2025
Our two young scholars Elisa Fernández Rodríguez and Lucía Aréjula Muñoz will be taking part in PopMeC's Conference held at Universidad de Valladolid during the last week of November. There they will be participating in discussions regarding frontiers and unbelongings in US American Culture focusing particularly on queer visions of those with their papers:
"The “ongoing song of care” in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts or how to queer the mothering frontier" (Aréjula)
"The Revolution Begins at Home: Notions of Un/belonging(s) in Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings" (Fernández)
Miguel Ángel Tamargo, one of our young researchers is participating in "Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture," a conference held at University of Innsbruck in Claudiana during the 14th and 15th of November 2025. There he will be presenting his paper "Queer Road Trips: Re-Mapping Narratives in Nevada and The Lauras" where he will discuss the central issues around which his doctoral thesis develops.
Four of our members will be participating in AEDEAN'S 48TH CONFERENCE held at Universidad del País Vasco where they will dissect a myriad of topics related to their research interests:
Lucía Aréjula Muñoz is discussing "Of Trans Mothers and Daughters: Mothering Practices in The House of Impossible Beauties and Bad Girls"
Anna María Brígido is exploring ""Fantastic Indians and Where to Find Them: Colonial Appropriation, Cultural Misrepresentation, and the Global Construction of Identities"
Elisa Fernández Rodríguez is presenting "Women and Waste, Bodies and Borders: Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's Trash"
Gloria Lizana Iglesias is delivering "Trap or Refuge?: The Exhaustion of the Modern US Woman in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of REst and Relaxation"
On the 11th of November, the MILA Project “Maternidades Interseccionales: Narrativas Matrifocales y Nuevas Formas de Familia en la Literatura Anglófona” con nº PID 2024-160004OB-I00, whose activity is directly connected with the MIRCAALT members, will welcome Dr. Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar (Maynooth University/National University of Ireland). Her keynote titled "Contra el mandato maternal: una novela gráfica de resistencia: "No quiero ser mamá," Irene Olmo, 2020" will deal with a matrifocal reading of the text that will enable productive discussions regarding resisting mothering formats.
Conference details:
Venue: Sala Vídeo III, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Campus de Cantoblanco, C. Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 1, 28049 Madrid)
Date: 11th of November of 2025.
Time: 13:00
Este 27 de octubre miembros de grupo MIRCAALT formarán parte del Acto Conmemoratorio por el centenario de El gran Gatsby y Manhattan Transfer celebrado en la Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid a partir de las 13 del mediodía. El acto constará de una mesa redonda y un posterior recital donde se tratará de rendir homenaje a estas obras literarias desde distintas disciplinas.
La mesa redonda del acto contará con tres profesoras, Rosa Bautista Cordero, Laura Arce Álvarez y Eulalia Piñero Gil, quienes comentarán El Gran Gatsby de Scott Fitzgerald y Manhattan Transfer de John Dos Passos abordando temas relevantes como la crisis del sueño americano, Nueva York, la crisis ecológica, la figura del antihéroe norteamericano, la representación de la mujer y las adaptaciones cinematográficas.
El Grupo de Innovación Docente INME-3 (“Innovación Metodológica para la Enseñanza de la Literatura y Cultura, la Lingüística y la Lengua”) se suma a este homenaje con la celebración de este recital a cargo de Eva Estebas y la pianista Hye Ryun Jung y consistente en la lectura dramatizada de las escenas más representativas de El gran Gatsby. Las escenas recogidas en este recital están ordenadas de tal manera que componen una versión abreviada de la novela y aparecen acompañadas de canciones que ya bien aparecen explícitamente mencionadas en la novela o son consideradas como representativas de los "Felices años 20".
Professor Piñero will be taking part in several events in November in Trinity College. There she will be in charge of both a lecture and a workshop.
Translation Workshop: Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats in Spanish
When? Wed 8 Oct 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM IST
Where? Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, D02 CH22
What challenges face a translator working on dramatic texts into Spanish? This translation workshop will address the challenges faced by translators when working on translations of dramatic texts into Spanish. As a departure point, the workshop will use It will focus on Marina Carr’s play By the Bog of Cats (1998) (scene one of act one).
Find out more about this workshop here.
Breaking Cultural and Gender Barriers: A Transcultural and Transnational Approach to Translation in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
When? Thu 9 Oct 2025 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM IST
Where? The Swift Theatre, ARTS building, Trinity College Dublin
In this lecture, Eulalia Piñero Gil will reflect on the challenges the literary translator faces and how the translation process is based on a “transformance approach” that considers translation as an intentional act that represents and performs a text into a new cultural space for a new readership and will use The Awakening by Kate Chopin to do so.
Find out more about this lecture here.