Chair of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at McGill University Digital Humanities, Multilingual AI + Contemporary LatAm Cultural Studies she/her/hers, own opinionshttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mtu22nprtc2j📣 We’re hiring in Russian Studies at McGill! ✨ Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Russian Literature and Culture. Join our vibrant, multilingual community in Montréal. Bonus ⭐ I’ll be your department chair for at least your first year Please share widely https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/Sherbrooke-680/Assistant-Professor_JR000007940224 Aug 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtu22nprtc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3msyv6hlivk2dHappy to share that I’ve joined Amelia Acker and Meredith Martin as a co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Analytics. ⚡ Send us your new work at the intersection of culture, computation, and critical inquiry. Delighted to receive innovative, high quality articles. culturalanalytics.org14 Aug 2026 00:20 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyv6hlivk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3monmcpc4ds2jHey, DHSI! Looking forward to seeing you today at 12:00 p.m. for the final lecture of the Institute’s summer programming. Really looking forward to the discussion to follow :)19 Jun 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3monmcpc4ds2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mnahzloc222oAt LASA 2026, I presented work from our in-progress edited volume on new forms of migration in LatAm. A Paris highlight was a meeting between my PhD supervisee, Lara Bourdin & her cotutelle co-supervisor, Leonardo Tonus (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle): in person for the first time in 5 years! ✨01 Jun 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnahzloc222ohttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3ml43kaww5c2eClosing out our Crisis and Care speaker series with Claire Battershill (University of Toronto) on May 14, 4:00–5:30 pm (680 Sherbrooke, Rm 1041). Her talk, “Slow Looking and Close Reading,” reflects on care, collaboration, and craft in humanities research in the age of AI. See you there!05 May 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml43kaww5c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mhylky6ers26I’m very happy to invite you to the next talk in our Crisis and Care speaker series! In “Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning,” Carolyn Fornoff will examine how activists and artists in Latin America remember murdered land defenders and resist the erasure of lives lost to extractive violence.26 Mar 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhylky6ers26https://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mgq4k7s62s2yHey MTL! Our 3rd Crisis and Care speaker is Julia Alekseyeva on 03/19 at 4:30pm. Julia’s talk examines how Soviet avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov conceived documentary cinema as a tool for transforming perception and consciousness, modelling what she calls a form of revolutionary phenomenology.10 Mar 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgq4k7s62s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mfp2iad6nk22At ACLA this week, I’ll be speaking on “From Residue to Renewal: Transmedia Storytelling and the Afterlives of Extraction,” as part of the panel “Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time.” Come talk rot, residue, and renewal with us. 🍂#ACLA #Transmedia #EnvironmentalHumanities25 Feb 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfp2iad6nk22https://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mf6ec2x4fs2hDelighted to participate in the 3rd Intl Symposium on Humanities and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University 🇭🇰 My talk,“Regional GPTs, Linguistic Pluralism, and the Reconfiguration of Global AI Power,” probes how locally grounded AI is reshaping language and knowledge. Spoiler: AI is never neutral.19 Feb 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf6ec2x4fs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mej4s7vvuc2jMontréal-based folks: join us for our second Crisis and Care speaker: Anette Schwarz “The Politics of Care: Empathy as Intervention.” 02/19/2026, 4:00–5:30 PM A conversation on care, empathy, and intervention drawing on Medical Humanities and German critical thought. All welcome. @mcgill.ca10 Feb 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mej4s7vvuc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3mbrgjdizic27Montreal-based Folks, Our department is launching a five-speaker series this semester titled Crisis and Care. We’re delighted to welcome our first speaker, Elisa Brilli (@utoronto.ca) on January 14th. Please share widely; we hope to see many of you there ✨06 Jan 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrgjdizic27https://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3m25djcbi4k2sI remember meeting Laleh years ago when I was a student in London. Very excited to see this! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25djcbi4k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lw4yfg7agk2fHey Montreal Book Lovers, Tomorrow at 7pm at @argobookshop.bsky.social, I'll be sitting down with the talented @brianbergstrom.bsky.social to talk about his translation of The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto. Join us! You won't regret it :)11 Aug 2025 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw4yfg7agk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lvt4vdiw7224Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!07 Aug 2025 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvt4vdiw7224https://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lqx7cnyhnc2nHi Blue Skyers, Sharing this awesome CFP for a conference at Tulane this December entitled, "Moving Media in the Americas." Submission deadline is July 15th. Have a look and please share widely!06 Jun 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqx7cnyhnc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lqbdmzh6ic2qPossibly one of the beautiful bookstores I've seen. Guadalajara, México 📚☁️📚28 May 2025 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqbdmzh6ic2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lpwubd2nl22iDear Friends in San Francisco for LASA 2025, Our panel, Brazilian Literature In Motion II, is happening tonight at 5:15 PM PST—hope you can join us! I'll be presenting virtually but am very much with you in spirit. Since my talk is pre-recorded, I took the opportunity to add a couple of slides here.24 May 2025 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpwubd2nl22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lojsnrk6m22kFor the last two days, my office was at @modernlanguage.bsky.social 🙌 Delighted to have discussed the 2026 convention program with insightful and sharp colleagues on the MLA Program Committee.06 May 2025 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojsnrk6m22khttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lnf74vjurs2g22 Apr 2025 07:52 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnf74vjurs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/cecilyraynor.bsky.social/post/3lmzau7q4us2fNow that it’s official, I’m delighted to share that I’ve been appointed Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for a three-year term beginning June 1st 🥳 It’s quite a time to be taking this on. Advice and wisdom from fellow Chairs in the Humanities are warmly welcome!17 Apr 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:wonmrvd2au2uqltpjiode3wi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzau7q4us2f