[vc_row full_width=\u00bbstretch_row_content\u00bb el_class=\u00bbprincipio-marcha\u00bb][vc_column css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1588939369209{padding-top: 40px !important;}\u00bb][vc_custom_heading text=\u00bbTeam\u00bb font_container=\u00bbtag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff\u00bb use_theme_fonts=\u00bbyes\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbfadeInDownBig\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb31″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Eva Darias Beautell\u00a0 |<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Principal Investigator<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Eva Darias-Beautell (BA, MA, PhD) is a Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain). She was a pre-doctoral Government of Canada Award holder between 1992 and 1993 (U. of Toronto) and has since received several research grants from the governments of Canada and Spain. Darias-Beautell has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Toronto, Ottawa, British Columbia, Berkeley, London and Masaryk. She has published widely on contemporary Canadian literatures in English and her books include Shifting Sands: Literary Theory and Contemporary Canadian Fiction<\/i> (Mellen, 2000) and Graphies and Grafts: (Con)Texts and (Inter)Texts in the Fictions of Four Canadian Women Writers<\/i> (Peter Lang, 2001). She has also co-edited (with Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Hern\u00e1ez) Canon Disorders: Gendered Perspectives on Literature and Film in Canada and the United States<\/i> (U. of La Rioja, 2007) and edited Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada<\/i> (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012) and The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis<\/i> (Vernon Press, 2019). Darias-Beautell has directed seven fully-funded international research projects on Canadian and American literatures, drawing on critical and affect theories, critical race studies, spatial studies of literature, gender and canon studies. Her present project is The Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives <\/i>(PID2020-113190GB-C21) and she also currently leads the international research network TransCanadian Networks: Excellence and Transversality from Spain about Canada towards Europe<\/i> (FFI2015-71921-REDT + RED2018-102643-T). Her most recent line of research focuses on the confluence between urban studies and affect theory. At present, she is at the early stages of planning a monographic book about the representations of (un)happiness in contemporary Vancouver writing.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s)<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Professional social media accounts<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n Facebook:<\/a> Eva Darias Beautell<\/span><\/p>\n Twitter: @EDariasBeautell<\/span><\/p>\n Instagram: @evadariasbeautell<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb36″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Isabel Gonz\u00e1lez D\u00edaz<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Isabel Gonz\u00e1lez D\u00edaz is a Ph.D. lecturer at the University of La Laguna, where she teaches U.S. literature. Her research interests include gender, literature, and cultural studies, with a special focus on life narratives. She has published various articles on life writing and gender, on feminism and cultural studies, and on transgender narratives. She is a member of the research group \u201cNARRA-Narrative Spaces: USA and Canada,\u201d and of the \u201cInstituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres\u201d, both from the University of La Laguna. She was a member of the research projects \u201cThe City, Urban Cultures and Sustainable Literatures: Representations of the Anglo-Canadian Post-Metropolis,\u201d and \u00abJustice, Citizenship and Vulnerability: Precarious Narratives and Intersectional Approaches.\u00bb She has co-directed three doctoral theses and is currently directing one and co-directing three PhD theses.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n ResearchGate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb261″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Llarena-Ascanio<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Llarena-Ascanio is a Lecturer at the <\/span>University de La Laguna.<\/span>\u00a0In 2000 she got her PhD with a Doctoral Thesis on Canadian Literature and the author Michael Ondaatje. She has taught postgraduate courses on contemporary Canadian Literature and South Asian Diasporic writers such as M.G. Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, Neil Bissoondath, Rohinton Mistry or Shyam Selvadurai. Currently she is working on comparative transnational literatures in Canada and Latin America written by women. Her research focuses on diasporic and hemispheric stories centred on precarity, vulnerability, ecofeminism, biopolitics and sustainable affects in the work of writers Sharon Bala, Shani Mootoo and Souvankham Thammavongsa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb122″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Fabi\u00e1n Or\u00e1n Llarena<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb38″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Silvia Caporale-Bizzini<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Professor of English Studies at the University of Alicante in Spain where she teaches 19<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>-Century British Literature and British Cultural History. She has edited and co-edited Reconstructing Foucault: Essays in the Wake of the 80s<\/i> (Rodopi: 1994), We, the \u201cOther Victorians\u201d. Considering the Heritage of 19<\/i><\/span>th<\/sup><\/i><\/span>-Century Thought<\/i> (Alicante, 2003), Narrating Motherhoods, Breaking the Silence: Other Mothers, Other Voices<\/i> (Peter Lang, 2006), with Melita Richter Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist Pedagogy<\/i> (Stockholm University, 2009), and with Andrea O\u2019Really From the Personal to the Political. Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative<\/i> (Susquehanna University Press, 2009). She has also published in Anglia<\/i>, Critical Quarterly<\/i>, Woman: a Cultural Review, English Studies, Contemporary Women\u2019s Writing <\/i>and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/i>, <\/i>among other journals. Her research topics include the literary representation of disposability and neoliberal violence in British and Canadian fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb90″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Nieves Pascual Soler<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Nieves Pascual Soler, PhD, teaches pedagogy of modern languages at Valencian International University, Spain. Among her research interests are: cultural studies, feminism, and contemporary narratives in English. Her publications include Food and Masculinity in Contemporary Autobiographies: Cast-Iron Man (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018), and the co-edited collectionTraces of Aging: Old Age and Memory in Contemporary Narrative (Transcript Verlag, 2016). Her research has been published in journals such as: Food, Culture and Society, Latin American Research Review, Animals & Society, and The European Legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s)<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ResearchGate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb92″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Aritha<\/b><\/span> <\/b>van Herk<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Aritha van Herk is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where she teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing. She is the author of five novels, <\/span>Judith<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>The Tent Peg<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>No Fixed Address<\/i><\/span>, <\/span>Places Far From Ellesmere<\/i><\/span>, and <\/span>Restlessness<\/i><\/span>. Her irreverent but relevant history, <\/span>Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta<\/i><\/span> framed a major exhibition on southern Alberta at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. <\/span>With George Webber she has published In This Place: Calgary 2004-2011<\/i> and Prairie Gothic <\/i>(Photographs by George Webber, Words by Aritha van Herk),<\/i> both books that develop the idea of geographical and historical temperament as tonal accompaniment to landscape. Her work negotiates multiple genres and areas of exploration, with a focus on the west, on women\u2019s voices, and on place. Most recently, she published Stampede and the Westness of West <\/i>(2016),<\/i> prose-poetry which subverts the mythology of the carnivalesque stampede. <\/i><\/span>She has published hundreds of stories, articles, reviews, and essays. She is a Member of the Order of Canada, a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence, a Fellow of the Glenbow Museum, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is recipient of the Royal Society\u2019s Lorne Pierce Medal (awarded to recognize achievement in imaginative or critical literature in Canada), and of the Lt. Governor of Alberta Arts Award. She was awarded a Killam Annual Professorship in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Personal Web Page<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Professional social media accounts<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n Twitter: @maverickcalgary<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb39″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Kit Dobson<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Kit Dobson is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. His most recent book is Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada<\/i> (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017). He is the author, editor, or co-editor of an additional six books with Canadian university presses. His most recent work lies at the intersections of affect and environment and he is completing a non-fiction manuscript about the landscapes of northern Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Personal page<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb93″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Martina Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Martina Horakova is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. In her teaching and research, she focuses on contemporary Australian and Canadian literatures, particularly on Indigenous cultural production and theories of settler colonialism. She authored Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women\u2019s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and Canada <\/i>(MUNI Press, 2017) and co-authored Alternatives in Biography: Writing Lives in Diverse English-language Contexts <\/i>(MUNI Press, 2011). Among others, she published book chapters in Handbook of Autobiography\/Autofiction <\/i>(De Gruyter, 2019), A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature <\/i>(Camden House, 2013), Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature <\/i>(Cambria Press, 2010), as well as journal articles in Journal of Commonwealth literature<\/i>, Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/i>, Life Writing<\/i>, Antipodes<\/i>, JEASA<\/i> or Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Australienstudien\/Australian Studies Journal<\/i>. She is currently working on a project related to memoirs of postcolonial settler belonging in Australia. From 2016 to 2021 she was the general editor of JEASA<\/i>, Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia<\/i>. She is an active member of CEACS (Central European Association of Canadian Studies) and EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia).<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s)<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb89″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Coral Anaid D\u00edaz Cano<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Coral Anaid D\u00edaz Cano is a researcher at the University of La Laguna. She holds an English Studies Degree and a Master\u2019s degree in Gender Studies and Equality Policies, both from the University of La Laguna. In 2021 she received her PhD with a Thesis on the representations of disability and illness in North American graphic narratives. She was a beneficiary of the Grant of the Program for the Professional Training of University Lecturers (FPU) of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Her PhD Thesis was\u00a0 carried out within the framework of the research project \u201cJustice, Citizenship and Vulnerability: Precarious Narratives and Intersectional Approaches\u201d (FFI2015- 63895-C2-1-R). It also became part of the present project, \u201cThe Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives\u201d (PID2020-113190GB-C21). Her research interests include contemporary North American graphic narratives, disability studies, and crip theory.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Research page(s):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Professional social media accounts:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb94″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Myriam Hern\u00e1ndez Dom\u00ednguez<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Myriam Hern\u00e1ndez Dom\u00ednguez is a PhD Candidate and researcher at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. She holds a BA and MA in Philosophy. Her research interests are feminist philosophy, critical posthumanism, ecofeminism, and technology and science studies. She has developed research stays at Utrecht University, Kassel University, and the University of Graz, where she analyzed possible intersections between posthumanism and vulnerability studies. Her publications engage ecofeminism, posthumanism and spinozist and deleuzian philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s)<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Professional social media accounts<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb285″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Mar\u00eda Jennifer Est\u00e9vez Yanes<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Mar\u00eda Jennifer Est\u00e9vez Yanes is a researcher in Philological, Literary and <\/span>Cultural Studies at the University of La Laguna. She received her PhD with <\/span>a Thesis on vulnerability, hospitality and postmemory in migrant <\/span>narratives. <\/span>She is currently part of the research group NARRA (Narrative Spaces: United States and Canada) that developed from the project \u201cJustice, Citizenship and Vulnerability\u201d FFI2015-63895-C2-1-R and that now collaborates in the project \u00abThe Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives\u00bb PID2020-113190GB-C21. She holds a BA in English Studies from the University of La Laguna and a master\u2019s degree in English Literature and Culture from UNED. Her research interests include: migrant narratives, vulnerability, and cultural studies.<\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s)<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb50px\u00bb][vc_row_inner css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1635934461201{background-color: #dbdbdb !important;}\u00bb][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=\u00bb30″ img_size=\u00bb346×346″ alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb style=\u00bbvc_box_rounded\u00bb css_animation=\u00bbzoomIn\u00bb][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb20px\u00bb][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\u00bb1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Claudia Miller<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Claudia Miller (BA, MA) is an Early-Career Researcher (Investigator Predoctoral) at the University of La Laguna working on the representations of Arctic climate change in Inuit memoirs for her doctoral dissertation under the auspices of a Predoctoral Contract of the Gobierno de Canarias, Consejer\u00eda de Econom\u00eda Conocimiento y Empleo with funding from the Social European Fund. <\/span><\/p>\n ORCID<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Research page(s):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Academia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Professional social media accounts:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Twitter<\/a>: (@claumiller15)<\/span><\/p>\n