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…
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…
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…
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…
