GIUV2026-010

The research group's main objective is to study contemporary English literature from a feminist critical perspective. Although the gender perspective has recently been incorporated across the board into research, recent changes in the policies of some developed countries have highlighted the importance of continuing to emphasise the feminist struggle in literature as an echo and mirror of social activism. Employing theories that include affect, care, and ageism, among others, the different lines of research focus on exploring utopian and dystopian novels, neo-Gothic literature, and narratives about genocide from a gender perspective. We study novels and their adaptations in English from World War II to the present day, including not only canonical fiction but also that of minority or marginalised cultures.

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• Estudio de la literatura utópica y distópica contemporánea en inglés mediante una perspectiva feminista, con particular interés en la literatura juvenil y/o protagonizada por personajes adolescentes.
• Examinar los roles de género y las vulnerabilidades biológicas y sociales de las mujeres en distintos contextos de genocidio y episodios de violencia extrema, con el fin de visibilizar realidades históricamente infrarrepresentadas y excluidas del canon dominante.
• Analizar la representación de enfermedades físicas y mentales que afectan principalmente a mujeres. Con nuestro análisis queremos demostrar que estas narrativas funcionan como herramienta de denuncia social, empoderamiento personal y acompañamiento emocional al paciente.

• Medical Humanities.This line of research analyzes the representation of physical and mental illnesses that primarily affect women. Through our analysis, we aim to demonstrate that these narratives function as a tool for social criticism, personal empowerment, and emotional support for patients. The analysis will be structured around three main clusters: sexual, mental, and physical, exploring both the mechanisms of representation of pain and vulnerability and the symbolic strategies of resistance and identity transformation. Ultimately, we seek to highlight the patriarchal biases of the healthcare system and demonstrate the therapeutic, social, and cultural potential of literature in understanding the female body and illness.
• Contemporary utopian and dystopian fiction.This line aims to apply feminist criticism to contemporary novels in English in the utopian and dystopian tradition, with a particular focus on novels written for adolescents/young adults or with this age group as main protagonists. In the same vein, we aim to understand how ageism can be fought using this subgenre by identifying intergenerational relationships that are combative and have revolutionary potential.
• Genocide studies.This research line addresses the study of genocide from a feminist and intersectional perspective. It foregrounds women's gendered experiences through a transversal approach and examines gender roles and the biological and social vulnerabilities of women across diverse genocidal contexts and episodes of mass violence, with the aim of bringing historically underrepresented realities into critical focus.

• Higher education

• English and German

• REPRESENTACIÓN
• VULNERABILITY
• UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION
• MEDICAL HUMANITIES
• MENTAL ILLNESSES
• GENDER STUDIES
• DISCRIMINATION
• AGEISM
• GENOCIDE
• PERPETRATOR
• POSTMEMORY
• MASS VIOLENCE