First edition of Manderley: Laboratory of Ideas and Literary Practices
During the 2025/2026 academic year, we opened the doors of Manderley with a season dedicated to exploring the relationship between violence and literature. To this end, we held both reading seminars and research seminars. As our guest translators, we had the pleasure of hearing Carlos Mayor talk about his Spanish translation of Recitatif, by Toni Morrison, and Maia Figueroa discuss her version of Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi.
- As part of the research seminars, we hosted the following presentations:
- «Ghosts Have Names: Violence and Spectrality in Rebecca (Du Maurier/Hitchcock)», presented by Núria Molines.
- «Challenging patriarchal violence in neo-victorian young adult literature: the case of Neferet’s Curse (2013)», presented by Dina Pedro.
- «Becoming implicated readers: representing & enacting implication», presented by Anthony Nuckols.
- «I Know Why the Caged Bird [Sang] in Spanish: Introduction, Translation and Censorship of Maya Angelou», presented by Gora Zaragoza and Sara Llopis.
Organising and Scientific Committee:
- Anthony Nuckols (University of Valencia)
- Eivor Jordà (University of Valencia)
- Gora Zaragoza Ninet (University of Valencia)
- Iris Serrat (University of Valencia)
- Isabel Tello (University of Valencia)
- Núria Molines Galarza (University of Valencia)
- Robert Martínez Carrasco (Jaume I University)
- Sara Llopis Mestre (University of Valencia)
- Violeta Ros (University of Valencia)
Funding and Organisation
PIEE (3897884) Manderley: Laboratory of Ideas and Literary Practices has been funded by the Vice-Rectorate for Lifelong Learning, Teaching Transformation and Employment of the University of Valencia. Activity of the MAD research group (Alternative Frameworks of Discourse): literature, translation and thought.
