Books
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Stacy Rusnak (eds): Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2020).
This volume examines contemporary reformulations of the ‘Final Girl’ in film, TV, literature and comic, expanding the discussion of the trope beyond the slasher subgenre. Focusing specifically on popular texts that emerged in the 21st century, the volume asks: What is the sociocultural context that facilitated the remarkable proliferation of the Final Girls? What kinds of stories are told in these narratives and can they help us make sense of feminism? What are the roles of literature and media in the reconsiderations of Carol J. Clover’s term of thirty years ago and how does this term continue to inform our understanding of popular culture? The contributors to this collection take up these concerns from diverse perspectives and with different answers, notably spanning theories of genre, posthumanism, gender, sexuality and race, as well as audience reception and spectatorship.
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz: Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers examines the significance of women’s contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood – Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly Reichardt, among others. Exploring genres as diverse as horror, the war movie, the Western, the costume biopic and the romantic comedy, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz interrogates questions of ‘genre’ authorship; the blurring of the borders between commercial and independent cinema and gendered discourses of (de)authorisation that operate within each sphere; ‘male’–‘female’ genre divisions; and the issue of authorial subversion in film and popular culture in a wider sense. With its focus on close analysis of the films themselves and the cultural and ideological meanings involved in the reception of genre texts authored by women, this book expands critical debates around women’s cinema and offers new perspectives on how contemporary filmmakers explore the aesthetic and imaginative power of genre.
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma and Janet M. Wilson (eds): Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace. (Routledge, 2023)
This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.Combining postcolonial and world literature methodologies contributors chart the global relocation of national culture from the nineteenth century to the present exploring what “New Zealand literature” means in different creative, teaching, and publishing contexts. They identify ongoing global entanglements with local identities and tensions between national and post-national literary discourses, considering Aotearoa New Zealand’s history as a white settler colony and its status as a bicultural nation and a key player in the Asia-Pacific region, active on the global stage.
Rosende-Pérez, Aida and Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez (eds): The Cultural Politics of In/Difference. Irish Texts and Contexts (Peter Lang, 2022)
From the perspective of Irish Studies, this book seeks to interrogate the discourses and processes that produce and reproduce «Ireland’s cultural politics of in/difference», and its effects both in the material experience of Othered subjects and in their representation in cultural and literary forms. At the same time, it also examines strategies of dissent or resistance and possible alternatives that are being articulated both in the socio-political and the cultural arena, contributing to our communal thinking and imaginative creation of more effective forms of building community based on solid equity and social justice grounds.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina 2021: “Inf(l)ecting mind/body dialectics: Self-emancipation through insubordiNation in Chika Unigwe’s Night Dancer“, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 56.1, 104-118.
Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina 2019: “Hair Politics in the Blogosphere: Safe Spaces and the Politics of Self-representation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah”. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55.1: 66-79.
Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. 2017. “Hairitage’ Matters: Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movements in ’Hair’, ’Imitation’ & Americanah.” In A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Ed. Ernest N. Emenyonu), 245-261. London: James Currey (Boydell & Brewer).
Cruz-Gutiérrez, Cristina. 2016. “(Re)Imagining and (Re)Visiting Homelands in Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa.” Atlantis. Journal Of The Spanish Association Of Anglo-American Studies. 38: 141 – 160.
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. 2023.“Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance”, Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 25.1: 100-117.
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. 2021. “Oceanic Identities: Trans/national Formations in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Region”, in Indigeneity and Nation. Eds. G. N. Devy and G.Davis. Abindon and New York: Routledge: 24-44.
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. 2021. “Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand”, in I. Pérez & C. Pérez eds, Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Bern: Peter Lang, 177-202.
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. 2017: “Fighting Gastrocolonialism in Indigenous Pacific Writing”, Special Issue: Pacific Critiques of Globalisation. Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 19.7: 1041-1055.
Iglesias Díaz, Guillermo 2017: “Alternative Modernities and Othered Masculinities in Mira Nair’s The Namesake”, Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures. Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities. Palgrave Mcmillan.
Iglesias Díaz, Guillermo 2013:“Slumdog Millionaire: (Hyper)modern Tales of India’s Glocalized Economy”, Screening and Depicting Cultural Diversity in the English-speaking World and Beyond. Peter Lang.
Iglesias Díaz, Guillermo 2013: “Contemporary Re-constructions of Family Life in Irish Films”, Precarious Parenthood: Doing Family In Literature and Film. LIT Verlag.
Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna. 2020: “Touch as Proximate Distance: Post-Phenomenological Ethics in the Cinema of Isabel Coixet”, Film Philosophy, 24.1.
Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna. 2019: “It All Stays in the Family. The Revival of Domestic Noir in the 21st Century Crime Fiction”. In Family Relationships in Contemporary Crime Fiction, edited by Bill Phillips, 22-47. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna. 2018: Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Pomar-Amer, Miquel. 2012. “Kaukab in Maps for Lost Lovers, by Nadeem Aslam: Representing and Subverting the Unspeakability of the Subaltern”, ES. Revista de filología inglesa 33, 253-270.
Pomar-Amer, Miquel. 2012. “Noah’s Ark and Julian Barnes’ Worm-Eaten Version. From the Flood to the Holocaust in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters”, in Myth and Subversion in the Contemporary Novel, Losada Goya, José Manuel and Marta Guirao Ochoa (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 317-326.
Rosende-Pérez, Aida. 2017.“(Un)Veiling Women’s Bodies: Transnational Feminisms in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero”. In Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures: Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities, edited by Belén Martín-Lucas and Andrea Ruthven, 223 – 244. London: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-62133-3_12
Rosende-Pérez, Aida. 2017.“Of Monstrous Mothers and Mutant Others: Bodies Out of Place in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero”. In National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature: Unbecoming Irishness, edited by Luz Mar González Arias, 147 – 162. London: Palgrave MacMillam. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-47630-2_10
Rosende-Pérez, Aida. 2016.“Ef/Facing Critical Times: Dialectics of Forgetting and Remembering in Emer Martin’s Baby Zero”. In Words of Crisis/Crisis of Words. Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times, edited by María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Auxiliadora Pérez Vides, and Jorge Casanova, 207-219. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid 2018: “The Art of Tasting Corpses: The Conceptual Metaphor of Consumption in Hannibal”, Continuum-Journal Of Media & Cultural Studies 32. 5: 611-628.
Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid 2018: “Conflating Class, Culture and Ethnicity: Casual and Culinary Forms of Racism in Alice Pung’s Laurinda”, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 7. 2: 255-272.
Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid 2018: “A Taste of Elsewhere’: Consuming the Exotic in Simone Lazaroo’s Sustenance”, Journal of Postcolonial writing 54. 4: 469-483.
Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid 2018: “At the Intersection of Thinness and Overconsumption: The Ambivalence of Munching, Crunching, and Slurping on Camera“, Feminist Media Studies 18.4: 782-785.
Villalba-Lázaro, Marta: “Outlawing the Myth: Legouvé’s Medea in Victorian England from the Lens of Feminist Literary Jurisprudence”, Law & Literature, 32, no. 1, 2020: 107– 133.
Villalba-Lázaro, Marta: “Radicalizing the Myth: Amy Levy’s Medea, the (Un)Assimilated Jewish Victorian Woman”. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary E-Journal, 15, no 2, 2020.
Villalba Lázaro, Marta. 2016 “Las curas de reposo y la opresión patriarcal en “The Yellow Wallpaper” y Mrs Dalloway” RAUDEM Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres Vol. 4 274-289.