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María L. Figueredo, York University, CanadaAbstract
This article examines how multilingual student publishing can move beyond the status of temporary pedagogical output to become an emergent cultural archive and a form of humanities knowledge production. It focuses on the relationship between Acentos, an ongoing multilingual digital magazine publication at York University, and AP/SP/HUMA 4990, an advanced collaborative capstone course that periodically contributes Spanish-English research, interviews, translations, and editorial work to the magazine. Acentos exists independently of the course and includes materials from multiple programs and curricular contexts; the capstone course is one structured research-creation pathway into selected editions. Drawing on research-creation, multimodality, public humanities, and translingual practice, the article analyzes the magazine not simply as a collection of assignments but as a cumulative, curated record of student inquiry, Hispanic and Latin American cultural presence in Canada, community encounters, translation decisions, and editorial mediation. The analysis identifies five archival operations within the project: selection, contextualization, multilingual mediation, intermedial composition, and public circulation; it argues that these operations transform interviews, essays, images, translations, and digital design into situated cultural evidence while also shaping what remains visible, searchable, and memorable. Functioning as a relational archive rather than a neutral repository, Acentos’ value lies in preserving the questions, voices, cultural networks, and media practices of successive student cohorts while making them available beyond the learning management system. The article concludes that multilingual digital publishing can create durable forms of public humanities knowledge, provided that questions of consent, representation, platform sustainability, language hierarchy, and long-term stewardship remain central to the project.
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Conference: PCAH2026Stream: Literature/Literary Studies
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