Albert Lloret
Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, UMass Amherst || websites.umass.edu/lloret/
- Rellegint Homenots 2a sèrie més de 20 anys després, em sorprenen aquestes col·laboracions generoses i profitoses gràcies a compromisos polítics o ideològics per interessos comuns (Coromines estudiant amb Menéndez Pidal; F.B. Moll treballant amb mossèn Alcover).
- Muntar una impremta per publicar un diccionari. Muntar una empresa per finançar-ne la impressió.
- Reposted by Albert LloretComing to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]
- Reposted by Albert Lloret"In this essay I will" - spoilers - over-confident - rigid, boring "In this essay I *might*" - creates suspense - nonchalant - adventurous, fun
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- L‘estudi de les llengües romàniques la universitat americana. Les magnituds han canviat, però el judici és exacte.
- Reposted by Albert LloretIf you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
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- Reposted by Albert Lloret"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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- I translated a couple of texts from 16th-C. Spanish for this anthology on “Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765,“ edited by my colleague in the Philosophy Department, Julia Jorati. The entire book looks terrific. Take a look: academic.oup.com/book/61633
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- Reposted by Albert LloretFraming GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
- Reposted by Albert LloretI’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
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- Reposted by Albert LloretEscribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
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- CFP: Les Metamorfosis d’Ovidi a través del temps: paratextos, traduccions i iconografia (Universitat de Barcelona, July 2-3). Deadline: January 15, 2026.
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- Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!
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- Proofs
- New deadline, Nov. 1, 2025.
- Per aquí es pot baixar sencer aquest homenatge a Francisco Rico, amb un munt de contribucions interessants: drive.google.com/file/d/1vHU2...
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- Rellegint #SergiPàmies.
- In practically a wink, thanks to clunky but reliable Wordpress, I have moved all of my publications from the repository I had used to archive and organize them since I was in grad school to a new site: websites.umass.edu/lloret/
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- Call for Papers 5th Summer Seminar - V Seminari d’estiu North American Catalan Society Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona July 1, 2026 - 9.30-14.30
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- Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....
- Many thanks to @becquer.bsky.social, @victoriajane.bsky.social, and Lauren Reynaolds for their amazing work at the editorial office.
- Reposted by Albert LloretOur department is hiring! Join us and be part of a wonderful community of faculty, students, and staff. Apply here and/or please share: www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...
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- 2026 NACS Award. Nominate monographs, editions, translations... Deadline 12/1/25.
- Reposted by Albert LloretOur latest Hispanic issue just printed and will be up on @projectmuse.bsky.social very soon. Edited by @becquer.bsky.social with a dossier on Catalan studies edited by @albertlloret.bsky.social, Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra Ferrer
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- In June, while gathered @ the Medieval Modernities seminar in Olot, we visited the Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa.The local TV station wanted to know what had brought us there & what it was like to study & teach medieval Catalan culture & its modern legacies in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAc...
- CFP - Survival, Resistance, Rebirth - 20th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, The State University of New York at Buffalo, April 16-18, 2026. Paper and panel proposals due by 10/15/2025 @berlihe.bsky.social
- Obre-la per la pàgina que vulguis. Traducció de pedra picada. Registre, lèxic, fluïdesa. #RamonFarrés, #StefanZweig.
- Reposted by Albert LloretComing soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds. Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.
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- Correcting proofs: space, presence, and lyrics from the Catalan Baroque. The essay belongs to a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies", forthcoming in @mlnjournal.bsky.social, which I have coedited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra. Stay tuned!
- Rereading my notes on this amazing book and finding passages like these:
- Accepting proposals until June 10.
- Reposted by Albert LloretModern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
- Llatí de primer de primer carrera. Troncal de filologies. Anual. A més de traduir, examen de mites segons la versió de les Metamorfosis. Anava identificant on començava el mite mentre llegia per repassar per a l’Examen.
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