European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective (EUTERPE)
Lead Research Organisation:
Coventry University
Department Name: Ctr for Global Learning
Abstract
The aim of EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender in Transnational Perspective) is to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. EUTERPE intends to do that by bringing together gender and transnational perspectives within an interdisciplinary approach to literary and cultural studies. EUTERPE proposes to train and supervise 9 ESRs in interdisciplinary, transnational, gender focused literary studies. The research is organized into 8 WPs within four main areas: 1. Transnational women's literature and its travels: points of entry and pathways (WP 1, WP2); 2. Translational genres: crossing borders in gender, form, space, and identity (WP 3, WP4); 3. Transnational women intellectuals, multilingualism and decolonising European pedagogies (WP 5, WP6); 4. Transnational literature and cultural production: intermediality as a form of translation (WP7, WP8). The ESRs' academic training will include two supervisors from cooperating universities, a compulsory secondment period, and an industrial internship with an Associated Partner organization to support bespoke employability enhancement. Major impact outputs of the project: 9 PhD theses; a co-produced open source Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe with key concepts and bio-bibliographic entries on leading representatives of the field; and a Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library, which will make accessible all relevant material collected during the creation of the Dictionary. As a complex project, which brings together research, training, and open access publications of innovative and long-lasting value, EUTERPE will have strong influence in the intersecting fields of literary and gender studies, as well
as in the connecting fields of transnational studies, translation studies, migration studies and European studies.
as in the connecting fields of transnational studies, translation studies, migration studies and European studies.
Organisations
- Coventry University (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Lincoln (Collaboration)
- University of Oviedo (Collaboration)
- University of Lodz (Collaboration)
- University of Granada (Collaboration)
- University of York (Collaboration)
- Central European University (Collaboration)
- Utrecht University (Collaboration)
- University of Bologna (Collaboration)
Publications
Adriany V
(2022)
Queer Southeast Asia
Clisby, S.
(2023)
Transitions in Art, Culture and Politics
Jacobo J
(2022)
Performing Cultures of Equality
| Title | Arasahas |
| Description | A volume of 40 poems. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Pedagogy, translation, co-creation. |
| Title | PEARLS |
| Description | My poetry was featured in the performance currently touring in Belgium and I was also served as dramaturg of the production. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Co-creation. |
| Title | Ultra Unreal |
| Description | I was a featured poet in this exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Co-creation, pedagogy. |
| Description | EUTERPE - Main areas targeted for potential influence and impact |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | EUTERPE - Main areas targeted for potential influence and impact |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | Handbook of Transnational Literature |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | Central European University |
| Country | Hungary |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | University of Bologna |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | University of Granada |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Professor Suzanne Clisby was Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University until July 2023 when she moved HEIs to take up a post as Professor of Education & Social Justice at the University of Lincoln. However she continues to play an active role in the Horizon Europe EUTERPE project. Professor Clisby co-authored the project from bid development with Professor Jasmina Lukic (EUTERPE Lead P.I., Central European University and she continues to work closely Professor Lukic in the delivery of the EUTERPE MSCA. Professor Clisby was UK PI of EUTERPE from September 2022 and continues to work closely with Professor Lukic and within the Consortia as Expert Advisor to the Consortium, Employability Advisor (Granada), and External Supervisor (Coventry). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. Indeed, the Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) which Professor Clisby authored and led as Principle Investigator. The GRACE Project (graceproject.eu) involved 10 academic and industrial partners across six European countries (UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Hungary). GRACE investigated the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe through 15 interdisciplinary research projects and has become an EC programme of reference for innovative interdisciplinary doctoral training for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. We also provided a series of policy briefings for the European Commission. The GRACE Project was commended as a 'perfect example of an ITN' by the external assessor, was used as an example of excellence by the European Commission and showcased as a H2020 'success story'. The Consortium which is delivering EUTERPE builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. Professor Clisby (UK PI 2006-2018, Chair of Expert Advisory Board 2019-2024) in collaboration with members of the now EUTERPE Consortia, and led by PI Professor Adelina Sanchez (Granada University). The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. The European Commission has called it 'the representative [programme] at European level in tuning common curricula in gender studies'. Since 2006 we have provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. |
| Impact | The EUTERPE Consortium members have been collaborating together for two decades within a range of Erasmus Mundus, Horizon 2020 and European Life Long Learning Projects. The Horizon Europe EUTERPE Project builds from the Horizon 2020, Marie S. Curie European Innovative Research & Training Network (MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN, 675378) Gender and Cultures of Equalities in Europe (GRACE) Project (€3.719 million, 2015-2019) The project employed and provided advanced training for 15 international ESRs examining the production of cultures of gender equality across key sites: mediated; urban; intellectual and activist; textual and artistic; and employing cultures of gender equality. Other high impact outputs included the curation of a physical and virtual Footnotes on Equality Exhibition (footnotesonequality.eu/), the design and programming of a feminist smart phone app, Quotidian (graceproject.eu/quotidian), the production of a series of short films, Filming GRACE (graceproject.eu/films), and the creation of the GRACE Digital Hub, a digital communication system that is independent of any other pre-existing digital platform. EUTERPE also builds on longstanding collaborations and we have been working together since 2004 (and indeed prior to that through various iterations) when members collectively developed the highly successful 'GEMMA' programme. GEMMA, the European Commission Masters of Excellence in Women's & Gender Studies (gemmaerasmusmundus.eu) was launched in 2006. The GEMMA Consortia have successfully secured approximately €20 million in scholarships & staff exchange funding since 2006 and has recently been revalidated by the European Commission to continue beyond 2025. The GEMMA Consortium is a powerful European network of gender specialists based at the Universities of Granada, Oviedo, Bologna, Utrecht, Lödz, York (formerly Hull) and Central European University. The GEMMA programme is led by P.I. Professor Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa based at Granada University. Professor Clisby was a founding co-creator of GEMMA alongside Professor Sánchez-Espinosa (masteres.ugr.es/gemma) and she continues working closely with the Consortium as Chair of the Expert Advisory Board. Recognised by the European Commission as a 'Masters of Excellence' in Women's & Gender Studies, the GEMMA programme is a double award two-year MA programme. Since 2006 the GEMMA programme has provided specialist training in Women's and Gender Studies for over 800 scholars at postgraduate level. Prior to leaving Hull University, to safeguard its future support and success, Professor Clisby negotiated the relocation of the GEMMA Programme to The Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York and the Consortia successfully bid for a further €4 million in funding from the European Commission until 2025. In September 2023, the programme underwent external review and was approved for revalidation by the European Commission beyond 2025. Another previous project devised and delivered by members of the EUTERPE Consortia was the European Joint Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies (EDGES) Project (€429,234 European Life-Long Learning Programme (LLP), 2013-2015). Professor Clisby was the UK P.I. of EDGES and the project was led by P.I. Professor Lilla Crisafulli and EUTERPE Consortium colleagues at the University of Bologna. The EDGES Project involved eight academic and non-academic European institutions with a longstanding collaboration and expertise in Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and Poland. Developing from the success of the GEMMA Consortia and postgraduate programme, the EDGES Project created the first collaborative European Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies. EDGES was rated 'excellent' in the European Commission's post-project audit. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | University of Lodz |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | University of Oviedo |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) |
| Organisation | Utrecht University |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Coventry University are a Consortium partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Professor Suzanne Clisby who was initially PI for EUTERPE at Coventry, and instrumental with the EUTERPE lead, Prof Jasmina Lukic, in development of the EUTERPE proposal, has moved posts to the University of Lincoln since July 2023. Prof Clisby is an External Advisor on EUTERPE and included as a collaborator on this reporting. Professor Katherine Wimpenny now contributes to the project as PI for Coventry. Dr Jaya Jacobo is a project team member at Coventry and included as a collaborator on this reporting. The contributions made by our recruited and now employed Doctorate Candidate - Ninutsa Nadirashvili - who started in September 2023 are also included. Katherine is Ninutsa's Director of Studies for her PhD and is also her Line Manager Jaya is Ninutsa's Co Supervisor at Coventry Suzanne is Ninutsa's External Advisor / Mentor Katherine and Jaya are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which consists of three bodies, the Supervisory Board, Executive Committee, and the Advisory Board. These three bodies cooperate in making sure that EUTERPE functions smoothly. As our Expert Advisor Suzanne also contributes into these Joined Governing Structures. Further there is an Editorial Committee, a non-governing body of EUTERPE, a working group whose task is to plan and supervise the research work on the main consortium deliverable, "The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe". Jaya contributes into this Committee. Coventry colleagues are writing on concepts for this project deliverable regarding a 'catalogue of terms' including 'Dictionary', 'Trans' (Jaya) and 'Pedagogy' (Katherine) with Suzanne writing on 'Gender'. Representatives of the Coventry team have attended and contributed into the discussion and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date which include meeting of the Governing Structure. This includes: • EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. • 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (23 - 25, March 2023), University of Granada, Spain • 3rd Partner meeting, including First DC Summer School, action month 13 (1 - 7 October 2023), University of Oviedo, Spain • 4th Partner meeting, including preparation and reporting of all project activities to date, for the Mid Term Evaluation with the European Commission, action month 16 (Dec 4 - 8, 2023), at CEU. Ninutsa Nadirashvili is our Georgian-American gender studies PhD candidate and employed staff member (Research Assistant) at Coventry. Ninutsa's recruitment process was carried out by Prof Clisby and Dr Jacobo with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. Ninutsa's contribution through her PhD studies will explore how transnational texts have influenced the decolonization of Women's and Gender Studies programmes across Europe. Ninutsa's contributions into the project to date have included: • Attending all the Coventry induction programmes for doctorate students, including Ethics training. • Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo • Meeting with her Employability Mentor at Coventry (Mark Adams) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE commission (20/10) • Inputting her Core Clear Review objectives at Coventry as an employed Research Assistant • Submitting her Research Development Action plan (RDDA) for the coming year to the Doctorate College at Coventry (30/11) • Completing and presenting her doctorate proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU (3/12-7/12) • Drafting her literature review and draft methodology • Drafting her ethics application for submission May 2024 • Creating her PhD thesis structure • Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (04/2024) • Creating a detailed plan for data collection at her two universities - the University of Utrecht, her mobility institution, where she will have her secondment for six months from October 2024 - February 2025), and at University of York, UK (for her fieldwork planned March-August 2025) • Completing her 1st podcast and book review and first two bio-critical entries for The Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe and Podcast series as part of the main consortium deliverables • Negotiating her Internship at Comma Press in Manchester, to take place in Year 2 of her studies. • Submit abstracts to three academic UK conferences this academic year, to disseminate her research and to further develop her research networks. • Attend two events with Nana Abuladze (transnational writer) in New York and Washington D.C. Additionally Ninutsa has produced Narrative articles written about gender, art, and co-existence in the contemporary transnational context shared on the following links https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/07/31/bolo-sitqvats-kals-realuri-kartuli-ojakhebi-da-zrunvis-teoria-praktikashi https://feminism-boell.org/ka/2023/06/07/tavdaqira-kartveli-kalebis-kontrkino-tanatskhovreba-da-zrunvit-tareba Plus, artistic outputs can be seen on Ninutsa's blog featuring translation of Georgian poetry by Galaktion Tabidze and others https://www.weareoverhere.com/ Additionally, Katherine and Jaya have contributed by supporting Ninutsa, through: • Bi-monthly supervision meetings • Meeting with our Mobility Partners (at the University Utrecht - UU) for the 1st Annual Review Meetings of Ninutsa and Auxi Castillo Soto (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • Engaging and maintaining communication channels with Mark Adams as Ninutsa's Employability Mentor at Coventry |
| Collaborator Contribution | • Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure which Coventry colleagues attend. • Each partner has also recruited their respective DCs. • The DCs together have formed an important cohort and contribute peer support to one another. • Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. • Prof Suzanne Clisby has met with Ninutsa several times in her role as Expert Advisor • The University of Utrecht (UU) are Coventry's Mobility Partner with whom we maintain frequent contact. • With supervisors at UU (Prof Sandra Ponzanesi, and Dr Birgit Kaiser) we conducted the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Auxi Castillo Soto on 8th Jan 2024 (Auxi is the Doctorate Candidate at UU who will have her secondment period at Coventry from October 2024 - February 2025) • The UU supervisors supported us in the 1st Annual Review Meeting of Ninutsa on 12 Jan 2024, which Prof Clisby attended as Ninutas's External Advisor. • EUTERPE colleagues at York are working with us to support Ninutsa and Alice (the DC at York) with their internship at Comma Press in Manchester due to take place in Year 2. • There is frequent communication shared by the lead university partners at CEU to all the Consortium, so we are updated and fulling all the requirements of EUTERPE against the project timeline. Most recently we have updated the project website and social media pages with all the research activities and outputs being produced. • All partners are writing their concept pieces for the 'catalogue of terms' due to be shared/discussed at the next all partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024) |
| Impact | This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 8, 2024) of the EUTERPE project. • In this period the EUTERPE consortium has been established, confirming the guiding principles as they had been formulated in the project proposal and the Grant Agreement. • 11 Doctorate Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home Universities and enrolled in their PhD programmes. • the research work of the consortium has commenced. • An Editorial Board has been brought together across Consortium partners to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Dictionary of Transnational Women's Literature in Europe, and the Online Catalogue and the Podcast Library • A Supervisory Board and Executive Committee has also been brought together. Their work to date has been focused on the process of recruitment of the DCs and their ongoing support in relation to supervisory processes/issues. • The EUTERPE DC Handbook has been developed. This handbook contains all foundational information about the project with a focus on its training components. The Handbook serves as the go-to document for our DCs detailing the project's structure, governance, timeline etc. • The 1st and 2nd EUTERPE Summer and Autumn Schools took place at in Oviedo, Spain and at CUE, Vienna respectively. • During the 1st EUTERPE Summer School, the EUTERPE DC Cohort elected the Student Representative and the Vice Student Representative of the Cohort. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | "No one can tell it for you": Queering Georgian lives and literatures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 14/04/2024 and 20/04/2024 in New York, NY, USA and Washington DC, USA An event organised by the Georgian-American project "Home" - entailing a discussion between Ninutsa Nadirashvili (CU Doctorate Candidate) and Nana Ablaze - a transnational author - speaking about elements of queerness, identity, gender, and more in Georgian/transnational lives and literatures. These are public events directed at Georgian-American migrant and queer communities in New York and Washington DC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | "The farther you - the closer home gets: Literary gathering" Presentation of Galaktian Tabidze's poems and translations by Ninutsa Nadirashvili (CU Doctorate Candidate) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hawthorne, New Jersey, United States 25/11/2023 Part of non-academic engagements that concern translation and literature, Ninutsa presented her translations of Georgia's most beloved poet Galaktion Tabidze. This was also accompanied by theatrical readings of his works in Georgian. A public discussion took place afterwards which included a Q&A with the PGR/translator and a collective translating workshop of one of Tabidze's works. This was a public event that welcomed both a migrant and non-migrant audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A Herstory of Trans Pedagogies in the Philippines, En-Gender Network (Online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a keynote on decolonial trans pedagogy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | A Poetics of Transfeminine Becoming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I discussed transfemininity, tropicality & becoming around my book Arasahas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Arasahas: A Book Launch (Online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I launched my book of poetry Arasahas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Close Reading & Comparative Literature, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was a guest lecturer at the institute's weekly colloquium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Tough Chance, Tender Carapace: Towards a Poetics of Filipina/x/o Trans of Colour Creativity, Chelsea College of Arts, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I lectured on the theory and practice of Filipina/x/o trans of colour performance through key case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Trails and Ruins: Poetry and Poetics of Place, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I read my poetry and discussed poetics with colleagues Johannes Helden and Donna Stonecipher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Trans Pasts, Trans Presents: An Evening of Trans Creative Making, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I read poetry and discussed poetics alongside Remi Graves, CN Lester and Onni Gust. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |