J. Javier Torres-Fernández

PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences (Language and Literature Studies) by the University of Almería in 2025. He is currently a Substitute Lecturer (Teaching Associate) at UAL, an active 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 more than 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 (Winner in English), 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.

Paula García-Rodríguez

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

Pedro Mora-Ramírez is a PhD student at the University of Seville. He is a member of the research group “Teoría y Estudios Culturales” (HUM 409). Mora-Ramírez has been a visiting researcher at Cornell University (June-July 2025), the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies (University of Limerick October 2024-May 2025) funded by the 2024 EAAS postgraduate travel grant, and at the University of Reading (2023). He has published in Utopian Studies, Science Fiction Film & Television, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, Pensamiento Actual, and the Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR). Furthermore, he collaborates with SAAS Young Scholars as an associate within the Communications Team, and is Managing Editor of JACLR. His research interests include spaces, resistance, racialized vulnerability, masculinities, utopia/dystopia, Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Affect Theory.

Vladyslav Shapoval

PhD student 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