From 1 to 4 September 2026, I took part in the 36th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), “1776–2026: Visions of Freedom,” held at the University of Bologna. Together with David Owen and Nicholas Spengler, I presented the roundtable “Minor Revolutions: Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Unmaking of American Freedom,” which…
I am happy to share the publication of my article, “From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict through Contemporary Literature and Culture – A Reflective Essay and Response”, in the special issue Teaching the First World War for the Twenty-First Century: Pedagogies in Dialogue, guest edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan R….
Christina Howes and I presented our paper “In the Shadow of War: Classed Postmemory and Affective Domesticity in Beverly Gologorsky” at the Place of Memory and Memory of Place Conference, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on 20-21 June 2026. Our paper examined Beverly Gologorsky’s fiction through the concept of ‘classed postmemory.’ We argued that…
SAVE THE DATE 📖 Palestine: Culture, Identity, and Heritage 📅 8 May 2026, 13:00 📍 Sala Goytisolo, Tercera Planta, Biblioteca d’Humanitats, UAB On Friday, 8 May 2026, the Beyond Postmemory project will host a talk at the Humanities Library, as part of the exhibition “Palestine, Culture, Identity, and Heritage.” The talk will look closely at…
My review of Alexandra Zapruder’s Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (2002) has just been published in the Journal of Juvenilia Studies 7.2 (2026), pp. 157-161. In it, I look at how Zapruder curated fourteen diaries written by young Jewish authors across Nazi-occupied Europe, and what that curation contributes to Holocaust memory. The…
The Beyond Postmemory project, in collaboration with Casa Palestina de Aragón, and under the curatorship of Dr Enas Hamidi, has set up an exhibition in the UAB Humanities Library, open to visitors throughout April 2026. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through several Palestinian cities, exploring the diversity of Palestinian heritage, landscapes, traditions, and…
I am very pleased to share that on 28 November I had the pleasure of serving on the examination board for the doctoral defence of Enas Talib Farid Hamidi, who successfully defended her thesis, “Breaking Down Barriers: Addressing Cultural Factors in Language Learning for Syrian Women Refugees in the UK,” in the Doctoral Programme in…
⚖️Jornada Cooperació per la Justícia Gobal, Fundació Autònoma Solidària 🗓️24 November 2025, 9-14h 📍Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres I was glad to take part in the Jornada de Cooperació Universitària per la Justícia Global by presenting the activites carried out within Words Beyond War, a FAS-funded project that set out to connect…
I am pleased to share that I have contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue Giorni di Guerra – Days of War, produced for the project Days of War – The Photographer’s Shadow, which marks the 110th anniversary of Italy’s entry into the First World War. The event brings together historical and contemporary visual work…
At the 48th AEDEAN Conference in Vitoria-Gasteiz (12–14 November), I took part in several activities connected to our Beyond Postmemory Project. I chaired a roundtable with our PhD students Elvira Aguilera and Cristina Franco, Dr Sara Martín, Dr Nick Spengler and Dr David Owen, where we discussed the intersections of war, trauma and ecology through…
SAVE THE DATE 🌿Nature Remembers: War, Trauma and Environmental Postmemory 🗓️ Friday, 24th October 2025 📍Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona We are pleased to announce that the Beyond Postmemory Research Group (POSTLIT) is hosting a research seminar on environmental postmemory in contemporary Anglophone literature, titled ‘Nature Remembers: War…
On 12 June 2025, we hosted “Singing Survival: Memory, Theatre and the Afterlives of Violence” as part of the Words Beyond War initiative at the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres (UAB). The event, framed within the Projectes d’Educació per a la Justícia Global (EpJG), and funded by FAS, invited colleagues from the Universitat de Lleida…
At the 2025 Memory Studies Association conference, held at Nottingham Trent University under the theme “Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization,” Dr. Andrea Bellot and I presented our paper “Ruined Bodies and Landscapes: Theatre, Postmemory, and the Entangled Legacies of Rape and Ecocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” In this joint work, we examine Lynn Nottage’s…
On Friday 25 April March, we had the pleasure of holding a Role-Play Workshop organised as part of the “Words Beyond War” initiative. The event was a collaborative initiative between FAS (Fundació Autònoma Solidària), the KUDWA association, the Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC), and the Beyond Postmemory Project (POSTLIT). Through embodied storytelling, BA and MA students and…
On Friday 28 March, the Sala Polivalent at the Àgora building filled with voices, stories and reflections during the Storytelling Session organised as part of the “Words Beyond War” initiative. The event was a collaborative event between FAS (Fundació Autònoma Solidària), the KUDWA association, the Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC), and the Beyond Postmemory Project (POSTLIT). Led by members of KUDWA, the…
“Narratives Across Borders: Contemporary Perspectives in Literature and Culture” 📅 27th February 2025 | 📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, UAB On February 27, we had the pleasure of hosting the 3rd SGR Seminar Barcelona-Lleida, bringing together researchers from G4RoC (Group for the Representation of Conflict, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and CELCA…
I am pleased to share that my article, “Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered: WWI Trauma, Memory and Contemporary Anti-War Poetry in the Post-Everything Era’”, has been published in Tiempo devorado (vol. 10, no. 1, 2025). The piece appears in the special issue “Cultures de desmobilització. La construcció dels excombatents i el seu impacte al món actual”,…
PROYECTOS DE GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO Y ACTUACIONES PARA LA FORMACIÓN DE PERSONAL INVESTIGADOR PREDOCTORAL ASOCIADAS A DICHOS PROYECTOS, CONVOCATORIA 2023 Literature’s ability to retell historical events and explore conflicting memories makes it a powerful tool for remembering—and sometimes forgetting—the impacts of war. Our project entitled “Beyond Postmemory: English Literary Perspectives on War and Memory in…
Projectes de Cooperació Universitària per a la Justícia GlobalXLI Convocatòria del Fons de Solidaritat de la UAB The goal to broaden the scope of our research and focus on the ethical issues involved in the literary and cultural representation of conflict and positively influence both UAB students and society in general has been realized through…
I am happy to announce the release of our latest edited volume, (Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory, now available through Routledge. This book represents the culmination of extensive research and collaboration with a group of international experts. In this volume, we build upon and extend Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory, exploring…
Our SGR Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC) recently participated in a seminar organized by our colleagues at CELCA (Centre de Literatures i Cultures en Anglès, Universitat de Lleida). The event covered a wide range of topics, including literary gerontology, various aspects of conflict, and the challenges posed by anthropocentric and terracentric readings in…
2nd SGR Seminar Lleida-Barcelona The 2nd SGR Seminar on Contemporary Literatures in English will be held on May 16, 2024, at the Universitat de Lleida, in the Sala Juntes room of the Rectorat building. This research seminar, coordinated by CELCA (Centre de Literatures i Cultures en Anglès, Universitat de Lleida) and G4RoC (Group for the…
Exhibition of G4RoC Publications (Sala de Revistes, Biblioteca d’Humanitats) Start: 11 March. You are all invited to visit the exhibition on conflict and war organised by the SGR Group for the Representation of Conflict (G4RoC). This group brings together researchers from the Departments of English and German Studies and is dedicated to exploring the complexity…
2023. On December 8th, I presented my latest work at the 8th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference, that took place in Gdańsk, Poland. I had the chance to engage with fellow scholars and attendees in a dialogue about how lsabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980) recreated an Edwardian period which was informed by…
2023. On June 21, I had the privilege to attend and present at the “Diasporic Heritage and Identity” conference held at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (University of Amsterdam). My paper, entitled “’Make America Great Again’: (De)Colonising Masculinities in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (2017),” explores the representation of displaced masculinities…
2022 Pividori, Cristina, and Andrea Bellot. “Crossing Representational Borders in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado” Text and Performance Quarterly. 42.3: 1-26. This paper analyses how borders are negotiated in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado (2016). Arias’ representation of the war experiences and traumatic memories of six veterans, three from each side of the Malvinas/Falklands war, suggests an effort to reframe…
