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

Podcast Library Jasmina Lukić: Lecture on the Transnational Turn in Literary Studies In this lecture, Professor and Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project, Jasmina Lukić, discusses the transnational turn in literary studies, providing an overview of key related concepts, and proposing some initial thoughts on how transnational literary theory can be used to think about literature beyond national and linguistic boundaries. In the lecture she cites the work of key scholars who have contributed to the transnational turn, including Susan Stanford Friedman, Azade Seyhan, and Paul Jay. The lecture also emphasizes the importance of taking a feminist and interdisciplinary approach to transnational literary studies. Lastly, she links this discussion to the EUTERPE project’s research on European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective, namely the forthcoming two-volume Handbook on Transnational European Women’s Literature. A Conversation with Alicia Dujovne Ortiz In this episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, PhD candidate Laura Bak talks to the Argentine writer Alicia Dujovne Ortiz at her home in Paris, the city where she has lived since 1978, when she went into exile from the military dictatorship. As she describes herself, Dujovne Ortiz is an exile by birth, the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of migrants. Her most recent work, Andanzas. Trilogía autobiográfica (Buenos Aires: Equidistancias, 2022), brings together a reworking of El árbol de la gitana (1995) and Las perlas rojas (2005), alongside the publication of “Aguardiente” (2022), a previously unpublished text. 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. Bodies in poetry, territorial dysphoria, collective politics : A conversation with Aurora H. Camero In this podcast episode, DC Marina Casado invites the poet and collagist Aurora H. 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. Migrant Literature as Transnational Literature in Women's Fiction Recorded at the RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation" at the University of Vienna, this episode brings together historian and literary scholar Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna / RECET), EUTERPE doctoral researcher Tamara Cvetković, EUTERPE scientific coordinator Petra Bakos, and British-Hungarian crime writer Éva Cserháti for a conversation about what it means to write across borders. They move from personal stories of belonging and displacement to the structural questions: who gets into the literary canon and who gets translated into English. 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. 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. 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. 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. “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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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

Team York Boriana Alexandrova 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. She is the author of a monograph and peer-reviewed articles on modernist multilingualism, disability, and translation, including: Joyce, Multilingualism, and the Ethics of Reading (Palgrave 2020); “Gender and Feminism” in Contemporary Literature and the Body (Bloomsbury 2023, ed. Alice Hall”); and “Babababblin’ Drolleries and Multilingual Phonologies: Developing a Multilingual Ethics of Embodiment through Finnegans Wake ” (European Joyce Studies 2016), among others. 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). Nicoletta Asciuto Researcher Nicoletta Asciuto is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York. Her main research interests are in modernism, poetry, and translation. She has published several articles on modernist poetry and poetics, and her monograph Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry, 1909-1930 , is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2025. In her monograph, Nicoletta uncovers the gendered nature of cultures of light in the early twentieth century, and discusses the work of many modernist women poets and artists, such as Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Georgia O’Keeffe, Rosa Rosà, Růžena Zátková, Maria Ginanni, Natalia Goncharova, and others. One of her more recent collaborative works was a cluster for Modernism/modernity on the topic of ‘Modernist Periodical Studies and the Transnational Turn’, co-edited with Dr Francesca Bratton (Maynooth University) and Dr Camilla Sutherland (Groningen University). She was also the recipient of British Academy funding for two independent projects, ‘Radio Pioneers and Forgotten Voices, 1924-1939’, with Professor Emilie Morin (University of York), and ‘Cities of Modernism’, with Dr Nan Zhang (Hong Kong University). Nicoletta has also published several literary translations from Italian, Spanish, and Slovenian into English, including, more recently, those for Early Radio: An Anthology of European Texts and Translations , edited by Emilie Morin (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Nicoletta also acts as Contributing Editor for Translated Literature at the Fortnightly Review . She is currently at work on the first Italian-language translation of Hope Mirrlees’ Paris: A Poem (1920), a neglected masterpiece of modernist poetry. She is an enthusiast polyglot, with knowledge of ten languages. She has given various invited talks nationally and internationally, both on the topic of modernism and on translation. In EUTERPE, Nicoletta is Co-Investigator for York, on the strand ‘Translational genres: crossing borders in gender, form, space, and identity’. She is also a member of EUTERPE’s Supervisory and Editorial Boards.

Marina Casado Guerrero I hold a BA in English Studies at the U niversidad de Sevilla, an MA in English Literature and Linguistics at the Universidad de Granada and an Erasmus Mundus MA in Gender and Women’s Studies (GEMMA) at the Universidad de Granada and Utrecht University. Before joining EUTERPE, I have already participated in different international conferences in literary studies, such as the European Beat Studies Network conferences. I am part of the organizing committee of the upcoming 13th Feminist New Materialism’s conference that will be held in Granada in 2026. Research topic I am interested in different kinds of artistic forms, especially in poetry, bodily performances, and dancing, as well in their potential intersections, as working with and through the body is one of her major passions. At the moment, I am working on my PhD project that looks into contemporary poetry written by Latin-American and Eastern Europe migrants that are living in Europe, where she applies queerfeminist and decolonial theories/methodologies to approach issues of translation and mobility, looking into queerness as an word(l)dy entanglement that can mobilize poetical/political responses and underscore the relational approach that emerges from the somatic-discursive. I am the co-author of the chapter “Figures of Resistance: Revisiting Cinema and Poetry with Hospit(able)ness and Response-Ability" which can be found in the book “ Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs,” edited by Beatriz Revelles-Benavente and Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa, Routledge, 2024. In this book, I approach the poetry of female Beat Generation author Diane di Prima through a feminist new materialist approach, underscoring how di Prima’s subversive and countercultural literary production embodies different modes of diffractive relationality. Previous Next

Séamus O'Kane University of Granada Doctoral Candidate Séamus O’Kane is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Granada and his mobility period will take place at the University of Lodz. He holds an MA in Humanities from TU Dublin and he is also a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture (CLMC). As part of this programme, he completed an internship researching digital literature for children for the Bibliotheek LocHal, Tilburg, and wrote a thesis on transmedia narratives at Aarhus University. His current research - “Transnational literatures in the making: dialogues with film, social media, streaming platforms, performative arts and new literary genres” - continues his interests in digital literature, adaptations and transmedia narratives. He will analyse a range of media to investigate discourses of communications technology, new media and the mediated world, and how these interrelated phenomena impact upon interpersonal relationships, selfhood and agency in transnational women’s literature. Contributions: Review: Oyeyemi, Helen. White is for Witching. (Picador, 2009). Sánchez-Espinosa, Adelina, and Séamus O’Kane. "Interpreting “Translanguages” in Transnational Women’s Literature: Socially Situated Perspectives and Feminist Close-Readings." Social Sciences 14, no. 7 (2025): 414.

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

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. Have a listen to the conversation and check out Maxime Garcia Diaz’s works, the multilingual collection “Het is warm in de hivemind” (2021) and her latest book, “The network must be built/ Het netwerk moet gebouwd worden” (2025), which is available in both Dutch and English. 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 Séamus O’Kane . 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.

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. The episode transcript can be accessed here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:394e091c-b94f-4c65-a5d7-138da9a0e450 . 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: Uthara Geetha . 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.

Coventry University Katherine Wimpenny Principal Investigator Jaya Jacobo Researcher Suzanne Clisby Special Project Advisor and Supervisory Expert Advisor

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