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Javier Torres

@jtorferna.bsky.social

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

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✍️📢Writing an abstract: the difficulties of a simple task
Join us for this online workshop with Dr. Miriam Fernández Santiago on how to write a strong, effective abstract for your TFG, TFM, thesis, or article.
🗓️ February 11 at 18:00–19:30
🖇️ Free registration: shorturl.at/9hvXa%F0%9F%...

22.01.2026 09:35 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Last week, several of project members, Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco participated in the 48th AEDEAN conference at EHU in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Check this 🧵 to find out‼️

@aedeaninfo.bsky.social #AEDEAN48

21.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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📢 ¿Vas a defender un TFG, TFM o tesis doctoral y no sabes por dónde empezar? Te invitamos a nuestro taller online donde compartiremos dudas y orientaciones sobre el proceso de defensa.📚
🗓 11 dic 2025 - 19:00–20:00
💻 Online y gratuito.
🔗 Inscripciones: acesse.one/eaapF
¡Os esperamos!😍

18.11.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

😍📢Friendly reminder that the #CFP for the SAAS Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar is open until December 15. Whether your PhD project is already advanced or still taking shape, we'd love to welcome your proposal and create a supportive space for early-career researchers.📖
🖇️More info: shorturl.at/TgfZO

18.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📢😍We're excited to share the #CFP for the 2026 Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar - a welcoming space for PhD candidates to share their work among peers!
📅March 12-13, 2026
📩Please send your proposals by December 15➡️ saasyoungscholars@gmail.com
💻+ info: shorturl.at/TgfZO
Share widely and stay tuned!!

29.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 5
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📢😍 Si estás cursando un doctorado o pensado en hacerlo, nos hace ilusión invitarte a una sesión informativa sobre distintas modalidades de financiación: convocatorias FPU, FPI, autonómicas, Fulbright, etc. ¡Te esperamos!
📅5 diciembre - 17:00h
🔗Inscripción grauita : shorturl.at/aEXwZ

30.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Dear AEDEI members,
We are delighted to announce the CFP for the upcoming AEDEI conference, which will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the association and will take place at the University of the Basque Country in May 2026. We look forward to seeing you in Vitoria-Gasteiz! 🍀

22.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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

05.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 🥳 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...

05.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 3    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

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

15.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

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

05.08.2025 20:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We continue the presentations with our associate team!

🧵Check this thread out!

29.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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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!

29.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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,...

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-...

23.07.2025 11:33 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
https://www.peterlang.com/winners-of-2025-emerging-scholars-competition/

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...

21.07.2025 19:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 🪩

19.07.2025 22:49 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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...

18.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Today we bring you all the info about our project core team!

🧵Check this out!

18.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Introduction of our project.

Introduction of our project.

Main ideas the research team is working on.

Main ideas the research team is working on.

Our social media.

Our social media.

📣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!

16.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

12.06.2025 17:39 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

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”.

23.05.2025 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Enhorabuena, Dr. Buesa! 👏🏼🥳🎉

14.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“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

03.03.2025 16:01 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks a lot, Maria! ☺️

28.02.2025 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 🍻

27.02.2025 18:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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 ...

📝 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...

03.02.2025 08:50 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
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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

24.01.2025 13:37 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

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