pirates, Slave Traders or Patriots? Imperial Exceptionalism, Maritime Tensions and the Emergence of the Spanish Sea Novel, c. 1830-1870' by @booksonspain.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Read it #OA online: bit.ly/MLO-Hooper

Celebrating #OpenAccessWeek: Who Owns Our Knowledge? MLO is an #OA platform from @livunipress.bsky.social publishing leading peer-reviewed research from across the modern languages. @copim.bsky.social @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social @eve.gd @oipassoc.bsky.social Find out more: modernlanguagesopen.org/en

NEW ARTICLE: 'La Sierra and La Costa: Socially Motivated Intra-Speaker Variation in Peruvian Vowel Spaces' by Alden McCollum @nyulinguistics.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-McCollum @lingthusiasm.bsky.social @languageonthemove.bsky.social @becauselanguage.com

We're thrilled to share that we have partnered with the University of Liverpool to deliver a master’s degree in Publishing, commencing September 2026. Read our full announcement: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/10/09/l... @sotauol.bsky.social

📣 NEW: 'Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires' by @ralexm.bsky.social examines Zionism within multinational empires and the performative nature of national demands within this economy. Read it #OA: bit.ly/Marshall-MLO @europeinthepub.bsky.social

Popular this week ⬇️ '“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain' by David Miranda-Barreiro @bangormodlangs.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/Julio-Camba-Travelling-Spain @benschofield.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social

Institutions & libraries can become members of MLO for £3,000/$3,900, allowing scholars to publish 5 #OpenAccess articles for the price of 4 without time limit (subject to rigorous peer review). This equates to a saving of £750/$975! 💰 Find out more: bit.ly/MLO-Membership @ilcs.bsky.social

'Bodies of Evidence: The Depiction of Violence Against Female Characters in Late Imperial Russian Crime Fiction' by Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty has also been popular this week. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BodofEv @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @lostdetectives.bsky.social

'Ideological and Theoretical Considerations to Postcolonial Education in the Lusophone Countries' by Nicola Bermingham and Paul O’Neill is popular this week. ➡️ Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/BerOn @spanishinsoc.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @abilox.bsky.social

James Rann asks an important question this week from the special collection guest edited alongside @victoriadonovan.bsky.social & @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social. He asks: 'Does Impact Reinforce the Boundary Between the Academy and the World?' Read it #OpenAccess, only on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Rann

Popular article on MLO this week⬇️ 'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social

Popular this week on #MLO 📣 'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by @xineyaophd.bsky.social @qucl.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedMasques @timb-m.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @ucldiscovery.bsky.social

'Divergent: A Corpus-assisted Semantic/Semiotic Study of Eresia, “Heresy”, in Contemporary Written Italian' by Caterina Guardamagna offers a corpus-assisted lexical semantic/semiotic analysis of the noun eresia “heresy": @livunihss.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE: Un, Dos, y Juntos: Interpretation, Incommensurability, and Linguistic Evolution in Juana Adcock’s “Thirteen Ways of Inhabiting a Language” by Calum MacLean Esler @sgsah.bsky.social @clairesquires.bsky.social Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Esler @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social

Popular article: 📣 'Becoming Musicomic: Music and Comics in Resonance' by Armelle Blin-Rolland asks what happens when music and comics are created and experienced together? Read the article #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/Pitman-MLO @ilcs.bsky.social @imagecomics.com #comics

📣 NEW ARTICLE: '“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s Luca Wu Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction' by Marco Paoli @livunihss.bsky.social‬ @livunilanguages.bsky.social Read it OA via MLO: bit.ly/MarcoPaoli-MLO