Communitas / Immunitas
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Official account for the research project “Communitas/Immunitas: relational ontologies in Atlantic anglophone cultures of the 21st century”
📣 New publication alert! Project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez has recently published her (first!) monograph, entitled Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025).
🔗: www.routledge.com/Sapphic-Adol...
🔗: www.routledge.com/Sapphic-Adol...
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📣 New publication alert! Project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez has recently published her (first!) monograph, entitled Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025).
🔗: www.routledge.com/Sapphic-Adol...
🔗: www.routledge.com/Sapphic-Adol...
📣 New publication alert! Project member Prof. Libe García Zarranz has recently published the chapter “Affect Theory”, written with Dr. Stella Millili for the volume Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications (ed. Puspa Damai, Routledge): www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📣 New publication alert! Project member Prof. Libe García Zarranz has recently published the chapter “Affect Theory”, written with Dr. Stella Millili for the volume Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications (ed. Puspa Damai, Routledge): www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
📄 Project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where she examined decolonial, feminist and queer futurities in the poetry of Jennifer Rahim and Colin Robinson 🖋️📜📖
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📄 Project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where she examined decolonial, feminist and queer futurities in the poetry of Jennifer Rahim and Colin Robinson 🖋️📜📖
📄 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria. Her presentation dealt with the evolution of the term “Girl Power”, shifting its meaning from a radical slogan into a postfeminist label 💄💅🤳
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
📄 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria. Her presentation dealt with the evolution of the term “Girl Power”, shifting its meaning from a radical slogan into a postfeminist label 💄💅🤳
📄 Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where he discussed gender-based violence in contemporary Nigerian diasporic fiction 📚✏️🗺️
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
📄 Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where he discussed gender-based violence in contemporary Nigerian diasporic fiction 📚✏️🗺️
📄 Project member Dr. Iria Seijas-Pérez attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where she talked about Elphaba Thropp, from the Wicked universe, as a killjoy witch of the west 💚🪄✨
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
📄 Project member Dr. Iria Seijas-Pérez attended the #48AEDEAN conference last week at EHU in Vitoria, where she talked about Elphaba Thropp, from the Wicked universe, as a killjoy witch of the west 💚🪄✨
✏️ Meet Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara! She is a Substitute Lecturer at the University of Vigo. Her PhD dissertation explored intersectional girlhood(s) in The Handmaid’s Tale franchise. Her research interests include girlhood studies, gender, and de/postcolonial studies.
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
✏️ Meet Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara! She is a Substitute Lecturer at the University of Vigo. Her PhD dissertation explored intersectional girlhood(s) in The Handmaid’s Tale franchise. Her research interests include girlhood studies, gender, and de/postcolonial studies.
✏️ Meet Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan! She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Barcelona and a researcher at the Research Center for Theory, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research interests include postcolonial anglophone literature, decolonial thought, contemporary Caribbean poetry, and island studies.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
✏️ Meet Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan! She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Barcelona and a researcher at the Research Center for Theory, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research interests include postcolonial anglophone literature, decolonial thought, contemporary Caribbean poetry, and island studies.
✏️ Meet Dr. María Platas Alonso! She is a Lecturer at the University of Vigo, and member of research groups BiFeGa and Feminario: Feminismos e Resistencias. Her PhD dissertation has been published as a monograph, entitled ‘El biopic feminista afroamericano: una herramienta empoderadora’ (2022).
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
✏️ Meet Dr. María Platas Alonso! She is a Lecturer at the University of Vigo, and member of research groups BiFeGa and Feminario: Feminismos e Resistencias. Her PhD dissertation has been published as a monograph, entitled ‘El biopic feminista afroamericano: una herramienta empoderadora’ (2022).
✏️ Meet Dr. Rubén Jarazo Álvarez! He is a Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His main research interests are film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies . He is also a member of the research group “Discurso e identidade” (DI-1924) and the secretary for the AEDEI.
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
✏️ Meet Dr. Rubén Jarazo Álvarez! He is a Lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His main research interests are film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies . He is also a member of the research group “Discurso e identidade” (DI-1924) and the secretary for the AEDEI.
✏️ Meet Prof. Libe García Zarranz! She is a Professor at NTNU. Her research interests are contemporary literary studies in Canada, visual cultures, and affect theory. She is also the lead research of project “TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects, and Pedagogies” (2018-).
October 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
✏️ Meet Prof. Libe García Zarranz! She is a Professor at NTNU. Her research interests are contemporary literary studies in Canada, visual cultures, and affect theory. She is also the lead research of project “TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects, and Pedagogies” (2018-).
✏️ Meet Dr. E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classic Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research focuses on the interaction between post/transmodern and post/decolonial theories applied to film studies.
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
✏️ Meet Dr. E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classic Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research focuses on the interaction between post/transmodern and post/decolonial theories applied to film studies.
✏️ Meet the fantastic Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez! She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo. She is a member of research group BiFeGa and PI of Feminario: Feminisms and Resistances. Her main research interests focus on feminist studies and gender theory applied to literary and cinematic analysis
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
✏️ Meet the fantastic Dr. Aida Rosende Pérez! She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo. She is a member of research group BiFeGa and PI of Feminario: Feminisms and Resistances. Her main research interests focus on feminist studies and gender theory applied to literary and cinematic analysis
🗓️ We begin October with the II Transdisciplinary Analysis Workshop: 21st Century Feminist Theories at the Faculty of Philology and Translation (room B14).
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🗓️ We begin October with the II Transdisciplinary Analysis Workshop: 21st Century Feminist Theories at the Faculty of Philology and Translation (room B14).
📌 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara participated in the 10th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, in a panel on "Approaches to Healing, Well-Being and Care from the TransCanadian Networks" with Prof. Eva Darias-Beautell (ULL) and Lucía López-Serrano (USAL).
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📌 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara participated in the 10th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, in a panel on "Approaches to Healing, Well-Being and Care from the TransCanadian Networks" with Prof. Eva Darias-Beautell (ULL) and Lucía López-Serrano (USAL).
✏️ First, meet our wonderful PI Prof. Belén Martín Lucas. She is a Professor at the University of Vigo, has co-founded research group BiFeGa and has led different research projects. Her main research interests are feminist studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies and Canadian studies.
September 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
✏️ First, meet our wonderful PI Prof. Belén Martín Lucas. She is a Professor at the University of Vigo, has co-founded research group BiFeGa and has led different research projects. Her main research interests are feminist studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies and Canadian studies.
📢 Hello hello everyone, hope you are enjoying the remaining days of summer! If you haven’t had time to prepare your article for Dr. Sara Tabuyo and Dr. Iria Seijas’s special issue on girlhood don’t worry because deadline has been extended until OCTOBER 1, 2025 📝
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
📢 Hello hello everyone, hope you are enjoying the remaining days of summer! If you haven’t had time to prepare your article for Dr. Sara Tabuyo and Dr. Iria Seijas’s special issue on girlhood don’t worry because deadline has been extended until OCTOBER 1, 2025 📝
It is time to unplug and enjoy the summer ☀️ We will be back in September with more updates about the project and our members’ research 📚🎞️ So stay tuned ‼️
August 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It is time to unplug and enjoy the summer ☀️ We will be back in September with more updates about the project and our members’ research 📚🎞️ So stay tuned ‼️
📝 Project member Dr. E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz has recently published a chapter where he examines how Chris Baugh’s debut film Bad Day for the Cut challenges presumptions about the communitas of Northern Ireland and offers alternative models of masculinities.
➡️ www.peterlang.com/document/148...
➡️ www.peterlang.com/document/148...
August 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📝 Project member Dr. E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz has recently published a chapter where he examines how Chris Baugh’s debut film Bad Day for the Cut challenges presumptions about the communitas of Northern Ireland and offers alternative models of masculinities.
➡️ www.peterlang.com/document/148...
➡️ www.peterlang.com/document/148...
📝 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara examines how the reproductive politics of The Handmaid’s Tale are connected to two different sociopolitical contexts: Reagan’s antiabortion stance and Trump’s first mandate and the abortion bans that followed his election.
🔗 revistas.um.es/ijes/article...
🔗 revistas.um.es/ijes/article...
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📝 Project member Dr. Sara Tabuyo Santaclara examines how the reproductive politics of The Handmaid’s Tale are connected to two different sociopolitical contexts: Reagan’s antiabortion stance and Trump’s first mandate and the abortion bans that followed his election.
🔗 revistas.um.es/ijes/article...
🔗 revistas.um.es/ijes/article...
📝 In her newest article, project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez analyses how contemporary young adult fiction engages with bisexuality in an attempt to demonstrate that this literary category subverts biphobic discourses and instead questions and defies biphobia and bierasure
➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1529...
➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1529...
August 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📝 In her newest article, project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez analyses how contemporary young adult fiction engages with bisexuality in an attempt to demonstrate that this literary category subverts biphobic discourses and instead questions and defies biphobia and bierasure
➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1529...
➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1529...
📝 Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez elevates the work of Rita Felski as he explores how individuals became attached to Kaur’s poetry and drawings, and co-writer Isabel M. Osuna Montilla examines her experiential engagement with the critical reading of Hanson’s writing.
🔗 doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
🔗 doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
July 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📝 Project member Iago Rodríguez Diéguez elevates the work of Rita Felski as he explores how individuals became attached to Kaur’s poetry and drawings, and co-writer Isabel M. Osuna Montilla examines her experiential engagement with the critical reading of Hanson’s writing.
🔗 doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
🔗 doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
📝 Project member Dr. Libe García Zarranz analyses Ivan Coyote’s and Syrus Marcus Ware’s activism and artistic practices as exercises in feminist ethics and pedagogy through the notion of aliveness as theorized in Black and trans studies.
➡️ ualbertapress.ca/978177212771...
➡️ ualbertapress.ca/978177212771...
July 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📝 Project member Dr. Libe García Zarranz analyses Ivan Coyote’s and Syrus Marcus Ware’s activism and artistic practices as exercises in feminist ethics and pedagogy through the notion of aliveness as theorized in Black and trans studies.
➡️ ualbertapress.ca/978177212771...
➡️ ualbertapress.ca/978177212771...
📝 Project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan’s newest article examines contemporary anglophone Caribbean poetry that denounces the impact of tourism in the region and its neo-colonial control while advancing the creation of alternative decolonial futures.
🔗 revistes.ub.edu/index.php/co...
🔗 revistes.ub.edu/index.php/co...
July 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📝 Project member Dr. Maria Grau Perejoan’s newest article examines contemporary anglophone Caribbean poetry that denounces the impact of tourism in the region and its neo-colonial control while advancing the creation of alternative decolonial futures.
🔗 revistes.ub.edu/index.php/co...
🔗 revistes.ub.edu/index.php/co...
📝 Project member Dr. Rubén Jarazo Álvarez brings our attention to TV series Derry Girls as he explores concepts of space, identity and containment during the Troubles in 1990s Northern Ireland through the subversion of road movie tropes in an episode of the series.
➡️: revistas.udc.es/index.php/AT...
➡️: revistas.udc.es/index.php/AT...
July 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📝 Project member Dr. Rubén Jarazo Álvarez brings our attention to TV series Derry Girls as he explores concepts of space, identity and containment during the Troubles in 1990s Northern Ireland through the subversion of road movie tropes in an episode of the series.
➡️: revistas.udc.es/index.php/AT...
➡️: revistas.udc.es/index.php/AT...