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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 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.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

✍🏼📌 ¡Volvemos con novedades! Este martes, 15 de septiembre, nuestra IP María Isabel Romero Ruiz (Universidad de Málaga) ha impartido una actividad formativa en el marco del Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Filológicos (Literatura y Cultura en Lengua Inglesa) en la Universidad de Sevilla.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are back with more updates on our team's work! 📚✍🏼 Last week, four members of our team presented their research at the 2026 ESSE Conference hosted by the University of Santiago de Compostela, where they had an amazing and fruitful time among friends and colleagues.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📢 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 respectivamente, y os invitamos a todxs a participar.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

☀️🌊 Wishing you refreshing summer holidays‼️ We will be back in September with more news and projects to share. #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Film #Post911

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📍Our team members Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides and María Elena Jaime de Pablos have brought their research to the IASIL 2026 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest (6-10 July 2026).

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🤩 Exciting News! Our Predoctoral Researcher, Vladyslav Shapoval Spivak, has completed his doctoral stay at the London School of Economics (Department of Gender Studies)!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

📚✨New Collection! We’re delighted to share that our co-PI María Isabel Romero-Ruiz has edited a new book The Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century: Magdalen Asylums, Lock Hospitals and Lock Asylums in England in the Long Nineteenth Century (Routledge 2026). 🔗https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003244479

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

📚✨New Book Chapter! We’re delighted to share that our project member Rocío Cobo Piñero has published a new chapter in Patricia Anzini and Verena Lindemann Lino’s edited collection, «Transatlantic Women’s Networks: Cultural Engagements from the 19th Century to the Present” (Peter Lang 2026).

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🤩Last week, there were exciting news about project members in the 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference, held at Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea! ✨ Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides was appointed President of @aedei.bsky.social We wish you all the best in this term!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

📚✨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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

📚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. 📍Our co-Ips, María Isabel Romero-Pérez and Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco, introduced the main theoretical tenets of our project.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🤩📚Today we celebrate World Book Day and with nothing better than book recommendations! 🗒️ Consider adding these to your collection and to your TBR list! Happy World Book Day❤️📖

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

📚✨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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

(REUPLOAD) 📣 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 (CEST) Registration is free, but required‼️ forms.gle/az6Ww6K92aEP...

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

‼️IMPORTANTL: time zone is 4:30 PM CEST, not CET, new version available‼️

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📣 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) ‼️ Find the link in the bio

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

📚✨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). 🔗 www.dykinson.com/cart/downloa...

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📝Project member Pedro Mora-Ramírez participated yesterday in the 2026 Félix Doctoral Seminar at the Complutense University of Madrid. He talked about his PhD project on Black masculinities and spatiality in post-2010 fiction and audiovisual media. The seminar was organized by SAAS Young Scholars.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

On 8 March, we celebrate International Women’s Day! 💜 At the Trans-formations project, we are convinced that women play a crucial role in society and that it is imperative to denounce patriarchal systems. Our team is mainly composed of women researchers!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📢 Hello, everyone! Today we wanted to share with you a quote by Jack Halberstam. The prefix trans* help us rethink about gender embodiment. In _Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability_ (2018), Halberstam analyzes the trans* body and its place in our current times. #QueerStudies

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Part 2 ✍️We especially recommend the book chapters by our PI, Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco, “The Commodified Male Body: Altered Carbon (2018-2020)”, and Juan Carlos Hidalgo-Ciudad’s “Liquid Masculinities in Lilly and Lana Wachowski's Sense8 (2015-2018)”. ✨We hope you enjoy this book!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Part 1 📢We are starting a series of our recommended reading list! 📖Sara Martín Alegre and Michael Pitts have edited the book Masculinities in Contemporary Science-Fiction Television, where they highlight the ways in which divergent masculinities shape and are shaped by the science fiction genre.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

📍On the other hand, Paula García-Rodríguez, at the panel “Aging female body”, argued that They Shut Me Up and The Substance reclaim and reinterpret the ageing female body, as it interrogates how they are rendered invisible within dominant discourses, marking them as socially obsolete. #Queer

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

📍At the panel “Racialised bodies,” Pedro Mora-Ramírez discussed the scriptions of the black male body in Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us (2009). #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Film #Post911 #Transformations #Embodiment #LGBTQIA #Research #EnglishStudies #AmericanStudies #AnglophoneStudies

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The second day was also a success!🤩 📍In the session “Body as Assemblage”, Dr. Juan Carlos Hidalgo-Ciudad put emphasis on the trans* subject in Future Feeling, which is constituted as a rhizomatic assemblage.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📍In addition, Dr. Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco highlighted the urgent need to reconfigure traditional narratives of use and embodiment by re-signifying marginalized bodies as dynamic agents of transformation. #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Film #Post911 #Transformations #Embodiment #LGBTQIA

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📍At the panel “Trans*bodies,” Isaac Linton Clewes proposed that ‘avant-garde’ writing, specifically in Luke Sutherland’s “Venus as a Boy”, provides a means to understand trans subjectivity in literary works. #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Post911 #Transformations #Embodiment #LGBTQIA

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Members of our project joined the “Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body” international conference (University of Wrocław, Poland) yesterday!🤩 #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Post911 #Transformations #Embodiment #LGBTQIA #Research #EnglishStudies #AmericanStudies

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

As we mentioned, next week, members of our project will join the “Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body” conference (University of Wroclaw, Poland)! Check out the titles of our papers📚 #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Post911 #Transformations #Embodiment #LGBTQIA

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We are back with great news!🤩 Next week, members of our project will join the “Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body” conference (University of Wroclaw, Poland)! #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Film #Post911 #Embodiment #LGBTQIA #Research #EnglishStudies

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

⭐️ Wishing you a joyful holiday season from all of us at the Trans-formations team‼️ We will be back after the holidays with more news and projects to share.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📢 Hello, everyone! Today we wanted to share with you a quote from Sara Ahmed's “What’s the Use: On The Uses of Use” (2019). Thinking through queer uses, says Ahmed, opens up new questions about how alternative uses can unsettle norms and generate new possibilities.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

📢 Last week, several of project members, Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco participated in the 48th AEDEAN conference at EHU in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Check this 🧵 to find out‼️ @aedeaninfo.bsky.social #AEDEAN48

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📢 On the 29th of September we hosted the first of our online seminars. With more than 60 attendees, we presented our project and the critical theories used in our research, working with academics from across the globe who collaborate with us internationally.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📢 El pasado 26 de septiembre nuestrxs investigadorxs también presentaron su trabajo en la Noche Europea de l@s Investigador@s 2025 en Almería. #NIGHTSpain @ualmeria.bsky.social

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📢 El pasado 26 de septiembre nuestrxs investigadorxs presentaron su trabajo en la Noche Europea de l@s Investigador@s 2025 en Málaga. #NIGHTSpain @univmalaga.bsky.social

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Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

✏️ First, meet our wonderful PI Prof. Belén Martín Lucas. She is a Professor at the University of Vigo, has co-founded research group BiFeGa and has led different research projects. Her main research interests are feminist studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies and Canadian studies.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

¡Buenas tardes a todxs! Este viernes, 26 de septiembre, participaremos en la Noche Europea de l@s Investigador@s 2025 con dos actividades diferentes. En esta publicación podrás encontrar toda la información sobre las actividades y cómo asistir.

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Here's the official program for the event. Check it out and do not forget to register in advance. We will discuss key terms and ideas that are at the core of our research. The event is open to anyone interested in these topics. #EnglishStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #OnlineSeminar #Academia

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📢 🥳 We’re back from the holidays to bring you all the info about our first online seminar. 📚 If you’re interested in queer and trans* studies, you cannot miss out on this one! 📅 We hope to see you all on September 29 at 4.30 pm (CET). 🔗 Registration is free but required: forms.gle/ccb8SbZbn7QA...

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

🏖️ 📢 From all of us at the Trans-formations team, we wish you a wonderful holiday and well-deserved rest during August! 📅 We will be back in September with exciting updates for all of you. Enjoy the break, but keep an eye out for our future posts 🥳 #QueerStudies #LGBTQIA+ #EnglishStudies #Research

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We continue the presentations with our associate team! 🧵Check this thread out!

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Paula García-Rodríguez @pgarrod.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Don’t forget to follow us to make sure you don’t miss anything!!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Today we bring you all the info about our project core team! 🧵Check this out!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

📣Welcome to our “Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English” Research Project, led by María Isabel Romero-Ruiz (@univmalaga.bsky.social) and Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco (@unihuelva.bsky.social)! 🔗Find all our profiles in the bio. Follow us to stay tuned!

Main ideas the research team is working on.

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