News, working papers, and miscellanea
Melbourne research stay
The third and last research stay of the year, the one that closed the circle opened in February in Mexico and followed in June in Tokyo, brought me to Melbourne at the invitation of Debjani Ganguly and Killian Quigley from the Institute of Humanities at ACU. I spent the month of October happily shifting between…
Summer activities 2025
This has been a very prolific and exciting summer, which started at the end of Spring and has been filled with different public activities: workshops, conferences, and symposia. As mentioned in the previous post, in May I joined Chiara Xausa and Marco Caracciolo for a workshop at Ghent University on ecofeminism, as part of the…
New Publication! Editor for the Special Issue Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism, in Theory Now
I am thrilled to announce that the special issue I have edited for Theory Now called “Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism: Understanding the Challenges of Imagining the Climate Crisis” is now available to read in full open access through their website! In this issue, you will find very exciting works from a diverse range…
Ecofeminist panel at Ghent University Spring 2025
Springtime 2025 in Ghent has been marked by a lot of emphasis on setting up the analytical framework of the project, testing the methodological setup of thematic comparative analysis through empirical stress-testing and some valuable help from my colleagues at the department, and preparing some texts on these initial outcomes, hopefully to be published once…
Research stay in Mexico Winter 2025
Going back to Mexico, at this point, is always a treat. Not only did I have the chance of seeing old friends and acquaintances, walking the lovely yet unevenly paved streets, and struggle against my role in the gentrification of the city, but also it was a wonderful and productive experience for my project. I…
Conference Paper: “Wielding and Caring for the Weather: Individual Agency and Reactionary Care in Makoto Shinkai’s Tenki no Ko”
I had a great time participating in the conference Reflections on Asian Eco-Culture: Audiovisual Portraits of Ecology Thought, held at the Carlos III University, in Madrid. Being a literary scholar, it was my first time collaborating so closely with colleagues from film studies, but the thematic connections (and textual interpretations of many of the analysis)…
CfP Theory Now: Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism: Understanding the Challenges of Imagining the Climate Crisis
I am editing a special issue on Cli-Fi for the journal Theory Now, to be published in summer 2025. Here are the details: Submissions until December 1, 2024. Please ensure that submissions are sent to the guest editor (jordi@serranomunoz.com) and uploaded simultaneously to the platform. In a time when the specter of environmental catastrophe is…
Participation in the Conference “The Global Novel: Material Objects and Forms”
It was my great pleasure to participate on April 25 in the international conference The Global Novel: Material Objects and Forms, the closing event for the ERC project The Global Novel, led by Neus Rotger, with my paper “Care, Nature, and Dystopia: Affective Ecocriticism of Tawada Yōko’s Kentōshi and Fernanda Trías’ Mugre Rosa”. It was a wonderful event…
Actividades de febrero 2024: catástrofes y distopías en México
Este febrero, aprovechando un viaje a México, he tenido el gusto de poder participar en dos actividades organizadas en la capital. Por un lado, el 15 de febrero fui invitado a participar en un coloquio sobre el pensamiento traumático en las distopías transpacíficas organizado por el Centro Cultural Hotaru, una iniciativa incipiente de divulgación de…
Cursos abiertos de otoño 2023 de introducción a la literatura y cultura japonesa contemporáneas
Este otoño he tenido el gran gusto de poder impartir dos seminarios muy enriquecedores a nivel profesional, pero también personal, porque no iban dirigidos exclusivamente a la comunidad académica universitaria (¡siempre va bien salir del nicho!). En “Introducción a la cultura japonesa: una aproximación comparativa”, impartido en el CTIF-Centro de Madrid, hicimos un curso acelerado…
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Jordi Serrano-Muñoz 