IGIUMA’s RESEARCH LINES

AREA 1: HEALTH SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE.

 

• Leavitt path algebras. Evolution algebras. Lie algebras. Quotient rings. Derivations of algebras. 
• Construction of the subjectivity of female inpatients in mental institutions through clinic histories.
• Historical construction of psychiatric symptoms from a feminist perspective through periodical and non-periodical publications.
• Research on the development of the creative process of the Architecture project and its teaching, the influence of biographic experience on its development and the ways in which teaching can promote a creative answer on students stimulating creative, critical and innovative ways of thinking. 
• Study of the industrial patrimony, particularly of the landscapes generated by industrial decadence, and the design of methodologies that support its identification, characterization, assessment and intervention from an interdisciplinary point of view.
• Gender and (des)medicalization: Biopolitics and women’s social inclusion-exclusion processes.
• Institutional history of women’s psychiatric hospitals.
• Research on architecture from a gender perspective.
• Women as objects and subjects of medical-scientific knowledge.
• Women as objects and subjects of scientific and medical-sanitary knowledge.
• Exclusion, inclusion and generalization in scientific and medical-sanitary activity.

 

AREA 2: PSYCHOLOGIE, EDUCATION, ECONOMICCS, LAW AND SOCIOLOGY

 

• Visual literacy from a gender perspective. 
• Art and inclusive feminism.
• Art, patrimony and inclusion.
• Gender gap in the labor market.
• Digital divide.
• Biographies of female painters and feminist art theory.
• Quality in service companies. Analysis and strategic leadership of companies. Educative innovation. Entrepreneurship and gender. Tourism sector.
• Conciliation and co-responsibility.
• Media culture and audio-visual aesthetics through feminist lens.
• Social sciences’ curriculum from gender perspectives; women’s visibility in the teaching of Philosophy, History, Art’s History and Geography. Videogames, education and masculinities.
• Purification of the teaching staff in high schools and regular schools during Francoism.
• Development of artistic curriculums.
• Literature’s didactics from a gender point of view with focus on the different voices.
• Social sciences didactics from gender perspectives.
• Gender diversity (LGBTI community).
• Intercultural diversity (immigrant women).
• Children’s dramatization and emotional development.
• Artistic education and self-care.
• Women’s education in the 20th century.
• Feminine entrepreneurship, reputation and social media.
• Entrepreneurship and Gender; Open innovation; Tourism; Start up, Spin-off, National Benchmark Tests (BTS); emotional analysis and Covid-19.
• Study of the reading materials (textbooks and children’s and young adult literature) for children’s education, primary and secondary school from gender perspectives.
• Internal exile of female educators during the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and Franco.
• Feminism and International law; Gender-based violence in armed conflicts; Human rights, female migrants and refugees, peace processes from gender points of view.
• Gender and power in education.
• Gender equality.
• Aggravator for gender reasons of the article 22.4 of the Penal Code.
• The incorporation of gender perspectives in university teaching.
• Congress women during Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship.
• Dialogic reading and promotion of reading, with particular emphasis on children’s and young adult LGBTI literature.
• Egalitarian language.
• Inclusive language.
• Literacy; Feminist criticism.
• Forced marriages.
• Misogyny and antisemitism.
• Female genital mutilation
• Cultural and natural patrimony from gender perspective.
• Porn culture and its relationship with gender-based violence.
• Porn culture and its relationship with gender-based violence 2.0.
• Welfare regimes and gender equality.
• Connection between feminism and multiculturalism.
• Women’s representation in literature.
• Videoclips as a didactic tool for feminist education of the teaching staff.
• Gender-based violence.
• Gender-based violence 2.0.
• Gender-based violence and Criminal law.
• Gender-based violence; Criminal law and cultural diversity; feminicide; Sexual and Reproductive Rights; Hate crimes. 

 

 AREA 3: HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND ART.

 

• Female social activists: Fourierists, freethinkers, reformists, educators, pacifists.
• Silent film actresses (Hollywood) who did not overcome the sound barrier.
• Exiled Spanish actresses: Alicia Rodríguez, María Casares, Rosita Díaz Gimeno.
• Agency and presence of non-human animals in art history.
• Gender analysis for examining the different attitudes of male artists and female artists towards animals.
• Analysis and critical study of stereotypes, specially inside of the advertising industry at the beginning of the 20th century.
• Contemporary Art.
• Public Art.
• Art and visual contemporary culture.
• Decorative Arts.
• Popular Arts.
• Visual Arts.
• Associations between female bodies and food in advertising and artistic creations.
• Feminist organizations and women’s suffrage in Spain.
• Biofilms of foreign actresses in Spanish film industry (1926-1950).
• Female biographies and genealogies (Diverse studies about Concepción Arenal, Victoria Kent, Belén Sárraga y Magda Donato).
• Female citizenship: women subjects, sexual roles and sociocultural agencies in contemporary history.
• Gender awareness, class awareness, feminist awareness. Discourses and historical experiences in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Contemporary Art History, Gender and Feminism.
• Feminist creation.
• Institutional criticism.
• Questioning of common areas of artistic representation: innocence, fatality, objectification, consumption.
• Women’s written culture. Women’s literacy.
• Women’s history didactics.
• Women directors of Silent films.
• Women directors of Spanish film industry (the pioneers).
• Expositive discourses, contemporary art and gender perspective.
• Documents and LGBTI+ movement.
• Domains related to territory analysis and its factors that contribute to gender-based discrimination, with special attention on the environment and urbanism.
• Education and coeducation on the transmission and acquisition of knowledge in diverse contexts and gender roles, especially with immigrant population. Methodologies for innovative education, tutoring and seminars among equals.
• Art on the public sphere, especially regarding public sculptures and monuments, approached from a gender perspective and connected to the construction of public memory and collective identities.
• Feminist movement on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
• Leisure during Francoism. The couplet as an instrument for social control.
• The role of women within the notarial institution during the Modern Period.
• The role of women in current conflicts.
• The role of folklore in the processes of the nationalization of Francoism.
• The female role within cultural institutions and management of arts as promoters, protectors, curators, collectors, patrons, matrons and disseminators of historical artistic patrimony.
• Women’s protagonist role in the late antique church.
• Women’s work during Francoism and the Transition period.
• The epic genre and gender (mainly in Greece and India).
• Female film scriptwriters.
• Female film writers (during Hollywood’s “witch-hunting”).
• Women’s travel writing: travel diaries of 19th century foreigners.
• Public sculpture.
• State, politics and feminisms. Compared perspectives.
• Women’s survival strategies during the Spanish post war.
• Gender studies.
• Freethinking feminism: politic culture, media culture and social media in Spain and Latin-America in the 21st century.
• Latin-American feminists.
• Documentary sources from a feminist approach.
• Gender and uses of time in contemporary society.
• Gender, discourse, history and media.
• History, social conflicts and press in the Contemporary Era.
• Women’s history during the 1st Francoism and its relation to radio media.
• Women’s history in the Modern Period: construction of individuality during the transition from the old to the new regime, women’s occupations, marginalised women, marriage, women in civil and ecclesiastic courts.
• Women’s and gender history and cultural history in the contemporary era.
• Art’s history.
• Contemporary Art’s history from gender perspective, LGBTI studies, homosexual culture studies and queer theory.
• Contemporary Art’s history and psychoanalytic theory.
• Art’s history and visual culture in the contemporary era through feminist lens.
• Socioeconomic and diplomatic history during the transition to the new regime with a gender outlook.
• Women and gender historiography. Essays, reviews and sources.
• Indicators of people’s activity and interrelations on different territorial scales, centring their interest on the evolution of women’s paid and unpaid work and usages of time.
• Jewellery and artistic Avant-garde.
• Women’s literacy processes at the end of the Medieval times and along the Modern era.
• Construction of the first feminine intellectual elites in Castilla-La Mancha.
• Gender construction in the late-antique Mediterranean.
• Women’s education on the Medieval and the Modern era.
• The feminization of the “Dreams factory”. Writers, professionals, and actresses in the Spanish film industry (1934-2000).
• Women as agents of religious conversion in the late-antique world.
• Women as subjects in the documentary expedition.
• Ecclesiastical women and humanities in Modernity.
• Women in the underground.
• Women in audio-visual culture of the Modern era. Traveller women in the context of the colonial world: their activity, their new gazes and perspectives.
• Women in the Republic and war.
• Women’s presence in syndicalism. The Genera Union of Workers.
• Prostitution.
• Women’s repression during the first Francoism.
• Feminist readings of the image. Discourses and representations.
• Artists and their creation in the contemporary era inside the context of the patriarchal society.
• Survival strategies in the post-war times.
• Women in Masonry.
• Women in performing arts (theatre, film).
• Women and the social movements of the first half of the twentieth century.
• Civic maternalism, ethics of care and collective feminine action in the twentieth century.
• Strategies and mechanisms of control over the feminine population during Francoism: Women’s protection board (1942-1983).
• Memory of political violence and politics of reparation of the present time.
• Historical memory.
• Women’s memoirs in the Spanish civil war.
• Methodologies of gender research.
• Methodologies of demographic research visualizing in the life cycle the gender-related factors that explain the differences between men and women.
• Myth and gender (mainly in Greece and India).
• Monographies: María Veleda, María Lamas, Ana de Castro, Isabel Oyarzábal, Carmen de Burgos, Maruja Mallo, Dolores Cebrián, “Elena Fortún”, Teresa León, Remedios Varo (among others).
• Social movements.
• Women and notary writing during the Modern era.
• Women and the civil war.
• Women and travel literature through the Modern and Contemporary times.
• Women and religion in the late-antique world.
• Peasant women and familism: positions, roles and survival strategies.
• Women, human rights and the construction of peace. Historical perspectives.
• Women in the Spanish Transition.
• Women in International Brigades (Spanish Civil War).
• Women, marriage and family in the power elites of the kingdom of Granada.
• Working class women, collective action and new social movements in Spain: 19th and 20th centuries.
• Women and enclosed order in the Modern era.
• Women and dictatorships.
• Women and minors against real justice.
• Women and fabrics, craftmanship and collective work form a gender perspective.
• Women’s words, memoirs and writing: the republican exile of 1939 in autobiographical texts.
• Films that make history (Carne de fieras, La Puerta del cielo, Roma ora undici).
• intramural documentary production of the female cloister during the Modern era.
• Republic and female republicans in Spain. Gender roles, ruptures and historical itineraries.
• Texts for women’s history in Spain.
• Everyday life. Public and private spaces during Francoism.
• Links between identity, the feminine body and nature.
• Critical perspective of gender identities and LGBT+ studies and their visibility in visual culture (lesbian and trans images). 

 

AREA 4: PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOLOGY

 

• Neo-Victorianism.
• Contemporary British fiction
• Memory and narrative
• Gender perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary English fiction.
• Trauma and contemporary literature.
• History of the French language.
• Analysis of the touristic discourse.
• Analysis of the literary discourse.
• Francophone women’s literature.
• Art and literature.
• Religion and myth in Ancient Greece.
• Funerary Greek epigraphy.
• Greek literature.
• Literary gender studies (19th and 20th century).
• Recovery of the Andalusian literary patrimony: bibliographic studies, analysis of literary works, text edition.
• Spanish literature of the 19th century: analysis of literary works, authors and literary genres (travel literature, theatre, narrative, manners…), text edition, connections between history and literature, the Andalusian picture.
• Recovery of the literary patrimony: ways of transmission, documentary collections, epistolary, diaries, memoirs.
• Literature of the Spanish exile.
• Literature written by women.
• Life and work of Louisa May Alcott.
• Life and work of Sophia Treadwell.
• Women and theatre in the US.
• Neo-Victorian literature and culture.
• Contemporary feminist fiction.
• Somatechnics.
• Space, gender and body in literature.
• Gender studies.
• Feminist theory.
• Citizenship and cosmopolitanism.
• European Union, globalisation and collective identities.
• Literary studies considering their contexts and translations, with special emphasis on gender.
• Feminist Cultural Studies, language and identity.
• English language.
• Applied Linguistics.
• Peninsular feminist movements, biographies (activists, unionists).
• Women’s genealogy: actresses, directors and professionals (nationals and internationals) of the show business (film and theatre).
• Mystical writers.
• Authority and female authorship.
• Feminist philosophy.
• Feminist theology.

 

AREA 5: COMMUNICATION AND TRANSLATION.

 

• Cyber-activism, Cyber-feminism, Women’s public image.
• Communication with gender perspective.
• Communication and inequality.
• Communication and hate speeches.
• Communication and violence against women.
• Communication, Human Rights and cooperation.
• Communication, feminism and women studies.
• Communication, SDG and gender perspectives.
• Women supporting Human Rights.
• Development of audio-visual projects with gender perspectives.
• Misinformation and hate speeches.
• Didactics of queer translation.
• Gender stereotypes in the media.
• Gender Studies and Cultural Studies.
• Feminism and the Feminist Movement.
• Feminist genealogies in the construction of the communicative thought.
• Gender, literary genres and translation.
• Gender, translation and popular culture.
• Gender, translation and children and young adult’s literature.
• Research-creation around questions of representation and gender.
• Journalism, equality and Human Rights.
• Journalism through feminist and pro-Human Rights lens.
• Prostitution and pornography.
• Relationship between production and reproduction of discourse from a feminist approach.
• Representation of identities in the film industry and television (formats of entertainment, docudrama, fiction and advertising).
• Safety of female journalists.
• Artistic peripheries, disoriented axes and the interpretation of these axes with gender perspectives inside of the Spanish territory.
• Audio-visual translation and song translation.
• Theory and practise of feminist translation, relation between translation and politic ideology in the Greek Enlightenment, and comic translation.
• Humanistic translation (studies on translation and gender, and on translation and neuter Spanish).
• Literary translation and gender – Literary translation and LGBTIQ+.
• Translation and writings of the self.
• Translation and feminization.
• Translation and gender perspectives.