Category: Publications

Abstract TV series The Power (2023), based on Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, tells the story of how teenage girls progressively develop an inborn new organ that allows them to electrocute people, empowering women and eventually reversing patriarchal societies. The transhumanist idea of enhancing and transforming our bodies to evolve as humans and…

Abstract: Neo-Victorianism is concerned with the re-writing of the Victorian past and establishing parallelisms with the present; also, with giving voice to muted discourses. Britain was a huge Empire in the nineteenth century and the Indian Mutiny was one of the most violent episodes in its history. Postcolonial neo-Victorian narratives are a memorial practice that…

Resumen Reseña de Joyce, James. A penique el poma y otros versos. Traducción y edición de José Ruiz Mas. Incluida en la sección “Irish Studies in Spain – 2024” publicada en el volumen 20 de la revista Estudios Irlandeses. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2025-13646

Abstract Amid current global crises, the international conference “The Knock at the Door: Utopian Dreams for Post-Covid Times,” jointly organized by the University of Huelva (Spain) and the University of Calgary (Canada) on May 21-24, 2023, at the University of Huelva, provided a forum for reflecting upon the role played by speculative fiction in (re)imagining…

Abstract This article dwells on Sarah Ahmed’s notion of “affective relationality” and her suggestion that empathy involves the subject’s reaction to the pain of others and willingness to be affected by it. Such postulates are used to explore Small Things like These (2021), the latest novel by the acclaimed Irish writer Claire Keegan. I contend…