Víctor Sierra Matute

@sierramatute.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses | @wolfhumanities.bsky.social & @futuresed.bsky.social fellow.

Copies of Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Special edition. The Past Awakened: Cultural Reimagination in the Global Hispanophone. Vol. 29, 2025.
Book cover for Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes After the Critical Turn. Edited by Nicholas R. Jones and Paul Michael Johnson.
Póster Conversatorio "La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión".
Poster "La tra(d)ición del archivo: memorias, desvíos, reescrituras.
"Colonial Interventions Speaker Series" poster.
Poster of pf "First Colloquium on Guaman Poma at the University of Florida."
On the right, Virtual NYRR Resolution Run 5k badge (completed). On the left, runner on pink sweater and blue beanie.
Book Humans: A Monstrous History, by Surekha Davies. Book cover is red and black, with the title in yellow letters.
Talk "The Saya and the Ship: Gendered Passing in the Spaces of Colonial Bureaucracy", by Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez (Colgate University). Thursday, December 4th, 4:30-6pm. Room 9205. Reception will follow. Sponsored by The Program in Global Early Modern Studies and MA in Liberal Studies.
Re-reading Early Modern Spain series.
Keychain featuring a small red voodoo-style doll and a blue stress relief aluminum capsule with spikes.
Guy-faced sphinx at Gilgai Sculpture Park, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Proofs of "The Spatial Display of Poetry in the Recibimiento al obispo Pimentel (1629)", by Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, The City University of New York.
Groceries in a black MLA bag.
“Every People Under Heaven”: The Global History of a Franciscan Tombstone Nancy Wu speaking from a lectern.
Folk holding two copies of an academic edited volume titled Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds", edited by Víctor Sierra Matute.
Poster for the talk "Disonancias imperiales: Ruido y verdad en México-Tenochtitlan (1519-1692)". Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, September 29, 4-5pm. Featuring the mural La gran Tenochtitlan by Diego Rivera.
My cat Isis, a brown, black and white cat in the restroom, near the sink.
Book cover of the graphic novel Don Quixote of La Mancha, adaptation to Spanglish of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, adapted by Ilan Stavans and Roberto Weil.
Hand holding the book Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers, by Laura Portwood-Stacer. Author of The Book Proposal Book.
Backstage picture at Repertorio Español before the play Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega and directed by Bibiana Torres.
Fuenteovejuna at Repertorio Español. By Lope de Vega, directed by Bibiana Torres. Charlas: Hispanic Classics in Conversation. Saturday, July 26 at 7 pm: 30 min post-shiw Q&A with students with cast. Sunday, July 27: 2:30 pm, 30 min pre show talk in Spanish with Professor Víctor Sierra Matute.
CFP Inter-Revolutionary Latin America: Radical Literature and Internationalism from 1910 to 1959.
Sharina Maillo-Pozo's talk at The Graduate Center.
Poster: "eltaller 2025 presents: The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life".
Flyer for the graduate seminar GEMS 72100 - Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies: World-Making and Colonial Epistemologies. Fall 2025, Thursdays 4:15-6:15pm. Prof. Víctor Sierra Matute. The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Poster for Soft Power, Hard Power, and Conquest in Premodern Iberia.
Such a wonderful deep dive with David Gruber, Abigail Pérez Aguilera, Caera Beightol, and Mauricio González into the troubled currents and radical potentials of water’s histories.
4th Annual Early Modern Hispanic Studies Colloquium.
Jens Andermann giving a talk at The Graduate Center. A clip of a film on the screen.
Graduate seminar at The Graduate Center: MALS 74600 - Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies: World-Making and Colonial Epistemologies. Thursday, 4:15-6:15, 3 credits, Prof. Víctor Sierra Matute. In-Person. Cross-listed with GEMS 72100.
Invaginaciones coloniales book launch.
Emily Raboteau and Tao Leigh Goffe presenting their books at the Graduate Center.
Monarchy migration badge on Fitbit (4,023 lifetime kilometers).
Proofs of the article "Estrategias e imaginarios barrocos en La sombra de don Quijote (2014)".
Presentación del libro Invaginaciones coloniales en el Graduate Center. Martes, 26 de marzo, 6PM.
Speaking Volumes program (fanzines).
Poster of El Get Down: Where Speaking Volumes hits the dance floor.
Poster of Speaking Volumes: A Symposium on Sound and Listening.
Poster of "Environmental Storytelling: Seeing, Hearing & Reflecting on the Tropics".
Poster of Speaking Volumes: A Symposium on Sound and Listening.
Poster for "Speaking Volumes! A Symposium on Sound and Listening," featuring Simone Pinet, Beatriz Goubert, Agustina Checa, Ana Cecilia Calle, Nicholas Jones, Pepa Anastasio, Rodrigo Viqueira, Rebecca Salois, Miguel Trelles, Latinx Visions, Rojo Robles, Teatro Latea, Camila Torres Castro, Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, and Victor Sierra Matute. On Friday, March 7th, 10am-7pm at Latea @ The Clemente. Sponsored by Baruch College, Teatro Latea, and The Clemente.
Copy of Eric Calderwood's Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. The book is on a desk near to a Keep Cup and papers.
Medieval manuscript illustrated with two anthropomorphic birds.
Three CUNY Graduate Center flags. Blue with white letters, hanging on the GC building.
To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness book launch.
Chocolate cake and donkey piñata.
Black History Month: To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness. Book launch roundtable with author Nicholas Jones, Eva Copeland, David Sterling Brown, Monica Styles, Aurélie Vialette, Emily Wilbourne. Moderated by Víctor Sierra Matute. Wednesday, February 5,.2025. 7PM. KJCC, NYC.
White book titled The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors by Laura Portwood-Stacer, resting on a table next to a stack of papers.
Selfie of four people having coffee and desserts.
"Keywords: Bullshit jobs".
Poster promoting the art exhibit "Joiri Minaya: Unseeing the Tropics at the Museum", displayed at the Syracuse University Art Museum from January 21 to May 10, 2025. The central image is a collage featuring a silhouette of a woman with long curly hair, where her face and body are filled with tropical imagery: beaches, mountains, and floral elements. Her bikini top is composed of tropical patterns. The Syracuse University Art Museum logo is located in the bottom right corner.
Icicles hanging from an open window and a roof full of snow.
Two stress balls near a Cafe du Monde bag: a coffee stress ball and a beignet stress ball.
Ecce Homo de Borja.
Stone trophy. Caption: "¡Nivel superado! Te damos la bienvenida a la Liga Piedra".
Dibujo de un Hombre de pan de jengibre con la leyenda "Recién salido del horno, el Hombre de pan de jengibre, conocido por sus excéntricas aperturas, está preparado para jugar."
Dibujo de un pingüino con la bandera de Ecuador y la leyenda "¿Podrás derrotar a este adorable villano del otro lado del Polo Norte?
Hand holding the book Visiones y visitas de Torres con don Francisco de Quevedo por la corte, written by Diego de Torres Villarroel.
Cat drinking water laying on the floor.