Research project "Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English" (PID2023-146450NB-I00) funded by @CienciaGob
Spain
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📢 Hoy venimos a contaros las actividades que, con motivo de la Noche Europea de l@s Investigadores, llevaremos a cabo desde nuestro proyecto. Ambas actividades tendrán lugar el próximo viernes 25 de septiembre en Málaga, Huelva y Almería, ¡y os invitamos a todxs a participar!
📣Here is a wonderful CFP for a conference organized by our group members!
🤩25th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies has opened a call for papers!
📍Location: University of Almería (Spain)
📅Dates: 26-28 May 2027
⏰Deadline: 11 January 2027
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• Zelie Asava (lecturer, author and public speaker on race, gender and representation in screen studies).
• Jim Culleton (artistic director and CEO of Fishamble: The New Play Company).
• Conor Montague (playwright, theatre director, and actor)
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🤩We’re back with an update on the work!
Last October 15th, J. Javier Torres-Fernández, participated in the online seminar "(Dis)Embodying the US National Body Politic: Recent Gender Approaches to the Body and Corporeality in Contemporary American Literature and Culture."
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This was the second edition of corpUSAL: Seminar on the Body and Corporeality (University of Salamanca). This seminar aimed to offer a space of analysis of US literary and cultural aspects in relation to corporeality and the body.
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📣We are coming to all of you with some wonderful news!
Our members will present their research at the 49th AEDEAN Conference in Feminist and Gender Studies panel!🎉
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📍María Benítez Utrera will present “Little Bit of Sugar, Lots of Poison Too': Femininity and Abjection in Cry Baby, K-12 and PORTALS”.
📍Auxiliadora Pérez Vides will present “Noir Negotiations of Magdalen Ungrievability and Undoability in Joe Murtagh's The Woman in The Wall."
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This July, two key members of our project have presented papers at the annual BAVS Conference (British Association for Victorian Studies) at Liverpool John Moores University: our co-PI Dr. María Isabel Romero Ruiz, and PhD candidate Isaac Linton Clewes.
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In his paper, Isaac Linton Clewes analyses how Oscar Wilde's character of Sibyl Vane may be reclaimed as an autonomous figure and a female artist.
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This conference was a highly productive meeting of the minds, analysing and reinterpreting the past in order to address contemporary concerns. Thank you to all who were present! #humanities #victorian #neovictorian #QueerStudies
📍Francisco Soriano-Víbora
📍PhD candidate in the English and North American Literature Department at the University of Seville. He holds a FPU predoctoral contract. He received the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award in 2026 for his academic trajectory.
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📍The Spanish Ministry of Education funded his Master’s dissertation through a collaboration grant to work alongside Prof. Dr. Cobo-Piñero. He studied obroad in Canada through an Amancio Ortega scholarship and in the US through a CASA scholarship.
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📍His research interests include contemporary Canadian and US literature, Indigiqueer literature, cultural studies, queer theory, and (post)colonial writings.
#queerstudies #transformation #literature
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We have wonderful news! 🎉
We have new members of our Associate team!
📍María Benítez-Utrera
📍PhD student at the University of Sevilla. She holds a FEDER-funded predoctoral contract. She is part of the research group “Teoría y Estudios Culturales” (HUM 409).
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📍Her doctoral thesis focuses on the emerging Gurlesque Theory. Her research interests include feminism, Art, popular culture, abjection and Queer studies.
📍She is a member of the SAAS Young Scholars Reading Group Team, as well as a reviewer for JACLR.
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📍Her Master’s Dissertation, funded by the University of Sevilla through its Initiation to Research Scholarship, won the Best Master’s Dissertation in Gender Studies Award.
#queerstudies #transformation #literature
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