TRANS-FORMATIONS Project

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

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IMPORTANT! The time zone for the seminar is 4:30 CEST, not CET‼️

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📣 We are pleased to announce our next event!

📖 This time our predoctoral students will discuss their PhD theses in relation to the main critical research lines of our project!

🗓️ April 28, 2026
⏱️ 4:30 PM (CET)

Registration details below‼️

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Congratulations, Paula, on bringing visibility to these narratives and opening up such essential debates in academia! 👏✨#feminism #genderstudies #academia #transformations #narratives

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Our team member Paula García Rodríguez has been on a roll! 👏Over the past month, Paula has brought her research to two international conferences.

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From May 18th to 20th, she attended the Poetics and Politics of Literary Assemblages: an International Conference (Universidad de Málaga).

This time, she bridged assemblage theory and hauntology by analysing Tracy Fahey’s novella They Shut Me Up and its aging female bodies.

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🔍This contribution highlights the role of the Gate of the Exonerated, a space for hope and transformation that advocates for the lives of those wrongly incarcerated. Link below!

🔗 https://t.co/d545jH6pw8

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📚✨New Article!

We’re delighted to share that Pedro Mora-Ramírez has published a new article in “The Conversation”.

➡️ “¿Cómo reparar algo que la justicia ha roto? El caso de ‘los cinco de Central Park’”

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Finally, Vladyslav Shapoval Spivak introduced us to autobiographical narratives that can be used as a tool to mirror queer migrants in the US.

Thank you to everybody who attended the seminar and we hope to see you all in future events!

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📚Some weeks ago, we held our II Online Seminar, where our predoctoral researchers discussed their PhD theses and some of our project's key research lines.

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Ending the first session, Paula García-Rodríguez presented her PhD thesis on contemporary literary works focused on body horror and queer use.

Isaac Linton Clewes started the second session discussing his project on irony and sincerity in trans literature and art.

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As Toni Morrison beautifully articulated, “Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind”.

Happy World Book Day❤️📖

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🤩📚Today we celebrate World Book Day and with nothing better than book recommendations!

🗒️ Consider adding these to your collection and to your TBR list!

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🔍This contribution exposes the case of the Magdalene laundries in Ireland, especially highlighting the role of activists. Read it here!

🔗 https://t.co/L98SzZZydD

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📚✨New Article!

We’re delighted to share that project member Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides has published a new article in The Conversation.

➡️ “‘Cosas pequeñas como esas’: un gesto hacia las supervivientes de las Lavanderías de la Magdalena”

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Registration is free, but required to received the meeting’s link‼️

We hope to see you there!

https://t.co/Wat3wGS5jH

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📣 We are pleased to announce our next event!

📖 This time our predoctoral students will discuss their PhD theses in relation to the main critical research lines of our project!

🗓️ April 28, 2026
⏱️ 4:30 PM (CET)

Registration details below‼️

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➡️ “Heterotopia as Resistance in Contemporary Science Fiction TV: The Expanse (2015-2022)” (pages 463-475).
🔗 https://t.co/ENh0k7EcY7

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📚✨New Book Chapter!

We’re delighted to share that our co-PI has published a new chapter in Elena Bandrés Goldáraz’s edited collection, Feminismo, Educación y Diversidad en el siglo XXI: Retos y Oportunidades para la Transformación Social (Dykinson 2025).

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This contribution aims at analyzing TV series The Expanse from a feminist lens to argue how spaces of resistance are needed in order to fight structures of power.