Elena Prado

Migration, Cultural Memory, Heritage, archives, identity, gender, Spanish comunities, contemporary culture and artistic research practices

Agnieszka Hudzik

East-Central Europe: Discourses and Literatures, Literature from the 19th to 21st centuries, Poetics, aesthetics and literary theory, Literature in the context of media and cultural history, Literature and contemporary art, Intermediality, Migration and exile, Multilingualism and translation, Transcultural storytelling, Literary and cultural entanglements between East-Central Europe and Latin America

Ana Gómez-Pérez

20th Century Spanish Literature, Spanish Realism and Naturalism, Women writers, Avant-garde, Exile

Laura Mariateresa Durante

Spain, exile, migration, women, literature

Anja Bandau

Transnational and post-colonial literary and cultural studies, Literatures of the Diaspora between the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas, Inter- and trans exile networks, Transatlantic circulation of knowledge in the XVIII-XX centuries, Representations of the Haitian Revolution, Publications on Afro-descendant literature from the Americas, Mexican American literature, Representations of post-colonial violence

Andrea Luquin Calvo

Spanish republican exile, feminism, gender, art and visual culture, philosophy, memory, narrative identity

Cornelia Arbeithuber

Exile and migration, Literature of the Austrian Exile, Literature of the German Exile, Literature of the Spanish Republican Exile, Gender, Transnationalism, Postcolonial Theory

Inmaculada Real López

Museum studies, heritage, art history, exile

Virginia Bonatto

Spanish Contemporary Literature, Spanish Civil War, Memory, Spanish Republican Exile in Argentina, Transatlantic Studies

Berenice Romano Hurtado

Gender theory, writings of the self, Latin American women's literature, identity, autofiction

Tabea Linhard

Mexico, Spain, refugees, displacement, Spanish Civil War, Holocaust, espionage

Ana María Bande

Vanesa Fernández Campos

Paola Bellomi

Spanish Women's Studies, Spanish Gender Studies, Spanish Queer Studies, Spanish Literature of the Diaspora and the Exile, Ladino Literature

Irene Praga Guerro

Luna Carrasquer

Eva María Moreno Lago

Exiled republican writers, lesbian literature, theater with a gender perspective, Victorina Durán, female intellectual networks

Diana Castilleja

Comics, essay, writing of the self, exile, intermediality, migration

María Teresa Navarrete Navarrete

Contemporary Spanish poetry, literary networks, literature and gender

Inmaculada Real López

Exile, Museum, Heritage, Artistic, Epistolary

Mirjam Leuzinger

Contemporary Latin American, Spanish and French Literatures and Cultures, Diversity Studies, Memory, Cultural Europe, Exile, Jorge Semprún

E. Helena Houvenaghel

Exile and migration, Identity Construction, Autobiographical writing, Myth Rewriting, Gender, Woman, Ethics, Transnational, Transgenerational, Comparative, Transgeneric

Luisa García-Manso

Theatre, Identity, Memory, Gender, Exile and Migration

Carole Viñals

Gender, Memory, Republican Exile

In the 10th Fenix Congress (2023), our research focuses on the alliances forged by Spanish women intellectuals -writers, artists, actresses- in exile during Franco’s dictatorship. The studies included in this congress foreground the relations and communities created by exiles to bridge the distances that separated them from various groups of friends and colleagues. The groups comprise, first, their fellow-exiles, who had found a host country in the United States, Latin America, or Europe; second, the ‘insiles’, consisting of their compatriots who remained in Spain during the Francoist regime; and third, the new friends they made in the host country and from whom they would at a later stage be separated once they had relocated or returned to Spain. The contributions to this congress resort to exiled women’s private correspondence and show how the letters enable the exiles to create an epistolary space of proximity. This effect of rapprochement and collaboration, in spite of the physical distance that separated the correspondents, is the most salient feature of the alliances and communities that are studied in this congress.