Contemporary Anglophone Literatures (LITANGLO)

Meetings participation

  • Astrid Schwegler Castañer. , "Growing up Asian Australian: Covert Racism and Foodways in Alice Pung's Laurinda". "Biennial EASA Conference: Australia - South Asia: Contestations and Remonstrances", Liège, Belgium, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Astrid Schwegler Castañer. , "'We've boundless plains to share': Multiethnic Parallel Spaces and the Multicultural Utopia in Shaun Tan's Surrealist Representations of the City". "16th Triennial Conference of the European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies", Oviedo, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Pomar-Amer, Miquel. , "Simply flit-lit? The Third Boom in Majorca and its texts". "Mobilities, literature and culture interdisciplinary international conference", Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Pomar-Amer, Miquel. , "Distinctively Majorcan features in Helen Walsh's The Lemon Grove and Emma Straub's The Vacationers". "International seminar on languages and cultures in the romance novel", Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez. , "Embodying and Performing Black Urban Femininity: the Politics of Michelle Obama's Hair". "16th TRIENNIAL EACLALS CONFERENCE Performing the Urban. Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms", Oviedo, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Fresno Calleja, Paloma. , "'Dairy F(r)ictions: Performing Interethnic Encounters in the New Zealand Cornershop'". "16th Triennial EACLALS Conference. Performing the Urban. Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms.", Oviedo, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Astrid Schwegler Castañer. , "'Tasting the Wide Ocean': Planetary Conviviality against Tourists' Consumption of a Commodified Exotic Elsewhere in Simone Lazaroo's Sustenance". "The Fifth Biannual Northern Postcolonial Network Symposium: 'Culinary Cultures'", York, United Kingdom, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Aurora García-Fernandez, Irene Pérez-Fernandez, Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez. , "'Land(e)scaping the shopping list': Old and New Uses of the Exotic in Contemporary Popular Romance". "Theorising the Popular", Liverpool, England, 2017. Round table.
  • Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez. , "#HairIs(Not)JustHair: Natural Hair Art and Social Network's (R)Evolution". "Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Sixth biennial network conference", Tampere, Finland, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Gabriel Dols Gallardo. , "Censorship and the representation of women in Spanish translated pop songs, 1959-1975". "I Congreso Internacional de Traducción y Censura en la Literatura y en los Medios de Comunicación", Valencia, Spain, 2017. Speech.
  • Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez. , "(Mis)Guiding Readers: the Mark(et)ing of Imaginative Boundaries in The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh". "41st AEDEAN Conference", La Laguna, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Gabriel Dols Gallardo. , "The Translation of Pidgin Literature to 'Third' Languages: Towards a Spanish Version of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy". "41st 2017 AEDEAN Conference", La Laguna, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Astrid Schwegler Castañer. , "Palatable (Hi)stories: Culinary Exoticism in Contemporary Historical Romance". "41st Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies", La Laguna, Spain, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. , ""Selling the Land of the Long White Cloud in Spain: Sarah Lark's Landscape Novels"". "Islands on Sale: New Zealand and Pacific Arts in the Global Marketplace", Londres, England, 2017. Paper presentation.
  • Perez-Ríu, Carmen; García-Fernández, Aurora; Pérez-Fernández, Irene; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. , ""From Mills and Boon to the Post-Millenial Boom: The Production, Reception and Marketing of Popular Romance"". "41st AEDEAN Conference", Spain, 2017. Round table.
  • Fresno Calleja, Paloma. , "'Digging up the Un/Romantic Past: Historical Novels about the Chinese Immigrant Experience in New Zealand'". "III International Translit Seminar: 'Through the Emotional Glass:Historicising Romance, De/Romanticising History'", Oviedo, Spain, 2017. Invited conference.
  • Rosende Pérez, Aida. , "Neither Here nor There: Gendered Politics of the Refugee Camp in Emer Martin's Baby Zero". "41 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)", La Laguna, Spain, 2017. Speech.