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Olga Fenoll Martínez Univeristy of Lodz Doctoral Candidate Olga Fenoll-Martínez holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting (University of Granada) and an MA in English Literature and Linguistics (University of Granada). She has been granted with different scholarships for early researchers provided by the Spanish Government and the University of Granada, and she has also engaged in R&D research projects. In her works, Olga has aimed to display a queer approach through different intra-actions such as contemporary queer poetry, translation studies or located audiovisual cultures from a feminist new-materialist lens. Olga’s PhD project aims to tackle located and nomadic transnational womxn’s art and writings as assemblages that are in-the-making by exploring the plastic potentiality of those works through a diffracted approach guided by onto-epistemological new materialist optics and interferenced logics.

Uthara Geetha University of Oviedo Doctoral Candidate Uthara Geetha is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oviedo, Spain working on ‘The role of transnational literatures in the decolonization of understandings of gender within the European academe’. She was an Erasmus Mundus scholar (2019-21) of Gender Studies from University of York (UK) and University of Oviedo (Spain). She also holds a master’s degree in applied economics from Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her main research interest is on the intersections of gender with race, caste, and class inspired from her Dalit identity. In addition to her academic works, she also writes online articles on popular culture from a decolonial intersectional feminist perspective. Contributions: Prose and Counter-history: Review of The Emperor's Babe by Bernadine Evaristo

Boriana Alexandrova University of York Principal Investigator Dr Boriana Alexandrova is Senior Lecturer in Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK and (together with Dr Nicoletta Asciuto from York’s Department of English & Related Literature) is the Primary Investigator on EUTERPE’s WP10 at York, a part of EUTERPE’s “Translational Genres” research cluster, co-supervising DC 10, Alice Flinta. At York, the team is focusing on creative and (translation) practice-led methods of research into multilingual writers’ innovative ways of crossing the borders between forms, genres, genders, and cultural, racial, and embodied positionalities. Dr Alexandrova brings expertise in literary multilingualism and translation theory, queer and gender studies, artistic and practice-led research methodologies, the medical humanities, and feminist disability studies from European modernism to the contemporary. Current research collaborations include a 5-year archival excavation, translation, and anthologisation project on the untranslated late writings of queer and multilingual Surrealist couple Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, with Dr Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University), and a new project on “Translingual Pedagogies” with Dr Jaya Jacobo (Coventry University). Publications: Joyce, Multilingualism, and the Ethics of Reading (Palgrave 2020) “Gender and Feminism” in Contemporary Literature and the Body (Bloomsbury 2023, ed. Alice Hall”) “Babababblin’ Drolleries and Multilingual Phonologies: Developing a Multilingual Ethics of Embodiment through Finnegans Wake ” (European Joyce Studies 2016).

Angela Harris Sánchez University of Granada Researcher Angela Harris Sánchez holds a BA in Art history (Granada University), an MPhil in Art Therapy (Complutense University), the GEMMA double Erasmus Mundus Master and a double International PhD in Women's Studies, Discourses and Gender Practices (UGR) and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (University of Bologna). She has been a National Research Fellow (FPU) and is now UGR-Postdoc and lecturer in the Archaeology Department. Publications: Queering Power: Affective Relational Anarchies, F(r)ictions and Disidentifications beyond Identity, Universidad de Almería, (2024). “Artherapy, Queer Failure and Horizontal Learning Experience in Students’ Postmemory Family Narratives” in Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action . Gender Response-able Labs. London and New York: Routledge (2024)

Evangeline Petra Scarpulla University of Bologna Doctoral Candidate Interested in speculative and imaginative genre criticism, contemporary feminist literary theory, and decolonizing the canon, Evangeline Scarpulla holds a BA in Comparative Literature with Honours from King’s College London and an MSc in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh. During her MSc she explored how contemporary fantasy writers are reimagining the conventions of the genre through her dissertation entitled ‘Folklore in Fantasy: Challenging the Western Conventions of the Genre through a Critical Comparison of Marlon James’s Black Leopard Red Wolf and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.’ Building off her previous explorations into broadening representation in imaginative genres and global literature, Evangeline’s PhD thesis will discuss how transnational feminist authors in Europe communicate narratives of resistance through ‘minor’ literary genres, including fantastic and speculative fiction, magical realism, and graphic novels. Investigating the close relationship between form and content, the thesis will discuss how many migrant female authors reach to border-defying and experimentative genres because their characteristics mirror their own liminal social positioning and hybrid identities. By challenging prevailing notions of fixed genres and truth vs. fantasy, these narratives overturn traditional binaries and ideas of nationalism, creating a unique transnational community of writers, readers, and thinkers. The research will be conducted in conversation with postcolonial and contemporary genre critics such as Homi K. Bhaba, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Nnedi Okorafor and Helen Young, contributing to efforts to expand the subjectivities represented in our ‘collective imagination.’ (Thomas, 2019). Contributions: Scarpulla, Evangeline. 2024. “Writing (a) Home in Times of Crisis: A Review of Scattered All Over the Earth (2018) by Yoko Tawada”. Satura 6 (December). Review: Haratischvili, Nino. The Eighth Life: (for Brilka). Translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin. (London: Scribe Publications, 2019). Making Waves... of Words.

Ninutsa Nadirashvili Coventry University Doctoral Candidates Ninutsa Nadirashvili is a Georgian-American gender studies scholar, editor, and translator. She earned her bachelor’s degree in International Studies at Boston College and completed a dual master’s program in Gender Studies at the Universities of Utrecht and York. Since 2020, Ninutsa has been actively involved in NGO initiatives based in Georgia, collaborating with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Women’s Fund in Georgia, and the Equality Movement. In 2019, she spent a year working as an English teaching assistant through a program facilitated by Fulbright Austria. In 2022, she completed a Fulbright research fellowship in Tbilisi, focusing on an intersectional analysis of Georgian literature and language textbooks. As a doctoral student joining the Centre for Global Learning at Coventry University in the U.K., Ninutsa explores how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women’s and Gender Studies programs across Europe. Her research involves interdisciplinary feminist methods and methodologies, including curricula case studies, textual analysis of syllabi, interviews, and participant observation. Cnontributions: Review: Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return . (London:Vintage, 2008). Nadirashvili, Ninutsa, and Katherine Wimpenny. 2025. "Maps and Fabulations: On Transnationalism, Transformative Pedagogies, and Knowledge Production in Higher Education" Social Sciences 14, no. 8: 453. Our Time in Utrecht: Transnational reflections. An Act of Life: Georgian Women’s Film and Being Human in Relation. 2025. Institute of Network Cultures.

Emilia M. Durán-Almarza University of Oviedo 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. 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. Publications: Durán-Almarza, E.M., Kabir, A.J., & Rodríguez González, C. (Eds.). (2019). Debating the Afropolitan (1st ed.). Routledge. Durán-Almarza, E.M., Rodríguez González, C., & Clisby, S. (Eds.). (2022). Performing Cultures of Equality (1st ed.). Routledge.

Francesco Cattani University of Bologna 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. Publications: Cattani, F. (2024). "Transfigurazioni mostruose. Tra rabbia, disforia ed euforia". DIVE-IN , 4(1). Cattani, F. (2020). L'utopia ambigua dell'Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock tra mito e futuro possibile. Canterano (RM): Aracne editrice.

Sandra Ponzanesi Utrecht University Principal Investigator Sandra Ponzanesi is Chair and full Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands, where she is also the Founding Director of the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI ). She has published widely in the field of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration and cinema, with a particular focus on Postcolonial Europe from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. She is currently project leader of the project ‘Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine : Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament ’ funded by NWO (Dutch Research Council) and Utrecht University PI with Birgit Kaiser in the MSCA EUTERPE project on ‘European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective’, responsible for (WP 5, WP6): Transnational women intellectuals, multilingualism and decolonising European pedagogies. Publications: Leurs, K., & Ponzanesi, S. (Eds.) (2024). Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday . (Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies). Amsterdam University Press. De Medeiros, P., & Ponzanesi, S. (Eds.) (2024). Postcolonial Theory and Crisis . (culture & conflict; Vol. 25). De Gruyter.

Laura Bak Cely University of Oviedo Doctoral Candidate Laura Bak is a Gender and Diversity Ph.D. student at the Universidad de Oviedo. She holds a B.A. in Literary Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with a minor in Philosophy, and an M.A in Literature from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her work has focused on the problems and representations of space in exiled Latin American Jewish women’s autobiographical writing, emphasizing in the search and creation of places that have disappeared in the current geopolitical maps. Her research continues to explore the subject of ‘autocartography’ within life-writings by migrant women through the lens of counter-mapping, spatial justice, and geocriticism. The subject of imagination and representation of lost places in life-writings has been at the centre of Laura's research trajectory. In this research phase, she plans to study how migrant women in Europe produce life-writings in an exercise of creating alternative representations of the spaces they inhabit and transit. She intends to designate this type of writing as counter-autocartographies as they challenge dominant cartographic representations and weave counter-maps that represent the perspective and understanding of the spaces dwelt by migrant women.

Gilberta Golinelli University of Bologna 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). Publications: “Educational space(s) and female communities in Margaret Cavendish’s The Female Academy and Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Part 1”, «PROSPERO» , 2024, 29. “Of Cimbalin king of England”: The controversial representation of the British past in Cymbeline”. TEXTUS , XXXVII(2), 2024. Gender Models Alternative Communities and Women's Utopianism . Bologna, Italy: Bononia University Press, 2018.

Kris Országhová Central European University Project Administrator Kris Orszaghova (they/them) holds a Master’s in Artistic Research from Hogeschool Voor de Kunsten Utrecht and a PhD in Sociology from Charles University in Prague. Kris Orszaghova (they/them) holds a Master’s in Artistic Research from Hogeschool Voor de Kunsten Utrecht and a PhD in Sociology from Charles University in Prague. As an artist-athlete-scholar, they explore the intersections of art and social inquiry. Their research focuses on bodies moving and shifting, meandering and at times floating between the urban centres and peripheries, borders both real and imaginary, between hopes and disillusionments, despair and commitment, discipline and disobedience. Currently, Kris is a visiting faculty and coordinator at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University and a junior coordinator for EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective, a Marie Curie Doctoral Network. In addition to their research, Kris has participated in various exhibitions, including "To Seminar" at bak (basis voor actuale kunst) "Poetry & Performance: The Eastern European Perspective" at Nová synagóga in Žilina, or "Possibility of Preserving" at Kunsthalle Bratislava. Publications: "Turn the Volume Up! Boxing Hearts and Beats", featured in Boxing, Narrative and Culture (Routledge, 2023) "The Gender of Bruising: A Critical Literature Review on Gender in Boxing," published in Sociology Compass (2023).