Activities – Beyond Postmemory Research Group

2026

Publications

Bellot, Andrea and Walid M. Rihane. “Neverland as Psychogeographical Colony: Space, Childhood, and Empire in Peter Pan and Wendy”. Children’s Literature in Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-026-09667-w

Howes, Christina. “From War Memory to Planetary Consciousness: Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7”. The Grove – Working Papers on English Studies, vol. 32, Dec. 2025, p. e9768, https://doi.org/10.17561/grove.v32.9768.

Pividori, Cristina and Andrew Frayn. “From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict Through Contemporary Literature and Culture – A Reflection and Response.” First World War Studies, 17(1–2), 161–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2026.2634300.

Conferences and Seminars

Aguilera García, Elvira. “Material Heritage in Palestinian Diasporic Fiction: Homes, Objects, and the Afterlives of Dispossession in Enter Ghost.” AHM Conference Unsettling Heritage & Memory Futures: Decolonial Trajectories between Crisis & Possibility, 17-18 Jun. 2026. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

Bellot, Andrea. “You Have to Get Used to Carrying Two Feelings at Once.”Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference, 17 April 2026, University of Manchester.

García, Paula. “Bearing Witness or Domesticating Violence? War Correspondents, Narrative Ethics and the Limits of Objectivity.” Representing violence: (meta) narratives-memories- commitments, 13 March 2026, Université de Tours (online).

Gaviña, Maria. ‘”A Bog Will Throw Up Bodies’: How Nature Remembers the Northern Irish Troubles in Abbie Spallen’s Lally the Scut.” 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference, 27-29 May 2026, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Vitoria‑Gasteiz.

Sáenz, Andrea. “‘Not-Writing’ About War When Writing About It: Silence, Sound, and Diversion in Between the Acts.” 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound, 24-28 Jun. 2026, Istanbul Bilgi University.

Schlesier, Lluïsa. “Landscape and Mind as an Archive of Absences: A Reading of Roddy Doyle’s The Last Roundup Trilogy from a Combined Perspective of Ecocriticism and Trauma Studies.” 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference, 27-29 May 2026, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Vitoria‑Gasteiz.

Spengler, Nicholas. “Melville’s Migrations: Gurnah’s By the Sea and Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea.” MLA 2026 Convention, Modern Language Association, and The Melville Society, 8–11 Jan. 2026, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto.

Martín, Sara. From Cormac McCarthy’s Novel to Manu Larcenet’s Graphic Novel: (Re)Designing The Road With Colour.” International Conference on Transcultural Adaptations: Literature Beyond Borders and Toward Peace, 19 Jun. 2026. University of the Balearic Islands (online).

Vila, Natàlia. “Regarding the Pain of War: Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room and the Ethics of Representation.” Conference New Voices in First World War Studies, 17 Jun. 2026, International Society for First World War Studies (online).

Events (PhD Vivas, Workshops, etc.)

Aguilera, Elvira, Cristina Franco, Irene Gassó, Natàlia Vila. “Literary Representations of War.” Winter Workshop, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística, 13 Feb. 2026, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Aguilera García, Elvira. “Narratives de la Diàspora Palestina. Isabella Hammad.” 19 April 2026, Llibreria Aldarull, Barcelona.

Sáenz, Andrea. Submission of PhD thesis Reassessing War Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Late Fiction: The Temporal and Spatial Borders of War, July 2026. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

2025

Publications

Bellot, Andrea and Sara Wyman. “Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for sustainability education: promoting intercultural competency in English literary studies.” Intercultural Education, vol. 36, pp. 597- 615. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2025.2514383

Franco Rosillo, Cristina. “Review of Clarke, Gill. Artist as Witness: The Impact of War. Sansom & Company, 2025.” Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 123-127. https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/jaclr/article/view/23900

Gaviña. Maria. El Teatro de Brian Friel. Bailando entre la ficción y la memoria. Oxford: Peter Lang Verlag, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22991

Howes, Christina. “Ordinary Affects and Cruel Optimism: A Phenomenological Study of Affective Responses in Rachel Seiffert’s Field Study.” Fragments of Meaning: Dialogues in Language, Literature and Culture, edited by Montse Martínez, Daniel Nisa, and Sonia Casal, pp. 152-159.

———. “From War Memory to Planetary Consciousness: Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7”. The Grove – Working Papers on English Studies, vol. 32, pp. 1 – 22

Martín Alegre, Sara. “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte in The Expanse Novel Series.” Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction, edited by Matthew B. Hill and Leigha H. McReynolds, Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 177–193. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wars-we-never-fought-9798765121535/

Pividori, Cristina. “The Dynamics of Postmemory: Visual Art as Living Site of Remembrance.” Giorni di Guerra: L’Ombra del Fotografo, edited by Simone Da Dalt and Jasmine Mitaval, Editrice Storica, 2025, pp. 156–179.

Spengler, Nicholas. “Melville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics.” The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville, ed. Jennifer Greiman and Michael Jonik. Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 178-195. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191897337.001.0001

———. “Playing with Fire: Unhousing and Unsettlement at the Antebellum Hearthside.” Textual Practice, special Issue on “Unhousing,” edited by Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Rodrigo Andrés & Michael Jonik, vol. 39, no. 12, 2025, pp. 1912-1933. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2025.2588980

———, and Esther Pujolras-Noguer. “Stormy Weather: Legacies of Slavery and Emergent Forms of Political-Ecological Relation in Literary Fiction of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.” Social Science Information, online publication, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184251401093

Tiempo Devorado Special Issue

Pividori, Cristina. “Owen i Sassoon Reconsiderats: El trauma de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la memòria i la poesia antibel·licista contemporània en l’era ‘Post tot.’” Tiempo Devorado, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, pp. 41–77, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.246.

Soler, Albert, coordinator. “Culturas de desmovilización. Conflictos, reinserción y memoria: La construcción de los excombatientes y su impacto en el mundo actual.” Tiempo Devorado, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.242.

———. “Cómo contar una historia de guerra: Culturas de desmovilización y excombatientes contemporáneos.” Tiempo Devorado, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, pp. 5–40, https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.237.

Spengler, Nicholas. “Melville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics.” The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville, ed. Jennifer Greiman and Michael Jonik. Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 178-195. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191897337.001.0001

———. and Esther Pujolras-Noguer. Stormy weather: Legacies of slavery and emergent forms of political-ecological relation in literary fiction of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Social Science Information, online publication, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184251401093

Conferences and Seminars

Bellot, Andrea. “Singing Survival: Performance and Memory through Lynn Nottage’s Ruined.” Project Fundació Autònoma Solidària – Projectes d’Educació per la Justícia Global, 12 Jun. 2025. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Owen, David. “They Also Serve: Jane Austen’s Domestic Spaces as Theatres of War,”More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250, 8 – 10 Oct. 2025, University of Porto, Porto.

48th AEDEAN Conference

Pividori, Cristina, Elvira Aguilera, Cristina Franco, Sara Martín, David Owen, and Nicholas Spengler. “Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Aguilera García, Elvira. “Matter and the (re)construction and mediation of memory and identity in Isabella Hammad’s novel Enter Ghost.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Franco Rosillo, Cristina. “Make America Sick Again: Dislodged Temporalities and Communities in Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Owen, David. The Long Shadow of War: Militarised Authority in Austen’s Domestic Worlds.” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Pividori, Cristina. “Beyond the Banality: Assemblage, Hauntology, and the Ethics of Space in The Zone of Interest (Novel and Film).” 48th AEDEAN Conference, 12–14 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Giorni di Guerra

Rossi, Umberto. “Three Different Ways of Framing a War: From Comedy to Adventure to History.” Giorni di Guerra, Università Ca’ Foscari, Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Vennetto, and ICLA Research Committee on Comic Studies and Graphic Narrative, 3–5 Nov. 2025, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.

Soler Ruda, Albert. “Dog soldiers and storytellers. The Great War and the construction of the indigenous citizen and their inherited narratives of memory through comics.” Giorni di Guerra, Università Ca’ Foscari, Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Vennetto, and ICLA Research Committee on Comic Studies and Graphic Narrative, 3–5 Nov. 2025, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.

Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory

Aguilera García, Elvira. “Tracing Embodied Agency in Conflict-Altered Ecologies: Insights from Hala Aylan’s Salt Houses.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Bellot, Andrea and Cristina Pividori. “Beyond the Heart of Darkness: Rape and Ecocide in Congo’s Theatres of Memory.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Franco Rosillo, Cristina. “The Illusion of Nature as Affective Shelter in Michael Cunningham’s Day.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

García, Paula. “No Victor, No Vanquished: How Journalists Explain the Biafra War”. 1st Neolaia International Conference ‘Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe,’ 1-3 Oct. 2025, Universidad de Jaén.

Howes, Christina. “Storied Ruins: Ecological Memory and Post‑War London in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.” Memory and Trauma International Conference, 5-6 Dec. 2026, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Birkbeck, University of London. (Online).

———.“Entangled Memories: War, Trauma, and Ecological Legacies in Flanagan’s Question 7.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Martín Alegre, Sara. “Zero Ecology in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Exceeding the Possibilities of Human and Natural Recovery.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Monnickendam, Andrew. “Environmental Memory, Mausoleums, and Holiday Snaps.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Owen, David. “Jamie Foyers as Performance, Trauma and Environmental Memory.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Spengler, Nicholas. ““Who Will Be Lost in the Story We Tell Ourselves:” Human and Non-Human Memory in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeus and John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea.” Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès.