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

Conferences and Seminars<\/h3>\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

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<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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
\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
\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

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

Cristina Pividori and Andrea Bellot.<\/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

Howes, Christina. <\/a><\/strong> \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

More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Owen, David.<\/strong> <\/a>\u201cThey Also Serve: Jane Austen\u2019s Domestic Spaces as Theatres of War,\u201d More Pride and Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250<\/em>, 8 \u2013 10 Oct. 2026, University of Porto, Porto.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2026 Publications 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. e9768, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17561\/grove.v32.9768. Conferences and Seminars Spengler, Nicholas. \u201cMelville\u2019s Migrations: Gurnah\u2019s By the Sea and Akomfrah\u2019s Vertigo Sea.\u201d MLA 2026 Convention, Modern Language Association, and The […]<\/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":11,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/901"}],"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}]}}