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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧑🏻‍🏫 Team member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez participated last Thursday September 24th in the III Xornada Investiga, conducting science outreach activities. It was part of a street-level poster exhibition showcasing research on languages, linguistics, translation, and literature.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👩🏻‍💻 Earlier this week, project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan participated in the Congress Memory and Emancipation organised by the Iberian Network of Memory Studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she talked about memory in Caribbean speculative poetics 🖋️📜📓

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🧑🏻‍💻Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez has recently participated in the 2026 ESSE Conference that took place in Santiago de Compostela. He presented part of his ongoing work towards his PhD thesis in the Doctoral Symposium: "Representations of Men in Twenty-First-Century Nigerian Diasporic Fiction"📚

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

✈️ 🇵🇷 Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan visited the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe at the University of Puerto Rico during the summer, where she worked on her research project “Imaginar futuros: antología bilingüe de poesía especulativa y futurista caribeña” under the supervision of Dr. Don Edward Walicek

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

✈️🇵🇹 This summer, project member Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez visited the Human-Animal Studies Hub at the U of Lisbon, where she worked on her research project “On Breathing and a Poet(h)ics of Being; Human-Animal Relationalities and the Poetics of Survival” under the supervision of Prof. Verónica Policarpo

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

✈️ Hello! We’re back with a new post about one of our member’s research stay: 🇳🇴 Earlier this year, Iago Rodríguez Diéguez joined research group TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects, and Pedagogies at the NTNU, where he worked on his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Libe García Zarranz

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🌊 It is time to unplug and enjoy the summer ☀️ We will be back in September with more updates about the project and our members’ research 📚🎞️ So stay tuned ‼️

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🇪🇸 E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz joined research group BiFeGa at the Universidade de Vigo to work on his research on "Masculinities and Care in Contemporary Films" supervised by Dr. Burghard Baltrusch

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🇵🇷 Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan visited the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico (Recinto de Río Piedras) to work on her research project “Bilingual Speculative and Futurist Poetry Anthology” supervised by Dr. Loretta Collins Klobah

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🇮🇪 Iago Rodríguez Diéguez stayed at the Centre for Gender, Feminisms, and Sexualities (University College Dublin), where he worked on his dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Anne Mulhall

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🇪🇸 Prof. Belén Martín Lucas joined research group LITANGLO at the Univesitat de les Illes Balears to work on her essay anthology "Indigenous Feminisms", under the supervision of Prof. Paloma Fresno Calleja 📚

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🇮🇪 🇪🇸 Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez was at the Centre for Irish Studies (University of Galway) where she worked on her dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Louis de Paor and at the Círculo de Estudios Irlandeses (Universidad de Granada), where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Pilar Villar Argáiz 📖

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🇮🇪 Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara was at the Centre of Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities (University College Dublin), where she worked on her dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Anne Mulhall ✏️

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

👩🏻‍💻 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara has recently participated in the I Seminar on Gender and Literature: New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture, celebrated at the Universidade de Vigo. She was part of the roundtable "Gender and Identity: New Forms of Subjectivity".

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

💜The seminar was a complete success, with more than 30 participants who engaged in conversations about community, belonging, posthumanism, affect and care, among other topics. 🥳We want to congratulate Iago and the rest of the organizing team for such an engaging and necessary seminar!

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📚Last week, the I Seminar on Gender and Literature took place at UVigo. It was organized by group member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez in collaboration with Clàudia Martori Ribalta and the association Pandora Literary and Gender Studies. It is also one of the activities organized as part of our project.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

👩🏻‍💻 Project member Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez participated in the conference Narrative Beyond Consensus Reality at the Universidade de Aveiro, where she examined Rivers Solomon’s novella The Deep (2019) through the lens of Rinaldo Walcott’s conceptualization of the “Black Aquatic” 📖💧

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📣 New article alert! Project member Dr. E. Guillermo Iglesias-Díaz has published the article “Viceroy’s House: Discerning Who the Victors Are” in the journal Miscelánea. 🔗 You can find the link here: doi.org/10.26754/ojs...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📣 New article alert! Project member Iago Rodríguez-Diéguez has published the article “‘Persevere it like a man’: Relationality, Respectability and Masculinity in Behold the Dreamers (2016)” in the journal Miscelánea (@miscelaneauz.bsky.social) 🔗: papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🏆 We would also like to congratulate Iria on her Inés Praga Award to the best PhD dissertation, well done!

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

👩🏻‍💻 Last week, project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez participated in the 25th AEDEI conference, where she talked about sapphic teenage characters reclaiming their lesbian identities in Irish YA narratives 👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏽📕🎞️ She also had the chance to launch her newly published monograph 📖

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

👨🏻‍💻 Last week, project member Dr. Rubén Jarazo Álvarez participated in the 25th AEDEI conference at EHU, where he talked about Irish young men and victimhood scripts on TikTok 📱

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🧑🏻‍💻Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez has recently participated in the V Congreso MariCorners at UVigo. 📚 His presentation dealt with representations of masculinities in contemporary diasporic fiction from Nigeria. This is part of the research he is currently developing in his PhD thesis.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

👩🏻‍💻A few days ago, project member Sara Tabuyo Santaclara presented part of her research at the PLGS International Conference 2026: "Female CorpoRealities" at the University of Alcalá. 👭🏻Her presentation was entitled "Monstrous girls, leaking bodies and rape revolt in 'The Handmaid's Tale' franchise".

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

👩🏻‍🏫 Last month, project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez participated in the ‘II Jornadas de difusión de la cultura irlandesa’ at UEx! She talked about Irish mystical creatures with colleague Noelia Carmona Rivero 🧚‍♀️🇮🇪 and discussed the publication of her first monograph with Prof. Carolina Amador Moreno 👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏽📖

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🗓️ On 29 April at 11:00am, you can join project member Prof. Libe García Zarranz in conversation with graphic novelists Jes and Cin Wibowo, authors of graphic novel Lunar Boy. This event has been organized by NTNU’s research groups TransLit and CLEAR. 🔗: ntnu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

✏️ A couple of weeks ago, project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez collaborated in the organisation of the ‘XI Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación Lingüística’, held at the University of Extremadura.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

📣 New article alert! Project member Prof. Belén Martín-Lucas has published the article “Unsettled unsettling: communities of care and the relational self in Rosaleen McDonagh’s auto/biography” in the journal Irish Studies Review. 🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Project members Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara and Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez have just published the Special Issue “Visibilizing Intersectional Girlhood(s) in Contemporary Anglophone Cultural Manifestations”, edited by for the JACLR 🎉 🔗: reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/ja...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📄 Last January, project member Dr. Iria Seijas-Pérez participated in the IX International Seminar on Irish Studies at the University of Granada, where she talked about how contemporary irish young adult novels are exploring the past through a supernatural lens 👻🇮🇪

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

📄 Project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan participated yesterday in the seminar “Lady Travellers: Escriptores, Viatgeres, Pioneres” at the University of Barcelona, where she talked about the return to Antigua in the work of author Jamaica Kincaid 📖🇦🇬

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🗓️ On 17th March, project member Dr. Iria Seijas-Pérez will be participating in the “II Jornadas de Difusión de la Cultura Irlandesa” organised by the Centre of Irish Studies in Cáceres to celebrate St Patrick’s Day 🇮🇪

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

💜 Proud of our team members today and every day, as we continue to fight for equality in academia and for the very necessary inclusion of gender perspective in research.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🗓️ On 16 March, project member Prof. Libe García Zarranz will be giving the online lecture "Cripping Tween Lit: Weaving Queer and Trans Care Webs with Graphic Novels for Tweens” interviewing Prof. Nancy S. Kang (U. Manitoba, Canada). 🔗 You can register here: teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🗓️ Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez is organising the I Seminar on Gender and Literature: New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture 📚 It will take place 9-10th July at the University of Vigo and deadline for abstracts is 15th April ✏️ 🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🎙️ This week we want to share with you a podcast by the ‘New Books in Irish Studies’ section of the New Books Network where project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez talks about her new book with Dr. Helen Penet 📖🏳️‍🌈✏️ 🔗: open.spotify.com/episode/3sEO...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

📣 Member Dr. Iria Seijas-Pérez has published the chapter “Sapphic Witches: The Intersections of Lesbianism and Witchcraft in Irish Young Adult Fiction”, part of the volume Reloading and unleashing cultural studies: New trends and perspectives (2025) 🔗: secretaria.uvigo.gal/uv/web/publi...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🗓️ Project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez is organising, in collaboration with two colleagues, a course entitled “Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature in English” 📚 It will take place every Tuesday (24th Feb-26th May) from 17 to 19 at the Faculty of Humanities in Cáceres!🔗: eventos.unex.es/147202/detai...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🏆 We are very proud to announce that project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara has been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Thesis Award at the University of Vigo! Congratulations Sara, it is well-deserved after all your hard work over the last few years 🎉💪🏻

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📣 Project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez has just published the article “Institutional Violence in Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s All the Bad Apples: Ireland’s Architecture of Containment in Young Adult Fiction” in the journal Atlantis. 🔗: www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/at...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🗓️ Check out the online event “Young Adult Literature and Trans Pedagogies” that will take place on Friday, February 6, from 14:00 to 15:30 (Norway time) with the participation of project member Prof. Libe García Zarranz. 🔗 You can find all the info about the event here: facebook.com/events/s/you...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📣 We begin the week with a new publication by member Dr. Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara, the chapter “Serena Joy as an Anti-Feminist Ally: Tradwives and Rising Misogyny in The Handmaid’s Tale Series” part of the volume Reloading and unleashing cultural studies (2025) 🔗: secretaria.uvigo.gal/uv/web/publi...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

📣 Today we share with you a new publication by Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan in the journal Haidé, entitled “La poesia de Joan Maragall i Francisco Matos Paoli: arrel i volada”. In this article, Grau Perejoan brings these authors’ works into dialogue. 🔗: raco.cat/index.php/Ha...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🎄 It is time to unplug and enjoy the winter holidays! Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and a happy new year 2026 🎉 We will be back in January with more updates regarding our project and members’ research 📝📚🎬 So stay tuned ‼️

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

✏️ Meet Iago Rodríguez Diéguez! He is a PhD candidate at the University of Vigo (FPI grant). He is a member of the research group Feminario and is currently working on his PhD dissertation, which explores masculinity and transatlantic mobilities in twenty-first-century Nigerian diasporic fiction.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

✏️ Meet Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez! She is a substitute lecturer at the University of Extremadura. She collaborates with the research group Feminario and is a member of the Center for Irish Studies in Cáceres. Her research interests include Irish and YA literature, queer studies, and girlhood studies.

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📣 New publication alert! Project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez has recently published her (first!) monograph, entitled Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025). 🔗: www.routledge.com/Sapphic-Adol...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📣 New publication alert! Project member Prof. Libe García Zarranz has recently published the chapter “Affect Theory”, written with Dr. Stella Millili for the volume Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications (ed. Puspa Damai, Routledge): www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

📄 Project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where she examined decolonial, feminist and queer futurities in the poetry of Jennifer Rahim and Colin Robinson 🖋️📜📖

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

📄 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria. Her presentation dealt with the evolution of the term “Girl Power”, shifting its meaning from a radical slogan into a postfeminist label 💄💅🤳

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