Research Projects
“Masculinidades vulnerables y normatividad en las narrativas estadounidenses 1783–1929” (2023-2027)
From September 2023 to August 2027, this four-year project, led by Teresa Requena-Pelegrí and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2022-140375NB-I00), investigates representations of vulnerable masculinities in U.S. literature from the post-Revolutionary period through the early 20th century.
“Construint noves masculinitats: Representacions culturals i lingüístiques” (2022-2025)
Launched in January 2022 and running until June 2025, this project (2021 SGR 00272) is supported by the Ajuts de Suport als Grups de Recerca de Catalunya, funded by AGAUR, with Teresa Requena-Pelegrí as Principal Investigator. The research explores the cultural and linguistic construction of masculinities, aiming to challenge and redefine normative gender discourses.
“Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas” (2019-2022)
From March 2019 to March 2022, this international research initiative, funded by the European Union under the GENDER NET Plus programme (GNP-9), was directed by Josep M.ª Armengol. The project examined how ageing masculinities are represented across contemporary European literatures and cinemas, addressing the intersections of gender, age, and cultural identity in the context of demographic transformation and social change.
“L’Enfoc de noves masculinitats: visibilitzant i construint identitats respectuoses amb la igualtat de gènere” (2021)
Beginning in January 2021, this collaborative initiative coordinated by Teresa Requena-Pelegrí and supported by Acción contra el Hambre focused on making visible and constructing respectful masculinities aligned with gender equality. The project promoted transformative masculinities within diverse contexts.
“Construint noves masculinitats: representacions culturals i transferències socials” (2017-2021)
From January 2017 to September 2021, this research project was supported by the Ajuts de Suport als Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (2017SGR830), funded by the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), with Teresa Requena-Pelegrí as Principal Investigator. The project explored how cultural representations of masculinities intersect with evolving social dynamics, aiming to analyze and transfer new models of masculinity into broader societal frameworks.
“LIFE Palestina: Promoure la inclusió de les dones i els joves en la consolidació per la pau” (2018)
Conducted from January 2018 to December 2019, this cooperation project led by Natàlia Anguera Ruiz and funded by the Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament (ACCD) aimed to foster peacebuilding in Palestine by promoting the inclusion of women and youth.
“¿No es país para viejos? Representaciones de masculinidad y envejecimiento en la narrativa estadounidense contemporánea” (2017-2019)
Between January 2017 and December 2019, this project, led by Josep M.ª Armengol and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2016-74826-P), examined contemporary U.S. literature to investigate how narratives of masculinity and aging reflect shifting cultural attitudes and values. The research contributed to rethinking dominant masculine ideals within the context of later life.
Book chapters & articles
Etxeberria, J. G. (2025). Photographing Dreams: Cinema against the Reality of US Hospitality.
In M. A. Oliver-Rotger & P. Gifra-Adroher (Eds.), (In)Hospitable encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, culture, and thought (pp. 157–174). Routledge.)
Varela-Manograsso, A., & Bote, M. (2025). Rethinking Old Age and Masculinity: Impact on the Re-Spatialization of Life and Research during the COVID-19 Period in Spain.
Research on Ageing and Social Policy, 13(1), 46-67. https://doi.org/10.17583/rasp.15391
Arbués, C. (2024). The Use of Metafiction to Overcome Trauma: Ian Mcewan’s Sweet Tooth (2012) and the Revenge Narrative.
Odisea (Almería, Spain), 24, 16–32. https://doi.org/10.25115/odisea.vi24.9335
Castaño, E. & Verdaguer, I. (2024). Frame Semantics in the Lexical Database SciE-Lex. Terminology.
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication, 30(2) (2024):190–215.
Guerrero, O. (2024). “Entre otras cosas era muy hombre”: crisis, masculinidad y desengaño en María de Zayas.
ADAMAR: Anuario de Estudios Literarios Hispánicos, 1, 73–85. https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217523
Ortega Sáez, Marta (2024). Trending topic en la España franquista. Una década construyendo el mito entorno a Lo que el viento se llevó (1940-1950).
Hermeneus. Revista de Traducción, 26, pp. 347 – 377. https://doi.org/10.24197/her.26.2024.347-377. ISSN: 1139-7489
Ortega Sáez, Marta (2024). Lo que el viento se llevó: una película «eternamente nueva».
La recepción de la adaptación cinematográfica de Gone with the Wind en la España franquista. En La dictadura franquista. Estudios temáticos y perspectivas multidisciplinares. Javier Rodríguez González, Beatriz García Prieto, María Luisa Alvite Díez (eds.). (pp. 795-814). Ediciones Trea. https://hdl.handle.net/2445/216376. ISBN: 978–84-19823–78‑6.
Varela-Manograsso, A. (2024). Ciudadanía y Migración en la Europa Fortaleza.
Una aproximación a la crisis de la solidaridad desde Arendt y Ahmed. In A. Varela-Manograsso & R. Pérez Baquero (Eds.), Lugares, memorias y conflictos nuevas perspectivas sobre migraciones en la Europa contemporánea (pp. 43–78). Marcial Pons.
Vázquez, J. (2024, November 12). George Eliot, entre Jane Austen i Virginia Woolf.
Núvol. https://www.nuvol.com/llibres/george-eliot-entre-jane-austen-i-virginia-woolf-407650
Zaplana, E. (2024). Allegories of Aging Masculinity: The myth of Don Quixote in Albert Serra’s Honor of the Knights.
Romance Quarterly, 71(1), 110–120.
Acosta Bustamante, L. (2023). Twenty-First-Century Avengers: Exploration of war, globalization, and identity Politics.
REDEN. Revista Española De Estudios Norteamericanos/Revista Española De Estudios Norteamericanos, 5(1), 94–108.
Acosta Bustamante, Leonor (2023). Introspective Conflict in the Middle of a Moveable Feast. The Tragedy of Ageing Masculinity in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2013).
). In N. Haring, R. Maierhofer & B. Ratzenböck, Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture (pp. 15-33).
Castano, E. (2023). What is in a word? An Exploration of the Metaphorical Use of Schizophrenia in General American English.
Lingua, 294:103596. Doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103596
Guerrero, O. (2023). Herederas de la Querella: tensiones (proto)feministas en María de Zayas. En N. Muñoz Maya (Ed.)
Mujeres y Humanismo (pp. 132–146). ESIC.
Guerrero, O. (2023). Revirtiendo el privilegio masculino en el aula: literatura, misoginia y disidencia. En J. Cascales Ribera, J. Montaner Villalonga, J. Navarro, & A. Téllez Infantes (Eds)
II Congreso Internacional sobre masculinidades e igualdad: Educación para la igualdad y co(educación) (pp. 544–555). Universidad Miguel Hernández.
Ortega Sáez, Marta (2023). Serializing Victorian Fiction Abroad. The Earliest Translation of Jane Eyre in the Iberian Peninsula.
Brontë Studies, 48(1-2), pp. 46 – 61 . Repositori Institucional. ISSN: 1474-8932
Ortega Sáez, Marta (2023). Mujer, criolla y “loca”. Autocensura y domesticación de Bertha Mason en la España franquista. Análisis de la traducción de Jane Eyre de Juan G. de Luaces (Iberia, 1943).
Mutatis Mutandi. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción, 16(2), pp. 337 – 356. Repositori Institucional. ISSN: 2011-799X
Zaplana, E., Mellström, U., & Pease, B. (2023). Unsettling Masculinities Through Affect: Philip Roth’s Everyman and the Nemesis of Old Age.
In Posthumanism and the Man Question (pp. 56–69). Routledge.
Zaplana, E., Tracy, T., & Schrage-Früh, M. (2023). Ageing Myths and Dark Romanticism in Albert Serra’s Story of My Death (2013).
In Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema (pp. 175–188). Routledge.
Armengol, J. M., & Varela-Manograsso, A. (2022). Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema.
Journal of Aging Studies, 63, 101030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101030
Castaño, E. & Verdaguer, I. (2022). The Axes of Time: Spatiotemporal Relations in Old English Vocabulary.
English Language and Linguistics, 27(1):149-174. doi:10.1017/S1360674322000259.
Castaño, E. (2022). Blogging through Dementia: Reworking Mainstream Discourse through Metaphor in Online Early-onset Dementia Narratives.
Dementia: International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 22(1):105-124. Doi10.1177/1471301222113665
Requena-Pelegrí, T. & Lopez Sanchez, G. (2022). Destabilising Male Privilege: Explorations of the Posthuman in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Jeannette Winterson’s Frankissstein (2019).
In U. Mellström & B. Pease (Eds.), Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities. Taylor & Francis, Routledge.
Varela Manograsso, A. B. (2022). Entre identidades, violencias y resistencias. La frontera como espacio intersticial.
Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (87), 137–154. https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon.527511
Zaplana, E. (2022). Older Men, Gender Politics and the Powers of Dark Aesthetics in Marta Sanz’s Susana y Los Viejos.
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 99(4), 661–681.
Acosta Bustamante, L. (2021). Reconstructing the (Masculine) Self from Old Age: Memories of the Aching Male Body in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal.
In J. M. Armengol (Ed.), Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (pp. 109–121). Palgrave Macmillan.
Arbués, C. (2021). The Manifestation of Trauma from Authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet Tooth (2012).
In N. Collé, M. Latham, A. Parey, & I. Roblin (Eds.), Reading Ian McEwan’s Mature Fiction: New Critical Approaches. PUN-Éditions universitaires de Lorraine.
Etxeberria, J. G. (2021). Harvest Time for John Updike’s Rabbit: Sex Dies Harder than Gender. In
In J. M. Armengol (Ed.), Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (pp. 15–34). Palagrave-Macmillan.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2021, November 25). Representing the Self-Made Man in United States Literature.
IDEES. Revista de temes contemporanis, 54. https://revistaidees.cat/en/representing-the-self-made-man-in-united-states-literature/
Requena-Pelegrí, Teresa (2021). Literary representations of masculinities, Old Age, and dementia, an intersectional approach.
En Masculinities, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Narrative. Emerald Press.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2021). Masculinities, Nature, and Vulnerability: Towards a Transcorporeal Poetics in Washington Irving and Walt Whitman. In Pulé, P.M., Hultman, M. (eds)
Men, Masculinities, and Earth. (pp.135–149). Palagrave Macmillan.
Etxeberria, J. G. (2020). The Forbidden Gaze: Orphic Visuality and Loss in Atom Egoyan’s Exotica.
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 43(4), 64–78.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2020, May 27). Els privilegis de la masculinitat.
Valors. Filosofia de l’actualitat. https://valors.org/els-privilegis-de-la-masculinitat/
Acosta Bustamante, L. (2019). Disabled Masculinity as a Metaphor of National Conflict in the Cold War Era: Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947).
Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos, 23, 1–22.
Fernández, S. C. (2019). Construcciones imaginarias angelinas en Las aventuras de Don Chipote o, Cuando los pericos mamen de Daniel Venegas y The Brick People de Alejandro Morales.
In S. C. Fernández & J. C. Ramírez Pimienta (Eds.), Porciúncula: Geografías culturales del Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles (pp. 55–85). Ediciones Eón.
Requena-Pelegrí, Teresa (2019). The interrelated materiality of masculinities and the more-than-human-world in Jane Smiley’s ‘A Thousand Acres (1991)’.
En Ecomasculinities: Negotiating male gender identity in U.S. fiction (pp. 115–129). Lexington Books a Division of Rowman & Littlefield.
Etxeberria, J. G. (2018). Masculinidad en el cine chicano: ¿de las políticas del esencialismo a las poéticas del realismo?
In C. M. M. García (Ed.), Tradition and (R)evolution: Reframing Latina/o Identities in Contemporary US Culture. Instituto Franklin.
Fernández, S. C. (2017). A Search for Colonial Histories: The Conquest by Yxta Maya Murray.
In J. Elbert Decker & D. Winchock (Eds.), Borderlands and Liminal Subjects: Transgressing the Limits in Philosophy and Literature (pp. 85–104). Palagrave.
Moya, A. & López Sanchez, G. (2017). Looking back: Versions of the Post-Apocalypse in contemporary North-American cinema.
Film Criticism, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/fc.13761232.0041.102
Moya, A. (2017). When borderlands are where we live: Disgrace (Jacobs, 2008), Invictus (Eastwood, 2009) and District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009).
Journal of African Cinemas, 9(1), 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.9.1.19_1
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2017). Green Intersections Caring Masculinities and the Environmental Crisis.
In Masculinities and Literary Studies (pp. 143–151). Routledge.
Fernández, S. C. (2016). Violencia e identidad fronteriza en la narrativa policíaca mexicana a fines del milenio.
Imex Revista: México Interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary Mexico, 5.9, 32–46.
Fernández, S. C. (2015). The Representation of the Mexican Counterculture Movement in Pasaban en silencio nuestros dioses by Héctor Manjarrez.
In L. H. Castañeda & J. González (Eds.), Alternative Communities in Contemporary Latin American and Iberian Literature (pp. 309–332). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2014). Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie E. Proulx’s The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections.
. In Carabí, À., Armengol, J.M. (eds) Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World. Global Masculinities (pp.115–128). Palgrave Macmillan.
Moya, A. (2013). Neo-Feminism In-Between: Female Cosmopolitan subjects in contemporary American film.
In Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (pp. 13–26). https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137306845_2
Conferences
Guerrero, O. (2024, December 12-13). El problema de las ‘crisis’ de la masculinidad:
Performatividad y corporalidad en la literatura del Siglo de Oro [Communication session]. XIV Congreso Internacional Jóvenes Investigadores Siglo de Oro (JISO), Pamplona, España.
Castaño, E., Ortega Saéz, M. & Requena-Pelegrí, T.(2024, November 6-8).VULNUSMASC:
Design and compilation of a multigenre corpus on the representation of vulnerability and masculinity in 19th century U.S. narratives [Communication session]. 47th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). Sevilla, Spain.
Castaño, E., Ortega Saéz, M., López, G. & Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2024, November 6-8).
Constructing the (in)vulnerable Male Body in Walt Whitman’s Manly Health and Training [Communication session]. 47th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). Sevilla, Spain.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2023, June 12-17). Walt Whitman’s Exploration of masculine vulnerability [Conference session].
Walt Whitman Week (Transatlantic Walt Whitman Society), Rome, Italy.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (Organizer/scientific committee). (2023, July 4-6). Improving learning experience: Transformation and challenges.
Congrés Internacional Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), Spain.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2023, April 14). New perspectives on the research of masculinities [Round table].
Gender and Ideology: New perspectives, Los Angeles, United States.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2023, March 6-17). Uprooting patriarchal masculinities from the digital spheres for gender justice [Round table].
CSW67: Commission for the Status of Women 67th session, United States.
Requena-Pelegrí, T. (2023, February 20). Envejecimiento y masculinidades en Abuelos, de Santiago Requejo (2018) [Conference guest].
Nuevas direcciones en la investigación del género y la edad, Madrid, Spain.
Books
Hearn, J., Pease, B., Seymour, K. & Strid, S. (2025).
Interconnecting the Violences of Men: Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism. Routledge.
Requena-Pelegrí, Teresa and Gemma Lopez Sanchez (Eds.). (2024).
Masculinidades vulnerables: construcciones y representaciones culturales. Dykinson.
Pease, B. & Mellström, U. (Eds.) (2023).
Posthumanism and the Man Question: Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities. Routledge.
Pease, B. (2022).
Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage and Systemic Injustice in an Unequal World. (2nd Edition). Zed Books.
Armengol, J. M. (Ed.). (2021).
Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction. Palgrave.
Bozalek, V. & Pease, B. (Eds.) (2021).
Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives. Routledge.
Fernández, S. C., & Ramírez Pimienta, J. C. (2019).
Porciúncula: Geografías culturales del Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles. Ediciones y Gráficos Eón.
Pease, B. (2019).
Facing Patriarchy: From a Violent Gender Order to a Culture of Peace. Zed Books.
Armengol, J. M., Bosch-Vilarrubias, M., Carabí, A. & Requena-Pelegrí, T. (eds.). (2017).
Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions. Routledge.
Carabí, A. & Armengol, J. M. (Eds.). (2015).
Masculinidades alternativas en el mundo de hoy. Icaria.
Ramírez-Pimienta, J. C. & Fernández, S. C. (2005).
El norte y su frontera en la narrativa policiaca mexicana. Plaza y Valdes.
