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2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bellot, Andrea and Walid M. Rihane. <\/strong>\u201cNeverland as Psychogeographical Colony: Space, Childhood, and Empire in Peter Pan<\/em> and Wendy<\/em>\u201d. Children\u2019s Literature in Education<\/em>, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10583-026-09667-w<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howes, Christina. <\/a><\/strong>\u201cFrom War Memory to Planetary Consciousness: Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan\u2019s Question 7\u201d. The Grove \u2013 Working Papers on English Studies<\/em>, vol. 32, Dec. 2025, p. e9768, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17561\/grove.v32.9768<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pividori, Cristina and Andrew Frayn. <\/a><\/strong>“From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict Through Contemporary Literature and Culture \u2013 A Reflection and Response.” First World War Studies<\/em>, 17<\/em>(1\u20132), 161\u2013178. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/19475020.2026.2634300<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conferences and Seminars<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aguilera Garc\u00eda, Elvira.<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cMaterial Heritage in Palestinian Diasporic Fiction: Homes, Objects, and the Afterlives of Dispossession in Enter Ghost.\u201d AHM Conference Unsettling Heritage & Memory Futures: Decolonial Trajectories between Crisis & Possibility<\/em>, 17-18 Jun. 2026. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bellot, Andrea.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cYou Have to Get Used to Carrying Two Feelings at Once.\u201dFalklands\/Malvinas Conflict Conference<\/em>, 17 April 2026, University of Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garc\u00eda, Paula. <\/strong>\u201cBearing Witness or Domesticating Violence? War Correspondents, Narrative Ethics and the Limits of Objectivity.\u201d Representing violence: (meta) narratives-memories- commitments<\/em>, 13 March 2026, Universit\u00e9 de Tours (online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavi\u00f1a, Maria.<\/a> <\/strong>‘”A Bog Will Throw Up Bodies\u2019: How Nature Remembers the Northern Irish Troubles in Abbie Spallen\u2019s Lally the Scut.\u201d 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference<\/em>, 27-29 May 2026, University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU) in Vitoria\u2011Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1enz, Andrea. <\/strong>\u201c\u2018Not-Writing’ About War When Writing About It: Silence, Sound, and Diversion in Between the Acts<\/em>.\u201d 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound<\/em>, 24-28 Jun. 2026, Istanbul Bilgi University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schlesier, Llu\u00efsa<\/a><\/strong>. “Landscape and Mind as an Archive of Absences: A Reading of Roddy Doyle\u2019s The Last Roundup<\/em> Trilogy from a Combined Perspective of Ecocriticism and Trauma Studies.\u201d 25th Anniversary AEDEI International Conference<\/em>, 27-29 May 2026, University of the Basque Country (UPV\/EHU) in Vitoria\u2011Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spengler, Nicholas.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cMelville\u2019s Migrations: Gurnah\u2019s By the Sea <\/em>and Akomfrah\u2019s Vertigo Sea.<\/em>\u201d MLA 2026 Convention<\/em>, Modern Language Association, and The Melville Society,  8\u201311 Jan. 2026, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mart\u00edn, Sara<\/strong>. From Cormac McCarthy\u2019s Novel to Manu Larcenet\u2019s Graphic Novel: (Re)Designing The Road With Colour.\u201d International Conference on Transcultural Adaptations: Literature Beyond Borders and Toward Peace<\/em>, 19 Jun. 2026. University of the Balearic Islands (online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vila, Nat\u00e0lia. <\/strong>\u201cRegarding the Pain of War: Pat Barker\u2019s Toby\u2019s Room and the Ethics of Representation.\u201d Conference New Voices in First World War Studies<\/em>, 17 Jun. 2026, International Society for First World War Studies (online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events (PhD Vivas, Workshops, etc.)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Aguilera, Elvira, Cristina Franco, Irene Gass\u00f3, Nat\u00e0lia Vila.<\/a> <\/strong>“Literary Representations of War.” Winter Workshop<\/em>, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i German\u00edstica, 13 Feb. 2026, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aguilera Garc\u00eda, Elvira.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cNarratives de la Di\u00e0spora Palestina. Isabella Hammad.\u201d 19 April 2026, Llibreria Aldarull, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00e1enz, Andrea.<\/strong> Submission of PhD thesis Reassessing War Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Late Fiction: The Temporal and Spatial Borders of War<\/em>, July 2026. Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bellot, Andrea and Sara Wyman.<\/strong> \u201cCollaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for sustainability education: promoting intercultural competency in English literary studies.\u201d Intercultural Education<\/em>, vol. 36, pp. 597- 615. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14675986.2025.2514383<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franco Rosillo, Cristina<\/strong>. \u201cReview of Clarke, Gill. Artist as Witness: The Impact of War<\/em>. Sansom & Company, 2025.\u201d Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research<\/em>, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 123-127. https:\/\/reunido.uniovi.es\/index.php\/jaclr\/article\/view\/23900<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Gavi\u00f1a. Maria.<\/strong> El Teatro de Brian Friel<\/em>.\u00a0Bailando entre la ficci\u00f3n y la memoria<\/em>. Oxford: Peter Lang Verlag, 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3726\/b22991<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howes, Christina.<\/strong> “Ordinary Affects and Cruel Optimism: A Phenomenological Study of Affective Responses in Rachel Seiffert\u2019s Field Study<\/em>.\u201d Fragments of Meaning: Dialogues in Language, Literature and Culture<\/em>, edited by Montse Mart\u00ednez, Daniel Nisa, and Sonia Casal, pp. 152-159.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014. <\/strong> \u201c<\/strong>From War Memory to Planetary Consciousness: Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan\u2019s Question 7<\/em>\u201d. The Grove \u2013 Working Papers on English Studies, vol. 32, pp. 1 – 22
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Mart\u00edn Alegre, Sara.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cThe Posthuman Patriarchal Villain as Absolute Military Threat: Winston Duarte in The Expanse Novel Series.\u201d Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction, edited by Matthew B. Hill and Leigha H. McReynolds, Bloomsbury, 2025, pp. 177\u2013193. https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/wars-we-never-fought-9798765121535\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pividori, Cristina.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cThe Dynamics of Postmemory: Visual Art as Living Site of Remembrance.\u201d Giorni di Guerra: L\u2019Ombra del Fotografo<\/em>, edited by Simone Da Dalt and Jasmine Mitaval, Editrice Storica, 2025, pp. 156\u2013179.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spengler, Nicholas.<\/strong> \u201cMelville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics.\u201d 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cPlaying with Fire: Unhousing and Unsettlement at the Antebellum Hearthside.\u201d Textual Practice, special Issue on \u201cUnhousing,\u201d edited by Cristina Alsina Ri\u0301squez, Rodrigo Andre\u0301s & Michael Jonik, vol. 39, no. 12, 2025, pp. 1912-1933. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0950236X.2025.2588980<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014\u2014\u2014, and Esther Pujolras-Noguer. \u201cStormy Weather: Legacies of Slavery and Emergent Forms of Political-Ecological Relation in Literary Fiction of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.\u201d Social Science Information, online publication, 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/05390184251401093<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiempo Devorado<\/em> Special Issue<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pividori, Cristina.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cOwen i Sassoon Reconsiderats: El trauma de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la mem\u00f2ria i la poesia antibel\u00b7licista contempor\u00e0nia en l\u2019era \u2018Post tot.\u2019\u201d Tiempo Devorado<\/em>, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, pp. 41\u201377, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5565\/rev\/tdevorado.246<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soler, Albert<\/strong>, coordinator.<\/a> \u201cCulturas de desmovilizaci\u00f3n. Conflictos, reinserci\u00f3n y memoria: La construcci\u00f3n de los excombatientes y su impacto en el mundo actual.\u201d Tiempo Devorado<\/em>, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5565\/rev\/tdevorado.242<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cC\u00f3mo contar una historia de guerra: Culturas de desmovilizaci\u00f3n y excombatientes contempor\u00e1neos.\u201d Tiempo Devorado<\/em>, vol. 10, no. 1, 2025, pp. 5\u201340, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5565\/rev\/tdevorado.237<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spengler, Nicholas. \u201cMelville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics.\u201d 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014\u2014\u2014. \u201cPlaying with Fire: Unhousing and Unsettlement at the Antebellum Hearthside.\u201d Textual Practice, special Issue on \u201cUnhousing,\u201d edited by Cristina Alsina Ri\u0301squez, Rodrigo Andre\u0301s & Michael Jonik, vol. 39, no. 12, 2025, pp. 1912-1933. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0950236X.2025.2588980<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014\u2014\u2014. 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<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Conferences and Seminars<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bellot, Andrea.<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cSinging Survival: Performance and Memory through Lynn Nottage\u2019s Ruined<\/em>.\u201d Project Fundaci\u00f3 Aut\u00f2noma Solid\u00e0ria \u2013 Projectes d\u2019Educaci\u00f3 per la Just\u00edcia Global, 12 Jun. 2025. Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owen, David.<\/strong> <\/a>\u201cThey Also Serve: Jane Austen\u2019s Domestic Spaces as Theatres of War,\u201dMore Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250<\/em>, 8 \u2013 10 Oct. 2025, University of Porto, Porto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

48th AEDEAN Conference <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pividori, Cristina, Elvira Aguilera, Cristina Franco, Sara Mart\u00edn, David Owen, and Nicholas Spengler.<\/a> <\/strong>“Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature.” 48th<\/em> AEDEAN Conference<\/em>, 12\u201314 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aguilera Garc\u00eda, Elvira.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cMatter and the (re)construction and mediation of memory and identity in Isabella Hammad\u2019s novel Enter Ghost<\/em>.\u201d 48th<\/em> AEDEAN Conference<\/em>, 12\u201314 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franco Rosillo, Cristina. <\/strong><\/a>\u201cMake America Sick Again: Dislodged Temporalities and Communities in Elizabeth Strout\u2019s Lucy by the Sea<\/em>.\u201d 48th<\/em> AEDEAN Conference<\/em>, 12\u201314 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owen, David.<\/a><\/strong> The Long Shadow of War: Militarised Authority in Austen\u2019s Domestic Worlds.\u201d 48th<\/em> AEDEAN Conference<\/em>, 12\u201314 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pividori, Cristina<\/strong>. <\/a>\u201cBeyond the Banality: Assemblage, Hauntology, and the Ethics of Space in The Zone of Interest<\/em> (Novel and Film).\u201d 48th<\/em> AEDEAN Conference<\/em>, 12\u201314 Nov. 2025, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giorni di Guerra<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rossi, Umberto. <\/a><\/strong>\u201cThree Different Ways of Framing a War: From Comedy to Adventure to History.\u201d Giorni di Guerra, <\/em>Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Vennetto, and ICLA Research Committee on Comic Studies and Graphic Narrative, 3\u20135 Nov. 2025, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soler Ruda, Albert.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cDog soldiers and storytellers. The Great War and the construction of the indigenous citizen and their inherited narratives of memory through comics.\u201d Giorni di Guerra, <\/em>Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Museo della Battaglia di Vittorio Vennetto, and ICLA Research Committee on Comic Studies and Graphic Narrative, 3\u20135 Nov. 2025, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Aguilera Garc\u00eda, Elvira. <\/a> <\/strong>\u201cTracing Embodied Agency in Conflict-Altered Ecologies: Insights from Hala Aylan\u2019s Salt Houses<\/em>.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bellot, Andrea and Cristina Pividori. <\/a><\/strong>\u201cBeyond the Heart of Darkness: Rape and Ecocide in Congo\u2019s Theatres of Memory.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franco Rosillo, Cristina.<\/strong>  <\/a>\u201cThe Illusion of Nature as Affective Shelter in Michael Cunningham\u2019s Day<\/em>.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garc\u00eda, Paula.<\/strong> \u201cNo Victor, No Vanquished: How Journalists Explain the Biafra War\u201d. 1st Neolaia International Conference \u2018Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe,’<\/em> 1-3 Oct. 2025, Universidad de Ja\u00e9n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howes, Christina. <\/strong>\u00a0\u201cStoried Ruins: Ecological Memory and Post\u2011War London in Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs Dalloway<\/em>.” Memory and Trauma International Conference,<\/em> 5-6 Dec. 2026, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research,\u00a0 Birkbeck, University of London. (Online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014.<\/a>\u201cEntangled Memories: War, Trauma, and Ecological Legacies in Flanagan\u2019s Question 7<\/em>.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mart\u00edn Alegre, Sara.<\/strong> <\/a>\u201cZero Ecology in Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Road<\/em>: Exceeding the Possibilities of Human and Natural Recovery.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monnickendam, Andrew.<\/strong> <\/a>\u201cEnvironmental Memory, Mausoleums, and Holiday Snaps.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owen, David.<\/a> <\/strong> \u201cJamie Foyers as Performance, Trauma and Environmental Memory.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spengler, Nicholas. <\/a><\/strong> \u201c\u201cWho Will Be Lost in the Story We Tell Ourselves:\u201d Human and Non-Human Memory in Ocean Vuong\u2019s On Earth We\u2019re Briefly Gorgeus <\/em>and John Akomfrah\u2019s Vertigo Sea<\/em>.\u201d Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory<\/em>, 24 Oct. 2025, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2026 Publications Bellot, Andrea and Walid M. Rihane. \u201cNeverland as Psychogeographical Colony: Space, Childhood, and Empire in Peter Pan and Wendy\u201d. Children\u2019s Literature in Education, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10583-026-09667-w Howes, Christina. \u201cFrom War Memory to Planetary Consciousness: Ecological Postmemory and Reconstructive Metamodernism in Richard Flanagan\u2019s Question 7\u201d. The Grove \u2013 Working Papers on English Studies, vol. 32, Dec. 2025, p. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":84,"parent":414,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/1086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}