Research project "Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English" (PID2023-146450NB-I00) funded by @CienciaGob

Spain
Joined January 2025
📢 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!
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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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📍Elena Jaime de Pablos will discuss "Trans Identity and Stigma in Elaine Murphy's Ribbons". If you are around, feel free to join and hear their wonderful presentations!🎉
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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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📢 El pasado 25 de septiembre nuestrxs investigadorxs presentaron su trabajo en la Noche Europea de l@s Investigador@s de forma simultánea en Málaga, Huelva y Almería. ⭐️ ¡Las jornadas fueron un éxito y fueron recibidas con entusiasmo por parte del público! Aquí os resumimos:
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📍 ALMERÍA: Múltiples espacios interactivos orientados a la igualdad y la diversidad, que incluyeron juegos contra estereotipos, un emotivo buzón de cartas de apoyo, una "Biblioteca Humana" para escuchar historias reales de exclusión y un Punto Violeta.
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Agradecemos a las Unidades de Cultura Científica de @InfoUMA , @UCC_UHU @UniHuelva @coideso y a @ualmeria por acoger nuestras actividades. ¡¡Estad atentxs a nuestros próximos eventos‼️ #NIGHTspain #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #LGBTQIA #Research #EnglishStudies
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✍🏼📌 ¡Volvemos con novedades! Este martes 15 de septiembre, nuestra IP María Isabel Romero Ruiz (UMA) ha impartido una actividad formativa en la Universidad de Sevilla: "La re-escritura del pasado y la trilogía neo-victoriana de Sarah Waters: identidades y sexualidades lésbicas".
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La conferencia se retransmitió también en streaming y se produjo un intercambio de ideas muy interesante en torno a las líneas de investigación de nuestro proyecto. 🥳📚
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