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GENS Profesor Jasmina Lukic , GENS PhD graduate and Scientific Coordinator of the  EUTERPE Project   Petra Bakos , GENS PhD student  Dara Sljukic , and Laura Bak from the University of Oviedo and also a part of the EUTERPE Project created a panel for the  2024 ASEEEES Annual Convention in Boston (MA, USA). Chaired by Ellen Elias-Bursać, the panel was titled "Post-Yugoslav literature(s) in Transnational Perspective". Professor Lukic presented "Reading Transnationally: Away from constraints of national canons". Petra Bakos' paper was "'Somehow we are [from the Balkans]' – Embracing stigmata in Melinda Nadj Abonji’s prose" and PhD student Dara Sljukic presented "Between Hope and Despair. Daša Drndić’s Literary Memory Narratives". Laura Bak presented "The Other Side of the Map. Tamara Djermanovic’s Narrative of Return to the Former Yugoslavia".   The panel investigates the liberatory potential of transnational perspective for reading migrant women writers from Central and Eastern Europe. Focusing on the region of the former Yugoslavia, Jasmina Lukic’s paper theorizes the transnational perspective as an interpretative framework for reading authors who write “outside the nation” (Azade Seyhan) while the other 3 papers analyze representative cases of migrant woman writers. The panel as a whole looks into the liberatory potential of transcultural experiences, investigating the ways in which code switching can be a way of reclaiming perspectives and vocabularies that were appropriated for the purposes of cultural exclusion and destruction in one's native idiom or sociolect. The research presented in this panel is a part of the MSCA DN EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from Transnational Perspective (101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021_DN-01).

with Redi Koobak (Strathclyde),  Petra Bakos  (CEU), Adriana Qubaiova  (CEU), Jasmina Lukić  (CEU) in person, Nina Lykke (Linköping University), Swati Arora (Queen Mary University of London) , Kharnita Mohamed (University of Cape Town) online  September 12, 18:00 – 19:30, Central European University in Vienna, Auditorium This  edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research. A main focus of the volume is methodological. It asks how an engagement with transnational, intersectional, and decolonial feminisms can stimulate border crossings. Boundaries in academic knowledge-building, shaped by the limitations imposed by methodological nationalisms, are challenged in the book. The same applies to boundaries of conventional —disembodied and ethically unaffected— academic writing modes. The transgressive methodological aims are also pursued through mixing genres and shifting boundaries between academic and creative writing.

sacrality, eco-feminism, performative poetry by Kinga Tóth September 6, 17:00 – 18:30, Central European University in Vienna, Auditorium Kinga Tóth  writer, visual and sound-poet, performer, teacher, translator writes in Hungarian, German and English languages and presents her work in performances, exhibitions, and international installations, festivals. She is also a philologist and a teacher, gives lectures and workshops international and also works as a journalist and copy editor of art magazines and as a cultural program organizer. She studied German Literature and Linguistic (MA) and Communication Theory and Praxis (MA) with specialisation of Printed Media, Online Media, Art and Communication, started her PhD research about Nun-art on the University of Debrecen and continues her artistic research on the Paris-London University at the Mozarteum in Salzburg by Art and Science. Her main focus is performative and experimental literature and recycled-art.

< Back María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto Short bio María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto holds an Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA) from the universities of Granada in Spain and Ł ódź in Poland. She also holds a Master’s Degree in World Languages, Literature, and Linguistics from West Virginia University in the United States. Her research has focused on the teaching of English and Spanish as second languages, and literary analyses with an interdisciplinary perspective. In a broader sense, her research interests span feminist literary criticism, migration studies, transnational literature, postcolonial studies, and gender studies. Her teaching experience at the university level has ranged from teaching English and Spanish to Latin American culture and introductory gender studies courses. Research topic For the EUTERPE Project: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective, María Auxiliadora’s research analyzes how daily embodiments of transnational self-identified women serve as adaptation and survival strategies in the host countries, and how these same strategies may also represent a sense of autonomy, power, and resistance. The project focuses on the analysis of non-fictional autobiographical works written by transnational subjects who have migrated and resettled in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to identify the different ways in which these embodiments challenge European belonging and identification. Previous Next

Button Team Bologna Rita Monticelli Principal Investigator Rita Monticelli is a full professor of English at the University of Bologna; she teaches gender studies, feminists and cultural studies, and theories and history of culture in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Her research includes memory and trauma studies, the global novel, utopia and dystopia, travel literature, and memory and trauma studies in contemporary dystopian fiction and visual culture. She also works on issues connected to human rights and intercultural and interreligious dialogues. In these areas, she has published and co-edited volumes and essays. Amongst them are The Politics of the Body in Women’s Literatures (2012) and the recent essay “Transmedia Science Fiction and New Social Imaginaries” in The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities (with other authors). She is a member of international European research networks and PhD programs centred on gender studies and cultures of equality. She is part of the international councils on diversity and social Inclusion and projects on the New Humanities. She directs the Centre for Utopian Studies and coordinates the International Erasmus Mundus GEMMA (women's and gender studies) at the University of Bologna. She is the representative of the University of Bologna for the SSH Deans and the board of the Gender&Diversity group of the GUILD (European Research-Intensive Universities), a member of the governing Board of EASSH (European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities). She is currently a member of the City Council of Bologna and a delegate for human rights and interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Francesco Cattani Researcher Francesco Cattani is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna, where he teaches “Literatures of English Speaking Countries”. He also collaborates with the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree GEMMA, Women's and Gender Studies, for which he teaches "The Re-vision of the Body in Women's Literature" and "English Women's Literature". He is member of the Diversity Council of the UNA Europa European University Alliance and of the Working Group on Equity, Inclusion and Diversity of the University of Bologna. His research blends postcolonial and decolonial studies, gender studies, science fiction, dystopia, and the posthuman to tackle repetitive patterns in the construction of the non-human. Another area of interest is black British literature and visual culture. He has published essays on the deconstruction of European identity from a transnational perspective, Bernardine Evaristo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson, Ingrid Pollard, Hanif Kureishi. Gilberta Golinelli Researcher Gilberta Golinelli is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where she teaches English Literature, Feminist Methodologies and Critical Utopias. Her main research areas include the Shakespearean canon and the Elizabethan Theatre, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Women’s Utopias in the Early Modern Age. She is the referent of the PhD program EDGES (European Doctorate in Women’s and Gender Studies) and vice coordinator of Master Gemma (University of Bologna). Her recent publications include Gender Models, Alternative Communities and Women’s Utopianism. Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn and Mary Astell (2018); Il testo shakespeariano dialoga con i nuovi storicismi, il materialismo culturale e gli studi di genere (2012); the coediting of the volume Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English (2019). Button

a few seconds ago GENS members participate in the 2024 ASEEEES Annual Convention Oct 3 EUTERPE Summer School 2024: A Week of Learning, Collaboration, and Connection Sep 4 Book Launch / Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place