Dr. Linda García Merchant joins Arte Público Press/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage as The Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in US Latino Digital Humanities. García Merchant will support pedagogy, training, and projects in the Digital Humanities. In 2019, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Houston (UH) a grant to establish a first-of-its-kind US Latino Digital Humanities Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The program will give scholars expanded access to a vast collection of written materials produced by Latinos and archived by the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) program and UH’s Arte Público Press, the nation’s largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by Hispanic authors from the United States. García Merchant will build on her experience as co-founder of the national digital project, Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital Memory Collective (CPMR) and as an instructor of Digital Humanities. …

Arte Público Press/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage welcomes two summer interns through the Bank of America Summer Internship Program. This program is a partnership between SERJobs and Bank of America to provide summer work experience for young professionals aged 16-24 who live in Houston. Arte Público Press is among several of the nonprofit organizations that have hosted summer interns. Emily De Leon (Class of 2021) is a rising senior at YES Prep Northbrook High School. She is passionate about journalism and plans to study it in college. She applied to the Arte Público internship because she thought it would “be a great opportunity to gain work experience.” Melany Cabrera (Class of 2021) is a rising senior at North Houston Early College High School (NHECHS). She is interested in becoming a lawyer to help underrepresented communities to obtain the rights they deserve. She applied to this internship to gain work …

Stay on the edge of your seat with these Latino crime thrillers and mysteries!   Trust Me By Richard Z. Santos Charles O’Connell is riding an epic losing streak. Having worked in politics since college, he is used to losing races, but he never imagined that his most recent candidate would end up in jail and that he would also need an attorney. His euphoria at not joining his boss in prison is short-lived—no one will hire him now, his credit cards are maxed out and his marriage is on the rocks. An unexpected offer to work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, doing public relations for a firm building the city’s new airport feels like an opportunity to start fresh and make connections with powerful people out west. But when the construction crew unearths a skeleton, Charles’ fresh start turns into another disaster. Soon, a group of Apache claims the …

We are excited to announce that the National Endowment For Humanities (NEH) has awarded the University of Houston a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to continue the second phase of “Survey of Small Historical Societies, Libraries and Museums for Hispanic Materials and Their Management,” directed by Dr. Nicolás Kanellos. The NEH awarded 32 grants in this category, which “allow institutions to preserve and provide access to collections essential to scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities.”[1] This grant will support the planning and development of an online directory of libraries, archives, and museums containing sources on Hispanic history and culture in the United States, from the colonial era through 1960, with a focus on small institutions in the South and Southeast.  During the first phase of this project in 2017-2018, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage conducted a survey of small historical societies, libraries and museums in the Southwest that …

The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Grants-in-Aid program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is designed to provide a stipend of up to $7,500 to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. Congratulations to the 2020-2021 Grants-in-Aid Recipients: Tessa Córdova, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, The Enriqueta Vásquez Digital History Project Ana María Díaz-Marcos, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Hispanic Antifascism and Feminism in La Voz (New York, 1937-1939) Montse Feu, Ph.D. and Jenny Patlan, Sam Houston State University, Fighting Fascism: Workers’ Visual Print Culture in US Spanish-language Periodicals Sarah Rafael García, Founder of Barrio Writers and LibroMobile, Modesta Ávila: Obstructing Development Since 1889 (MAOD) Claire Jiménez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Puerto Rican Literature Project Joshua Ortiz-Bacó, University of Texas at Austin, Unearthing Brazilian, Cuban, and Puerto Rican Abolitionism in the 19th Century US Press Cristina Ramírez, Ph.D.,  University of Arizona, Recovering …

Post Doctoral Fellow – (STA005382) The application period is now open for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH), a division of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program (Recovery) at the University of Houston. The program is looking for a recent (less than 5 years) Ph.D. graduate with background expertise in US Latino Studies. The postdoctoral fellow will help re-vision new strategies for data hosted at Recovery in support of teaching, research and community engagement and help to develop initiatives that will enhance collections and scholarship in the field. USLDH will provide the selected candidate with the necessary training in digital tools, metadata and digitization standards, project and content management systems and platforms. The fellow will be expected to create and publish a significant DH project using Recovery’s archives, assist with instruction, support projects and scholars, serve as a mentor for Research Fellows, lead workshops and collaborate in …