Dr Silvia Pellicer-OrtÃn at the School of Humanities
On May 9-13, Dr Silvia Pellicer-OrtÃn from Zaragoza University is visiting the School of Humanities in connection with Erasmus+ programme.
On May 9-13, Dr Silvia Pellicer-OrtÃn from Zaragoza University is visiting the School of Humanities in connection with Erasmus+ programme.
An Insight into Cynthia Ozick's Life and Career, with a focus on "The Shawl"
This talk will frame American-Jewish writer Cynthia Ozick within the current literary panorama, considering her different facets as a descendant of immigrants, as a Jew and as a feminist thinker who has made a change in the world of the American and international letters of the last century. Her short stories "The Shawl" and "Rosa" will be examined in more detail in order to comprehend this writer's style, her use of language and her ability to create metaphoric images when trying to put the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust into words.
The talk takes place on Wednesday, May 11, from 2 pm to 3:30 pm, in S-420
New Testimonial Genres and Trauma Narratives: The Liminal Case of British-Jewish Women Writers
Drawing on the recent "memory boom" that our societies have been exposed to as well as the upsurge in the trauma paradigm greatly influencing the field of the humanities, this talk will address the evolution that life-writing, testimony and fiction have experienced in the last few decades and the emergence of the so-called "limit-case" narratives. The case of contemporary British-Jewish women writers will be used as an example of the way in which memory, fragmented identities and trauma can be (de)constructed, represented and reconciled by having recourse to hybrid, complex and liminal semi-autobiographical writings. The talk takes place on Thursday, May 12, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm, in A-325
Dr Silvia Pellicer-OrtÃn is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology in the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her main research interests are related to contemporary British literature, trauma and Holocaust studies, British-Jewish women writers, autobiography, and feminism. She has delivered several papers in international forums and published several articles in international journals and collections of essays on these topics. She has recently published her monograph entitled Eva Figes’ Writings: A Journey through Trauma (2015, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and is currently working on the co-edition , with Dr. MarÃa Jesús MartÃnez Alfaro, of a volume of essays on Memory Frictions in Contemporary Narratives in English.