American Literature

NETEC research was represented at the 48 AEDEAN Conference, held at University of País Vasco from 12 to 14 November.

Araceli González Crespán presented the paper "From La Viuda to Letters from Cuba. Ends and Beginnings in Maria Irene Fornes's Theater through Family Correspondence" at  the 6th International Conference on American Drama and Theater: Game Over! US Drama and Theater and the End(s) of an American Idea(l) , Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, 1-3 junio 2022. See conference webpage here. 

Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the 34th European Association for American Studies  (EAAS) , held at UNED campus in Madrid.

As part of a two-panel session centred on Toxic Tales, organized by the research project  Literature and Globalization 2: Communities of Waste,  Martín presented the paper “'Welcome to America 2.0'':  dystopian modes of waste in Gary Shteyngart’s  Super Sad True Love Story"

M. Teresa Caneda Cabrera and Martín Urdiales-Shaw presented papers, and chaired panels, at the Relational Forms VI Conference, hosted by the research group CETAPS and the University of Porto. The first in-person conference in two years!

• Teresa Caneda: 'Who are the Irish? ' Portraits of the Nation as a Site of Vulnerability and Resistance in Contemporary Writing.  (Panel 10:  Ireland and Narratives of (Dis)Harmony)
• Martín Urdiales: From Absurdistan (2006) to Super Sad True Love Story (2010): Gary Shteyngart's (semi)Fictional Worlds and the Death of the Nation.  (Panel 8: Political Violence and Ideologies of Nation)

Martín Urdiales Shaw presented the paper  "Wasted Lives and Wasted Living in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story"  in Panel 7. "Good Fear, Bad Fear: Apocalyptic Plagues, Cautionary Tales and Risk Criticism" (session 1, Friday) . Panel Chair: Begoña Simal (U da Coruña) . See full programme here. 

NETEC members Araceli González Crespán and Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the14th SAAS Conference (Spanish Association for American Studies) on "The Image and the Word", held at the University of Salamanca, from 9 to 11 April 2019.

NETEC members Araceli González Crespán and Martín Urdiales Shaw participated in the 13th SAAS Conference (Spanish Association for American Studies) organized by the University of Extremadura.