"Pasados," New Journal in Latinx Literary Studies Co-Founded by Prof. John Alba Cutler, Launches

September 16, 2024

We’re excited to celebrate the beginning of Latinx Heritage Month by spotlighting the launch of a new open-access journal in Latinx literary studies, Pasados, co-founded by UC Berkeley English Professor John Alba Cutler. 

For more information and to read new pieces, check out the announcement of the first issue of Pasados.

Pasados Journal Cover

"Pasados is an open-access publication providing peer-reviewed content with a focus on Latinx cultural pasts. Appearing twice annually, the journal publishes methodological and theoretical studies of Latinx archives, textual artifacts, and histories. Pasados makes available to researchers, students, teachers, and community partners essays in the field of critical archive studies, history, and literary criticism, as well as translations of recovered materials, and pedagogical models for classroom teaching. The journal is an initiative of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”), an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States." 

(from Penn Press's announcement of the first issue of Pasados)