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An international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to critical inquiry, cultural analysis, and theoretical debate since 1954. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/current
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Latinity and Modernity: Transnational Perspectives. Volume 72, Issue 1 of Romance Quarterly
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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.

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January 22, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Jeffrey K. Coleman reviews Martin Repinecz’s Volatile Whiteness: Race, Cinema, and Europeanization in Spain in the RQ 72.4.

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January 22, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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.

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January 22, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Jeffrey K. Coleman reviews Martin Repinecz’s Volatile Whiteness: Race, Cinema, and Europeanization in Spain in the RQ 72.4.

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January 22, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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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
January 21, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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.”

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🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Alejandra Rengifo visits the spectrality of La Pampa in Luciana Sousa’s Cuando nadie nos nombre (2022).

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🎨 Detail of the cover of Cuando nadie nos nombre published by Tusquets
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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.

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📷 Detail of the cover of Las hijas de Gracia published by Editorial Bedout
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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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.”

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January 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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.”

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January 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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”

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🎨 Detail of cover of La mata published by Laguna Libros
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) and Alejandro Palma Castro introduce us to the Special Issue: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas.

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📷 Mendieta, Ana. Sin título (Nicho de Culiacán), 1973.
December 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Romance Quarterly: Vol 72, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/toc/vroq20/7...
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We are so grateful and happy to read the authors in the new Special Issue of the Romance Quarterly: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas

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December 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pavel Andrade closes issue 72.3 of the RQ with his review of Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence.
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Caglar Erteber reviews The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires in the RQ 72.3.
September 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
August 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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”.
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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August 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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)
August 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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
August 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Issue 72.3 of the Romance Quarterly is out now! Dive into these fresh stimulating articles and book reviews this August. 🔗 Link below
August 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
June 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM