Peer-reviewed publication by group leader: García Zarranz, L. (2025). Willful aesthetics: Pedagogies of exposure in animated short film. In K. Paszkiewicz and A. Ruthven (Eds.), Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship. Routledge.

Andrés Buesa (University of Zaragoza, Spain) will deliver an online guest lecture titled “Playful Worldings: De-Westernising the Cinematic Child” on Monday, December 9, from 13:00-14:00. You can find the zoom link here.

Professor Nana Osei-Kofi (Oregon State U) gave a guest lecture on November 18 on "AfroSwedish Places of Belonging: An Intersectional Exploration of Identity and Kinship with Nordic Resonance." PhD candidate Ro Averin delivered a response to the lecture. This event marked a collaboration between TransLit and ILU's Forum for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity.

Peer-reviewed journal article by group member: Rocha-Bravo, M. G., & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2024). A Sentient planet as a school; a school as a community garden: Toward eco-creative think-practicing. Qualitative Inquiry, 0(0).

Roundtable contribution delivered by group member Ysabel Muñoz: "Problems of Place: An ongoing conversation on community, connection, and belonging." 4th World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland (University of Oulu). August, 2024.

NoRs-EH PhD Course EH8000: Environmental Storytelling across Media

• When: June 3-7, 2024 | Where: NTNU Trondheim, Norway
• Application deadline: February 29, 2024
• Language of instruction: English / Credits: 5 ECTS  / Tuition: Free

This semester’s course in the Norwegian Researcher School for Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) will be held in Trondheim, hosted by the NTNU Environmental Humanities, TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects and Pedagogies and Narrating Sustainability research groups. The course begins with the premise that environmental crises are also storytelling crises. While environmental crises often demand that we turn to the sciences and technology, this course is explicitly devoted to the role that poetry, theatre, fiction, sound, and transmedia arts play in environmental storytelling.

Please see the complete CFP (PDF).

Peer-reviewed chapter co-authored by group leader and Dr france rose hartline: García Zarranz, L, & hartline, f. r. (2024). Paradox and trans literature. In S. R. Sharp and D. A. Vakoch (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of trans literature. Routledge.

Peer-reviewed article/video essay co-authored by group member Julia Leyda and Kathleen Loock: Leyda, J., & Loock, K. (2024) "There is a storm coming!". [in]Transition, 11(1) https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.15422

Guest Lecture delivered by group leader: García Zarranz, L. “Willful Pedagogies: Unlearning with Visual Activism.” York University & The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Toronto, Canada. February 10, 2024. 

Film studies scholar Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (ADHUC-University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) delivered the online lecture "Re-Seeing Sustainability through Ecocinema" on November 27. This event marked a collaboration between the research project Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene and the TransLit research group.

Visual artist, educator, and activist Syrus Marcus Ware (McMaster U., Canada) visited ILU from October 4-6. He delivered a guest lecture on Thursday, Oct. 5 (Kalvskinnet, Room U301, 13.30), connected to our new line of research “Re-Seeing Sustainability: Affecting Visual Literacies through Animation, Visual Art, and other Digital Platforms”. The lecture was followed by a response from Ysabel Muñoz Martínez (ISL, Narrating Sustainability), who is also a TransLit member. This event was introduced and moderated by Ro Averin (ILU, Pedagogy) and Libe García Zarranz (ILU, English & Foreign Languages). On Friday Oct. 6, Ware also worked with students as part of the Sexuality in Teacher Education project, led by Stine H. Bang Svendsen (ILU, Pedagogy). You can see some of Ware’s multimedia practices here.

Media studies scholars TL Cowan and Jas Rault (University of Toronto (Canada) led the workshop “Researching Backwards for Sustainable Partnerships: Trans- Feminist & Queer Inversion as Heavy Processing Method” on Friday, September 22. This event marked a collaboration between the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the TransLit research group.

Guest Lecture by writer, scholar and activist Professor Larissa Lai (U. Calgary, Canada) on the topic of “Emergency/ Insurgency: Utopia and Collective Practice in the Present” on June 5 at 14:00 (Kalvskinnet, Akrinn Building, U302). The lecture was followed by a response delivered by Ro Averin (ILU, NTNU) and a discussion with the audience. Opening remarks by Libe García Zarranz. This event was also supported by the ENVIROCEN project (OULU/NTNU)".

Roundtable Discussion on "Land relations and social justice" with Larissa Lai, Ro Averin, and Gulabuddin Sukhanwar. Moderated by Carl Martin Faurby and introduced by Libe García Zarranz. Litteraturhuset, June 5, 19:00. This event was also supported by the ENVIROCEN project (OULU/NTNU)".

Guest lecture "Indigenous Feminist Ekphrasis as Poethical Expression of Decolonial Love" by Professor Belén Martín-Lucas (U. Vigo, Spain) on June 6 at 12:00pm (NTNU, Akrinn, U302). The lecture was followed by a response delivered by Amanda Fayant and a discussion with the audience. This event was also supported by the ENVIROCEN project (OULU/NTNU)".

Peer-reviewed journal article by group member: Muñoz Martínez, Y., & Nenger, J. (2023). Infrastructures of harm, communities of knowledge and environmental justice. Studies in Social Justice, 17(3).

Peer-reviewed book chapter by group leader: García Zarranz, L. (2023). Oblique emotions and border intimacies in Dionne Brand’s Theory. In C. Capancioni et al. (Eds.), Rethinking identities across boundaries: Genders/ genres/ genera. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Group member, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, co-organized the international symposium Cinema in the Anthropocene on June 24-25, at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. The group leader gave an invited Guest Lecture at this event titled "Willful Aesthetics: Pedagogies of Exposure in Animated Short Film" on June 24. 
• Group member, Stella Mililli, gave a paper titled "Representations of Black girlhood in refugee literature for young adults. Feminist theories in dialogue with refugee studies" at the 11th European Feminist Research Conference, held at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) on June 18. The group leader delivered a paper entitled "Trans Literatures & Visual Cultures in the 21st Century" at the same conference.
• The group leader was invited to participate in the panel "Feminist Mentorship" organized by Queer Intersections Oxford at the University of Oxford (UK) on April 29.

March 16 & March 17: Workshop Affect and/as Pedagogy

Workshop Affect and/as Pedagogy

• Department of Teacher Education, NTNU, Norway
• March 16 (morning/afternoon) & March 17 (morning)
• Campus Kalvskinnet, Lysholm Building, LY41 (4th floor)

To register: please send an email to Libe García Zarranz by March 1.

Led by Professor Gregory Seigworth (Millersville University, US).

Hosted by Associate Professor Libe García Zarranz (English, ILU, NTNU, Norway) & the TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects, and Pedagogies Research Group

Guests & Collaborators

• Dr. Bessie P. Dernikos (Florida Atlantic University, US)
• Stella Mililli (English, ILU/TransLit, NTNU)
• Associate Professor Stine H. Bang Svendsen (Pedagogy, ILU, NTNU)
• Professor Hanna Musiol (English, ISL, NTNU)
• Dr. Sophia Efstathiou (Philosophy/ISEED, NTNU)
• Dr. Elin Danielsen Huckerby (ISEED, NTNU)

Target Audience at NTNU

• MA students, PhD candidates & Postdocs in the Department of Teacher Education
• PhD candidates & Postdocs in the Department of Language and Literature
• PhD candidates & Postdocs in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies

Overview

What is pedagogical about affect, or affective about pedagogy? Bessie P. Dernikos’ (2020) urgent question will frame our two-day workshop in various ways. As Seigworth (2020) responds, “pedagogy is affect’s first lesson or, maybe, affect is pedagogy’s first lesson” (87). In this workshop, we will unravel some of these lessons by focusing on what affect does and the locations where affect emerges. In doing so, the workshop seeks to encourage participants to reflect on and actively contribute to critical discussions around the complex ways in which affect and pedagogy intra-act (Barad, 2007).

Primary Works

Copies of the readings will be provided in advance.

Dernikos, Bessie P. (2018). “‘It’s like You Don’t Want to Read It Again’: Exploring Affects, Trauma and ‘Willful’ Literacies.” Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 1-32.

---. et al. (2020). “Affect’s First Lesson. An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth.” In Mapping the Affective Turn in Education. Theory, Research, and Pedagogies (pp. 87-93). Routledge.

McKittrick, Katherine. (2021). “Dear Science.” Dear Science and Other Stories (pp.186-89). Duke UP.

Robinson, Dylan. (2020). “Feeling Reconciliation.” Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Study (pp. 201-232). U of Minnesota Press.

Seigworth, Greg. (1999). “Sound Affects.” cultstud-listserv column Fear of a Black Planet, Sept. 6.

Stewart, Kathleen. (2020). “Teaching Affectively.” Mapping the Affective Turn in Education. Theory, Research, and Pedagogies (pp. 31-35). Routledge.

Ware, Syrus Marcus. (2020). Radical Love.

• Radical Love - A digital exhibition

Additional Suggested Readings

Dernikos, Bessie P. (2020). “Tuning into Rebellious Matter: Affective Literacies as More-than-human sonic bodies.” English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 19(4), 417-432.

Malatino, Hil. (2019). “Tough Breaks: Trans Rage and the Cultivation of Resilience.” Hypatia, 34, 121-140.

Snaza, Nathan. (2020). “Love and Bewilderment: On Education as Affective Encounter.” Mapping the Affective Turn in Education. Theory, Research, and Pedagogies (pp. 108-21). Routledge.

Springgay, Stephanie. (2020). “The Fecundity of Poo: Working with Children as Pedagogies of Refusal.” Mapping the Affective Turn in Education. Theory, Research, and Pedagogies (pp. 149- 63). Routledge.

Stewart, Kathleen. (2005). “Cultural Poesis: The Generativity of Emergent Things.” In N. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd Ed.) (1027-1042). SAGE.

This workshop has been organized with the support of NTNU’s Research Group TransLit: Sustainable Ethics, Affects, Pedagogies, the Strategic Funds awarded by the Department of Teacher Education (NTNU), the H2020 project Inclusive Science and European Democracies (ISEED), and the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU.

• Peer-Reviewed Journal Article. García Zarranz, L. (2021). New literatures: Canada (journal articles). The Year’s Work in English Studies 100(1). Oxford University Press, 1271-1281.
• The group leader co-edited The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Alumni Newsletter Vol. 3, “Spaces of Affect and Change: Reflections from the Editors” (with Sophie Thériault, Nov. 2021).
• Group member, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, co-organized the international conference I Simposio La cuarta ola: Especulaciones feministas para un futuro posible on November 10-12, 2021 (online). This event marked a collaboration between the U. of the Balearic Islands and the U. of Alcalá in Spain. The group leader gave an invited Guest Lecture at this conference titled “Paradojas de lo Ordinario: Estudios Trans y Otras Prácticas Feministas” on November 12, 2021.
• Peer-Reviewed Journal Article. García Zarranz, L. (2021). “2020 and All’s Well: On Positionality, Transtemporality and Scandalous Bodies.” Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 243 (2021): 166-170.
• Stella Millili presented the research paper “Critically Reading Refugee Literature. A Feminist Exercise of Ethical Research” at a PhD Seminar with Forskingsgruppe for litteratur og samfunn (NTNU). 12 November 2021, Trondheim.
• Stella Millili hosts the online session “The journalistic language of power and our relentless asylum policy. Behrouz Boochani in conversation with Kristina Quintano”. 7 September 2021, Trondheim, Migration Literature Week 2021. Organized by Literature for Inclusion initiative, led by Gulabuddin Sukhanwar.
• International member, angela rawlings, takes up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Iceland/Århus University to conduct her Research ‘Becoming-with Whales in the Climate Crisis: Iceland as Multispecies Collaboratory’ (2021-2022). This position is funded by The Carlsberg Foundation.

• International online conference, “The Poetics and Ethics of ‘Learning With’: Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Feminist Productions Today”, the second of a two-part event taking place between Nov. 2020 and June 2021. This conference marks another collaboration between the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta (Canada) and the English Section at ILU. Call for papers "The Poetics and Ethics of “Learning With”" (PDF).
• Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter. García Zarranz, L. (2021) “Thresholds of Sustainability: Cassils and Emma Donoghue’s Counter Narratives.” On The Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature and Identity in Canada. Eds. Linda Morra and Sarah Henzi. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 23pp.
• Group Member, Derritt Mason, publishes the book monograph Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture (UP of Mississippi) in December 2020.
• Webinar Keynote Lecture by Prof. Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, “Resource Extraction, Relationality and Resurgence: Towards a Body Land Pedagogy”, Nov. 16, 2020. This keynote opens the international conference, “The Poetics and Ethics of ‘Learning With’: Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Feminist Production Today”, co-organized by the project leader, Amanda Fayant, Marie Carrière, and Dominique Hétu. Download the keynote lecture (mp4).
• Innsbruck Gender Lecture by project leader, "Paradoxical Worldings: Reflections on Feminist and Trans Cultures Today", Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria. October 20, 2020. Download the Innsbruck Gender Lecture (mp3).
• Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (ADHUC-University of the Balearic Islands) leads the international research project, Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene (2020-2023), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. The leader of the TransLit group is a researcher in this project too.
• The group's leader co-edited The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Alumni Newsletter 2, Making Collective Worlds in an Age of Turbulence: Reflections from the Editors, (with Sophie Thériault, Oct. 2020). Lucas Crawford, one of the group's members, published a piece in it.

• Peer-Reviewed Journal Article. García Zarranz, L. (2020). Feeling Sideways: Shani Mootoo and Kai Cheng Thom's Sustainable Affects. University of Toronto Quarterly, 89(1), 88-106.
• Webinar by Stella Mililli (NTNU, ILU). "Borderland Rhythms in Refugee-themed Literature. Terry Farish’s The Good Braider", Western Social Science Association Virtual Conference and Association for Borderlands Studies Webinar Series, June 3, 2020.
• Keynote lecture by project leader. "Paradoxical Worldings: Reflections on Feminist and Trans Cultures Today", University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK, March 16, 2020.

• Conference paper by project leader. "TransLit: Ethics, Affect, Pedagogy", Trans Realities: The 6th Nordic Trans Studies Network Conference, NTNU, Sept. 13, 2019. 
• Organization of panel "Trans Poethics" by project leader. Trans Realities: The 6th Nordic Trans Studies Network Conference, NTNU, Sept. 13, 2019. In collaboration with the Literature for Inclusion initiative, led by Gulabuddin Sukhanwar (Litteraturhuset, Trondheim).
• Keynote lecture by Dr. Wibke Straube (Karlstad University, Sweden), affiliated international member. "Trans Natures. Intimacies, Trans Bodies and Pollution in Environmental Art and Film", Trans Realities: The 6th Nordic Trans Studies Network Conference, NTNU, Sept. 12, 2019.
• Co-organization of Trans Realities: The 6th Nordic Trans Studies Network Conference, NTNU, Sept. 11-13, 2019. Organized by france rose hartline (NTNU), Luca Tainio (Karlstad University, Sweden), Max van Midde (University of Helsinki, Finland) and the project leader.
• Guest Lecture by Dr. Derritt Mason (University of Calgary, Canada): "Queer Visibility in Media for Young People: Two Case Studies". NTNU, Norway, August 22.
• Conference paper by project leader. “Staying with the Trouble: Response-able Ethics in Trans Writing and Visual Art,” Transversal Transfeminisms, University of Roehampton, London, UK. July 30, 2019.

• Peer-Reviewed Journal Article. García Zarranz, L. (2019). Where is the transgender in the transCanadian? Kai Cheng Thom and Vivek Shraya’s response-able fictions. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 78, 141-53. Special issue “Canadian Fictions of Globality”.
• Invited opening speech by project leader. Art exhibit Sorry for the Inconvenience (Galleri Kit, NTNU, Trondheim, March 7, 2019).
• Two workshops on Indigenous Feminisms organized by Amanda Fayant in collaboration with the project leader and Litteraturhuset’s Literature for Inclusion Initiative, led by Gulabuddin Sukhanwar. The workshop on March 15 was led by Dr. Ellen Marie Jensen (UiT) and the one on March 18 was led by Prof. Deatra Walsh (UiT). Both events took place in Trondheim.
• Stella Mililli’s participation in the PhD Seminar “Border Rhythms” (University of Oslo, April 4-5, 2019).
• Guest Lecture by Prof. Marie Carrière (University of Alberta, Canada): “Feminist Writing in Canada: Feelings, Poetics, Ethics”. NTNU, Norway, April 10, 2019. Prof. Carrière’s visit to ILU was also connected the North American Studies research project at NTNU, led by Eir-Anne Edgar.
• Roundtable Paper delivered by project leader at the international ATGender Spring Conference “Feminist Teaching Through Emotions, Feelings and Affects” (Gijón, Spain, May 8-10, 2019). 

• Co-organization of the international conference The Poetics and Ethics of “Living With” (Banff, Canada, Oct. 11-14). Organized by the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta (Canada), the Department of Teacher Education at NTNU, and the project leader. 
• Co-organization of a two-day workshop on Affect Theory and Praxis: Transdisciplinary Methodologies (NTNU, Nov. 19 & 20). Organized by Sophia Efstathiou (Department of Philosophy), Celina Annabell Stifjell, and the project leader. In collaboration with the Decolonial Research Group at NTNU.

• 14^th ESSE Conference, Masaryk University (Czech Republic), August 29-31. Co-organization of three panels on “Ethics and Violence in Contemporary Literatures in English” by project leader and Prof. Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
• Guest Lecture by Prof. Belén Martín-Lucas (University of Vigo, Spain): “A Decolonial Critique of the ‘War on Terror’ Metanarrative: Reading Feminist Fiction”. NTNU (Norway), September 13

• Canada and Beyond V: Bodies of Water International Conference, University of Huelva (Spain), June 11-12. Conference paper by project leader
• NACS XII: Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters International Conference, Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, University of Akureyri (Iceland), August 8-11. Collaborative conference paper by project leader and angela rawlings