Conferences

2025 (June 5-7) Paper with Bellot, Andrea: “Ruined Bodies and Landscapes: Theatre, Postmemory, and the Entangled Legacies of Rape and Ecocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” Memory Studies Association Conference, 2025, Nottingham Trent University.

2025 (Feb 27) Round Table “Contemporary Representations of Conflict.” 3rd SGR Seminar Barcelona‑Lleida: Narratives Across Borders, Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, UAB. Chair of roundtable featuring Sara Martín, David Owen, Nicholas Spengler, and Bernd Springer.

2024 (May 16) Round Table : “Confluences and Futurities” Seminar “Contemporary Literatures in English in Conversation” 2nd SGR Seminar Lleida-BCN Sala de Juntes, Rectorat, Universitat de Lleida.

2023 (Dec 7-8) Paper “Thatcherism, Ironic-Nostalgia, and Englishness: Revisiting the Edwardian Age in Isabel Colegate’s Neo-Victorian Fiction” 8th “MEMORY, MELANCHOLY AND NOSTALGIA” International Interdisciplinary Conference (Gdansk).

2023 (Jun. 21-23) Paper “Make America Great Again”: (De)Colonising Masculinities in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017). Diasporic Heritage and Identity Conference (AHM, University of Amsterdam).

2021 (Nov. 24-26) Round Table (with Andrew Monnickendam, David Owen, Christina Howes and Andrea Bellot): “Generation 1.5: Blurring Memory’s Borders in Jurek Becker’s Jakob the Liar” “Border-Crossing Experiences in Contemporary War Literature” 44th Conference of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) University of Cantabria (online).

2021 (Nov. 24-26) Paper “Before the Outbreak of What Used to be Known as the Great War:’” ‘Ironic’ Nostalgia in Isabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980)” 44th Conference of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) University of Cantabria (online).

2021 (Sep. 8-9) Round Table (with Andrew Monnickendam and David Owen): “‘Before the Outbreak of What Used to be Known as the Great War:’” ‘Ironic’ Nostalgia in Isabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980)” Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature. Autonomous University of Barcelona (online).

2021 (Aug. 30-Sept 3) Paper: “Representing the Malvinas/Falklands War on Stage: Crossing Borders in Minefield/Campo Minado (Lola Arias, 2016)” ESSE 2021 (online).

2020 (Jan. 16-17) Paper: “Bitch or Slut? Gender, Violence and the Representation of the Female Soldier in Kayla Williams’ Love my Rifle More Than You.” Language and Violence: Literary Mediations in the Age of the Anthropocene (Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución, University of Vigo).

2019 (Jul. 9-10) Paper: “Generation 1.5: Blurring Memory’s Borders in Jurek Becker’s Jakob the Liar” “Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and Its Aftermath: Border Poetics and Politics: 1989 and the Fall of the Wall” WARM FESTIVAL (2-Day Symposium). Hotel Europe, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

2018 (Nov. 7-9) Paper: “Prefer not, eh?”: Re-Scribing the Lives of the Great War Poets in Contemporary British Historical Fiction. (AEDEAN, University of Cordoba).

2018 (Nov. 7-9) Chairing ( S. Martín, J. Coral, P. García, D. Owen): “The Spectre of Defeat” (AEDEAN, University of Córdoba).

2017 (Apr. 6-9) Paper: “‘Remembering Victory or Commemorating Defeat?’ Ivor Gurney’s Warring Memories” “The Fictional First World War: Imagination and Memory since 1914” (University of Aberdeen).

2016 (Nov. 9-11) Paper: “‘Remembering Victory or Commemorating Defeat?’ Ivor Gurney’s Warring Memories” (AEDEAN, Universidad de Zaragoza).

2015 (Nov. 11-13) Paper: “‘We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes’: Rewriting the Trope of the Great War Soldier on the Vietnam Front” (AEDEAN, University of Deusto).

2014 (Nov. 12-14) Paper: “Resisting the Hero’s Tale: The Trope of the Cowardly Soldier in the Literature of the Great War” (AEDEAN, University of Alcalá).

2014 (Oct. 21-24) Paper: “Tales of the happy battalion: Death and Birth of the Hero Myth in the literature of the Great War” “Myths in Crisis. The Crisis of Myth” (Complutense University of Madrid).

2014 (Sep. 11-12) Paper: “Ford Madox Ford’s Impressionistic Memories: The Crisis of the Witness in Parade’s End” “Memory: Forgetting and Creating” (University of Gdańsk).

2014 (Feb. 27-Mar 1) Paper: “Subverting Heroic Masculinity: The Coward’s Tale in the Literature of the Great War” “Resisting war in the 20th century” (Institute of Contemporary History, Lisbon, UNL-FCSH).

2013 (Nov. 13-15) Paper: “Of Heroes, Ghosts and Witnesses: The Construction of Heroic Masculinity in British World War Literature.” (AEDEAN, University of Oviedo).

2013 (Nov. 13-15) Round Table (with C. Howes and C. Oliver). Chair: A. Monnickendam: “The Arrival and Consolidation of the Witness in War Writing.” (AEDEAN, University of Oviedo).

2012 (Dec. 14) Paper: “From Guided Reading to Autonomy: Using Study Guides to Teach Narration and Focalisation in the English Literature Class” “Between the Lines: A One-Day Conference” (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

2011 (Nov. 16-18) Paper: “War Heroes and Pacifists on the Same Front: RE-reading
Heroism in Two Imperial War Memoirs” (AEDEAN, Autonomous University of Barcelona).

2010 (Jun. 28-30) Round table (with Joan Rué, M. Isabel Pividori and Jesús Armengol): “Moving towards quality: teaching strategies to promote student learning autonomy in higher education”. ICED 2010 Conference. Enhancing Strategies for global quality learning in Higher Education (Barcelona).

2010 (Jun. 23). Paper: “War Heroes and Pacifists on the Same Front: Re-reading Heroism in Two Imperial War Memoirs” Group for War and Culture Studies Seminar: “No More Heroes Anymore” (University of Westminster, London).

2010 (Jun. 11). Paper: “The Death and Birth of a Hero: The Search for Heroism in British World War One Literature” Post-Graduate Seminar on English Studies (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

2009 (Nov. 12-14) Round table (with Aránzazu Usandizaga, Jordi Coral and Alba Adell): “Back to Peace: Desire in the Aftermath of World War I and II” (AEDEAN, University of Cádiz).

2009 (Mar 26-28) Paper: “Out of the Dark Room: Photography and Memory in Rachel Seiffert’s Holocaust Tales.” “Between the Urge to Know and the Need to Deny:” Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary Narrative in English (University of Zaragoza).

2008 (Nov 13-15) Paper: “The Good Samaritan Soldier: Bonding with the Enemy in John Pearman’s The Radical Soldier’s Tale” (AEDEAN, University of the Balearic Islands).

2007 (Nov. 15-17). Paper: “Out of the Dark Room: Photography and Memory in Rachel Seiffert’s Holocaust Tale” (AEDEAN, University of A Coruña).

2007 (Sept. 13-20) Poster: “Literature Study Guides and Guided Notes: A Guide to Guided Reading.” IV Jornades de Campus d’Innovació Docent. (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

2007 (Mar. 26-30) Paper: “Heroic or Crippled? The Male Body in Two War Memoirs: Towards a Reconstruction of Masculinity and British National Identity”. I International Conference “Body and Textuality: Telling Bodies: Practices, Discourses, Looks” (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

2006 (Dec. 14-16) Paper: “Goodbye to Berlin: Different Angles on Isherwood’s Camera.” (AEDEAN, University of Huelva).

2005 (Sept 21-23). Paper: “The Cut and Paste Plagiarist Culture: Fair Use vs. Free Use. Where do we Draw the Line?” XI International Conference Culture and Power: “El Reciclaje de la Cultura” (Autonomous University of Barcelona).