Maria Isern Ordeig, who was a pre-doctoral researcher at ADHUC, will defend her doctoral thesis De conques i altres cavernes. Orificialitat i visió en ficcions del segle XXI/ Des orbites et d'autres cavernes. Orificialité et vision dans des fictions du XXIe siècle, co-directed by Dr. Helena González (ADHUC-Universitat de Barcelona) and Dr. Marta Segarra (LEGS-CNRS). The thesis, carried out jointly between the universities of Barcelona and Paris 8—Vincennes-Saint Denis, explores the interrelation between orificiality and vision in literary, graphic and cinematographic fictions of the 21st century, from a queer feminist perspective and with a focus on new materialisms and feminist readings of French post-structuralism.
The thesis proposes that such a study provides new tools to read dominant corporality models in the classic sex/gender system, while trying to explain how this interaction sometimes results in a potential subversion of its expressions. In this way, it not only proposes to read and analyze the poetics that result from the revisions of the epistemologies of vision, when it comes to defining what counts as a body and how bodily materiality is written, but also to understand that the analyzed texts construct a possible politics of officiality, marked by a more reversible, hybrid and polymorphic approach to sexed bodies.
