Take a look at Aitana Palenzuela Lorenzo's poster, based on Thomas Jefferson's "The Declaration of Independence"✨

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Check out the thirty-sixth (and final) episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Lucía Marín Moreno discusses the influence of Washington Irving on Dave Eggers' "The Captain and the Glory"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/THTh21u8Ss8?...

😍📚And that’s a wrap on the Félix Martín 2026 Doctoral Seminar. Many thanks again to all speakers, chairs and participants for helping create such a generous and supportive space for discussion and community. We look forward to the next edition! #FMDS 2026

😍📚Our workshop keynote, Laura Á. Trigo's (@trigolaura.bsky.social) "An Academic’s Praxis and Tactics: Do We Really Have to Deal with Everything, Be Everywhere and Do It All at Once?" shared reflections on precarity and academic workload, and ways to sustain and take pride in our research practice.

Panel 1: Spatiality & Identity 📚Pedro Mora: From Mass Incarceration to Black Liberation: Resistance and Spatiality in Post-2010 Literature and Audiovisual Media 📚Miguel Á. Tamargo:Queering the Map: Crossing and Blurring the Borders of Identity, Space and Time in the 21st Century Queer American Novel

📚We opened with welcoming remarks by the Dean of @unicomplutense Faculty of Philology, Isabel Durán, and our own @luciabennett.bsky.social. Their words framed the seminar as a space for community and for sharing early-career research on American Studies.

What two wonderful days! 😍📚 The Félix Martín 2026 Doctoral Seminar came to a close on Friday and we just want to thank everyone who took part and helped create such a welcoming space. It was a pleasure to hear so much excellent work and engage in such thoughtful discussions. Panels below 👇🧵

Check out the thirty-third episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Marta Mancebo García discusses the influence of Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" on Art Spiegelman's "Maus" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/WKwbdY4Da0o?...

Check out the thirty-fourth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Laura Domenech López discusses the influence of Olaudah Equiano on Sherman Alexie's "The Exaggeration of Despair"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/ELVgcGiT8gg?...

Check out the thirty-second episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Laura María Sánchez Trujillo discusses the influence of Emily Dickinson on Adrienne Rich's "Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/nclZ6PMmEnU?...

Check out the thirty-first episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Daniela García Aniorte discusses the influence of Margaret Fuller on Adrienne Rich's "Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/bIeuuHWyCWI?...

Check out the thirtieth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Lola Ripoll Antolí discusses the influence of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" on Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/yMNub4hqYuE?...

Check out the twenty-ninth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Celia Bolívar Lafuente discusses the influence of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" on Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/5eGypGdDHEE?...

Check out the twenty-eighth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Nuria Murcia Ballesta discusses the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" on Bernard Malamud's "The Magic Barrel" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/TqhLJZ7cmR0?...

Check out the twenty-seventh episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where África Sáez Egea discusses the influence of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/Ob_eMtUorhs?...

Check out the twenty-sixth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Adrián Gordillo Carrasco discusses the influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/9UdbuxJa6gE?...

Check out the twenty-fifth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Sofía Sabiote Castro discusses the influence of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" on Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/wKl78pUrbxo?...

Check out the twenty-fourth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Alejandro Román Rodríguez discusses the influence of Walt Whitman on Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/7HsNucefA7c?...

Check out the twenty-third episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Romaisa Hammu Grihti discusses the influence of Charles Brockden Brown's "Wieland" on William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/mLkYU_neEao?...

Check out the twenty-second episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Mercedes Moya Pulido discusses the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/ravtOGofPHI?...

In the fourteenth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, Beatriz Soler Jiménez discusses the influence of Walt Whitman on Anne Sexton. Don't miss it! 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/fdso8g0zJwc?...

Check out the fifteenth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Gemma Quiñonero Gascón discusses Emily Dickinson's influence on Ocean Vuong's "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" 🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/L0gHqgPGFjQ?...

Don't miss Miriam Fernández Santiago's upcoming seminar!✨ 📍Aula Ana Pardo, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UGR) 🗓️17 December 2025 🕦11:30 @mirfersan.bsky.social uchass.ugr.es/seminars/

Check out the twenty-first episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Isabel Olmos discusses the influence of Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" on T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/icwNlEaunu8?...

Check out the twentieth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Rocío Rivas González discusses the influence of Hannah Webster Foster's "The Coquette" on Henry James' "Daisy Miller, A Study"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/RfSxsKSMvnQ?...

Check out the nineteenth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Kauzar Mustafa Ben Hattal discusses the influence of Herman Melville's "The Confidence-Man" on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/G-WsdTZ8DRU?...

Check out the eighteenth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Marina Arenas Valverde discusses the influence pf Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/5OwottRMQQU?...

Check out the sixteenth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Rita Pérez Gallego discusses the influence of Hannah Webster Foster's "The Coquette" on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"🎙️✨ @posthumanuz.bsky.social youtu.be/7F7p4uMJxH4?...

Check the fourth episode of our series on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Rita Pérez Gallego discusses the influence of Mary Rowlandson on Louise Edrich's "The Round House" 👀✨ youtube.com/watch?v=uaKN...

Our amazing students of North American Literature have done it again... Check out the newest discussions that have been added to our podcast 👀✨ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📢 Big week for us scholars in American studies! Between Tuesday and Thursday, Alicante will host the 17th edition of the SAAS conference! As every year, these will be busy days for our team members… 🧵 Keepn an eye on this thread to see their contributions!

Talking about dreams, nightmares, and posthumanism at the SAAS conference in Alicante—so many interesting ideas!

📄 In session 3, our predoctoral researcher @luciabennett.bsky.social delivered the paper “Spectacle, Surveillance and Mass Media in Richard Powers’ Generosity”.

Our team member @luciabennett.bsky.social has presented her paper ""I Only Want My Life Back: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Mass Media in Richard Power's Generosity" at the 17th Conference of the Spanish Association of American Studies, at the University of Alicante 👏👏

👀✨ Our IP @mirfersan.bsky.social delivered a fantastic keynote yesterday titled “The Neo-Apollonian: A Posthumanist Aesthetic Model for the 21st Century” as part of the cycle of conferences Literature(s) in English.

Thrilled to share that a review of my book, Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood's Dystopias, has been published in The Nexus AEDEAN (2024, Vol. 2)! Grateful to Carmen Velasco-Montiel & Daniel Nisa Cáceres (U. Pablo de Olavide) for their generous review.

📝 Thrilled to share my new article on Emilie Pine's Notes to Self, where I explore the reconfiguration of female bodily shame as a form of resistance. 📖 Read it here: raei.ua.es/article/view...

🔎 To get hold of our research, check out our Google Scholar profile! ⬇️ scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

👻🤖📚I immensely enjoyed last Friday’s session on posthumanism, trauma and vulnerability with Tony M. Vinci, interviewed by our @pedromrez @SAAS_YScholars🥰

The second session of our 'In Conversation' Series has just started!! @mariaabizandac is interviewing Dr. Mark Bould and discussing Cli-fi cinema!!📽️🌌🌿 x.com/SAAS_YScholars…

Congrats!!!!! So proud🥰🥰 x.com/carmenhidalgov…

Miss this so much x.com/thisisUIC/stat…

Our III In Conversation Series led by @MacarenaMartnM1 starts this week! 📅September 26 at 18:30h (CEST) Don't forget to register here📩 [email protected] x.com/SAAS_YScholars…

Thrilled to share that my article Examining the Refugee Identity and the Ethics of Hospitality in Richard Powers' Generosity (2009) has been published!📚✨ Check it out here: tandfonline.com/eprint/2PUG8MX…

Also had a wonderful time at @Cornell University last week! Thanks to the EGSO 2024 Conference organizers!