This paper examines multilingual student publishing as an emergent form of humanities knowledge production situated at the intersection of literature, culture, and digital public circulation. Taking Acentos, a multilingual university-based digital magazine, as its primary case study, the paper explores how student-authored and student-edited texts function not merely as educational outcomes but as culturally meaningful artifacts shaped by editorial mediation, translation, and audience address.

Rather than approaching multilingualism through proficiency-based or instrumental frameworks, the paper emphasizes its cultural, ethical, and interpretive dimensions. It considers how literary and creative texts—often engaging both written and musical forms—are framed, translated, and circulated within multilingual publishing environments, and how these processes shape questions of voice, authorship, and visibility. Editorial practices are treated as forms of cultural labor that actively participate in the construction of meaning across languages and publics.

Drawing on selected examples from the magazine’s published issues, the paper outlines a research framework for analyzing multilingual student publishing as a developing cultural archive. In doing so, it contributes to broader conversations in the arts and humanities about public scholarship, knowledge mobilization, and the role of digital platforms in expanding literary and cultural production beyond traditional institutional boundaries.

Authors:
Maria Figueredo, York University, Canada

About the Presenter(s)
María Luján Figueredo is an Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latin American literature in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University (Canada). Her research lies at the intersection of literature, music, multilingual cultural production, and public humanities, with particular attention to editorial mediation, cultural circulation, and the relationships between literary and musical forms in Latin American contexts. She has served as Regional Delegate for Region 1 (Eastern Canada and New England) of the Modern Language Association and is a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, as well as a Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University. Her scholarly work includes a monograph and numerous peer-reviewed articles published in specialized journals and edited volumes. Her book Poetry and Popular Song: Their Convergence in the Twentieth Century—The Case of Uruguay (1960–1985) examines the musicalization of poetry.

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