We are delighted to share that the EUTERPE Podcast Library has been selected by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) for its feature "Science on the go: 10 EU-funded podcasts from AI to climate change," published on 1 September 2026. The REA, the European Commission agency that manages a large share of the EU's research and innovation funding, put together the selection to show how EU-funded researchers are bringing their work to wider audiences. EUTERPE appears alongside nine other projects working on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, citizen science, climate disinformation, food fraud, freshwater restoration and migration. We are the only project on the list representing literature and gender studies, and we are proud to see the humanities standing side-by-side with the sciences in a feature like this. In its entry on our project, the REA writes that EUTERPE "studies how women's writing across Europe moves between languages, borders and cultures, to create open resources and better understand what it means to be European today," and highlights the podcast's mix of interviews with our doctoral researchers, conversations with writers, and poetry readings. What's next? This recognition comes at a fitting moment. On 23–25 September 2026, EUTERPE will hold its closing conference, Thinking Transnationally: European Literatures and Gender, at CEU in Vienna, where the consortium will present the results of the project, including the research of our doctoral candidates, the podcast, and the forthcoming two-volume Handbook of Transnational Women's Literature (CEU Press). Recordings from the conference, including the literary readings with Anthony Capildeo, Julia Cimafiejeva and Aslı Erdoğan, will be added to the Podcast Library in the coming months. Our thanks go to the REA for the feature, and to every researcher, writer, translator and listener who has been part of the podcast so far. Read the full REA feature here: Science on the go: 10 EU-funded podcasts from AI to climate change Browse the EUTERPE Podcast Library on our website and on YouTube and SoundCloud.

At the beginning of June, York-based doctoral candidate Alice Flinta organised and chaired an event on contemporary Palestinian Literature, as part of the annual York Festival of Ideas. The event brought together Ghazzawi writer Sondons Sabra and Comma Press editor James Harker for a conversation and live readings from Voices of Resistance. Diaries of Genocide (Comma Press, 2025). James spoke about the context and editorial development of this powerful collection of testimonies, whilst Sondos read from her entries in the book, as well as some new, unpublished writings of hers. She recalled her time in Gaza from 2023, up until she moved to the UK, in November 2025, to study a Masters in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Sondos’s writing is expectedly raw, loaded, as the depth of the spectrum of human emotion in troubled times like ours comes through unfiltered via a literary style that holds the weight of experience. The lecture theatre, which often remained in supportive, contemplative silence, resonated with shared, deeply felt emotions. These were reflected in the mindful and caring questions, and words of thanks, and hope, the public addressed to the speakers during the final Q&A. The public, which boasted university staff, students and the York city community, were deeply appreciative of the event, which ended in a standing ovation. As we all walked out of it metaphysically bruised, we could not ignore the renewed sense of resistance, political commitment and human connection brewing within, and amongst, ourselves. The event is a result of a long-standing collaboration with Manchester-based, independent publishing house Comma Press, first established by Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (English and Related Literature) in 2020. The EUTERPE Project: European Literature and Gender from a Transnational Perspective consolidated this partnership, as Comma Press is York’s official industry partner. The recording of the event is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVeAtOG0GOw With thanks to the York Festival of Ideas Team for making this event possible.

During May 18th and 21th, doctoral candidates Marina Casado Guerreo (CEU) and Olga Fenoll Martinez (UŁ) attended and presented their PhD projects at the international interdisciplinary conference – “Borders: Literary, Cultural and Political Dialogues” – taking place in the University of Athens, Greece. The conference, organised by the Department of English Language & Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), sought to offer “a space for experimental and innovative approaches to borders as well as for a critical dialogue which will unravel the complexity and multifariousness of borders across time and space”.

The aim of EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective is to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. Latest Publications Reading for Each Other Creative book reviews that facilitate an exchange of literature between doctoral candidates, allowing them to better understand each other's lives and work. Publications by Doctoral Candidates Publications by Doctoral Candidates A collection of writing – papers, articles, peer-reviewed publications, books and other media produced by the doctoral candidates. Project Updates York Festival of Ideas: Voices of Resistance Borders: Literary, Cultural and Political Dialogues 13th International Feminist New Materialisms Conference: Enfleshing Literature Beyond Words Feminism in the Global South The Susan Stanford Friedman Lecture Series Life Writing Workshop All news (8) 8 posts

Digital Archive This open-access digital archive is a repository for the research output produced by the EUTERPE MSCA DN Project. The material preserved in this database includes abstracts and excerpts from one of the project’s main deliverables, The Handbook of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, as well as other research papers/articles produced by the project’s doctoral candidates and other members of the consortium. This collection of resources is intended to display the project’s efforts towards mapping the field of transnational women’s literature in Europe and we hope that it will be used as a reference tool by other researchers contributing to this area of scholarship. You can search the archive by the type of resource, key concept, region, transnational author, or entry author. The archive is a work in progress and will continue to develop throughout the life cycle of the project and beyond. Introduction to the Handbook Title Author Type of Resource Key Concepts Review of 'The Eighth Life' by Nino Haratischvili Evangeline Scarpulla Book Review Europe,Transnational Literature,Translation Making Waves... of Words Evangeline Scarpulla and Alice Flinta Other Europe,Transnational Literature Challenging the Idea of Europe: Representations of Female Transnational Experiences in Chérissa Iradukunda's Broken Object María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto Article Europe,Transnational Literature Translation Kris Orszaghova Volume I: Concept Entry Translation,Multilingualism,Exophony Yoko Tawada Evangeline Scarpulla Volume II: Biocritical Entry Multilingualism,Translation,Transnational Literature,Exophony,Europe Bernardine Evaristo Evangeline Scarpulla Volume II: Biocritical Entry Transnational Literature,Gender,Postcolonial,Europe Transnationalism Kris Orszaghova Volume I: Concept Entry Transnational Literature,Gender,Europe

Doctoral Candidates Samriddhi Pandey Central European University Tamara Cvetković Central European University Marina Casado Guerrero Central European University Evangeline Petra Scarpulla University of Bologna Ninutsa Nadirashvili Coventry University Séamus O'Kane University of Granada Olga Fenoll Martínez University of Lodz María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto Utrecht University Laura Bak Cely University of Oviedo Alice Flinta University of York Uthara Geetha University of Oviedo