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.

📢 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.

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

📍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).

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

📚✨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

📚✨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).

🤩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!

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

📚✨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’”

📚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.

🤩📚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❤️📖

📚✨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”

(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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📣 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

📣 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

📚✨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...

📝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.

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!

📢 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

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!

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.

📍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

📍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

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.

📍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

📍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

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

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

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