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The faculty of the University Institute in Gender and Diversity of the University of Oviedo coordinates and participates in different research groups through which it carries out its projects, both nationally and internationally.

 

Intersecciones. Principal investigator: Isabel Carrrera Suárez

 

The research group Intersections: Literatures, cultures and contemporary theories is composed of research staff from the University of Oviedo, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows and includes collaborators from different R&D research centres, such as the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain); de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain); King's College London (United Kingdom); Columbia (United States), Murdoch University (Australia); Calgary University (Canada) and Casa de las Américas (Cuba). The group has been rated very positively by the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (99/100). 

The group examines theoretical, cultural and methodological intersections in the contemporary world, especially through the lens of postcolonial, decolonial  and gender theories.  Its research focuses on post/European cultures in an international context and on diasporas, migrations and multiculturalism. To this end, it adopts  interdisciplinary methodologies, with special emphasis on Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanic areas. The Group is particularly interested in the literatures and cultural productions of ‘minority,’ racialized and diasporic groups, studying issues of hybridity, transculturation and cultural expression.

Its international network has found expression in several European Commission funded projects, the latest being a Marie Curie ITN, EUTERPE. 

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DEMETER Group. Principal investigator: Rosa María Cid López

The group Demeter. Maternity, Gender and Family is a research group with extensive experience at the University of Oviedo. It emerged in 2006 as Demeter. History, Women and Gender and, from the beginning, one of its main lines of research was related to motherhood. For this reason, it is now identified as a group specialized in the study of motherhood and family, or maternities and families, from an interdisciplinary perspective of gender studies, with special interest in History and Law.

 

Demeter has PhD professors and staff in training, nationally and internationally, attached to centers in Zaragoza, Cordoba, Milan, Geneva, Lisbon, New York and Edinburgh. Above all, the group analyzes discourses on motherhood and the position of mothers in the history of the West. In this context, it is also interested in observing how different representations and stereotypes about motherhood have been questioned, as well as the ruptures produced in the present with the emergence of new forms of motherhood, both biological and social and cultural.

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 TRANSLIT groupPrincipal Investigator: Socorro Suárez Lafuente 

The TRANSLIT group is made up of professors from the University of Oviedo. It develops work with an interdisciplinary and gender perspective, with special interest in identity theory, representation and its symbolic repercussions.
 
The research profile of the members of the TransLIT Research Group is adapted to the nature of the field in which they work: the Humanities, and within them, the field of English and German Philology. "Philology" is defined in the DRAE as the "Science that studies a culture as it manifests itself in its language and literature, mainly through written texts" and as the "Technique applied to texts in order to reconstruct, fix and interpret them". Consequently, our research focuses on the following headings: publications, translations, participation in funded research projects, research stays in foreign universities and directed research.
The work of the members of the Group is to coordinate the research efforts reflected in their curricula, in order to establish a unified general basis that will more easily reach the social strata interested in such topics and increase the efficiency in the direction of research work (undergraduate work, Master's theses or doctoral dissertations). The professors of the TransLIT Group combine their interest in literatures written in English or German, with special emphasis on the "translation" from one language to another and from one culture to another, always from the perspective of the construction of personal identity, first and foremost, and of collective identity in its controversial aspects of community, nation, country or global world. All the members of the Group have experience in literary translation, due to their training in the language and literature of their specialty; they have participated in national and foreign funded research projects and, derived from teaching in the Master's programs of the Department of Anglo-Germanic and French Philology, "Gender and Diversity" and "European Languages and Cultures", the TransLIT professors have directed 29 research works (Bachelor's and Master's theses) and 5 doctoral theses.  As befits teachers working in foreign language philology, the members of TransLIT have had numerous stays at universities in other countries. In the last five years they have carried out research at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Canterbury, York and Leicester in the United Kingdom, Calgary in Canada and Bochum, Cologne, Bremen and Frankfurt in Germany. They also have a large number of national and international conferences and congresses in which the members of the Group have presented papers or have been invited to give lectures, as well as numerous congresses, courses and seminars organized, and an intense work of dissemination and diffusion of the research carried out. The members of TransLIT have 11 six-year research periods recognized and "alive": 10 six-year periods are accredited by the Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora and one six-year period is autonomic, accredited by the Axencia para a calidade do sistema universitaria de Galicia (Agency for the quality of the Galician university system). 
 
 
 
 

 Gender, Economics, Health and Society (GENESYS)

Principal Investigator: Sandra Dema Moreno

 

The GENESYS research group was born with a clear international and interdisciplinary vocation. It is made up of 12 researchers, five from the University of Oviedo, three from FLACSO Uruguay, one from FLACSO Dominican Republic and one from the University of Chile, as well as two professionals in the field of social intervention, linked to the Red Cross and the CESPA Foundation Proyecto Hombre. All of them belong to different social disciplines, including economics, sociology, anthropology, social work and social education and have a long teaching, research and professional career in areas related to women's, gender and/or feminist studies.

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