European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective

Lead Research Organisation: University of York
Department Name: Centre for Women's Studies

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.

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Flinta, A. Review of Contested Communities. Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex in The Modern Language Review

 
Description EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective) Consortium 
Organisation Central European University
Country Hungary 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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) Consortium 
Organisation Coventry University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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) Consortium 
Organisation University of Bologna
Country Italy 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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) Consortium 
Organisation University of Granada
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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) Consortium 
Organisation University of Lodz
Country Poland 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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) Consortium 
Organisation University of Oviedo
Country Spain 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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) Consortium 
Organisation Utrecht University
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The University of York is a EUTERPE Consortium Associated Partner, taking a full and equal role in the project. Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Centre for Women's Studies and Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is PI for York and acts as team manager and research/project coordinator for York's Work Package (10). She serves on the EUTERPE Executive Board, contributes to the EUTERPE Editorial Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), co-supervises and line manages York's Doctoral Candidate (Alice Flinta, DC 10), and acts as research adviser and/or mentor to several EUTERPE DCs based at the other EUTERPE Consortium institutions, including Evangeline Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna), Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University), and María Elena Bertos Quesada (DC 4, University of Bologna). Dr Alexandrova was instrumental in the development of the original, successful EUTERPE funding bid for the Horizon Europe/Marie Curie Doctoral Networks grant, and subsequently led on the successful application for the JeS Guarantee funding from UKRI. As such, she was responsible for the University of York's inclusion in the EUTERPE Consortium, building on York's Centre for Women's Studies' previous project partnership with some members of the EUTERPE Consortium (including CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht, Bologna, and Lodz) within the remit of the Horizon EU-funded GEMMA (Women's and Gender Studies) project/network, a transnationally collaborative postgraduate mobility programme. Dr Alexandrova was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC, chairing the recruitment panel and ensuring that the process adhered to the funders' and the Consortium's requirements, and oversees all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. Dr Nicoletta Asciuto (Department of English & Related Literature, University of York) is CI for York and acts as co-supervisor for the York DC (Alice Flinta) and research mentor to several EUTERPE DCs, including Evangeline Petra Scarpulla (DC 3, University of Bologna) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (DC 11, Coventry University). She serves on the EUTERPE Editorial Board (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 Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe) and Supervisory Board, delivers research towards the main EUTERPE outputs (especially the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe), and contributes various engagement activities as part of EUTERPE or emerging from the research activities and networks of the project (see Engagement Activities). With Dr Alexandrova, Dr Asciuto was responsible for the recruitment of the York DC and contributes to all York Work Package, research, administrative, and reporting tasks. She was also instrumental in securing the Associate Partnership and internship arrangements for York's DC with Comma Press Manchester, and has remained a key liaison with this partner. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto will jointly mentor and oversee the work of DC 3, Evangeline Scarpulla (University of Bologna), during her 6-month secondment at York in AY 2024-25. They attended and contributed to Evangeline's Annual Progress Review Meeting, coordinated by the University of Bologna (her Home institution), on Jan 16, 2024. They have also provided support, guidance, and organised meetings in relation to the Comma Press Manchester internships for Alice Flinta (York) and Ninutsa Nadirashvili (Coventry). Alice Flinta (Centre for Women's Studies, University of York) is York's Doctoral Candidate on EUTERPE, funded by UKRI. Alice is developing several research outputs, including: a doctoral thesis of 70,000-90,000 words; literary author interviews that will form part of her thesis data collection as well as contributions to one of EUTERPE's main research outputs, the Podcast Library; research and publications (currently working papers) towards Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe; content towards the EUTERPE website; and various engagement and professional development activies (see Engagement Activities). Alice works closely with her Employability Mentor (Francina Clayton, University of York) to develop and work according to her tailored employability and professional development plan (a requirement by the funders) and produces regular reporting on her progress and outputs via supervisory meetings, Thesis Advisory Panel meetings (twice per academic year), and Annual Review Meetings with her EUTERPE supervisory team, listed in this section. The last Annual Review Meeting took place on Dec 18, 2023 and yielded a detailed timeline of completion, record of training, a thesis project plan, and employability development plan. In her second year (AY 2024-25), Alice will undertake a 6-month secondment at the University of Bologna, as well as a 2-month internship with Comma Press Manchester. Dr Francina Clayton (Building Research and Innovation Capacity [BRIC] Team, University of York) serves as Alice Flinta's Employability Mentor. The Employability Mentor is a vital part of the Supervisory Team, and as such, key to the success of EUTERPE. The York DC's Supervisory Team is comprised of six members, with five focusing on the scholarly and academic aspects of the DCs' training: 1st supervisors (Dr Alexandrova and Dr Asciuto; Supervisor at Secondment University (Dr Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna); Employability Mentor (Dr Francina Clayton, University of York); Thesis Advisory Panel Member (Professor Emilie Morin, University of York); and External Expert Adviser (Dr Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto). The responsibility for ensuring that employability remains central to the training and support is offered to the DCs in this regard rests with all Team members, but the Employability Mentor is tasked with overseeing and driving the process. Professor Emilie Morin serves on Alice Flinta's Thesis Advisory Panel (TAP) and provides academic guidance and support in two meetings per year, as well as on an ongoing casual basis (over email and in office hours). The TAP panel is not a EUTERPE requirement but a part of York's standard PhD research support and progress assessment provision. Professor Morin provided her input in the recent TAP meeting at the University of York on March 13, 2024. Dr Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto) serves as Alice Flinta's External Expert Advisor. She provides research guidance and support on an ongoing, casual basis and participates in the DC's Annual Progress Review Meetings. She is part of EUTERPE's employability and career development provision for the York DC, and as such as considered a member of the York team. Dr Pesarini contributed research mentorship and guidance to the York DC in the latest Annual Review Meeting held on Dec 18, 2023. Representatives of the York team have attended and contributed to the discussion, project planning, and events at all of the project partner meetings conducted to date, which include meetings of the Governing Structure and coordination of outputs via the Editorial Board. To date, this has included: - EUTERPE Kick-off meeting in action month 1, at Central European University (CEU) Vienna, Austria. - 2nd Partner meeting, action month 6 (March 23-25, 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. Alice Flinta's project contributions and outputs to date have included: - Attending all the York/Centre for Women's Studies induction programmes for doctoral students, including a range of trainings and auditing of postgraduate teaching to strengthen her knowledge in the project's key areas, including transnational feminist studies and theory, history, interdisciplinary research methodologies, research ethics, translation, and other. Through these and other activities (below), she has actively promoted the work and significance of EUTERPE, crediting and representing our funders as appropriate. - Attending the first EUTERPE Summer School in Oviedo and presenting her research project there. - Regularly meeting with her Employability Mentor at York (Francina Clayton) and developing her Employability Enhancement Plan, submitted to the EUTERPE Leading Partner for reporting and review in preparation for the Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna and subsequently for her Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - Completing and presenting her doctoral research proposal at the EUTERPE mid-term evaluation at CEU in Vienna, Austria (Dec 3-7, 2023). - Establishing strong transnational research connections with other Doctoral Candidates in the network and engaging in the collaborative planning of the major EUTERPE outputs that involve the DCs, including the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. - Conducting research on and contributing the names of transnational authors to be included in Volume 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe (with the advice of her supervisors and EUTERPE Editorial Board) . - Planning her 6-month secondment in Bologna for Year 2 (AY 2024-25). - Meeting with Comma Press Manchester, York's non-academic Associate Partner, to plan and schedule her 2-month intership with them (set for 2025). - Successfully passing her Annual Progress Review meeting on December 18, 2023. - Submitting a book review of Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe, edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss to The Modern Language Review, publication forthcoming in 2024 - Presenting a conference paper emerging from her EUTERPE research at the Sisterhood in Action Conference, University of York on March 8, 2024. - Securing a place in the English-Italian translation workshop offered as part of the annual Bristol Translates Summer School (1-5 July 2024). This is organised by the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and will take place online. - Completing a translation course (English-Italian) that started in February 2024. This was organised by an Italian editorial studio, Oblique, and ran for three weekends (2-3, 16-17 February and 1-2 March, 2024) of day-long translation workshops with Italian translators of national and international reach. - Establishing professional connections through her conference attendance of L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists, in Florence, in November (24-26, 2023). Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones, who are likely to feature in Alice's thesis. - Designing her PhD thesis structure, conducting extensive exploratory research and writing, and producing a chapter draft for her TAP on March 13, 2024. - Preparing for the EUTERPE Spring School in Lodz, Poland (May 2024).
Collaborator Contribution - Each of the partners are represented and contribute into the EUTERPE Joined Governing Structure, in which the York team is also an active member, as detailed above. - Central European University, as the Leading Partner for EUTERPE, has provided essential project governance, finance management/distribution, and reporting coordination guidance, policy documents, and overall oversight of all project activities to date, to ensure compliance with our funders' requirements and adherence to the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement, signed by all partners. CEU is also the Consortium's main point of contact for project operations and liaises with the European Research Agency and Project Officer tasked with overseeing our progress and compliance. CEU also manages and is in charge of continuously updating the EUTERPE website. Most recently, all partners have contributed to the project website and social media pages with reports of the research activities and outputs being produced. - CEU's Project Leader, Professor Jasmina Lukic, is the Editor-in-Chief for the main project output, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. As such, she and CEU lead on the editorial tasks involved and are the main liaison with CEU Press, the Handbook publisher. - CEU has organised and coordinated all administrative consotrium meetings, including the major Mid-Term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Dec 3-7, 2023. - Each partner has recruited their respective DCs (11 in total across the EUTERPE Consortium). - The DCs have established a strong collaborative partnership, exchanging knowledge, skills, and peer support remotely and at project meetings, while working together on the DC contributions to the major project outputs (the Podcast Library, the EUTERPE website, and Vol. 2 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe). - Each partner conducted the recruitment process of the DCs with respect to the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. - The University of Bologna has led on EUTERPE's Work Packages 3 and 4, and are involved in York's Work Package 10 as the York DC's Secondment/Support institution. Dr Francesco Cattani from the University of Bologna acts as York DC Alice Flinta's Support/Mobility Supervisor and contributed to Alice's Annual Progress Review Meeting on Dec 18, 2023. - At the latest Editorial Board Meeting on Dec 6, 2023, all Consortium partners produced a first draft of the 'catalogue of terms' that will form Vol. 1 of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe. Responsibility for the agreed entries was distributed among the partners. A schedule for the manuscript production was agreed at this meeting and output deadlines were set for the 2024 calendar year. - All partners are currently drafting our assigned entries for the 'catalogue of terms', due to be discussed at the next all-partner event at the University of Lodz, Poland (May 10-18, 2024). - Comma Press Manchester, alongside other non-academic Associate Partners supporting EUTERPE by agreeing to host internships for our DCs, attended and presented at the Mid-term Evaluation Meeting in Vienna on Dec 4, 2023. They met with the York and Coventry teams separately in November 2023 to discuss and establish the timeline, employability training objectives, and collaboration plans for the York and Coventry DCs' respective internships with this Associate Partner.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature, translation (theory and practice), gender studies, transnational/migration studies, queer studies, feminist studies, linguistics, history, social sciences, practice-led and creative research methods in the humanities. This report covers the period between action month 1 and action month 19 (October 1, 2022 - March 13, 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 Doctoral Candidates (DCs) have been recruited and employed by their Home universities and enrolled on their PhD programmes. - Membership of the EUTERPE governing and editorial structures has been agreed and regular meetings for each committee (Executive Board, Supervisory Board, Editorial Board) have been held. - The project website has been launched. - The research work of the consortium has commenced and the structure of the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe has been agreed. Research and editorial tasks have been allocated. - An Editorial Board has been formed, with members from across Consortium partners, to discuss and lead the work on the project's overarching major deliverables, the Handbook of Transnational Feminist Literature in Europe, the Online Catalogue/EUTERPE website, 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 in Oviedo, Spain and at CEU, 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 Surrealism, Gender & Resistance: Uncovering the Untranslated Cahun/Moore Archive 
Organisation Leeds Trinity University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This newly established 5-year collaborative project, currently involving Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Lead/PI, University of York), Dr Birgit Kaiser (CI, Utrecht University, member of the EUTERPE Consortium), and Professor Juliette Taylor-Batty (Leeds Trinity University, EUTERPE Advisory Board member) is in the process of collating, consolidating, transcribing, translating, and anthologising French Surrealist artists and Resistance fighters Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's rich, multi-site multilingual archive, primarily held at the Jersey Heritage Trust Archive (Channel Island of Jersey, UK) and Beinecke Library at Yale University (U.S.). The project was seeded by the research of Dr. Boriana Alexandrova in 2021, which yielded a single-author, peer-reviewed publication for Modernism/modernity journal's The Body Politic in Pain research cluster in 2023 (Alexandrova, "'A thousand times more painful than death': Survival and Unspeakability in Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's Post-1945 Unpublished Writings" The Body Politic in Pain: A Modernism/modernity Online Special Issue (2023). https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/alexandrova-survival-unspeakability-cahun.). To date, a funding bid to the Leverhulme Trust (detailed below) to seed-fund the first year of the project has also been submitted, a new Postgraduate Research Masterclass for Utrecht University (detailed below) has been delivered, and further partnership connections have been established with the Jersey Heritage Trust, Yale University's Beinecke Library, and filmmaker Alex Thiele from the British Film Institute (BFI), who will be involved in the public engagement activities planned for years 1-2 of the project, starting from 2025. The planned project outputs include: 1. The first-ever translation and Anglophone anthology of Cahun and Moore's post-1937 literary output, comprising their Jersey Resistance leaflets, prison diaries, unfinished post-war memoirs, and key post-prison correspondence; 2. A wide dissemination of findings through publications, events, and multimedia public engagement platforms, in partnership with project stakeholders. In Year 1 (2024-25), these will include: An article for Modernism/modernity, based on archival findings, focusing specifically on Cahun/Moore's lesser-known post-1937 writings; 3-5 blog posts for Xenolalia: Queer Verse of Unnatural Means, tracking findings and generating public engagement; 2-4 public engagement events, one in each fieldwork location, at York LGBT History Month (February) and the York Festival of Ideas (June). These will cultivate strategic partners for the project's future, using Dr Alexandrova's connections with local LGBTQ+ organisations (e.g. York LGBT Forum) and creative industries professionals (e.g. Alex Thiele of 65 Wilding Films, project collaborator in the creative industries, currently making a feature film based on Cahun and Moore's story with the BFI). Year 1 of the project is also planned to output a book proposal to Verso Books for the anthologised translation, who have an excellent record publishing interdisciplinary studies of art, activism/social justice, and Surrealism, including in translation. The project team is also planning a submission of further funding bids in 2025 to support the project's next stages (years 2-5) to Gerda Henkel Stiftung, funding a postdoctoral researcher, and the NWO Dutch Research Foundation's Open Competition Scheme, to buy out the Utrecht-based researchers' time and fund a PhD co-translator. Project outputs to date, produced by Dr Boriana Alexandrova, include: 1. A funding bid to the Leverhulme Trust's Research Fellowship Scheme (outcome to be confirmed in March 2024), intended to fund the first year of the project. If successful, this fellowship would fund the foundational archival research, consolidation, and transcription, preparing the material for translation, as well as maximise opportunities for knowledge dissemination, partnership building, and discovery of new Cahun/Moore material existing beyond known sources (e.g. the Sylvia Beach papers at Princeton University and the Harry Ransom Centre, which acquired new collections in 2019 that may contain uncovered traces of Cahun and Moore's involvement with Paris's modernist elite). 2. An invited lecture for Utrecht's PGT Masterclass in Transculturality, Utrecht University, convened by Dr Birgit Kaiser (see Alexandrova, "Introducing the Untapped Archive of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 1937-72" under Engagement Activities). 3. A contribution of archival materials, secondary research, a bibliography, curriculum design, content, and expertise towards the development of the Masterclass in Transculturality offered by Utrecht University in February-June 2024. 4. Established partnership connections with the Jersey Heritage Trust in August 2023 and Yale University's Beinecke Library, which have agreed to host and/or participate in the project's public engagement and output dissemination events planned for 2025. 5. Secured the collaboration of Professor Juliette Taylor-Batty from Leeds Trinity University, whose expertise in transnational modernism and translation will be invaluable to the project. 6. Conducted research on potential funding schemes for the future of the project and drew up a 5-year external funding plan, including identifying schemes that would fund the fees of a professional translator and the publication of the anthology.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Birgit Kaiser at Utrecht University's contributions to date include: 1. Secured the partnership of BFI filmmaker and project collaborator Alex Thiele (see above). 2. Advised on the development of the Leverhulme Fellowship Scheme funding bid submitted by Dr Alexandrova towards securing seed funding for year 1 of the project. 3. Developed the Masterclass in Transculturality at Utrecht University by building on the project research and archival material provided by Dr Boriana Alexandrova (York), thereby delivering wider educational impact based on the collaboration and paving the way for further public engagement and impact planned for the period of Feb - June 2024, and thereafter (provided that Leverhulme funding is successful for Sep 2024-Sep 2025). 4. Created a template for an innovative digital research method, using the Gephi data visualisation software, to enable the project team to begin mapping out, based on data derived from the Cahun/Moore archive (chiefly letter correspondence and prison records), Cahun and Moore's social and political connections in Surrealist Paris and the Channel Island of Jersey from 1923 to 1972, the end of Moore's life. The team is continuously inputting data into this digital resource developed by Dr Kaiser as we gradually process the archival material. This resource will eventually be shareable with the wider research community and has the potential to be made open access for future research, educational, and public engagement dissemination. 5. Organised and secured funding (600 EUR) for an invited lecture and seminar emerging from this collaboration, to be delivered by Dr Boriana Alexandrova for the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Utrecht University on June 10, 2024. This funding will also indirectly support #6 below. 6. Led on the planning and confirmation of a project team research visit to the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam on June 10, 2024. This is the world's first publicly accessible art storage facility and the holder of the largest collection of Surrealist art in Europe and will directly feed into the project outputs, as well as facilitate further engagement educational impact, as it will involve the members of the Masterclass in Transculturality, alongside the wider Utrecht academic and research community. There is potential for future public engagement collaboration with Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, which we will explore during the visit.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature; visual and fine art; cultural activism and cultural studies; history Outputs: 1. Funding bid for seed funding through the Leverhulme Research Fellowship Scheme, submitted Nov 2023. 2. An invited lecture for Utrecht's PGT Masterclass in Transculturality, Utrecht University, convened by Dr Birgit Kaiser (see Alexandrova, "Introducing the Untapped Archive of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 1937-72" under Engagement Activities). 3. Established partnership connections with the Jersey Heritage Trust in August 2023 and Yale University's Beinecke Library, which have agreed to host and/or participate in the project's public engagement and output dissemination events planned for 2025. 4. 5-year project funding plan. 5. A Masterclass in Transculturality at Utrecht University by building on the project research and archival material provided by Dr Boriana Alexandrova (York), thereby delivering wider educational impact based on the collaboration. 4. A template for an innovative digital research method, using the Gephi data visualisation software, to enable the project team to begin mapping out, based on data derived from the Cahun/Moore archive, Cahun and Moore's social and political connections in Surrealist Paris and the Channel Island of Jersey from 1923 to 1972, the end of Moore's life. 5. Funding for an invited lecture and seminar emerging from this collaboration, to be delivered by Dr Boriana Alexandrova for the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Utrecht University on June 10, 2024.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Surrealism, Gender & Resistance: Uncovering the Untranslated Cahun/Moore Archive 
Organisation Utrecht University
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This newly established 5-year collaborative project, currently involving Dr Boriana Alexandrova (Lead/PI, University of York), Dr Birgit Kaiser (CI, Utrecht University, member of the EUTERPE Consortium), and Professor Juliette Taylor-Batty (Leeds Trinity University, EUTERPE Advisory Board member) is in the process of collating, consolidating, transcribing, translating, and anthologising French Surrealist artists and Resistance fighters Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's rich, multi-site multilingual archive, primarily held at the Jersey Heritage Trust Archive (Channel Island of Jersey, UK) and Beinecke Library at Yale University (U.S.). The project was seeded by the research of Dr. Boriana Alexandrova in 2021, which yielded a single-author, peer-reviewed publication for Modernism/modernity journal's The Body Politic in Pain research cluster in 2023 (Alexandrova, "'A thousand times more painful than death': Survival and Unspeakability in Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's Post-1945 Unpublished Writings" The Body Politic in Pain: A Modernism/modernity Online Special Issue (2023). https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/alexandrova-survival-unspeakability-cahun.). To date, a funding bid to the Leverhulme Trust (detailed below) to seed-fund the first year of the project has also been submitted, a new Postgraduate Research Masterclass for Utrecht University (detailed below) has been delivered, and further partnership connections have been established with the Jersey Heritage Trust, Yale University's Beinecke Library, and filmmaker Alex Thiele from the British Film Institute (BFI), who will be involved in the public engagement activities planned for years 1-2 of the project, starting from 2025. The planned project outputs include: 1. The first-ever translation and Anglophone anthology of Cahun and Moore's post-1937 literary output, comprising their Jersey Resistance leaflets, prison diaries, unfinished post-war memoirs, and key post-prison correspondence; 2. A wide dissemination of findings through publications, events, and multimedia public engagement platforms, in partnership with project stakeholders. In Year 1 (2024-25), these will include: An article for Modernism/modernity, based on archival findings, focusing specifically on Cahun/Moore's lesser-known post-1937 writings; 3-5 blog posts for Xenolalia: Queer Verse of Unnatural Means, tracking findings and generating public engagement; 2-4 public engagement events, one in each fieldwork location, at York LGBT History Month (February) and the York Festival of Ideas (June). These will cultivate strategic partners for the project's future, using Dr Alexandrova's connections with local LGBTQ+ organisations (e.g. York LGBT Forum) and creative industries professionals (e.g. Alex Thiele of 65 Wilding Films, project collaborator in the creative industries, currently making a feature film based on Cahun and Moore's story with the BFI). Year 1 of the project is also planned to output a book proposal to Verso Books for the anthologised translation, who have an excellent record publishing interdisciplinary studies of art, activism/social justice, and Surrealism, including in translation. The project team is also planning a submission of further funding bids in 2025 to support the project's next stages (years 2-5) to Gerda Henkel Stiftung, funding a postdoctoral researcher, and the NWO Dutch Research Foundation's Open Competition Scheme, to buy out the Utrecht-based researchers' time and fund a PhD co-translator. Project outputs to date, produced by Dr Boriana Alexandrova, include: 1. A funding bid to the Leverhulme Trust's Research Fellowship Scheme (outcome to be confirmed in March 2024), intended to fund the first year of the project. If successful, this fellowship would fund the foundational archival research, consolidation, and transcription, preparing the material for translation, as well as maximise opportunities for knowledge dissemination, partnership building, and discovery of new Cahun/Moore material existing beyond known sources (e.g. the Sylvia Beach papers at Princeton University and the Harry Ransom Centre, which acquired new collections in 2019 that may contain uncovered traces of Cahun and Moore's involvement with Paris's modernist elite). 2. An invited lecture for Utrecht's PGT Masterclass in Transculturality, Utrecht University, convened by Dr Birgit Kaiser (see Alexandrova, "Introducing the Untapped Archive of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 1937-72" under Engagement Activities). 3. A contribution of archival materials, secondary research, a bibliography, curriculum design, content, and expertise towards the development of the Masterclass in Transculturality offered by Utrecht University in February-June 2024. 4. Established partnership connections with the Jersey Heritage Trust in August 2023 and Yale University's Beinecke Library, which have agreed to host and/or participate in the project's public engagement and output dissemination events planned for 2025. 5. Secured the collaboration of Professor Juliette Taylor-Batty from Leeds Trinity University, whose expertise in transnational modernism and translation will be invaluable to the project. 6. Conducted research on potential funding schemes for the future of the project and drew up a 5-year external funding plan, including identifying schemes that would fund the fees of a professional translator and the publication of the anthology.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Birgit Kaiser at Utrecht University's contributions to date include: 1. Secured the partnership of BFI filmmaker and project collaborator Alex Thiele (see above). 2. Advised on the development of the Leverhulme Fellowship Scheme funding bid submitted by Dr Alexandrova towards securing seed funding for year 1 of the project. 3. Developed the Masterclass in Transculturality at Utrecht University by building on the project research and archival material provided by Dr Boriana Alexandrova (York), thereby delivering wider educational impact based on the collaboration and paving the way for further public engagement and impact planned for the period of Feb - June 2024, and thereafter (provided that Leverhulme funding is successful for Sep 2024-Sep 2025). 4. Created a template for an innovative digital research method, using the Gephi data visualisation software, to enable the project team to begin mapping out, based on data derived from the Cahun/Moore archive (chiefly letter correspondence and prison records), Cahun and Moore's social and political connections in Surrealist Paris and the Channel Island of Jersey from 1923 to 1972, the end of Moore's life. The team is continuously inputting data into this digital resource developed by Dr Kaiser as we gradually process the archival material. This resource will eventually be shareable with the wider research community and has the potential to be made open access for future research, educational, and public engagement dissemination. 5. Organised and secured funding (600 EUR) for an invited lecture and seminar emerging from this collaboration, to be delivered by Dr Boriana Alexandrova for the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Utrecht University on June 10, 2024. This funding will also indirectly support #6 below. 6. Led on the planning and confirmation of a project team research visit to the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam on June 10, 2024. This is the world's first publicly accessible art storage facility and the holder of the largest collection of Surrealist art in Europe and will directly feed into the project outputs, as well as facilitate further engagement educational impact, as it will involve the members of the Masterclass in Transculturality, alongside the wider Utrecht academic and research community. There is potential for future public engagement collaboration with Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, which we will explore during the visit.
Impact Disciplines involved: literature; visual and fine art; cultural activism and cultural studies; history Outputs: 1. Funding bid for seed funding through the Leverhulme Research Fellowship Scheme, submitted Nov 2023. 2. An invited lecture for Utrecht's PGT Masterclass in Transculturality, Utrecht University, convened by Dr Birgit Kaiser (see Alexandrova, "Introducing the Untapped Archive of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 1937-72" under Engagement Activities). 3. Established partnership connections with the Jersey Heritage Trust in August 2023 and Yale University's Beinecke Library, which have agreed to host and/or participate in the project's public engagement and output dissemination events planned for 2025. 4. 5-year project funding plan. 5. A Masterclass in Transculturality at Utrecht University by building on the project research and archival material provided by Dr Boriana Alexandrova (York), thereby delivering wider educational impact based on the collaboration. 4. A template for an innovative digital research method, using the Gephi data visualisation software, to enable the project team to begin mapping out, based on data derived from the Cahun/Moore archive, Cahun and Moore's social and political connections in Surrealist Paris and the Channel Island of Jersey from 1923 to 1972, the end of Moore's life. 5. Funding for an invited lecture and seminar emerging from this collaboration, to be delivered by Dr Boriana Alexandrova for the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Utrecht University on June 10, 2024.
Start Year 2023
 
Description BBC interview 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Dr Nicoletta Asciuto was invited to participate in the BBC programme "New Thinking: Arts and Ideas" to talk about her research on light and gender. The title of the episode was "Light and Dark" and she was interviewed by Dr Sophie Coulombeau and was in conversation with Dr Jacqueline Yallop. The activity will reach national and international audiences as the platform BBC Sounds is accessible from within and without the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Conference attendance at L'Eredità delle Donne festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact In November 2023 I travelled to Florence (Italy) to attend L'Eredità delle Donne, a feminist festival that brought together intellectuals, writers and activists of national and international reach. Among these there were Eve Ensler (V), Carola Rakete, Rosi Braidotti, but also writers Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti and Elvira Dones who are likely to feature in my thesis and to be interviewed for the EUTERPE Podcast library.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://ereditadelledonne.eu/
 
Description English to Italian Literary Translation course 
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 took part in a literary translation course (from English into Italian) organised by Oblique Studio, an editorial studio in Rome (Italy).
The course, that took place online, was organised around three weekends of translation and editorial workshops (2-3, 16-17 February, 1-2 March) with Italian editors and translators of international reach. We have been assigned translation exercises and also two official translation tests for the Italian publishing house Fanucci.
Aside from the benefits relating to my own training and professional development, this has been an invaluable opportunity to build working relationships and establishing international contacts that I am hoping will be featuring in our EUTERPE podcast library as I see how interviews with some of the translators involved in the course will benefit the EUTERPE project more broadly.
The course attracted Italian translators-to-be, mainly based in Italy, but also the UK, Germany and France.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description GEMMA Oviedo Specialized Research Seminar: "Knowing in the Flesh: Creative research methods through feminist praxis" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Dr Boriana Alexandrova (PI for EUTERPE York) designed and delivered a specialist MA-level workshop in artistic and creative research methodologies applicable in the Social Sciences and the Arts and Humanities. This developed as part of York's EUTERPE Work Package entitled "Translational genres: genre/gender crossings in translation and creative practice".

This specialised research seminar and workshop, entitled "Knowing in the Flesh: Creative research methods through feminist praxis," was delivered online on October 9, 2023 to a taught postgraduate student group of 10 and academic lecturers from the University of Oviedo's Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) programme. The session featured a lecture and an interactive workshop, which was designed to empower and inspire the students to apply creative research methodologies to their independent research projects (theses or dissertations) and beyond. The students produced collaborative creative outputs during the session, which they subsequently took away with them to use in their own work; they also gave consent for their outputs and the workshop format to be shared with Oviedo's wider institutional network of researchers and practitioners at all levels, as the workshop format is easily translatable to in-person, hybrid, and online-only teaching and research practice. The session served as valuable knowledge exchange between academic experts in interdisciplinary research methods in the social sciences and humanities between the Universities of York and Oviedo, and secured a commitment to repeat this type of knowledge exchange and cross-institutional collaborative teaching between our universities (and within the EUTERPE Consortium) going forward. The student response to the session was uniformly enthusiastically positive and the students reached out to Dr Alexandrova afterwards to request further reading and express the value of the session to their development as researchers and practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Invited roundtable presentation: "Performance, citizenship and activism in Chile 2010-2020" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Dr Boriana Alexandrova was invited to contribute to a roundtable discussion (with individual research presentations) with Dr Paulina Bronfman (Project ANILLO ATE220035: Gender, biopolitics and creation School of Social Work; Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile) and Dr. Anna Bull (University of York). The event was entitled "Performance, citizenship and activism in Chile 2010-2020" and was hosted by the Department of Education Research Seminar Series, University of York on November 20, 2023. The event was attended by an audience of 30, comprised of local and international researchers, postgraduate students, and members of the York Department of Education's Research Seminar group. It facilitated the establishment of new research connections and began conversations of future event organisations and potential research collaborations. Dr Alexandrova and Dr Bronfman began planning an "exchange" with the potential for Dr Alexandrova to contribute to a similar event at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Sisterhood in Action conference presentation (York) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I presented part of my research at the annual Centre for Women's Studies' conference, Sisterhood in Action. My paper related to the themes I am exploring right now - language, identity, and the subversion of frameworks of thinking (such as the concept of mother tongue, or identity as fixed) that transnational authors carry on in their writings. Specifically, I focused on providing an informative framework of transnational literature, to then concentrate on the first book Bengali-American author Jhumpa Lahiri wrote in Italian, In Other Words (2015). The close reading of this text allowed me to craft a narrative of mutability of the self through understanding identity as a "relational structure" (Preciado, 2021) where the subject, in this case Lahiri, establishes a relation with languages and allows them to shape her.
The conference attracted a broad number of postgraduate students and University staff members. The presentations were followed by some table talks and my topic encouraged many among the audience to join my table.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/sisterhoodinaction2024/programme/abstracts-2024