Book Chapters

Orán Llarena, Fabián. “A Crisis of Confidence: Fracture and Malaise in the US polity in Dragged Across Concrete.” Screening the Crisis: U.S. Cinema and Social Change in the 21st Century, edited by J. Tarancón de Franciso and H. Loyo-Gómez, Bloomsbury (forthcoming).

Van Herk, Aritha. “Encounters of Writer/Explorers: Surprise and Ambush.” Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters. Edited by Gerd Bjørhovde & Janne Korkka. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing (pending).

Caporale, Silvia. «Affect Theory and Life Narratives» Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts. London: Routledge, December 2023. ISBN 9781032526591. (Forthcoming). 

González-Díaz, Isabel y Fabián Orán-Llarena. “An Approach to Unhappy Beginnings”. In Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts. London: Routledge, December 2023. ISBN 9781032526591.

González-Díaz, Isabel González-Díaz. “Of Morrissey and Other Antisocial Icons: Unhappiness and Failure in Elliott DeLine’s Refuse”. In Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts. London: Routledge, December 2023. ISBN 9781032526591.

Orán-Llarena, Fabián. “The Road to Serfdom: The Workplace after the Great Recession in The Assistant”. Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts (eds. Isabel González Díaz y Fabián Orán Llarena). London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781032526591. (Forthcoming).

Orán-Llarena, Fabián. “‘We’re Americans’: Objective Violence and the Wounds of Neoliberalism in Jordan Peele’s Us”. Culture Wars and Horror Movies (eds. Noelia Gregorio Fernández y Carmen M. Méndez García). London: Palgrave McMillan. (Forthcoming).

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Educating Children in Cultural Pride through Tacos.» En Comidas, Cocinas, y Cultura: Food in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature, editado por Cristina Rhodes y Cristina Herrera. 2024. (Forthcoming).

Llarena-Ascanio, María Jesús. “New Sustainable Bodies in Transit: Transnational Affects in Some South-East Asian Canadian Women Writers.” Moving Beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain. Editors, Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, María del Carmen Camus Camus and Jesús Ángel González-López. Ediciones Universidad de Cantabria, 2022, pp. 195-200.

Orán-Llarena, Fabián. “A Crisis of Confidence: Fracture and Malaise in the US Polity in Dragged Across Concrete”. Screening the Crisis US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash (eds. Hilaria Loyo y Juan A. Tarancón). London: Bloomsbury. 2022. ISBN 9781501388125.Pascual Soler, Nieves. “The Trace as Passage of Becoming in The Passion According to G. H.”. Reading the Trace in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, editado por Rosario Arias y Linn Peterson. Gylphi, 2022. 207-224.

Hernández Domínguez, Myriam, y Mónica Cano Abadía. “Vulnerabilidad Posthumana” en Myriam Hernández Domínguez y Miguel Manducano (coords.) Ética y Política. Ensayos indisciplinados para repensar la Filosofía, Editorial Comares, Granada, 2021, pp, 139-147.

Van Herk, Aritha. “The Ferocious Persistence of Place.” Space Place and Hybridity in the National Imagination. Edited by Christine Vandamme & Andre Dodeman. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021, pp. 145-156 (pending).

Hernández Domínguez, Myriam “Nueve Tecnologie”, “Differenza”, “Monismo”. En Baioni, E., Macelloni, M y Cuadrado, L. (Ed.), Dizionario del Postumanesimo. Mimesis Editorial, 2021.

Hernández Domínguez, Myriam y Mónica Cano Abadía. “Vulnerabilidad Posthumana”. En Hernández Domínguez M. y Mandujano, M (Ed.) Ética y Política. Ensayos indisciplinados para repensar la filosofía. Editorial Comares, 2021. 

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Ciudadanía y comunidad en Facebook”. Resistencias desde los feminismos, editado por Nieves Alberola Crespo y Juncal Caballero Guiral. Universitat Jaume I,  2021. 141-152

Darias-Beautell, Eva. “The Fetishized Subject: Modes of Resilience in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty.” Glocal Narratives of Resilience. Ed. Ana Fraile-Marcos. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 169-180.

Llarena-Ascanio, María Jesús. “India as a Third Space in Canada’s Aging Anxiety and Bodily Corruption in Rohinton Mistry’s Work.” Revolving Around India(s): Alternative Images, Emerging Perspectives. Eds. Juan Oliva Cruz, Antonia Navarro, Jorge Diego Sánchez. Newclastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2020, pp. 107-120.

Horáková, Martina. “Encountering Difference in the Australian Outback: Kim Mahood’s Landscape Memoirs.” Encountering Difference: New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender. Edited by Gigi Adair and Lenka Filipova. Vernon Press, 2020, pp. 47-60.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Driving Toward Digression.” Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet. Ed. David Staines. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020, pp. 233-244.

Van Herk, Aritha.“Lies and Reparation: Palliative or Poison.” Glocal Narratives of Resistence.  Ed. Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos. New York and London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 192-203.

Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia. “Cities of Belonging: Shifting Perceptions in Urban Contemporary Italian Canadian Writers”. En: The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories Through Canada`s Postmetropolis / Darías Beautell, Eva (ed) / Vernon Press, 2019. 51-71. ISBN: 978-1-62273-417-7.

Darias-Beautell, Eva. “Unexpected Architecture: The Diagonal City in Timothy Taylor’s Story House.” The Urban Condition: Literary Engagements with Canada’s Postmetropolis. Ed. Eva Darias-Beautell. Vernon Press, 2019. Pp. 141-172. ISBN: 978-1-62273-417-7.

Horáková, Martina. “Sally Morgan: My Place (1987).” Handbook of Autobiography/Autofiction. 3 Volumes. Ed. by Martina Wagner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 1963-1976.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Afterword,” Post-Glacial: The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch.  Selected and with an Introduction by David Eso. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019 (77-85).

Van Herk, Aritha. “Re-Discovering Margaret Laurence.” Afterword, Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings by Margaret Laurence. Edited by Nora Stovel. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020. Pp. 291-295. https://www.mqup.ca/recognition-and-revelation-products-9780228003472.php

González Díaz, Isabel. “Walking in the Queer City: Urban Life as Transformative Social Space in Ivan E. Coyote’s Loose End.”  The Urban Condition. Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis. Vernon Press, 2018, pp. 73-97. ISBN 978-1-62273-417-7.

Llarena-Ascanio, María Jesús. “Another Way of Naming Elsewhere: Transnational and Hemispheric Stories by Some Canadian and Argentinian Authors” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 78, 2018, pp. 55-73.

Van Herk, Aritha. “The North Within.”  Beyond the 49th Parallel: Many Faces of the Canadian North. Ed. Evaine Le Calvé-Ivicevic, Vanja Polić. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2018, pp. 53-64.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Invisible Restlessness in the Yearning City: The Classified and Consumed; or Joyfully Resonant.”  The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis. Ed. Eva Darias-Beautell. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2018, pp. 121-139.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Across the ‘Ocean of the Page’: Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground.” Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. Ed. Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal.  Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2018, pp. 211-222.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Teaching, or Not Teaching, Creative Writing.” Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field. Ed. Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal. Toronto: Dundurn, 2018, pp. 201-209.

Delgado, Néstor. «Sobre Fukushima Ostranenie». Las frases que nunca escribiré. Com. Hernández, I. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2017.

Orán Llarena, Fabián. “The Construction of 9/11 in American Film: (Geo)political and Semiotic Signification.” En El Punto de Mira: Investigaciones sobre Comunicación Digital en la Era Digital, Ed. J. Serra-Sánchez y M. Cadaval-San Román. McGraw Hill, 2017, pp. 193-204.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “False Memories, False Foods: Eating, Cooking, Remembering in Tastes like Cuba by Eduardo Machado,” Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2017, pp. 121-139. ISBN: 978-3-319-61758-9.

Horáková, Martina. “The Melancholy of Urban Childhood: Liminality in Madeleine Thien’s Simple Recipes”. In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 187-197.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Lines on Biting into Kroetsch’s Lemon. Again.” Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works, Ed. Nicole Markotic. Oakville, ON: Guernica Editions, 2017, pp. 176-181.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Tripping on the Threshold: Groping in the Dark.”  In-Between—Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017, , pp. 35-44.

Van Herk, Aritha. “At Home or Nowhere.” Care Home Stories, Ed. Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2017, pp. 31-38.

Horáková, Martina. “České mapování australské literární krajiny“ [Czech Mapping of Australian Literary Landscape]. České recepce ostatních literatur v angličtině. Praha: Metropolitan University Press, 2016, pp. 27-40.

Van Herk, Aritha. “The Half a Mile of Heaven’s Gate.” How Canadians Communicate: Sports. Ed. David Taras & Christopher Waddell. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2016, pp. 361-375. (revised version of earlier published paper).

Van Herk, Aritha. “Nur keine Panik/Pas de Panique.” Writing Crisis. Ed. Ursula Mathis-Moser. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2016, pp. 157-208.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War.” The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War. Ed. Adriana A Davies and Jeff Keshen. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016, pp. 219-230.

Horáková Martina, Věra Eliášová, and Simona Fojtová. “Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: An Uncertain Discipline.” European History of English Studies: Gender. Ed. by Renate Haas. Peter Lang, 2015, pp. 195-218.

Van Herk, Aritha. “A Bridge to Trieste.”  Narratives of Encounters in the North American Triangle. Ed. Waldemaar Zacharasiewicz and David Staines. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015, pp. 383-394.

Van Herk, Aritha. “A Rash, A Burn, A Bite:  Inhabiting Canadian Skin.”  Probing the Skin:  Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone.  Ed. Caroline Rosenthal, Dirk Vanderbeke.  Newcastle Upon Tyne:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 176-190.

Darias-Beautell, Eva. “Haunted/Wanted in Jen Sookfong Lee’s The End of East: Canada’s Cultural Memory Beyond Nostalgia.” Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory. Ed. Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty. Toronto: Oxford UP, 2014, pp. 402-414. ISBN: 978-0-19-900759-2.

Darias-Beautell, Eva. “The Intrinsic Potential of Glassness: Narcissistic, Opaque, Organic Modes of Signifying the Urban in Vancouver.” Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary. Ed. Ana Mª Fraile Marcos. New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 83-100. ISBN: 978-1-13-877563-3.

González Díaz, Isabel. “East Vancouver, or ‘One’s Tiny Pocket of Neighbourhood’: Ivan E. Coyote’s Stories Cross Boundaries”. Building Interdisciplinary Knowledge. Approaches to English and American Studies in Spain. KRK Ediciones, 2014, pp. 113-122. ISBN 978-84-8367-475-8.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Curtailed by the Sublime: Canada, Nature, and the Contingencies of Beauty.” The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts. Ed. Françoise Besson, Claire Omhovère and Héliane Ventura. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp. 54-72.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Naming and Becoming:  Finding Love in the Klondike.” Critical Insights:  Contemporary Canadian Fiction.  Ed. Carol L. Beran. Amenia, NY:  Grey House Publishing, 2014, pp. 193-206.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Prepositional Domesticity.” The Worlds of Carol Shields.  Ed. David Staines.  Ottawa:  University of Ottawa Press, 2014, pp. 249-262.

Díaz, Isabel González. “Enriching the ‘Rags-to-Riches’ Myth.” The Black Scholar, vol. 43, no. 1–2, Routledge, 2013, pp. 43–51. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5816/blackscholar.43.1-2.0043

González Díaz, Isabel, ed. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 66: Contemporary Masculinities in the First Person. Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de La Laguna, 2013. ISSN: 0211-5913.

González Díaz, Isabel. “Cuba en el espejo: fronteras fluidas en la narrativa de Achy Obejas”.  Mujeres en la frontera. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2013, pp. 245-263. ISBN 978-84-362-6620-7.

Horáková, Martina. “A Lesson to be Learned: Reclaiming the Region in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.” Variations on Community: The Canadian Space. Eds. Lucie Otrísalová a Éva Martonyi. Brno: Central European Association for Canadian Studies, 2013, pp. 137-147.

Horáková, Martina. “Contemporary Life Writing: Inscribing Double Voice in Inter-generational Collaborative Life Writing Projects.” A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature. Ed. by Belinda Wheeler. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013, pp. 53-69. [re-published 2015].

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Addiction in Choke.” Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke. London, Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction, 2013, pp. 411-433. ISBN: 9781441138453.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Cosmopolitans at Home: The ‘Spanishness’ of Canadian Women Writers.” Made in Canada, Read in Spain. Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature. London: Versita, 2013, pp. 54-74.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Going Up and Down the Road:  Reprise, Return and Restlessness.”  Cultural Challenges of Migration in Canada. Ed. Klaus-Dieter Ertler and Patrick Imbert.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2013, pp. 427-437.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Hotel Hades.” Mobile Narratives:  Travel, Migration, and Transculturation. Ed. Eleftheria Arapoglou, Mónika Fodor, Jopi Nyman.  New York:  Routledge, 2013, pp. 139-150.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Shades and Sadness.”  Shy. Ed. Naomi K. Lewis and Rona Altrows.  Edmonton:  University of Alberta Press, 2013, pp. 67-74.

Darias-Beautell, Eva. “The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass.” Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada. Ed. Eva Darias-Beautell. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, pp. 131-156, 2012. ISBN: 978-1554583638.

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada. Ed. Eva Darias-Beautell. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. pp. 131-156. ISBN: 978-1554583638.

Horáková, Martina. “Inscribing Difference in Personal Non-fiction by Lee Maracle and Beth Brant.” Canadian Literature in English: European Perspectives. Ed. by Dragos Zetu. Iasi, Romania: Alexandru Ioan Cuza UP, 2012, pp. 188-210.

Orán Llarena, Fabián. “Images and Words: Divulging the Interaction Between Film and Literature.” Reshaping Publishing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century, Ed. M. Brito, CAC, 2012, pp. 133-150.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Hambre: ficción, autobiografía y testimonio.” Comida y bebida en la lengua española, cultura y literaturas hispánicas. Kragujevac: FILUM, 2012, pp. 121-133.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Food and Taste in Detective Stories.” Into Another’s Skin.  Selected Essays in Honour of María Luisa Dañobeitia. Universidad de Granada, 2012, pp. 119-129.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Cleansing Dislocation:  To Make Life, Do Laundry” in The Domestic Space Reader. Edited by Chiara Briganti and Kathy Mezei. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 194-197.

González Díaz, Isabel. «¿Patriotas que persiguen a traidores?: Anthony Comstock y John Edgar Hoover». El 11 de septiembre y la tradición disidente en Estados Unidos. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia (PUV), 2011, pp. 21-30. ISBN 978-84-370-8058-1.

González Díaz, Isabel. «Recordar, resistir y reconstruirse: el discurso autobiográfico de Emma Goldman». Ecos de la memoria. UNED, 2011. pp.121-142. ISBN 978-84-362-6237-7.

Horáková, Martina. “Indigenous Collaborative Life Writing: Narrative Transgression in Auntie Rita and Kayang & Me.” Alternatives in Biography. Stephen Hardy, Martina Horáková, Michael M. Kaylor, and Kateřina Prajznerová. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2011, pp. 93-138.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Hungry Men or the Modern Art of Boredom: Franz Kafka, David Blaine and Michael Krasnow.” The Painful Chrysalis: Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 251-272.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Cuerpos y espacios: anatomía de la desproporción.” Grafías del cuerpo: Sexo. Género e identidad. Valencia: Aduana Vieja, 2011, pp. 109-138.

Pascual Soler, Nieves. “Katherine V. Forrest y la heterotopía lésbica”. Las damas negras: novela policíaca escrita por mujeres. Madrid: Fundamentos, 2011, pp. 129-146.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Infiltrating the Transcultural City:  Fenestrations, Farthingales, and Factory Girls.”  Reading Transcultural Cities.  Ed. Isabel Carrera Suárez, Emilia Durán Almarza, Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo.  Palma, Spain: Editions U.I.B., 2011, pp. 43-59.

Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. “Grieving and Memory in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man”. In Terrorism, Media and the Ethics of Fiction. Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo. Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, 2010, pp. 40-50. ISBN: 9781441139931.

Horáková, Martina. “The Unbearable (Im)Possibility of Belonging: Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth.” Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature. Ed. Nathanael O’Reilly. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2010, pp. 109-128.

Van Herk, Aritha. “Invisible Ethnicity:  Canadian Erasure, Vanishing Dutchness.”  Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art.  Ed. Rocio G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux. New York: Routledge, 2010, pp. 99-112.