"How Feminist Is...?" PANDORA Literary Debates

Lara Tortosa-Signes is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of València. Her dissertation examines African feminisms and identity formation in contemporary literary production. Lara is a language teacher and writer who collaborates with the research group LENA and who has co-founded the association AIELL for early career researchers. Her research interests lie in decolonial and gender studies. She focuses on Indigenous narratives, memoirs, and historical fiction authored by women and gender non-conforming writers to explore their contributions to African feminist thought. Her work engages with storytelling as a mode of knowledge production and feminist praxis. Her latest academic publications are the article "Intersex Bodies, Literary Representation and Cultural Intersectionality: Gender Bounding Violence in An Ordinary Wonder (2021)", published in English Studies in Africa, and the book chapter "Escritoras Africanas: de las sombras al epicentro de la(s) literatura(s) africana(s)" in Cooperação, Esperança e Outras Formas de Resistença na Literatura Africana (2025).

María Torres-Romero is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English, French and German at the University of Málaga. She completed her PhD at the same institution entitled Narrating Human and Nonhuman Ecologies: Cognitive and Affective Assemblages in Contemporary Anglophone Literature. María is part of the Research Project “Re-Orienting Assemblage Theory in Anglophone Literature and Culture” (PID2022-137881NB-I00), funded by MICIU/AEI and by ERDF/EU, and has been an active member since 2021 of the research group LITCAE, both led by Professor Rosario Arias. Her main lines of research centre on speculative fiction written in English, posthumanism, relationality, and contemporary explorations of the nonhuman. She has contributed to both national and international academic journals, including publications such as “Encountering the Machine: Towards a Posthumanist Ethics and Relational Moral Paradigm in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me” (2024).

Sara Tabuyo-Santaclara is Assistant Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands. She is a member of the research group LITANGLO and collaborates with the research group BiFeGa. She is currently part of the Research Project “Communitas/Immunitas: relational ontologies in Atlantic anglophone cultures of the 21st century” (PID2022-136904NB-I00), funded by MICIU/AEI and by ERDF/EU. Sara completed her PhD at the University of Vigo where she studied representations of girlhood in The Handmaid’s Tale media franchise. Her main research interests are girlhood, gender and feminist theories, as well as post/decolonial theories and utopian/dystopian fiction. Her recent publications include the book chapter “Serena Joy as an Anti-Feminist Ally: Tradwives and Rising Misogyny in The Handmaid’s Tale Series” (2025). She has recently co-edited the Special Issue Visibilizing Intersectional Girlhood(s) in Contemporary Anglophone Cultural Manifestations for the Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (2026).