Core Team
“Trans*. It is not a matter of whose gender is variable and whose is fixed; rather, the term ‘trans*’ puts pressure on all modes of gendered embodiment and refuses to choose between the identitarian and the contingent forms of trans identity”.
Jack Halberstam
Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018)
Affiliation
CoreTeam’s Bios
María Isabel Romero Ruiz
(MA U. of Southampton, PhD U. of Granada) is currently a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga (Spain) and Full Professor (ANECA). Her research interests are the history of gender and sexuality in Victorian England, issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary fiction, and Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture. Her publications include many chapters of books and articles in journals, and she has edited and co-edited numerous international volumes. She is the author of the monograph The London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century: Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform (Peter Lang, 2014). She has been a visiting scholar at Queen Mary University of London, St Catharine’s College (Cambridge University), York University, and the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research (CTTR) at the University of Wolverhampton. She has been member of the research team of several regional, national and international projects and is currently the Principal Investigator of the national research project “Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English (Trans-use)”. Her latest publications are the co-edition Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the monograph Town and Gown Prostitution: Cambridge’s Architecture of Containment of Sexual Deviance (Peter Lang, 2022).
Rocío Carrasco Carrasco
Associate Professor at the University of Huelva, Spain. She lectures on North American Literature and Feminist Studies at the English Department. She has participated as a full researcher in competitive national research projects in Spain. Currently, she is one of the Principal Researchers of the Project: “Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in Post 9/11 Narratives in English” (PID2023-146450NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry for Universities, European Union and National Research Agency. She has been a visiting scholar in prestigious universities such as Cambridge University (UK), Brown University (USA), Harvard University (USA), University of California Riverside (USA) or Calgary University (Canada). She has been the principal investigator of the Research Group “Theory and Cultural Studies” and an active member of the Research Center COIDESO at the University of Huelva. She has published articles on gender in science fiction and cultural studies in such journals as Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Journal of Film and Video, International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies, Journal of Futures Studies, CLCWeb, or Journal of Utopian Studies, among others. Her research has been also published by Palgrave MacMillan, Routledge, Bloomsbury Academics, Narr Verlag, Igi-Global or Dykinson.
Rocío Cobo-Piñero
Associate Professor at the University of Seville, Spain, in the Department of English and North American Literatures. She has been invited as a visiting scholar to the Institute for the Study of Sexualities and Gender (ISSG, Columbia University); the Centre for the Study of Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS, University of Oxford), the School for Asian and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) and the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR, University of Central Lancashire). Her current research focuses on the representations of nonbinary and trans racialized subjects through multimedia projects that incorporate literature, music, visual arts and popular culture. She has published in the Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA); Journal of Intercultural Studies; Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Women: A Cultural Review, among others. Her contributions to edited volumes include Transatlantic Women’s Networks: Cultural Engagements from the 19th Century to the Present (Peter Lang, forthcoming); Black US and Spain: Shared Memories in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2020); Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge, 2018). Dr. Cobo-Piñero is the author of the book Sounds of the Diaspora: Blues and Jazz in Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones (Arcibel, 2015. Published in Spanish).
Beatriz Domínguez-García
Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies at the University of Huelva. Her research centres on issues of gender and popular culture, with a focus on vulnerable populations in twenty-first century cultural products, which provides the necessary tools to make understand not only current debates around sustainability and the Humanities but also the requirements to show society’s shortcomings in creating equalitarian environments. She is the author of Hadas y Brujas (1999). Her latest publications include “Detection, Gender Violence and Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie Series”, in Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance (2022).
Juan Carlos Hidalgo Ciudad
(PhD U. of Sevilla) is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Culture in English at the University of Sevilla (Spain). His main research areas are Trans, Queer and Gender Studies, Film and Television, Contemporary British Theatre, Popular Culture and Postmodernism. He is the author of Tendencias alternativas en el teatro británico de los años 80 (Universidad de Valencia, 1994), editor of the volume Espacios escénicos: el lugar de representación en la historia del teatro occidental (Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía, 2004), and co-editor of the collection of essays Masculino plural: Construcciones de la masculinidad (Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2001). He has been a Research Fellow at King’s College London and a member of the research team of several regional and national projects. His latest research focuses on new queer and trans social units that make a new construction of both the individual and the community possible. In particular, the concept of queer and trans kinship and the ethical commitment of such a notion is a recurrent motif in his research. His latest publications are “Trans* Vulnerability and Resistance in the Ballroom: The Case of Pose (Season 1)” in Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance: A Mediterranean Approach to the Anglosphere (Palgrave Macmillan. 2022) and “Trans-forming Transness: The Failed Dissident Body as (Non)Human Political Possibility in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars” in Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts (Routledge, 2023).
María Elena Jaime de Pablos
Full Professor at the University of Almeria (Spain), where she teaches English Literature. She studied at the University of Granada, where she completed a degree in English Philology (1992), a degree in Translating and Interpreting (1994), and a PhD in English Philology (1999). Her major research interest is Irish literature, with a special focus on women writers and gender issues. She is the author of more than sixty essays (articles and book chapters) and the author, editor or co-editor of twenty books published by prestigious national and international presses.
Among the most recent ones: Giving Shape to the Moment: The Art of Mary O’Donnell, Poet, Novelist and Short-Story Writer (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018), Remaking the Literary Canon in English: Women Writers, 1880-1920 (Granada: Comares, 2018), and Subjetividades femeninas transgresoras en la narrativa literaria y audiovisual (Madrid: Dykinson, 2024). She is currently the Associate Editor of Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres, an online journal on women’s studies, the Secretary of the Communication and Society Research Centre (CySOC), based at the University of Almeria, and the manager of the research group: “Women, Literature and Society”.
María Auxiliadora Pérez Vides
Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Huelva, Spain, where she teaches Victorian and contemporary literatures in English. Currently, she is the Director of the interuniversity and interdisciplinary MA in Gender Studies, a position she has held for the last 4 years. She has conducted extensive research on the intersection of gender, nation, family and social history in contemporary Ireland as well as on the representation of single maternity in Irish fiction, cinema and art. Her current research interests focus on the cultural manifestations of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, and contemporary Irish crime fiction, particularly John Banville’s work as Benjamin Black. She has been invited as visiting scholar at prestigious institutions like Cornell University (USA), Duke University (USA), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), University College Dublin (Ireland) and University of Liverpool (UK). Her research has been published in journals like Nordic Irish Studies, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, The European Journal of English Studies and Estudios Irlandeses. She has also contributed to volumes edited by Peter Lang, Palgrave Macmillan, Central European Press, Dykinson and Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). She was the Treasurer of Spanish Association of Irish Studies (AEDEI) from 2014 to 2020, the Principal Investigator of the Research Group “Theory and Cultural Studies” from 2015 to 2020, and Managing Editor of the journal Estudios Irlandeses from 2020 to 2023. Currently, she is an active member of the Research Center COIDESO at the University of Huelva.