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Volume 8: A Polemical Companion to Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media
Edited by Bradley J. Nelson and Julio Baena

Introduction
Reading Medialogies, Reading Reality: Just Deserts
Julio Baena and Bradley J. Nelson

1. The Prison-House of Media: Emancipating the Spectator
   Luis F. Avilés
2. On Photography as Inflationary Art
   David William Foster
3. His Panic Issues
   John Mowitt
4. Neither Apocalyptic nor Integrated: Discordant Dialectics
   Palmar Álvarez-Blanco
5. The Medialogy Continuum: From Reality Bleeds to the Performance of the Self
   Barbara Simerka
6. Anonymous Sovereignty vs. Zombie Sovereignty: On the Gaping Ontopolitical Difference Between Early-Modern and Post-Modern Medialogies
   David Souto Alcalde
7. Quixo-Journalism
   William Childers
8. Seeing Cervantes as More than a Soldier, or How to Reframe our Portrait of the Artist
   Rachel Schmidt
9. The Parergon for Parergonal Critique: On David Castillo and William Egginton’s Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media
   Alberto Moreiras
10. The Screen Behind the Screen: A Penultimate Response to a Polemical Companion
    David Castillo and William Egginton

Afterword
Cervantine Fiction, Inflationary Media, and Reality Literacy
Nicholas Spadaccini and Timothy Frye

Contributors

Volume 7: A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates
Edited by Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz

The present "debate" is meant to be read in conjunction with Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates, edited by Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. (Available in hardcover, paperback and ebook)

Prelude

1. Iberian Studies for a Change: Chasing Boundaries of Life
   Katarzyna Beilin
2. Telling Worldly Stories in a More-than-Human World (or How to Overcome Humanist Orthodoxies in Iberian Cultural Criticism)
   Daniel Ares López
3. Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers
   John Beusterien
4. Cultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid
   Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson
5. Happiness
   Eugenia Afinoguénova
6. Spanish Cultural and Literary Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene
   Luis I. Prádanos
7. A Note on the Culture of Biotechnology in Contemporary Spain
   Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Beilin
8. Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead: The Civil War and Spain's Political Present
   Sebastiaan Faber
9. Nunca Máis: Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster
   John H. Trevathan

Polemics

10. Debating Ourselves; Towards the Garden Cities
    Katarzyna Beilin
11. Exploring the Political Ecology of Iberian Studies
    Luis I. Prádanos
12. An Exemplary Iberian Peninsula for an Ethics of Life
    John Beusterien
13. The Ecological Imperative of Urban Cultural Studies
    Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson
14. The Community to Come: Reconsidering Democracy by Way of the Ethics of Life
    William Viestenz
15. Back to Alienation
    Eugenia Afinoguénova
16. Material Semiotics, Political Ecologies, Ethics of Life and the Renewed Potential of the Humanities to Describe and Shape the World in the Anthropocene
    Daniel Ares López
17. Literature as Ecological Thought: Mind the Metaphor
    Juan F. Egea
18. Opening Black Boxes in Iberian Debates on Life
    John H. Trevathan
19. Dam Novels: Drowned Memory and Disposable Communities
    Martín López-Vega
20. Matters of Concern: Survival Strategies
    Sebastiaan Faber
21. Assisted Suicide and Academic Suicide
    Paul Begin
22. Keeping the Humanities Alive by Transforming It: A Co-op Conclusion
    Daniel Ares López, Katarzyna Beilin, John Beusterien, Luis I. Prádanos, Sainath Suryanaryanan and William Viestenz

Contributors

Volume 6: The Place of Hispanic Linguistics and Literary/Cultural Studies: Current Debates on Liberal Education
Edited by Francisco Ocampo and Heather Mawhiney

In memory of Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (1967–2016)

Introduction
Two Metatheories and the Relation Between Hispanic Linguistics and Literary/Cultural Studies in the American University
Francisco Ocampo

1. Hispanic Linguistics in North America: How We Got Here and Where We Go Now
   Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
2. Hispanic Linguistics at a Crossroads
   Milton M. Azevedo
3. Lines of Flight in Hispanic Linguistics
   José del Valle
4. The Elephant in the Room: The Hierarchical Division of Spoken and Written "Grammars"
   Máximo Rafael Salaberry
5. New Directions in Iberian Cultural Studies? (Gloto)political Geographies of Peninsular Hispanism After 2008
   Germán Labrador Méndez
6. The Place of Hispanic Linguistics in Language Departments: A Call to a Broader Perspective on Our Disciplines
   Timothy L. Face
7. Hispanism and Humanitas in the Market University
   David R. Castillo and William Egginton

Afterword
Hispanic Studies, Disciplinary Dialogues, and the Crises of the Humanities
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini

Contributors

Volume 5: Exile, Intellectuals, and the Memory Wars
Edited by Luis Martín-Estudillo and Megan Corbin

Introduction: Exile, Intellectuals, and the Memory Wars
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Megan Corbin

1. Ariel Dorfman: The Residue of Hope after Public Personae Construction
   Hernán Vidal
2. Seductive Narratives: On Human Rights, Bestsellers, and Hope
   Juliet Lynd
3. Dorfman and Vidal: Some Insights on Political Theater and Human Rights
   Carlos Vargas-Salgado
4. False Parity and the Politics of Amnesia
   Joshua Lund and Dierdra Reber

Volume 4: (Re)reading Gracián in a Self-Made World
Edited by Nicholas Spadaccini and Scott Ehrenburg

Introduction: Strategies for Survival in a Self-Made World: (Re)reading Gracián
Nicholas Spadaccini and Scott Ehrenburg

1. Baroque Subjectivity and the Modern Fractured Self
   Justin Butler
2. Dissecting Rationalism: A Proposition to Recontextualize Gracián’s Techné of Prudence
   David R. Castillo
3. Perverse Currency
   Bradley Nelson
4. The Reality of Caudal (A Brief and Admiring Response to Justin Butler)
   William Egginton

Volume 3: On Photography, History, and Memory in Spain
Edited by Maria Nilsson

Introduction: On Photography, History, and Memory in Spain
Maria Nilsson

1. Commodifying Place and Time: Photography, Memory, and Media Cultures Around 1850
   Rebecca Haidt
2. Remembering Capa: Spain and the Legacy of Gerda Taro, 1936-37
   Hanno Hardt
3. Stills of Mauthausen: The Photographic Memoirs of Nazi Camp Survivor Francesc Boix
   Maureen Tobin Stanley
4. Travels in History Through Memory: Photography and the Restoration of the Past
   Txetxu Aguado
5. Nueva Lente, Kracauer and the Historical Avant-Garde
   Susan Larson
6. Encounters With the Unsightly: Reading (AIDS) History, Photography, and the Obscene
   Patricia Keller and Jonathan Snyder

Afterword: On Referentiality, Dissent, and the Inescapability of Context
Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones

Contributors

Volume 2: Feminismos latinoamericanos
Edited by Ana Forcinito

1. Debate: Hacia una apertura de los Estudios Feministas Latinoamericanistas en los departamentos/programas de español y portugués en Estados Unidos
   Hernán Vidal
2. Imagining New Identities and Communities for Feminisms in the Americas
   Cynthia Tompkins
3. Feminismos latinoamericanos y derechos humanos: términos comparativos
   Hernán Vidal
4. Latin America, Feminism, and Human Rights: Response to Vidal and Tompkins
   Amy Kaminsky
5. Derechos Humanos, mujeres y feminismos
   Ana Forcinito

Volume 1: Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature
Edited by Francisco Ocampo

We are pleased to initiate these “debates” with an essay by Eduardo Subirats in which he presents a strong critique of certain trends within Cultural Studies and advocates for the reactivation of Critical Theory. Also included are four additional brief reflections on the first issue of HIOL (Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on Our Discipline) and a follow up mini symposium on the same topic.

1. Las poéticas colonizadas de América Latina
   Eduardo Subirats
2. Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature
   Francisco Ocampo and Ana Forcinito
3. Notes on a Scandal (or Two)
   David Castillo
4. Towards Queering the Curriculum
   David William Foster
5. Thoughts on “Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics and Literature”
   José Ignacio Hualde
6. (After)Thoughts on the State of Hispanic Linguistics
   John M. Lipski