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"Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English" (PID2023-146450NB-I00). PI1 María Isabel Romero Ruiz and PI2 Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco. Funded by the Spanish Ministry for Universities linktr.ee/trans_use

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agradecemos a las Unidades de Cultura Científica de @infouma, @ucc_uhu @unihuelva @coideso y a @unialmeria por acoger nuestras actividades. ¡¡Estad atentxs a nuestros próximos eventos‼️ #NIGHTspain #QueerStudies #Narratives #Literature #Transformations #Embodiment #LGBTQIA #Research #EnglishStudies
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📍 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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📍 HUELVA: Dinámica lúdica con "gafas violetas" para poner a prueba prejuicios, analizar situaciones de discriminación y acercar al público a la terminología y experiencias queer.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📍 MÁLAGA: Presentación oficial de nuestro proyecto de investigación “Trans-formaciones: prácticas queer de uso y corporalidad en narrativas en inglés post 9/11” a cargo de nuestra co-IP y equipo investigador.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⭐️ ¡Las jornadas fueron un éxito y fueron recibidas con gran entusiasmo por parte del público! Aquí os resumimos brevemente lo que compartimos en cada ciudad:
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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
Se titulada "La re-escritura del pasado y la trilogía neo-victoriana de Sarah Waters: identidades y sexualidades lésbicas". 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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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
👉🏻 And last but not least, Pedro Mora-Ramírez presented his talk "Masculinities in Prison: The Case of Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us." 🤗 Huge congratulations to everyone who attended and took part in this thought-provoking conference! 🥳🍀 #Transformations #Narratives #AnglophoneStudies
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👉🏻 Isaac Linton Clewes presented his talk "Patients, Perverts, and Parody in Will Self’s Dorian: An Imitation." 👉🏻 Paula García-Rodríguez presented the paper "'Other we change, or we die': Reclaiming the Creature to Resist Capitalism in Kelsey Egan’s The Fix (2024)."
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👉🏻 Our joint PI, María Isabel Romero-Ruiz, presented the paper "'Every Penny Gone to Aid and Comfort the Needy': Caring and Queer Use in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder (2016)."
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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
Acceso libre, pero con registro previo en ciertas actividades. ¡Os esperamos! #nochedelosinvestigadores #nocheinvestigadores #queerstudies #transformations #universidaddemalaga #universidaddealmería #englishstudies
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Más información aquí: www.instagram.com/p/Dc_c4WfiCD...
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trans_use on Instagram: "📢 Hoy venimos a contaros las actividades que, con motivo de la Noche Europea de l@s Investigadores, llevaremos a cabo desde nuestr…"
📢 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.Acceso libre, pero con registro previo en ciertas actividades.Más 👉🏻¡Os esperamos!#nochedelosinvestigadores #nocheinvestigadores #queerstudies #transformations 📍 MÁLAGA: rectorado, sala de juntas, a las 18:30. Se trata de la presentación de este proyecto de investigación “Trans-formaciones: prácticas queer de uso y corporalidad en narrativas en inglés post 9/11” y participarán nuestra IP, María Isabel Romero Ruiz, así como Isaac Linton Clewes, Noelia Muñoz Vargas y María Sánchez Romero.📍 HUELVA: Carpas del Campus El Carmen, a las 18:00. La actividad consiste en ofrecer al público unas gafas violeta para que, de forma lúdica y simbólica, ponga a prueba sus prejuicios, analice y resuelva casos/situaciones de discriminación en materia de estudios de género, al tiempo que intente definir términos asociados con experiencias queer. Esta actividad es liderada por Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides y participarán también nuestra IP Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco, así como Beatriz Domínguez-García, Pedro Mora-Ramírez, Iván de la Torre Franco y Vanessa Hidalgo Sánchez📍ALMERÍA: rambla Federico García Lorca, a las 18:00. La segunda edición de la actividad “Mujeres, literatura y trans-formaciones sociales en cultura popular contemporánea” y contará con varios espacios interactivos orientados a la participación activa del público y la sensibilización en torno a la igualdad de género y la diversidad sexual y étnica. Entre las tareas destacan:– Exposición comentada de ejemplos de cultura popular contemporánea.– Exposición de publicaciones (libros, capítulos y artículos), posters, videos, además de otros materiales informativos, generados por los miembros del grupo de investigación.– “Letter-box” (buzón de cartas): un espacio íntimo y empático donde los participantes podrán escribir mensajes de apoyo, solidaridad o reconocimiento dirigidos a personas en situación de vulnerabilidad por r
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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
📍Congratulations on bringing these pressing issues on Ireland to these narratives and opening up such essential debates in academia! 👏✨ #Irishliterature #genderstudies #academia #transformations #narratives
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📍Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides presented her paper “Trans-signifying Ireland’s Institutional Past in John Banville’s Quirke Series”. 📍On her part, María Elena Jaime de Pablos presented “Fin-de-Siècle Ireland in Translation: A Garden Diary by Emily Lawless and The Untilled Field by George Moore”
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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
From January to April 2026, he has been researching for his research project, which investigates the social and political discourse analysis in autobiographical literature written by queer immigrants in the United States. 👇 Read here for more: 🔗https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/vladyslav-shapoval-spivak
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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
This volume is of great interest to students and scholars of the history of medicine and the history of gender and sexuality in the long nineteenth century, as well as with the history of institutions to contain and control the sexually “deviant”.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The introduction to this volume contextualises sources, addresses the state of the field, discusses language and highlights key themes such as gender, social class and religion.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This volume is concerned with Lock Hospitals and Magdalen Asylums in England in the nineteenth century, focusing on rare and difficult-to-access published and/or archival material.
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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
This contribution draws on Judith Butler’s “performative theory of assembly” and how “embodied forms of action and mobility” (2015, 8) to discuss the performative possibilities of Muholi’s series in public space as acts of LGBTIQ+ resistance.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
➡️ “Dissident Bodies Occupy Public Space: Zanele Muholi’s Transatlantic Visual Activism” 🔗 doi.org/10.3726/b23314
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Peter Lang Verlag - Transatlantic Women’s Networks
The contributions to this volume unearth, discuss, and (re)map networks and circuits of intellectual and cultural exchange among women across the ...
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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 · 11/06/2026
➡️“Dissident Bodies Occupy Public Space: Zanele Muholi's Transatlantic Visual Activism” 🔗 www.dykinson.com/cart/downloa... 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. #trans
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For her part, María Elena Jaime de Pablos (Universidad de Almería) presented her paper “Victimhood, resistance and self-transformation in Somewhere Out There You by Nancy Harris”. Congratulations for their work in Irish Studies!🇮🇪
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
J. Javier Torres-Fernández (Universidad de Almería) presented his paper “Political Stagnation and the AIDS Crisis: Exploring Narratives and Metaphors of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance”.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides (Universidad de Huelva) presented her paper “Irish Women’s Domestic Victimisation across Generations in Catherine Dunne’s A Name for Himself and Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting”.
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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
For her part, María Elena Jaime de Pablos (Universidad de Almería) presented her paper “Victimhood, resistance and self-transformation in Somewhere Out There You by Nancy Harris”. Congratulations for their work in Irish Studies!🇮🇪
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
J. Javier Torres-Fernández (Universidad de Almería) presented his paper “Political Stagnation and the AIDS Crisis: Exploring Narratives and Metaphors of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance”.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides (Universidad de Huelva) presented her paper “Irish Women’s Domestic Victimisation across Generations in Catherine Dunne’s A Name for Himself and Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting”.
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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
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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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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 to understand the bodies of ageing, marginalised women
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
From April 15th to 17th, she traveled to the PLGS International Conference "Female CorpoRealities" (Universidad de Alcalá). There, she tackled corporality, abjection and queer failure through the analysis of Coralie Fargeat’s acclaimed film The Substance.
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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
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAO... 🔍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.
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¿Cómo reparar algo que la justicia ha roto? El caso de ‘los cinco de Central Park’
En el caso de los cinco adolescentes acusados injustamente de atacar a una mujer joven y blanca se mezclaron muchos elementos raciales. ¿Cómo superarlo?
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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
👉🏻Ending the first session, Paula García-Rodríguez presented her PhD thesis, "Misusing the Body: Women’s Body Horror and Queer Practices of Use", where she examines contemporary literary works focused on body horror.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
👉🏻Isaac Linton Clewes started the second session discussing his project "Irony and/or Sincerity? The Transgender Question in Contemporary Literature and Art". Finally, Vladyslav Shapoval Spivak introduced us to autobiographical narratives that can be used as a tool to mirror queer migrants in the US.
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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🤗Thank you to everybody who attended the seminar and we hope to see you all in future events!
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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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