Master's Degree in

Women's and Gender

Studies

Activities 2022-2023

September 2022

Visiting scholars
Marcela Visconti. Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Marcela Visconti was the visiting scholar on the 27th and 28th within the class
coordinated by Ioana Gruia and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa, entitled "Gender, Art and
Literature". She holds a PhD in Theory and History of the Arts and a Master in
Communication and Culture from the University of Buenos Aires, from which she
graduated with a degree in Arts. Since 2001 she has been teaching Film Analysis and
Criticism at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (UBA). She is a researcher at the
Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies of the same institution, where she has
participated in several projects on Argentine culture and contemporary identities. In
2011 she coordinated the creation of a film catalog on cinema and dictatorship at the
NGO Memoria Abierta. She currently serves as Vice-President of the Argentine
Association of Film and Audiovisual Studies.

Adriana Piscitelli. Universidad de Campinas.

Adriana Piscitelli was the visiting scholar on the 29th and 30th as part of the class
coordinated by Adelina Sánchez Espinosa and Beatriz Revelles Benavente, entitled
"Gender, Art and Literature". She is an anthropologist with a PhD in social sciences
from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil). She was part of the
founding group of Pagu (Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero de Unicamp), to which she still
belongs. Her research interests include gender studies, memory, kinship, sex
tourism, prostitution and migration, among others. She has recently published book
chapters such as From Programas to Help and Marriage:: Transnational Sexual,
Economic and Affective Exchanges among Brazilian Women (Intimate Mobilities,
2018) and Love and Ambition (Gender & Memory, 2017).

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October 2022

Opening Ceremony
On October 10, the opening session took place at the Francisco A. Muñoz Hall, in the
Centro de Documentación Científica, with a conference by Rosalva Aída Hernández
Castillo titled "Descolonizando el Feminismo desde las Epistemologías del Sur". The
event was chaired by the Vicerrectora de Internacionalización, Dorothy Anne Kelly;
the Director of the Escuela Internacional de Posgrado, María del Sol Ostos Rey; the
Director of the Instituto de la Mujer y Estudios de Género, Victoria Robles Sanjuán;
the Coordinator of the GEMMA Consortium, Adelina Sánchez Espinosa and the
Coordinator of the GEMMA Master in Granada, Carmen Gregorio Gil.

Visit to Acción en Red

On October 19, the first year students visited the facilities of Acción en Red, a
Spanish NGO that seeks to contribute to social change and that has as one of its
main lines of intervention the fight for gender equality, as well as combating gender
violence. During the visit, the students were able to learn about the work of this NGO
and exchange ideas about the projects they support, the issues they deal with and
the results obtained in so many years of work. The visit was part of the subject
"Women's Movements", taught by Professor Victoria Robles Sanjuán.

Discussion "Las que Zarandean: Decolonizing Memory

Studies"
On October 20, the discussion "Las que Zarandean: Descolonizando los estudios de
Memoria desde los Feminismos" was held in the Salón de Grados of the Facultad de
Trabajo Social with the participation of Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Andrea
García González, Marina Montoto and Olatz Danobeitia. They reflected on the
construction of historical memory, committed research and the need to establish
affective communities in feminist research.

Visit to the Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía

On October 20, as part of the subject "Historiografía Feminista" coordinated by
professors Margarita Birriel Salcedo and Rosa Medina Domenech, students visited the
Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía. In this outing they were able to reflect on the
construction of historical memory, the role played by museums in the dissemination
of the historical narrative and the importance of materiality in these processes.

Visiting scholars

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Acción en Red

They are an Andalusian NGO whose main objective is to advance towards greater
equality and social justice. They are committed to more democratic societies for
which they offer means of collective involvement that contribute to the consolidation
of an active, critical, organized, autonomous and co-responsible citizenship. In this
sense, volunteering and social participation are the driving force and heart of their
action. Its purpose is to encourage social transformations, the development of
solidarity in all its dimensions and the guarantee of human rights, with care at the
center. You can visit their website at the following link: https://www.accionenred-
andalucia.org/

Rocío Medina Martín. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

She is a postdoctoral researcher in the area of Filosofía del Derecho at the

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). Her interests are critical theories of
human rights, new critical theories of social emancipation, postcolonial and
decolonial epistemologies and, in particular, genealogies and proposals of decolonial
feminisms. She is closely linked to the historical struggle of the Saharawi people as
an activist and academic, having completed her doctoral thesis on Saharawi women
in the refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria), from the perspective of decolonial
feminisms.

November 2022

Presentation of the book "Marrones escriben" and Panel

"Migración de personas, migración de saberes".
On November 18, as part of the course "Teoría Feminista: Igualdad, Diferencia,
Diversidad" coordinated by professors Ana Alcázar Campos, Aurora Álvarez Veinguer,
Carmen Gregorio Gil, Dolores Martínez Pozo and Miguel Lorente Acosta; students
attended the presentation of the book "Marrones escriben" and the panel "Migración
de personas, migración de saberes", both held in the space La Colectiva. The
documentary "Traspasar las Puertas de Cristal de los Museos" by Identidad Marrón
was screened and then the event counted with the interventions of The Bonita Chola
(Ángela Camacho), América Canela and Carolina Escobar-Blanco. The meeting
provided an opportunity to reflect on structural racism, academy as a place of
resistance, the importance of establishing affective communities and dialogue
between different bodies of knowledge and experiences.

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Activities on 25N
During the week of November 25, various activities
were prepared to raise awareness and social
denunciation about gender violence, including the
project "Tendederos" by the artist Monica Meyer, which
took place on the 23rd and 24th in the Facultad de
Derecho and Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Besides, the
banner workshop organized by GEMMA students and
held on the 24th in the Edificio de Documentación
Científica, a space open to everyone to build
collectively; as well as the performance in the Plaza de
las Pasiegas on the 25th, also organized and performed
by students, which sought the participation of citizens
in the experience of suffering and healing from violence
and finally; the protest, to which the participants assisted.

Discussion “Desvelando Irán: ayer, hoy y mañana…”

On November 29 at the Francisco Muñoz Muñoz Hall in the Centro de Documentación
Científica, the discussion “Desvelando Irán: ayer, hoy y mañana…” was held; it was
chaired by the Director of the Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres y de
Género, Victoria Robles Sanjuán. The speakers were Coral Mar Sh and Sabzek
Araabab.

Visiting scholars
Esther Mayoko. Universidad Tufts-Skidmore.

She holds a PhD in Filosofía de la Ciencia from the University of Santiago de

Compostela, is a professor at Tufts-Skidmore University and is part of the R+D
project "CSIC Voces múltiples, saberes plurales y tecnologías médicas". Approaching
the body as a political category, she has researched the impact of public policies on
trans and racialized people, this being explored in multiple publications, among
which stand out: El eje del mal es heterosexual: Figuraciones, movimientos y
prácticas feministas queer (Traficantes de Sueños, 2005), Cartografías del cuerpo:
Biopolíticas de la ciencia y la tecnología (Cátedra, 2014) or Barbarismos queer y
otras esdrújulas (Bellaterra, 2017). Apart from her academic endevours, she has
never left feminist militancy and sexual dissidence, being part of an Afrofeminist
collective.

Jasmina Husanovic. Universidad de Tuzla (Bosnia y Herzegovina).

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She is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her interests as an activist and
researcher lie in the field of critical pedagogies, politics of witnessing, solidarity and
equality, and the analysis of gender and class relations in cultural production and
everyday life. From critiques of the identity politics of terror and various social
practices of resistance in this regard, she is specifically interested in the possibility of
an emancipatory praxis in the triangle art-theory-activism.

Dresda Méndez de la Brena. Universidad de Concordia.

Feminist and activist, she holds a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of
Granada and is a graduate of the GEMMA Master's program. She has worked in
different feminist organizations both nationally and internationally. She is currently
engaged with the Erasmus Mundus Organization and EMA Women, organizing and
implementing workshops on gender and intersectionality. Her research interests
focus on emotions, material culture, queer/crip theory, new materialisms, affects, art
and films on disability and chronic pain. She is the author of the thesis
Corpomaterialidades del dolor: análisis de experiencias de mujeres con fibromialgia
(2021) and co-coordinator of the book Researching with GEMMA, Feminist Research
Alliances: Affective convergences (2022).

Dolors Comas. Universidad Rovira i Virgili.

She holds a PhD in Filosofía y Letras from the University of Barcelona, and has
postdoctoral training from the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales and the
Laboratoire d'Antropologie Sociale, Paris. She is a professor at the Rovira i Virgili
University and President of the Fundació Nous Horitzons (FNH). Dolors Comas
d'Argemir has been a member of the Parliament of Catalonia, councilwoman in the
City Council of Tarragona and member of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia.

Eli Imaz. Universidad del País Vasco.

She holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense
University of Madrid (1992) and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the UPV/EHU
(2008). Her areas of research are feminist anthropology and gender relations,
especially the transformations in the representations, models and exercise of
motherhood, a subject on which she published the monograph Convertirse en madre.
Etnografía del tiempo de gestación, Madrid, Feminismos-Cátedra. Her current
research topic is the evolution of family forms and new parentalities (especially
homoparentality), as well as the role of reproductive technologies in the
representations of kinship.

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Elena Casado Aparicio. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

She is a professor in the Departamento de Sociología: Metodología y Teoría at the

Complutense University of Madrid. Enthusiastic about teaching, she coordinates the
Salud y Sociedad project, linked to the subject she teaches at the Facultad de
Enfermería. Her lines of research revolve around the sociology of communication,
gender relations, sociology of health and new teaching and research methodologies.
Feminist commitment, quality teaching and an interest in language and the
construction of meaning have been the three pillars in her career.

María Jesús López Sánchez Vizcaíno. Universidad de Córdoba.

She is a Senior Lecturer in the Departamento de

Filologías Inglesa y Alemana at the University of
Cordoba. Her research focuses on the work of J.M.
Coetzee, paying attention also to other South African
writers such as Zoë Wicomb, Zakes Mda and Phaswane
Mpe, and postcolonial authors such as Margaret Atwood
and Helon Habila. She has developed a parallel line of
research focusing on modernist British fiction, with
attention to writers Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett.
Since 2010 she has been part of a series of research projects with researchers from
the Universities of Cordoba and Granada, dedicated to the study of community and
secrecy in literature.

January 2023

Quinan’s Seminars
CQ Quinan, professor at the University of Melbourne, was a visiting scholar at the
GEMMA master's program. As part of the course coordinated by Professor Adelina
Sanchez Espinosa "Investigación feminista: Casos de Estudio II", on January 25, 26
and 27 students were able to attend the seminar series on Trans Studies. As a
researcher, CQ Quinan examines how anxieties around differences established by
nationality and processes of racialization translate into queer, trans and gender-
diverse bodies and subjectivities.

Visiting scholars
CQ Quinan. Universidad de Melbourne.

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He is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, where he specializes in the field of
Trans Studies, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Studies and queer/feminist pedagogy,
focusing on the analysis of how anxieties surrounding racial and national categories
are transposed onto the bodies and subjectivities of trans, queer or gender diverse
people. They co-edit the volume Homonationalism, Femonationalism,
Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contexualised (Routledge, 2022) and is
currently focusing on state interventions in identity politics and documentation.

Isabel Clúa. Universidad de Sevilla.

She holds a PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative

Literature (UAB), is a professor in the Department of
Hispano-American Literature at the University of Seville
and a researcher at ADHUC-Centro de Investigación
Teoría, Género, Sexualidad. Her research work focuses
mainly on the study of the mechanisms of gender and
identity construction in European culture in the late
nineteenth century, with special attention to the forms
of dissidence, deviance and anomaly (which she has
explored in the work of authors such as Rosalía de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazán,
Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Carmen de Burgos, Alberto Insúa
o Álvaro Retana) as well as to the figure of the show woman and the emerging notion
of celebrity, a subject on which she has published the monograph Cuerpos de
escándalo. Celebridad femenina en el fin-de-siècle (2016).

María Rosón. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

She holds a PhD in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She works
as a Juan de la Cierva researcher at the University of Valencia (Department of
Language Theory and Communication Sciences). She curated the exhibition José
Ortiz Echagüe: representando mujeres, tipos y estereotipos (2010, CAM, Red Itiner)
and co-curated the exhibition Mujeres bajo sospecha: memoria y sexualidad (2013,
UNED). Her lines of research focus on visual and material culture, mainly from the
Spanish twentieth century, in intersection with gender studies. She has published,
with the publishing house Cátedra, Género, memoria y cultura visual en el primer
franquismo (materiales cotidianos, más allá del arte).

María Paula Martín Salván. Universidad de Córdoba.

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She has been a professor at the University of Córdoba since 2005. Her teaching
focuses on literature, critical theory and cultural studies in the field of English-
speaking countries. Her research interests include modern and contemporary
literatures in English, with special emphasis on North American literature. Since 2010
she is part of a research team that includes researchers from the universities of
Cordoba and Granada, dedicated to the study of the concepts of community and
secrecy in literature.

Krystyna Dzwonkowska. Universidad de Lodz (Polonia).

She holds a PhD in Humanities and is an assistant professor at the Department of

Sociology of Gender and Social Movements within the Department of Sociology of
Social Structures and Changes at the Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz. She
focuses on Gender Studies, more specifically on sociology of gender. She is the
author of the doctoral dissertation devoted to cultural models and patterns of
femininity and masculinity, as well as motherhood and fatherhood: ¿Tradicional o
moderna? Patrones de maternidad y paternidad en Polonia. Her current interests are
reproductive rights and health from a gender perspective.

Montserrat Cabré i Pairet. Universidad de Cantabria.

Professor of Science History at the University of Cantabria. In this same institution,

she directs since 2016 the Área de Igualdad, Conciliación y Responsabilidad Social.
Her research focuses on the history of women and sexual difference, paying special
attention to practices around health and nature in pre-modern Europe.

February 2023

Crochet workshop
On February 3, a crochet workshop was organized for
GEMMA students in the Aula Seminatio 2 of the Centro
de Documentación Científica. At the workshop, they
were provided with materials and directions to get
started in this craft, to which they dedicated an
afternoon as a group.

Visit to the Museo Arqueológico y

Etnológico

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On February 4, students were able to visit the Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico of
Granada, as part of the subject "Género y Arqueología", coordinated by the professor
Margarita Sánchez Romero. During the tour they were able to reflect on the
construction and presentation of gender roles, care-giving work and the history and
function of objects.

Visiting scholars
Belén Agrela Romero. Universidad de Jaén.

She is a professor of Social Work and Social Services at the University of Jaén. She is
local coordinator of the Doctoral Program Migration Studies (UGR-UJA-UPO) and
member of the research group “Gestión de cuidados y evaluación de políticas
asistenciales en cronicidad, envejecimiento y cuidados paliativos”. Her research
interests include Gender and Feminism, Social Work, Migration, Social Action Policies,
Care Management, Gender Violence and Education.

Marek Wojtaszek. Universidad de Lodz.

He is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political and International Studies,

University of Lodz, Poland; currently affiliated with the Department of Transatlantic
and Media Studies and the Center for Women's Studies. He is an expert on Gender,
Science, Technology and Environment.

Christabelle Sethna. Universidad de Ottawa.

She teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Institute for Feminist and
Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the History of
Sex Education, Contraception, Abortion, History of Sexuality, Postcolonial Studies and
Women's History. She is currently working on the history of the birth control pill in
Canada between 1960-1980 and its impact on young, university and unmarried
women, as well as "abortion tourism" or the journey undertaken by women to access
abortion clinics within Canada.

Paloma González Marcén. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

She is an archaeologist and professor in the Departamento de Prehistoria at the

Autonomous University of Barcelona and co-director of the Centre d'Estudis del
Patrimoni Arqueològic de la Prehistòria from the UAB. Her lines of research are the
Archaeology of Women and Gender Relations, Feminist Archaeology, Prehistoric
Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Didactics of Heritage, Heritage and Historical
Memory and Recent Prehistory of the Mediterranean.

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March 2023

"Masculinidades disidentes" Film Series

From March until April 2023, the Film Series "Masculinidades disidentes" was held at
the Espacio V Centenario. Organized by the GEMMA Master, the Red de Hombres por
la Igualdad and the Unidad de Igualdad de la Universidad de Granada, the film series
aims to screen fiction and documentary films that explore issues concerning gender,
including gender violence and lines of flight from hegemony. The films screened
were, in order of screening: "Prisoners" (USA, 2013), on Monday, March 6, "A Single
Man" (USA, 2009), on Monday, March 20, and "En/Femme" (Spain, 2018), on April 17.
In all sessions, a collaborative dynamic was approached in which students were in
charge of presenting the film and preparing a post-screening debate, with the aim of
creating a critical space for reflection on gender and its audiovisual representations.
In addition, the attendance of people from diverse backgrounds was encouraged,
with the intention of constructing a heterogeneous narrative with different points of
view.

Activities on the occasion of March 8

On the occasion of March 8, a banner workshop was held at the Centro de
Documentación Científica towards the 8M protest of the same day. Organized by the
students of GEMMA, the meeting aimed to collectively build a space for dialogue and
preparations for the protest. It was open to the public, maintaining the Master's
commitment to transcend the academy and participate in social struggles in the
streets.

Seminar "Memoria histórica y género"

On March 16, the conference "Memoria histórica y Género. Represión y
exhumaciones desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar" was held at the Facultad de
Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, coordinated by Rosa Medina Doménech, Alina Danet
Danet and Lucía Expósito Cívico. Students were able to view the documentary by
Remedios Malvárez and Arturo Andújar "Pico Reja. La verdad que la tierra esconde"
and then participate in a round table discussion with the participation of Gracia
Marqueda Fernández, María Rosa Aránega Navarro, Silvia González Alcalde, Rita
Ortega Ruiz and Lucía Expósito Cívico. The day was closed with the singing and
reading of Concha Medina.

Tours around Granada

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On March 17 and 21, as part of the subject "Género, Raza y Clase en la América
colonial" coordinated by Professor María Ángeles Gálvez, students attended two
guided tours: "El Realejo: Women and History" and "The Granada of Mariana Pineda".
They had the opportunity to reflect on the role of women in the construction of the
history of the city of Granada, the value of their work and caregiving.

Presentation of the book Researching with GEMMA Series,

Vol. I Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences
On March 24, the presentation of the book "Researching with GEMMA Series, Vol. I
Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences", edited by Adelina Sánchez
Espinosa and Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena, was held at the Francisco A. Muñoz
Muñoz venue in the Centro de Documentación Científica, as part of the EUTERPE-
GEMMA Synergies meeting. The new GEMMA Master's web page was also
inaugurated, presented by Omayra Herero Soto and Elvira Aguilera García.

EUTERPE-GEMMA Synergies Meeting

On March 23-25, The EUTERPE-GEMMA Synergies meeting was held at the University
of Granada and the Instituto de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género , bringing
together representatives of the European projects EUTERPE: 'European Literatures
and Gender from a Transnational Perspective (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions -
Doctoral Network)' and the Erasmus Mundus Master in Women and Gender Studies
GEMMA.

Visiting scholars
Celia Prados. Universidad de Córdoba.

She holds a PhD from the Programa de Ciencias Sociales Aplicadas of the University
of Granada (2015), after studying the MA Estudios Migratorios, Desarrollo e
Intervención Social (2007) and Law (2005). She was awarded the Prize for Best
Thesis in Public Law by the Royal Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence of
Granada (2017). Since 2022 she has been directing the Leonor de Guzmán Chair of
Women's Studies at the University of Córdoba. She considers that the dissemination
of science and teaching is a fundamental pillar to understand Law as an instrument
of social transformation.

Ángelo Néstore. Universidad de Málaga.

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Non-binary artist. Their work revolves around the poetic, understood as a queer
space in which poetry is hybridized with disciplines such as music, performance or
the performing arts. In 2020, they won the Emilio Prados International Poetry Prize,
promoted by the Centro Cultural Generación del 27, thanks to the collection of
poems Hágase mi voluntad (Pre-Textos, 2020) and the V Premio Espasa es Poesía
with the work Deseo de ser árbol (2022). He founded the poetry publishing house
Letraversal and co-directs the festival Irreconciliables. Poeta Cíborg Pecador is their
first poetic-musical experiment.

April 2023

Documentary screening and discussion "La chispa de la

pradera".
On April 19, in the Hall of the Centro de Documentación Científica, students attended
the screening of the documentary "La chispa de la pradera" (2023), directed by
Bernardita Llanos, professor at MLA Brooklyn College. Afterwards, they engaged in a
discussion with the documentary filmmaker and professor.

Visiting scholars
Mª del Carmen Agulló Díaz. Universidad de Valencia.

She is a professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Valencia.

Her research interests are the history of women's education, especially during the
Second Republic and the Franco dictatorship, the use of new sources in educational
history and the recovery of Valencian historical-educational heritage. She has
published several books and articles, including Mestres valencianes republicanes and
Maestros valencianos bajo el franquismo.

Hombres por la Igualdad de Género

The "Red de Hombres por la Igualdad, Equidad y Diversidad de Granada" defines

itself as a work team and a circle of friends to continue learning and advancing in the
deconstruction of hegemonic masculinity, raising awareness among citizens and,
above all, among men. To this end, they create spaces for debate and reflection
through dialogue, film, literature and activism.

May 2023

Exhibition "Mujeres que luchan" (Women who fight)

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From May 29 to June 2, the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras hosted the exhibition
"Mujeres que luchan", created by the group Espigadoras. Composed of the collage
"Mujeres que luchan" and the installation of feminist artivism "Escenas de una vida
feminista", this exhibition proposes to recognize our struggles, to break the wall that
separates the academy from the street, to make art, art that does us justice. The art
installation invites you to enter into dialogue with feminist literary canons, revaluing
your/their/our realities.

Visiting scholars
María Alonso. Universidad de Granada

She holds a PhD in Anthropology and Social Work and she is a member of the
research group " Otras: Perspectivas feministas en la Investigación" (Others:
Feminist Perspectives in Research).

June 2023

Think Tank:"Feminist Response-able Labs: Interacting

Literary and Visual Cultures for Social Action"
The Think Tank: Response-able Thinking towards Social Justice: Feminist
Methodologies for Research and Learning Processes" took place on June 24-25 at
Goldsmiths College, University of London. Participants included GlobalGrace,
represented by Mark Johnson and Suzanne Clisby, the PI of the project, Adelina
Sánchez Espinosa, representatives of the GEMMA Master, Frances Negrón-Muntaner,
Victor Seidler and Jasmina Lukić. This meeting brought together different laboratories
that intersect work in the classroom, in collaboration with associations at an
international level, covering topics such as art-politics, loss, ethical research or the
transnational encounter of literatures.

Visiting scholars
Carolina Fernández Cordero. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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She is a professor in the area of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid. Previously, she has worked as an editor at various publishing houses, and as
a documentalist and cataloguer at the National Library of Spain. She has taught at
the University of Burgos and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Las
Palmas, Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts) and the University of Havana. Since
2010, her work focuses on Spanish narrative, theater and music between the second
half of the 19th century and the present from the perspective of social history,
literary sociology and gender studies.

Marta Ortiz Canseco. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

She is a professor in the area of Hispanic American Literature at the Universidad

Autónoma de Madrid. She was Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá and
worked as Adjunct Professor at the International University of La Rioja. She has
curated the exhibition "Libros y autores en el virreinato del Perú. El legado de la
cultura letrada hasta la Independencia” (Books and authors in the Viceroyalty of
Peru. The legacy of literate culture until Independence), on display at the Instituto
Cervantes in Madrid from September 2021 to January 2022. She also curated the
exhibition “La biblioteca del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 1539-1616”, which was
exhibited at the National Library of Spain, and at the Botí Foundation in Cordoba in
2016.

Mabel Moraña

Mabel Moraña holds the William H. Gass Chair in Humanities at Washington

University in Saint Louis, where she teaches courses on a wide range of topics, from
colonial studies to the present, focusing on the baroque, nationalism and modernity.
She is a specialist in cultural criticism and theory, contemporary Latin American
narrative, postcolonial studies, intellectual history, gender and violence, among
others.

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