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Javier Torres

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PhD Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Almería (UAL) 🏜️ | Teaching Associate 📚 Researching Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Irish Literature 🍀, American Literature🗽, Metaphors, Popular Culture and HIV/AIDS 🎭🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://linktr.ee/jtorferna

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's the official program for the event. Check it out and do not forget to register in advance. We will discuss key terms and ideas that are at the core of our research. The event is open to anyone interested in these topics.

#EnglishStudies #QueerStudies #TransStudies #OnlineSeminar #Academia

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 🥳 We’re back from the holidays to bring you all the info about our first online seminar.
📚 If you’re interested in queer and trans* studies, you cannot miss out on this one!
📅 We hope to see you all on September 29 at 4.30 pm (CET).

🔗 Registration is free but required: forms.gle/ccb8SbZbn7QA...

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · Aug 15

In the latest issue of the IUR, J. Javier Torres-Fernández explores the contemporary landscape of Irish queer theatre and performance, focusing particularly on the landmark theatre company THISISPOPBABY, who have won awards for their
productions RIOT (2016), Wake (2022), more

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iria @academiria.bsky.social · Aug 5

deadline happening soon! don’t forget to send us your articles, creative writing pieces and book/film reviews 👇🏻📚💻

Communitas / Immunitas @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social · Jun 9

‼️Project members Sara Tabuyo Santaclara and Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez will be editing a special issue for JACLR (@jaclrinfo.bsky.social) This special issue will explore intersectional girlhood(s) in contemporary Anglophone cultural manifestations

🔗 Link to the full CFP: drive.google.com/file/d/1OnZX...

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · Jul 29

We continue the presentations with our associate team!

🧵Check this thread out!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · Jul 29

J. Javier Torres-Fernández (@jtorferna.bsky.social @ualmeria.bsky.social) holds a PhD in #Humanities and #SocialSciences by the University of Almería. His research interests include #QueerStudies and #ContemporaryIrishLiterature.

⬇️His bio is below!

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AEDEI @aedei.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dear colleagues,
We remind you of the CfP for issue n°21 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, to be published in March 2026. Submissions should be sent no later than 1 October 2025. Check the website for more info and instructions www.estudiosirlandeses.org/submissions-...

Submissions | New Issue

Call For Contributions Estudios Irlandeses invites authors to submit contributions —in either English or Spanish— that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history,...

www.estudiosirlandeses.org

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Javier Torres @jtorferna.bsky.social · Jul 21

Delighted to share I have been selected as Winner in English of the 2025 #PeterLangPublishing Emerging Scholars Competition in #QueerStudies!
Honoured that I will be part of the #ReimaginingIreland series. Congrats to fellow winners and honourable mentions! 🥳🎉
www.peterlang.com/winners-of-2...

https://www.peterlang.com/winners-of-2025-emerging-scholars-competition/

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Javier Torres @jtorferna.bsky.social · Jul 19

Tonight I’ve been to #RIOTtheSHOW at Vicar Street by @thisispopbaby.bsky.social with an amazing team and @pantibliss.bsky.social behind it. Created & directed by Jennifer Jennings and @phillymcmahon.bsky.social. It was a blast, a must! If there’re any tickets left for tomorrow, don’t think twice 🪩

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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · Jul 18

Looking forward to #IASIL2025 next week in Galway - what an amazing conference schedule!

universityofgalwayiasil.clr.events/page/2255-un...

#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Remember you must be a member to present at IASIL

www.iasil.org/joinrenew-me...

Join/Renew Membership – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Members are urged to renew their membership early in the calendar year to enable receipt of two print copies of our journal, Irish University Review – distribution arrangements with Edinburgh University Press rely on this.

www.iasil.org

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today we bring you all the info about our project core team!

🧵Check this out!

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Trans-formations Research Project @trans-use.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣Welcome to our “Trans-formations: Queer Practices of Use and Embodiment in post 9/11 Narratives in English” Research Project, led by María Isabel Romero-Ruiz (@univmalaga.bsky.social) and Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco (@unihuelva.bsky.social)!

🔗Find all our profiles in the bio. Follow us to stay tuned!

Main ideas the research team is working on.

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AEDEAN @aedeaninfo.bsky.social · Jun 12

Introducing Atlantis, the Journal of AEDEAN 📚✨ Our peer-reviewed, open-access journal covers diverse topics in English studies and is indexed in SCOPUS, JCR, AHCI, DOAJ, JSTOR, and more! www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/at...

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Irish University Review @irishunireview.bsky.social · May 23

Part of IASIL’s Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Roundtable, J. Javier Torres-Fernández, a Spanish ECR who studies representations of HIV/AIDS in Irish & American theatres, reflects on how his research (and other scholars’ work in Irish studies) can help “to voice the unvoiced”.

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Javier Torres @jtorferna.bsky.social · Mar 14

Enhorabuena, Dr. Buesa! 👏🏼🥳🎉

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Laura Alvarez Trigo @trigolaura.bsky.social · Mar 3

“Recovering Women’s Legacies” is on show! 💜 Drop by the 1st floor of the Faculty (Filosofía y Letras, UVa) to check out the posters elaborated by the “Women in English-Speaking Cultures” subject (English Studies) focused on various women who made key cultural & social contributions. #8M

Poster for the exhibit “Recovering women’s legacies”, “rescatando el legado de las mujeres”. Description both in English and Spanish of a poster exhibit at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Valladolid during March 2025.

Photo showing three posters from the “recovering women’s legacies” exhibit, haging at the center of the hallway.

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Javier Torres @jtorferna.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thanks a lot, Maria! ☺️

Javier Torres @jtorferna.bsky.social · Feb 27

Today has been the day 🥳🍀!! I cannot express how grateful, happy and blessed I feel after having successfully completed my PhD. Friends, family and colleagues, we have laughed and cried together celebrating a work that is as much mine as it is yours 🥰
Upwards and onwards 🍻

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Lucía Bennett-Ortega @luciabennett.bsky.social · Feb 3

📝 Thrilled to share my new article on Emilie Pine's Notes to Self, where I explore the reconfiguration of female bodily shame as a form of resistance.
📖 Read it here: raei.ua.es/article/view...

Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self

This article examines the representation of the female body in Emilie Pine’s (2018) personal essay ‘Notes on Bleeding & Other Crimes.’ Drawing on vulnerability studies and feminist criticism, I argue ...

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FJI-PRECARIAS @fjiprecarios.bsky.social · Jan 24

En el #DiaInternacionalEducacion os proponemos impulsar la igualdad de género desde las aulas de ciencias con una serie de propuestas desde la Comisión de igualdad de la FJI @fjiprecarios.bsky.social

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