María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto 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. Contributions: Challenging European Identity: Representations of Female Transnational Experiences in Marrón by Rocío Quillahuaman Challenging the Idea of Europe: Representations of Female Transnational Experiences in Chérissa Iradukunda's Broken Object Previous Next

Samriddhi Pandey Samriddhi's research centers on investigating the impact of the transnational turn in autobiographies as a gendered literary genre. Her academic interests span gender studies, literary-historical analysis, posthumanism, and postcolonial/decolonial theory. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English Literature at Hansraj College, Delhi University, and Shiv Nadar University, India, respectively. During her master's program at Shiv Nadar University, she received the Graduate Teaching and Research Fellowship, teaching courses on Academic Writing and Literary Culture of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Subsequently, she worked as an Editorial Project Manager at Palgrave Macmillan and Elsevier for two years before commencing her Ph.D. at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, in 2023. Research topic The Center Cannot Hold: Transnational Autobiographies as a Gendered Genre Areas of Interest- gender studies, literary-historical analysis, posthumanism, and postcolonial/decolonial theory. Previous Next

Beatriz Revelles-Benavente University of Granada Researcher Beatriz Revelles-Benavente is Permanent Lecturer at the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation and the local coordinator for the GEMMA: Erasmus Mundus Master in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Granada. She is co-editor of one section in the journal Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. She has also co-edited the collection Teaching Gender: Feminist Responsibility and Politics in Times of Crisis and is the author of Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: A New Materialist Methodology for Critical Thinking. Before, she was granted a postdoctoral fellowship "Juan de la Cierva" at the University of Barcelona (UB) at the department of Cultural Pedagogies. She was also part of the board committee of the European Association Atgender: The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. Publications: Revelles-Benavente, B., & Sánchez-Espinosa, A. (2024). Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs (1st ed.). Routledge. Revelles-Benavente, Beatriz. 2021. “Intra-Mat-Extuality: Feminist Resilience within Contemporary Literature.” European Journal of English Studies 25 (2): 190–206.

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

Review of 'The Illiterate' by Ágota Kristóf Ágota Kristóf’s 'The Illiterate' (New Directions, 2023 [2004]) is a short memoir in which the author somatically recalls her childhood in Hungary—before and during the Soviet occupation, the surreptitious border crossing to Austria and the relocation in Switzerland as a refugee. The memoir is organised in short chapters titled after the main resonances that are explored within; while, throughout the work, the writing style juxtaposes descriptive passages with a profound reflexive tone. Landscapes, faces and objects become not only aesthetic resources for the narration but also spaces of embodiment through which emotions and physical sensations are echoed. by Olga Fenoll Martínez 5 July 2026 Review of The Illiterate by Ágota Kristóf “I read. It is like a disease. I read everything that comes to my hand, everything that meets my glance”. This is the quote that opens Ágota Kristóf’s The Illiterate (New Directions, 2023 [2004]), a short memoir in which the author somatically recalls her childhood in Hungary—before and during the Soviet occupation, the surreptitious border crossing to Austria and the relocation in Switzerland as a refugee. After reading Kristóf’s chronicles of the crossing, my mind remembered a quote by Sayak Valencia, who wrote “the memory of my body is my desire and my desire, similarly to my subjectivity, migrates”[1]. This remembrance maybe occurred because in this journey marked by displacement, relocation and dislocation, the activities that connect the discursive with the material—those activities which are located in the in-between of the discourse and the body such as reading and writing—arise as the potentiality of living in the middle of surviving, as a way to catalyse and be able to embody—and write—the desire to live and to remember what was lived. The body hence becomes not a mean but a radical site of immanence, an “embodied affective and intelligent entity that captures, processes, and transforms energies and forces”[2] inscribing memory and remembering as affirmative processes and tools for resistance through writing and reading. This memoir is organised in short chapters titled after the main resonances that are explored within; while, throughout the work, the writing style juxtaposes descriptive passages with a profound reflexive tone. Landscapes, faces and objects become not only aesthetic resources for the narration but also spaces of embodiment through which emotions and physical sensations are echoed. In “Beginnings”, the first chapter, Kristóf introduces her relationship and passion towards reading departing from a childhood memory, in which that activity is portrayed as a viral device that had “infected”, since then, all her life. In “From speech to writing”, oral stories appear as a joyful site of expression later castrated by the Soviet occupation in Hungary, when writing and the desire to write became then a way of “bear[ing] the pain of separation”. “Poems” takes the reader to Kristóf’s arrival to a girl-only boarding school, relocated away from her family. Time passes melancholically and a cry is constantly enacted. As a result of this mental and physical state triggered by the pain of separation and homesickness, poetry arises as a critical and creative space for the littler girl. The whispers of sorrow are turned into rhymes, verses and early poems which draw a mental landscape of the land that was missed. In “Clowning”, silences and absences are brought to the fore as constituents’ elements of the self: silences in conversations with her mother and lack of resources make her discern her abject condition while, joyfully, she tries to navigate those negative feelings by composing light-hearted texts for her classmates. Writing becomes here a site to create affirmative forms of intersubjectivity and survival. “Mother tongue and enemy languages” narrates the linguistic dislocation: first, it is portrayed as something unimaginable—“In the beginning there was only one language (…) I couldn’t imagine that another language could exist”. Then, the dislocation occurs as a result of disidentification and erasure, consequence of colonialisation—“I confront a language that is totally unknown to me. (…) This language [French] is killing my mother tongue”. Kristóf exposes different forms of coloniality beyond forced migrations and exile, such as forgetting one of the core parts of identity: language. The effects of colonialisation continue to be explored in “Stalin’s death”, here the author departs from the childhood memory in which Stalin died to rebuke the cultural consequences and the lack of restorative acts, addressing the consequences of colonialisation and occupation of certain Central and Eastern European countries by Soviet forces. “Memory” and “Displaced persons” narrate the clandestine crossing of the Hungarian border to Austria, the arrival to Vienna and the displacement to a refugee camp in Lausanne and in Zurich (Switzerland). In both chapters writing and reading are claimed as acts of resistance: a way of not losing the remaining sense of identity, of preventing the subjugated stories from being buried. In “Memory”, trauma and losses are the topics explored through the haptic power of words in triggering memories blurred by amnesia. Kristóf tackles how losing memories, losing people, losing objects, and losing writings lead also to the loss of “the sense of belonging to a people”. In “Displaced persons”, attention is also drawn to the gaze[3], and how it can create precarious others insofar as certain faces and bodies are dehumanised, and how those lives become “suspended”[4]. The action of being looked at displaces the possibility of being looked after and activates a process of dehumanisation, exploring also how the space you inhabit creates a particular form of being seen or perceived: as something inhuman. “The desert” describes the new beginning for Kristóf and her family in Vallagin (Switzerland) outside the refugee camps. By recalling their ordinary life and routines—in which writing and reading are still surreptitiously at the core, Kristóf also bethinks solitude resulted from inhabiting “a social desert, a cultural desert” for not sharing the language and for not wanting to be castrated by the new linguistic and cultural landscape. Here resistance, even when articulated by sadness, remains highly political. In “How do you become a writer?”, the author tallies her methods for writing, such as evoking childhood memories and physical feelings, as well as the process of how she got published. In relation to both writing and publishing, she states: “you become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write”. The last chapter shares its title with this memoir, “The illiterate”. It collects in three pages all the painful becomings enacted by being a dislocated subject. In this dislocation, language is the cornerstone element in the process of othering, which is not only drawn by outside forces, but also by the relationship that Kristóf establishes with language. In the end, the sense of being illiterate emerges as the eternal return of being forced to be separated from her mother tongue and her home. The new language, French, appears as a new landscape to which the author has been forcefully displaced, bringing the joy of being able to write, read, publish and narrate her displaced story, while also circumscribing a challenge that has been “imposed on [her] by fate, by chance, by circumstance (…) something [she is] obliged to do. It is a challenge. The challenge of an illiterate”. The lack and absence of those possibilities that could be to come, or could have been done differently in her chosen terms become also affective and affirmative potentialities for re-signifying rage and pain, catalysing a new landscape by writing from these emotions. A landscape in which the memories of those who are forgotten by History are unburied and rabidly vindicated from a situated narration. The Illiterate is translated into English by Nina Bogin who, within the section of the “Translator’s note”, writes “When I read L’analphabète a year ago, I felt I had to translate it (…) I am deeply grateful to her for having published them [these short texts], because they speak to me as If I had always been waiting to read them”. Translation, a task that remains veiled, also appears here as an affective site for weaving genealogies and for transnationally creating forms of resistance. This affective translational approach helps to render visible those testimonies and narratives aimed to be drawn to silence and subjugation, undoing the idea of History as a homogenous and lineal map towards creating a contested cartography of different voices. [1] Valencia 2019, 77 [2] Braidotti 2006, 41 [3] I echo a Lacanian approach to the gaze here, which considers “the awareness and feeling of being looked at; ‘it preexists the subject’. The subject views the gaze as a threat” (Arya 2014, 194) [4] Butler 2004, 140-143 References Arya, Rina. 2014. Abjection and Representation: An Exploration of Abjection in The Visual Arts, Film and Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Braidotti, Rosi. 2006. Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Malden: Polity Press. Butler, Judith. 2004. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso. Valencia, Sayak. 2019. "∀mor decolonial" In El libro de buen ∀mor. Sexualidades raras y políticas extrañas , edited by Fefa Vila Núñez and Javier Sáez del Alamo, 76-85. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Team Oviedo Isabel Carrera Suárez Principal Investigator Isabel Carrera Suárez is Professor in English at the University of Oviedo, her research centres on the intersections between postcoloniality and gender. She first taught at the University of Glasgow and has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Calgary, Flinders, Adelaide, Tsinghua and King’s College London, among others. She has been a keynote speaker at international conferences, such as the biennial meeting of the European Society for the Study of English, ESSE , and the Spanish Association for English Studies, AEDEAN. Her articles have appeared in international specialist journals such as Interventions, EJES, Journal of Canadian Poetry, International Journal of Canadian Studies, and Australian Literary Studies, and she has collaborated in and coedited many collaborative transnational volumes. Since 2017, she has been co-general editor of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), a journal of The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), and was Chair of EACLALS, the European Association for Postcolonial Studies (2017-2021), among other academic responsibilities. She leads the transnational research group Intersections/Intersecciones, recognised as an excellence group by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spanish QA), and the recipient of many R&D competitive projects. Emilia M. Durán-Almarza Researcher Emilia M. Durán-Almarza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in Caribbean and Afro-diasporic postcolonial writing and performance. In this field, she has authored a monograph Performeras del Dominicanyork: Josefina Báez and Chiqui Vicioso (PUV 2010) and edited several collective volumes, such Diasporic Women’s Writing. (En)Gendering Literature and Performance (Routledge 2014), Debating the Afropolitan (Routledge 2019) and Performing Cultures of Equality (Routledge 2022). She regularly publishes her research at international peer reviewed journals. In EUTERPE, she serves as leader of WP6, “The role of transnational literatures in the decolonization of understandings of gender within the European academe”, where she supervises Uthara Geetha’s PhD project. Her research focus includes excavating the presence of Anglophone African and Caribbean women writers in Europe. Carla Rodríguez González Researcher Carla Rodríguez González is Senior lecturer in English at the University of Oviedo, Spain, where she teaches in the Erasmus Mundus GEMMA and in the Gender and Diversity Master’s Degrees. Her research focuses on contemporary Scottish literature, as well as on postcolonial, gender, space and cultural studies. Her publications include the monographs Escritoras escocesas en la nueva literatura nacional (U. Illes Balears, 2013), María Estuardo (Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, 2006) and Jackie Kay: biografías de una Escocia transcultural (Oviedo: KRK, 2004). She has also co-edited the books Performing Cultures of Equality (Routledge, 2022), Debating the Afropolitan (Routledge, 2019), Nación, diversidad y género. Perspectivas críticas (Anthropos, 2010), Culture & Power: The Plots of History in Performance (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and Historia y representación en la cultura global (KRK, 2008). She has also guest edited special issues for the journals European Journal of English Studies , Papers on Language and Literature and Complutense Journal of English Studies . She has translated into Spanish short stories by Jackie Kay and Suhayl Saadi, published in 2 annotated volumes with an introduction: Las últimas fumadoras /Grace y Rose (2008), Las reinas de Govan /Oscuridad (2022). She is co-PI (with Isabel Carrera Suárez) of the research project “World-travelling: Narratives of Solidarity and Coalition in Contemporary Writing and Performance” (2022-2025), funded by the Spanish National R&D Programme. She was the coordinator of the Gender and Diversity Master’s Degree at the University of Oviedo, Spain (2019-2023).

A Conversation with Author Chérissa Iradukunda In this podcast, doctoral candidates Evangeline Scarpulla and Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto, converse with transnational author Chérissa Iradukunda, a first time published author who recounts her migratory experience from Burundi to the Netherlands in her book titled Broken Object. Her book was published in 2023 by Austin Macauley Publishers, and it presents readers with the difficulties experienced by a teenage girl while adapting to her new home and Dutch culture. Throughout their conversation, Iradukunda talks about what being a transnational author means to her. She also discusses the process of publishing her book, and her motivation for choosing English as the language of publication. Lastly, they discuss specific themes related to the plot and characters of her creative novel. We hope that you enjoy listening to this podcast. The episode transcript can be accessed here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:527c700e-693d-4ff3-a6e9-16e6cbe2d061. This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective. The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library. Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project. For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/, or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project. This episode was produced and edited by Evangeline Scarpulla and María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto. Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over. Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.

Dorota Golańska University of Lodz Principal Investigator Dorota Golańska is an associate professor (Cultural Studies and Religion) at the Department of Cultural Research, University of Lodz, Poland. She has degrees in Cultural Studies, Literary Studies and International Studies. Her research interests include feminist approaches to political violence and studies of collective memory, especially in relation to traumatic experiences and their representation in culture. She also works on such issues as creative strategies of resistance as well as intersections of memory, art and activism. Publications: Hamarowski, Bartosz, and Dorota Golańska. 2023. “A Wicked Vestal: Subverting the Androcentric Imaginaries of the Smart Home.” Australian Feminist Studies 38 (117): 267–86. Golańska, D., & Woźniak-Bobińska, M. (2023). Spaces of fluidity: articulating ‘politics of presence’ through place-based activism in Iqrit (Israel). Cultural Geographies, 31(1), 47-65.

Podcast Library Translation as Deep Reading: A Conversation and a Poetry Reading This episode features a poetry reading and roundtable on the joys and challenges of translating multilingual authors and texts. The conversation centres around a reading of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris / Parigi, delivered in English, French, and Italian by Nicoletta Asciuto, Boriana Alexandrova, Enora Le Roux, and Zoé Porchet. Alongside the readings, Dr. Nicoletta Asciuto discusses her interest in recuperating early twentieth-century women authors through translation, and her recently published Italian translation of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem (1920). Dr. Boriana Alexandrova also discusses the power and peculiarity of infamously impenetrable multilingual texts, like James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), and archives, such as the messy and marvellous post-war archive of Surrealist queer couple and anti-Nazi Resistance fighters, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. 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Camero to talk about a wide variety of topics: poetry, migration, art, transness, erotics, and everything in-between that needs to be thought and built collectively, hand in hand. The conversation is a shapeshifting poem, where the pauses and brackets give insights on contemporary poetry and different writing strategies. Together they also converse about Camero’s two poetry collections: Violeta and La vía sutil. The conversation also merges poetry with politics and gender with territory, generating reflections about the inseparability of identity categories and the urgency of moving our bodies and our theories beyond white-centered trans and queer imaginaries. Europe beyond Europe. On Macau, water heritage, and “the language of women.” A conversation with Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira is a heritage and diaspora researcher, and in this podcast she talks to York-based EUTERPE candidate Alice Flinta about what it means to be and grow up as Macanese. Having lived through Macau’s transition period and vividly remembering the handover day, she reflects on identity at the historical and political fringes of Europe, as well as what feelings of belonging are possible when the landscape changes in the blink of an eye and childhood geographies morph. A Conversation with Maxime Garcia Diaz In this episode, Séamus O’Kane interviews the Dutch-Uruguayan poet Maxime Garcia Diaz. They discuss her relationship with different languages and how they impact her creative process and the question of identity. The conversation also covers her life in the United States, the experience of having her work translated into Spanish in Argentina, the future of the printed book and fragmentation in modern culture. Hélène Cixous, Echo, Subjectivity, Diffraction (Part 2): A Conversation with Professor Birgit Kaiser In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph ‘Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction. Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. International Literature Festival in Utrecht: Q&A with Authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda In this podcast, Doctorate Candidate María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto converses with life writing authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda. This conversation is the result of a workshop’s Q&A that Auxi Castillo Soto delivered as part of her EUTERPE internship. During their conversation, Ortiz and Iradukunda talk about their writing process, the language selection, the opinion of their close ones, and many other interesting topics related to their life writing narratives. Sparkly Pearls in the Dustbin of Literature – in conversation with Olja Alvir In this episode of the EUTERPE podcast library, host Tamara Cvetković engages in a wide-ranging conversation with Olja Alvir, a multifaceted literary scholar, writer, translator, and journalist who examines the complexities of identity and migration. Born in Yugoslavia before moving to Austria in 1992, Alvir discusses her academic "excavation" of early Yugoslav partisan films to reveal their artistic value. She reflects on her position as a writer in exile whose homeland no longer exists, and the linguistic friction of navigating between German, English, and Serbo-Croatian (BCMS). Hélène Cixous, Echo, Subjectivity, Diffraction (Part 1): A Conversation with Professor Birgit Kaiser In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph ‘Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction. Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. Libros con L de Latinas In this episode, Séamus O’Kane interviews Roxana Aguilar and Diana Cruz, two of the founding members of the Libros con L de Latinas book club. They discuss the importance of establishing a Spanish-speaking book club for Latin American women living in Glasgow which allows for migrant women to connect and form a community. The conversation explores how the book club can serve as an inclusive space for expression, solidarity and connecting literature to lived experience. A Conversation with Francesca Sobande For this podcast, Doctorate Candidate Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto conversed with Dr. Francesca Sobande about her book titled Big Brands are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture published by University of California Press in 2024. In this episode, Dr. Sobande talks about her experience with writing this book, her bricolage methodology, and other important topics and concepts that she deals with in her research, including morality and racial capitalism. We invite you to dive into this conversation to know more about Dr. Sobande’s work and to check out the following links for more information. A Conversation with Marta Olivi on Translation In this podcast, doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla speaks with translator Marta Olivi. During the conversation we discuss Marta’s four major English to Italian translation projects: Canta Ancora, Ragazza (2022), a translation of Jacqueline Roy’s The Fat Lady Sings (2000); L’Antropocene Inconscio (2022), a translation of Mark Bould’s The Anthropocene Unconscious (2021); Paradiso Terrestre (2024), a translation of Laura Vandenberg’s State of Paradise (2024); and selected poems from Molly Brodak's The Cipher (2020). Olivi also talks about her approach to translation work, the intersections between translation and academic research, and the importance of translation in today's transnational literary landscape. We hope that you enjoy listening to this podcast. Ruins, Fragments, and the Word: War, Memory, and Utopian Vision in H.D.’s Late Poetry with Raffaella Baccolini This episode features a lecture delivered by Raffaella Baccolini, a professor of Gender Studies and American and British Literature at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. Baccolini completed her PhD under the supervision of Susan Stanford Friedman, and has since published widely on women’s writing, H.D., modernism, dystopia and science fiction, trauma and memory, and Young Adult literature. The episode also includes a short introduction given by Jasmina Lukić, Professor with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and the Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project. This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. “Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need” with Kimberly Campanello This episode features a lecture given by Kimberly Campanello, which weaves together her recent published and unpublished writing and her reading in neuroscience and literary criticism, including Susan Stanford Friedman’s writing on H.D., who has significantly influenced Campanello's work. This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. Reshuffling: Feminist Collaboration and Transnational Solidarity with Rebecca L. Walkowitz This episode features a lecture delivered by Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Claire Tow Professor of English and Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Barnard College. The episode also includes an introduction given by Jasmina Lukić, Professor with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and the Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project. The lecture pays tribute to the legacy of Susan Stanford Friedman as a scholar and mentor by reflecting on the concept of “reshuffling,” which Friedman developed in her later work as a way of thinking about feminist collaboration across differences of generation, nationality, race, religion, and class. This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman. A Conversation with Eugenia Seleznova In this episode, doctoral candidates Tamara Cvetković and Samriddhi Pandey interview Eugenia Seleznova, an author, researcher, and cultural manager from Ukraine. Currently, Eugenia is a PhD Candidate at Central European University, where she conducts a research on queer Ukrainian relationalities during the war. In conversation with Tamara and Samriddhi, Eugenia shares how the contexts of the post-Soviet, then revolutionary, and then, finally, wartime Ukraine have shaped her experience as an author, and directed her own shifts and transitions: between identities, regionalities, languages, genres, occupations — and ways to love and write. The conversation also touches on transnational and translingual experiences of writing through displacement, and on finding one's way as a "peripheral researcher" amidst the Western academia. Stories of Survival: South Asian Voices in Vienna What does it mean to translate one’s story, language, and labor across borders? In this episode of the EUTERPE podcast series, host Samriddhi Pandey speaks with three South Asian scholars based in Vienna whose work deals with migration, identity, and artistic practice. Moiz Rehan reflects on queer asylum and bureaucratic violence, Rameeza Rizvi explores the “gray zones” of consent and the politics of intimacy in Lahore, and Fattima Naufil Naseer discusses the fading craft traditions of Lahore’s carpet weavers. The conversation moves through stories of navigating European academic spaces and finding ways to keep one’s voice alive inside these institutions. A Conversation with Author Chérissa Iradukunda In this podcast, doctoral candidates Evangeline Scarpulla and Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto, converse with transnational author Chérissa Iradukunda, a first time published author who recounts her migratory experience from Burundi to the Netherlands in her book titled Broken Object. Her book was published in 2023 by Austin Macauley Publishers, and it presents readers with the difficulties experienced by a teenage girl while adapting to her new home and Dutch culture. Throughout their conversation, Iradukunda talks about what being a transnational author means to her. She also discusses the process of publishing her book, and her motivation for choosing English as the language of publication. Lastly, they discuss specific themes related to the plot and characters of her creative novel. "I am not a sedentary person; I am peacefully restless": A Conversation with Elvira Dones How does an artist listen to the pain of others? How can writing represent and respect their voices? In this episode, Albanian Italian author, and English PEN Award winner, Elvira Dones talks to Alice Flinta about her process of writing, and how her life experiences inform the creative process. From life in Albania and her escape in 1988, to the asylum experience in Switzerland, to the documentary work across borders (Albania, Italy, Kosovo and the U.S.) that informs her literary endeavours, Dones offers intimate and thought-provoking insights into being transnational and living transnationally. Georgia, Caucasus and Beyond: A Conversation with Author Nana Abuladze When Nana Abuladze – Georgian author of novels such as "Akumi" and "The New Perception", who has received many prestigious awards for their work exploring the themes of gender, sexuality, identity and spirituality – visited the United States, Ninutsa Nadirashvili (EUTERPE doctoral candidate) was privileged enough to record a conversation with the writer about all things Georgia, Caucasus and beyond. In this podcast, they talk about isolation, Georgia’s history and how it’s been shaped by imperialism as well as internal strife. Additionally, they discuss transnational experiences and the merging of global and local life. We hope this podcast will encourage you to learn more about Nana’s work and Georgian literature. Postcolonial Europe and Its Intellectuals: Feminist and Transnational Perspectives with Sandra Ponzanesi This episode features a lecture by Sandra Ponzanesi. Sandra is a member of the EUTERPE consortium and the Principal Investigator for Utrecht University. She is Chair and full Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where she is also the Founding Director of the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI). In this lecture, Sandra Ponzanesi discusses how Europe is not just a continent, a mere geographical space that continually redefines its boundaries and peripheries, but an ideal. It is the cradle of Enlightenment and scientific revolutions, and therefore of Western modernity and democracy. Minal Sukumar on Performance Poetry In this podcast, doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla speaks with performance poet and PhD researcher Minal Sukumar. Minal’s humorous and engaging poetry explores themes of identity, selfhood, and coming of age. In this episode, she gives a reading of some of her poems including #OOTD, If History Catches Up and The Women I House. These readings are followed by a conversation about the origins and inspiration for her work, the meaning of transnationalism in her life and writing, and some of the specific imagery and themes found in her poetry. Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: Concepts, Boundaries, and Contradiction with Ato Quayson This episode of the EUTERPE podcast features a lecture by Ato Quayson, the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of English, and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. The lecture was delivered at the third biannual EUTERPE Doctoral School, held at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Decolonisation and Caste: Untold Hierarchies In this episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Dr. Malavika Binny (Kannur University) and Dr. Tintu Joseph (Mahatma Gandhi University) about the long history of caste as a system of hierarchy and exclusion. Beginning with B.R. Ambedkar’s seminal insights, the conversation traces caste from its Vedic origins and the Aryan migrations to its intersections with patriarchy, slavery, colonialism, and Christianity in Kerala. The episode examines how caste was reinforced under British rule, compares it with racial apartheid and white supremacy, and shows how it continues to structure oppression today. Listeners are invited to rethink caste as central to both colonial histories and decolonial futures. A Conversation with Author Alejandra Ortiz In this podcast episode, doctoral candidate Maria Auxiliadora Castillo Soto and transnational author Alejandra Ortiz took a walking tour around different places in Amsterdam that are important to the author. Ortiz is the author of the book De Waarheid zal me Bevrijden , published in 2022 by Lebowski Publishers. In her book, Ortiz recounts her migratory experience from Mexico to the United States and Netherlands and her varied experiences in these countries as a trans migrant woman. Multi-layered Approaches: A Conversation with Filmmaker Zuza Banasińska This podcast is a conversation between EUTERPE doctoral candidates Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Olga Fenoll Martínez and the transnational filmmaker Zuza Banasińska. Interested in the reproduction of images, systems, subjects and bodies, Zuza looks for ways to embody and queer existing archives. In this interview, they discussed their essay films, installations, multi-layered approaches that incorporate found and recorded footage, intricate ecosystems, and how they strive to interrogate and de-stabilise entrenched notions of identity, gender, and representation. Kimberly Campanello: "I don't want to be the poet who never thought about the meanwhile" On overlapping chronologies, intersecting geographies, translation and how writing can bring this all together. Kimberly Campanello - poet, performer, writer and professor at the University of Leeds - converses with Alice Flinta about her transnational belongings between the US, the UK and the south of Italy, and how this all comes together in her most recent project, a rewriting of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

Rita Monticelli University of Bologna 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. 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. Publications: Rita Monticelli, In sisterhood: leggere insieme Adrienne Rich , in: Adrienne Rich: passione e politica, Trieste, Vita Activa Nuova, 2024 Rita Monticelli, Raffaella Baccolini, Giuliana Benvenuti, Chiara Elefante, Transmedia Science Fiction and New Social Humanities , in: The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024

International Literature Festival in Utrecht: Q&A with Authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda In this podcast, Doctorate Candidate María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto converses with life writing authors Alejandra Ortiz and Chérissa Iradukunda. This conversation is the result of a workshop’s Q&A that Auxi Castillo Soto delivered as part of her EUTERPE internship. During their conversation, Ortiz and Iradukunda talk about their writing process, the language selection, the opinion of their close ones, and many other interesting topics related to their life writing narratives. Alejandra Ortiz is the author of the book titled De waarheid zal me bevrijden , where she recounts her migratory journey from Mexico, first, to the United States and later to the Netherlands in 2015. And Chérissa Iradukunda is the author of the book titled Broken Object, a life writing narrative about the migratory journey of a teenage girl to the Netherlands. The episode transcript can be accessed here . This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective. The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library. Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project. For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/ , or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project . This episode was produced and edited by María Auxiliadora Castillo Soto. Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over. Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili, Evangeline Scarpulla and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.

Overview Based upon a truly interdisciplinary gendered approach to knowledge production, EUTERPE offers a new and innovative quality of PhD training characterized by synergy between research, training, and supervision Objectives EUTERPE is envisaged as a complex, multilayered project, which has several long-term objectives, connected with very concrete tasks in the intersecting fields of gender studies, literary studies, translation studies and European studies.