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MLO is a peer-reviewed platform for the Open Access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience from @livunipress.bsky.social. Find us at: modernlanguagesopen.org.
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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
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July 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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‘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
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July 24, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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‘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
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July 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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‘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
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July 20, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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'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
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July 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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'The Long Twentieth Century in Portuguese: An Age Tending to One Extreme' by César Zanin
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July 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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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
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July 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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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
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July 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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⁉️ 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
APC waivers for ECRs publishing with MLO Find out more about how MLO and Liverpool University Press are supporting Early Career Researchers
July 6, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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'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.
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June 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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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
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June 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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'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
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A blue banner graphic with the article title written in white: Navigating Platform Economies in Afrofuturist Publishing in Brazil: Editora Kitembo, Hip-Hop, and Literatura Marginal by Victoria Adams
June 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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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
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May 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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⁉️ 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
APC waivers for ECRs publishing with MLO. Find out more about how MLO and Liverpool University Press are supporting Early Career Researchers
May 18, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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
Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies: For a Ground-up and Located Approach to World Literature | Modern Languages Open
‘World literature’ has been much theorized and re-theorized in recent years as comparative literature for the globalized age. As it moves out of the Euro-American ‘core’ of earlier comparative…
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May 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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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
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April 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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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
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April 8, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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
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April 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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
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April 3, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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
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April 1, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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
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March 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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
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March 27, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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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
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March 25, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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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
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March 23, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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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
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March 21, 2026 at 1:03 PM