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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 3h

📣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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📍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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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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

📚In addition, Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, María Elena Jaime de Pablos and J. Javier Torres-Fernández participated presenting their work.

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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 · 05/06/2026

📚In addition, Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, María Elena Jaime de Pablos and J. Javier Torres-Fernández participated presenting their work.

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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

👉🏻 First, Pedro Mora-Ramírez talked about his project on Black masculinities and spatialities in post-2010 US fiction and screen media. María Benitez-Utrera explained her project on the gurlesque and particularly what she terms the “gurlesque 101”.

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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

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

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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 · 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

Finally, our team member Auxiliadora Pérez Vides presented her paper "Disposability and Violence against Women: A Noir Resignification in Benjamin Black’s Quirke Series", proving the concomitance of human categorisation and stigmatisation with practices of disposability and violence against women.

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

They questioned the ways in which contemporary narratives re-signify bodies, affects, and spaces that have been culturally and economically coded as useless, wasted, or stigmatized.

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

Next, our team members @jtorferna.bsky.social, Vladyslav Shapoval and Isaac Linton Clewes presented their roundtable titled "Trans-Formative Narratives: Re-signifying Stigma, Waste and Queer Use in a post 9/11 World"

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

In addition, our team member @pgarrod.bsky.social presented her paper “'It’s my body!': Reclaiming the Deviant Body of the Monstrous Woman through Horror in Queen of Teeth (2021)”. She argued that the misused, monstrous body becomes a liminal space of resistance, self-acceptance and conciliation.

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

They examined the ways in which contemporary texts re-signify bodies through transformative narrative practices, embodied trans* practices (Halberstam, Hayward and Weinstein), and critical posthumanist perspectives (Ferrando, Braidotti) as tools for cultural reconstruction in post 9/11 narratives.

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

Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco, Rocío Cobo-Piñero and Juan Carlos Hidalgo-Ciudad presented a roundtable titled “Trans-Formative Narratives: Posthumanism and Embodiment in a post 9/11 World”.

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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 behalf of the research team, we will attach some slides from the many wonderful presentations given at the seminar, and we hope to see you for future talks and events!

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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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