Euterpe Doctoral Network Project

15/09/2026

📚Euterpe Conference - Thinking Transnationally: European Literatures and Gender📚

At the end of the conference's second day, we have organized a literary event in which different transnational authors have been invited to do literary readings and to converse with attendees. We, first, would like to introduce Anthony Capildeo. In the following days, we will introduce the other participants of the event.

Anthony Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer, and Professor at the University of York. Capildeo researches traditional masquerade, silence, plurilingualism, and place. Awards received include the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, and the Saltire Award. Masqueraders: Selected Essays is their most recent book.

Photo credit: Aileen Lees

14/09/2026

📚Euterpe Conference - Thinking Transnationally: European Literatures and Gender📚

As we prepare for the project’s closing conference, we bring a special podcast episode by Jasmina Lukić, Professor and Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project. Jasmina is our keynote speaker during the opening day of the conference and her lecture is titled "From Regional to Transnational: Why Universities Need Gender Studies."

In this episode, she discusses the transnational turn in literary studies, providing an overview of key related concepts, and proposing some initial thoughts on how transnational literary theory can be used to think about literature beyond national and linguistic boundaries.

Please follow the links to the episode:
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/jasmina-luki%C4%87-lecture-on-the-transnational-turn-in-literary-studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMW_4e1Mix4&t=119s📚Euterpe Conference - Thinking Transnationally: European Literatures and Gender📚

26/08/2026

✨We are delighted to share the program for the project’s closing conference titled “Thinking Transnationally: European Literatures and Gender,” which will take place at Central European University, Vienna Campus. Throughout the conference, the major outputs of four years of research will be presented. Among other events, the conference will introduce the forthcoming, two-volume “Handbook of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe,” the EUTERPE Podcast Library, as well as the research projects of our doctoral students.

The conference will also feature literary readings and will close with a performance by transnational author Gabriella Ghermandi. In the coming weeks, we will share more information and further details via the EUTERPE website and social media: Facebook and Instagram.

If you wish to participate in the daytime program, we kindly ask you to register by September 1st. The literary events and the performance will be open to the public.

Registration link: https://bit.ly/4xqM5qi
Event link: https://events.ceu.edu/2026-09-23/thinking-transnationally-european-literatures-and-gender

25/08/2026

🎙EUTERPE Podcast Library🎙

In this episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, PhD candidate Laura Bak talks to the Argentine writer Alicia Dujovne Ortiz at her home in Paris, the city where she has lived since 1978, when she went into exile from the military dictatorship. The conversation explores exile and migration as central themes in her life, her work and her autobiographical writing. The discussion touches on the female characters in her work – figures with a divided, conflicted nature who come from elsewhere – and how that division is mirrored in her own experience of writing across countries and languages, in French and Spanish.

Check out our website and YouTube channel every two weeks for new episodes!
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/a-conversation-with-alicia-dujovne-ortiz-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CIUqd_Pdmg

05/08/2026

🎙EUTERPE Podcast Library🎙

This episode features a poetry reading and roundtable on the joys and challenges of translating multilingual authors and texts. The conversation centres around a reading of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris / Parigi, delivered in English, French, and Italian by Nicoletta Asciuto, Boriana Alexandrova, Enora Le Roux, and Zoé Porchet. Alongside the readings, Dr. Nicoletta Asciuto discusses her interest in recuperating early twentieth-century women authors through translation, and her recently published Italian translation of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem (1920). Dr. Boriana Alexandrova also discusses the power and peculiarity of infamously impenetrable multilingual texts, like James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), and archives, such as the messy and marvellous post-war archive of Surrealist q***r couple and anti-Nazi Resistance fighters, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

Check out our website and YouTube channel every two weeks for new episodes!
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/translation-as-deep-reading%3A-a-conversation-and-a-poetry-reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt8NAqUaD2g

01/08/2026

✨We want to congratulate Researcher Prof. dr. Adelina Sánchez-Espinoza and Doctoral Candidate Séamus O’Kane from Universidad de Granada for their recent publication titled "Transnational Feminism and Affective Communities as Resistance to Technopatriarchy: The Instapoetry of Nikita Gill and Monika Radojevic."

This article aims to provide a feminist approach to community that moves away from patriarchal communitarian models and towards feminist genealogies, an ethics of care, and affective
communities. By applying a feminist close-reading methodology to case studies from two transnational poets, Nikita Gill and Monika Radojevic, the authors reveal how Feminist Affective Communities take shape through the interactions between author, text, and readership within a digital, transnational environment.

You may visit our website to access and read their article:

This article delves into the manuscript of Albert Camus' L’Étranger to explore the creation and evolution of its enigmatic protagonist, Meursault. ​ Drawing on archival research conducted at the Fonds Albert Camus in Aix-en-Provence, Alice Flinta examines Camus' linguistic and syntactic choices...

27/07/2026

🎙EUTERPE Podcast Library🎙

Recorded at the RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation" at the University of Vienna, this episode brings together historian and literary scholar Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna / RECET), EUTERPE doctoral researcher Tamara Cvetković, EUTERPE scientific coordinator Petra Bakos, and British-Hungarian crime writer Éva Cserháti for a conversation about what it means to write across borders. They move from personal stories of belonging and displacement to the structural questions: who gets into the literary canon and who gets translated into English.

Check out our website and YouTube channel every two weeks for new episodes!
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/migrant-literature-as-transnational-literature-in-women's-fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zy4_4bvDtw

08/07/2026

📕 Reading for Each Other Book Reviews 📕

In 'Big Brands Are Watching You', Francesca Sobande conducts in-depth research to challenge the role that brands and marketing have in the construction of societal morality, and how this construction influences people’s perception of their own activism and their stance on specific issues. Furthermore, the book offers an intersectional approach to media philosophy and digital studies, addressing an important gap in previous research concerning race.

Read the full review written by DC Auxi Castillo Soto on our website: https://www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews/review%3A-sobande%2C-francesca.-big-brands-are-watching-you%3A-marketing-social-justice-and-digital-culture.-(united-states%3A-university-california-press%2C-2024)

07/07/2026

🎙EUTERPE Podcast Library🎙

In this podcast episode, DC Marina Casado invites the poet and collagist Aurora H. Camero to talk about a wide variety of topics: poetry, migration, art, transness, erotics, and everything in-between that needs to be thought and built collectively, hand in hand. The conversation is a shapeshifting poem, where the pauses and brackets give insights on contemporary poetry and different writing strategies. Together they also converse about Camero’s two poetry collections: Violeta and La vía sutil. The conversation also merges poetry with politics and gender with territory, generating reflections about the inseparability of identity categories and the urgency of moving our bodies and our theories beyond white-centered trans and q***r imaginaries.

Check out our website and YouTube channel every two weeks for new episodes!
https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/bodies-in-poetry%2C-territorial-dysphoria%2C-collective-politics-%3A-a-conversation-with-aurora-h.-camero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFFLWtbQH4

06/07/2026

📕 Reading for Each Other Book Reviews 📕

Ágota Kristóf’s 'The Illiterate' (New Directions, 2023 [2004]) is a short memoir in which the author somatically recalls her childhood in Hungary—before and during the Soviet occupation, the surreptitious border crossing to Austria and the relocation in Switzerland as a refugee. The memoir is organised in short chapters titled after the main resonances that are explored within; while, throughout the work, the writing style juxtaposes descriptive passages with a profound reflexive tone. Landscapes, faces and objects become not only aesthetic resources for the narration but also spaces of embodiment through which emotions and physical sensations are echoed.

Read the full review written by DC Olga Fenoll Martínez on our website: https://www.euterpeproject.eu/book-reviews/review-of-'the-illiterate'-by-%C3%A1gota-krist%C3%B3f