Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture We are happy to share the Call for Papers for our upcoming collected volume “Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture.” In the same spirit as our homonymous October seminar, which showcased a variety of literary […]
SAVE THE DATE 🗣️ “Days of War” by Simone Da Dalt 📍 Sala d’Actes, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres 📅 13 March 2026, 10:00 – 11:30 We are happy to invite you to our upcoming talk (this time in Spanish!), curated by Simone Da Dalt — “Days of War.” Da Dalt proposes an interdisciplinary reflection […]
We are very happy to share that Dr Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College) will be joining us for one of the BA and MA sessions of Modern War Poetry and Theatre and Writing Research. In this lecture, Tanoukhi will talk about her forthcoming book, Disagreeing Together, which examines the crisis of public discourse in Anglo-European democracies […]
Last Friday, 13 February, the annual Winter Workshop was held in the Sala d’Actes of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Coordinated by Dr Carme Font, the seminar offered doctoral students the opportunity to share their research with fellow PhD candidates and the teaching body of the English Department. This year, the format shifted from […]
We are happy to share that Dr Nicholas Spengler participated in the MLA 2026 Convention. At the invitation of the Melville Society, Dr Spengler organised the panel “Melville and the Geopolitics of Reading,” focusing on Melville’s literary reception in the Global South during the Cold War. Against the nationalist readings of Melville that predominated in […]
On 28 January 2026, the 12th edition of the Teaching English Language and Culture (TELLC) Workshop will be held at the Sala d’Actes (Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres) from 9:00 – 14:00. Organized and coordinated by Dr Sara Martín, the event brings together the teaching staff of the Department of English and German Studies to […]
We are delighted to share that our colleague, Dr María Gaviña Costero, participated in a homage to Brian Friel on the occasion of the presentation of her book El Teatro de Brian Friel: Bailando entre la Ficción y la Memoria (2025, Peter Lang). The event took place on 21 January 2026, from 7 to 9 […]
We are pleased to announce that Dr Christina Howes has recently published an article titled “From war memory to planetary consciousness: ecological postmemory and reconstructive metamodernism in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7.” In her contribution to the journal The Grove, Howes examines Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 (2023) as a transformative work of postmemorial literature that fuses […]
We are happy to announce that Dr Sara Martín has contributed with the chapter “The Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte’s Wars in The Expanse Novel Series” to Wars We Never Fought — a collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in […]
We are happy to announce the successful defence of Enas Talib Farid Hamidi’s doctoral thesis, “Breaking Down Barriers: Addressing Cultural Factors in Language Learning for Syrian Women Refugees in the UK,” presented in the Doctoral Programme in Humanistic Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). Although Enas’s project does not sit strictly within literary […]