Papers - Comunicaciones

  • 2019: 'The Hollow Coffin: Secrecy and the Gay Maori Clan in Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story'. A Sea of Islands: The View from the Pacific. 25th International Conference of the New Zealand Studies Association. Athens (Greece). 2nd-5th July.

  • 2018: 'El Sur a través de la voz subalterna de las mujeres rurales andaluzas: autoetnografía reflexiva'. 56º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA) . University of Salamanca (Spain). 15th-20th July.

  • 2017: 'Contested Tasmania: Abjection in Carmel Bird's 'Getting My Mother's Sewing Machine Across Bass Strait'. Contested Territories in the Pacific. 23rd International Conference of the New Zealand Studies Association. University of Strassbourg (France). 7th-10th July.

  • 2017: 'The Zombie Metaphor: Nation and Body as Hostile Spaces in The Walking Dead'. Representations of Hostile Spaces in Literature and the Arts: Images and Metaphors. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 22nd-25th May.

  • 2016: 'Absolutely Napoleonic: War, Death and Sibling Intimacy in Katherine Mansfield'. War Memories: Commemoration, Re-enactment, Writings of War in the English-speaking World (18th-21st centuries). Paris 7 Diderot University (Paris). 14th-16th June.

  • 2015: 'Nowheresville: New Zealand and the Communitarian Riddle in Janet Frame's Living in the Maniototo'. Empires and Cultures of the Pacific. 21st International Conference of the New Zealand Studies Association. University of Vienna (Austria). 1st-4th July.

  • 2014: 'The Myth of Penelope in Crisis'. International Conference 'Myths in Crisis'. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 21st-24th November.

  • 2014: 'Gender Trauma in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man, and Tom Ford's Film Adaptation'. Fourth Annual London Film and Media Conference: 'Visions on Identity'. Institute of Education, University of London. 26th-28th June.

  • 2013: 'Community and Space in Janet Frame's The Carpathians'. 16th International Culture and Power Conference (Iberian Association for Cultural Studies). University of Murcia. 2nd-4th October.

  • 2013: 'Living in Separate Worlds: Unworking Community in Sandra Cisneros’ House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek'. 11th International SAAS Conference. University of La Laguna (Tenerife). 20th-23rd March.

  • 2012: 'Infected with Emotion: Jane Badler’s Music and the Maturation of Lizard-Queen Diana in the Sci-Fi TV Series V (1983-2009)'. XXXVI Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. University of Málaga. 14th-16th November.

  • 2011: 'Arrancando el papel: la locura como estrategia literaria subversiva en Charlotte Perkins Gilman'. I Jornadas de Literaturas Psicopatológicas. University of Cádiz. 26th-28th April.

  • 2009: 'Forget Madonna: The Many Metamorphoses of Kylie Minogue, Showgirl and Survivor' (co-authored with Sara Martín Alegre, UAB). XXXIII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. Universidad de Cádiz. 12th-14th November.

  • 2009: 'Paradise Regained: From Black Madonna to New Eve. Religion and Marital Abuse in Zora Neale Hurston “Sweat”'. Experiencias de género/Experiencing Gender. IV Congreso Internacional e Interdisciplinar, Universidad de Huelva, 6th-8th May.

  • 2009: Presentation of the Project Autonomía y nuevas tecnologías en la docencia universitaria. II Jornadas de Innovación docente de la Universidad de Granada (coauthored with Manuel Jiménez Raya, José María Pérez Fernández, Pilar Villar Argáiz, Margarita Carretero, Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio e Ignacio López Sako). University of Granada. 14th-17th April.

  • 2009: 'Titulación de Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Granada. Carácter de los estudios y salidas profesionales'. Jornadas de Orientación Universitaria para Estudiantes de Bachillerato. Universidad de Granada, 11th-13th March.

  • 2008: '“Hot Meat”: Cannibalism and Gender in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf' (co-authored with Isabel Mª Andrés Cuevas). XXXII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. Universidad de Palma de Mallorca. 13th-15th November.

  • 2008: '“My Insides Are All Twisted Up”: When Distortion and the Grotesque Became “The Same” Job in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf' (co-authored with Isabel Mª Andrés Cuevas). The Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference. Birbeck, University of London, London. 4th-6th September.

  • 2007: 'Femininity and Vampirism as a Close Circuit: “The Lady of the House of Love” By Angela Carter'. VIII Jornadas de Estudios de la Mujer: En torno a la mujer y el terror. Facultad de Filología (Complutense University of Madrid). 12 a 14 de marzo.

  • 2006: 'Is There Such a “Bliss”?: Epiphany and the “Riddle” of Selfhood in Katherine Mansfield'. 9th International Conference on the Short Story in English. Views from the Edge: The Short Story Revisited. University of Lisbon (Portugal). 21st-25th June.

  • 2005: 'Adiós a Cenicienta: “The Tiredness of Rosabel” de Katherine Mansfield’. XXIX Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. University of Jaén. 11th-17th December.

  • 2005: ‘La evolución del discurso feminista sobre la maternidad en tres momentos de la literatura en lengua inglesa’ (co-authored with Adelina Sánchez Espinosa, Pilar Villar Argáiz e Isabel Andrés Cuevas). IV Congreso Internacional de AUDEM: Los feminismos como herramienta de cambio social. Palma de Mallorca. 24th-26th November.

  • 2005: ‘Investigación del Grupo HUM-592 Recepción, modos y géneros de las literaturas en lengua inglesa’ (co-authored with Pilar Villar Argáiz). Jornada de trabajo e intercambio científico entre Grupos de Investigación relacionados con Estudios de las mujeres y de Género. Granada. 16th June.

  • 2005: ‘When Charisma Breeds a Monster: Dangerous Liaisons in Carmel Bird’s Novels’ (co-authored with Margarita Carretero González). 3rd Global Conference — Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil. Budapest (Hungary). 9th-11th May.

  • 2004: ‘“The Daughters of the Late Colonel’: Feminine Temporality in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Fiction’. 8th International Conference for the Short Story in English (“Crossing Boundaries”). University of Alcalá de Henares. 28th-31st October.

  • 2004: ‘Maternidad agridulce: la reescritura del cuerpo femenino en Katherine Mansfield’. Simposio: Cuerpo de Mujer: Miradas, representaciones e identidades. Granada. 20th-21st September.

  • 2004: ‘The Postmodernist Katherine Mansfield: Beyond the Self of Modernism in “The Garden-Party”’. V Jornadas de Filología Inglesa. University of Córdoba. 10th-12th May.

  • 2004: ‘Feminine Temporality in the Short Story: The Construction of Female Identity in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Child-Who-Was-Tired”’. International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction, Theory and Criticism. University of Salamanca. 24th-27th March.

  • 2003: ‘“Carnation’: La lealtad secreta de Katherine Mansfield hacia la tradición literaria femenina’. VII Jornadas de Estudios de la Mujer: Discursos e Identidades. Facultad de Filología (Complutense University of Madrid). 24th-26th November.

  • 2003: ‘Demystifying the Wickedness of Women: The Femme Fatale in Katherine Mansfield’. Fourth Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness. Anglo-American College, Prague (Czech Republic). 20th-26th March.

  • 2002: ‘I rush to the movies, you rush to the movies, she … “Rushes” for a bicultural bridge: El cine y los iconos femeninos chicanos’ (co-authored with Natalie Blesser). III Internacional Conference on Chicano Literature. University of Málaga. 21st-23rd May.

  • 2000: ‘Sandra Cisneros y su nueva definición de los estereotipos chicanos de género en Woman Hollering Creek’. II Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana. Facultad de Filología y Geografía e Historia (Universidad del País Vasco). 5th-7th April.

  • 2000: ‘La castración femenina: feminidad, masculinidad y relaciones de género en la narrativa de Katherine Mansfield’. II Coloquio Internacional de Imágenes de Mujeres. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (University of Granada). 29th March-1st April.