J. Javier Torres-Fernández

Paula García-Rodríguez

PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences (Language and Literature Studies) by the University of Almería in 2025. He is a member of the Research Group “Women, Literature and Society” (HUM-874) and the Research Center “Communication and Society” (CySOC). Torres-Fernández has presented papers at thirty international and national conferences, and his recent publications include articles in prestigious international journals such as Irish University Review and Estudios Irlandeses, and book chapters in edited volumes published with equally renowned publishers such as Peter Lang, Brill and Routledge, among others. He has recently won the 2025 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars in Queer Studies Competition, resulting in his monograph proposal, Narratives and Metaphors of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance: Exploring Stories of Illness and Healing, being accepted for publication with Peter Lang in Open Access forthcoming in 2026.

PhD student at the University of Málaga and a recipient of a FPI predoctoral contract funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities, as part of the research project “Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English” (PID2023-146450NB-I00). She holds a MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Seville (2024) and a double BA in English Studies and Hispanic Philology from the University of Huelva (2023). During her undergraduate studies, García-Rodríguez received an Erasmus+ scholarship, which she completed at the Università degli Studi di Salerno (Salerno, Italy). Her BA dissertation received a special mention from the University of Huelva, it has been awarded by the Cátedra Juan Ramón Jiménez. Her research interests focus on gender, sexuality, feminism, embodiment, vulnerability, horror and the fantastic.

Pedro Mora-Ramírez

Vladyslav Shapoval

PhD student at the University of Seville and a visiting researcher at the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies (University of Limerick) funded by the 2024 EAAS postgraduate travel grant. He holds a MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the University of Huelva (2024), a MA in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact from the University of Salamanca (2023), and a BA in English Studies from the University of Huelva (2022). He is a member of the research group “TEC: Teoría y Estudios Culturales” (HUM 409) and has participated in numerous national and international conferences. Furthermore, he collaborates with SAAS Young Scholars as an associate within the Communications Team. His recent publications include an articles in Pensamiento Actual, a review in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, and is coauthor of “Answering the Knock at the Door, Welcoming Utopian Futures” (2023) in Utopian Studies. His research interests include spaces, resistance, racialized vulnerability, masculinities, utopia/dystopia, Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Affect Theory.

Doctoral Researcher at the University of Almería and a recipient of a predoctoral contract (PPIT 2024/2025, CPRE2024-055) in the Department of Philology. Shapoval is a member of the Women, Literature, and Society (HUM-874) research group and the Communication and Society Research Centre (CySOC). Additionally, he is involved in the Research Project “Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in Post-9/11 Narratives in English” (Trans-use, PID2023-146450NB-I00).

His research focuses on queer immigration literature, autobiographical works, memoirs, and discourse analysis. Shapoval was also awarded the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program scholarship sponsored by the United States Department of State, which he completed at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.

Isaac Clewes