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What is The Premise of Happiness?<\/h2>\n

The Premise of Happiness: The Function of\u00a0Feelings in North American Narratives (PID2020-113190GB-C21) is one of two joint research grants funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the broad title Narratives of Happiness and Resilience (RESHAP). The second grant is for Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness? Toward a Cultural Narratology\u00a0(PID2020-113190GB-C22)<\/a>. Drawing on the previous research conducted by the team within Justice, Citizenship and Vulnerability (FFI2015-63895-C2-1-R), RESHAP aims to contribute meaningfully to the critical and theoretical scholarship on the notions of happiness and resilience and aims to address the relative scarcity of research on both notions in the specific field of literary and cultural criticism.<\/p>\n

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Specifically, The Promise of Happiness will offer an interdisciplinary close reading of a wide spectrum of contemporary narratives that actively engage with the notion of happiness as articulated and deconstructed by materialist theories of affect. It aims to address the scarcity of academic scholarship on the topic in specific fields of Canadian and American Studies.<\/p>\n

Composed of researchers from Spain, Europe and Canada, our team is highly specialized in North American Studies (Canada and the United States) and has a strong background in the broad theoretical scope of affect theory and critical theory.<\/p>\n

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What is TransCanadian Networks?<\/h2>\n

This networking project is born out of an interest in joining the material, logistic and intellectual resources of seven research groups, four of which have a solid trajectory in the field of Canadian Studies in Spain. Additionally, it aims at continuing and strengthening the international dimension of their research activities, and advance towards more transversal and multidisciplinary modes of research. The project is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science (RED2018-102643-T)<\/p>\n

The name TransCanadian Networks (TCNW) has been inspired by a history of academic collaboration between scholars in Canada and Spain through the\u00a0TransCanada Institute<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Guelph<\/strong>),<\/a> directed by Smaro Kamboureli between 2007 and 2013<\/strong>. It is also meant to evoke the kind of transatlantic collaboration we wish to encourage, support and promote.<\/p>\n

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Research Objectives<\/h3>\n

We work with three main objectives<\/h3>\n

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To provide innovative scholarship and cutting-edge research on happiness in contemporary Canadian and US cultural production.<\/p>\n

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To enact relevant critical readings of the notion of happiness in key contemporary texts, including fiction, poetry, graphic novel, life narratives, film and photography either in themselves or through comparative (transnational) perspectives.<\/p>\n

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To place the notion of happiness in conversation with the larger contexts of resilience, feminism and ecology in the selected texts.<\/p>\n

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Collaborations<\/h3>\n

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