El Vicerrectorado de Cultura y Sociedad de la ULPGC le invita a participar
en la siguiente actividad:

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE
NOVEL // Seminario Internacional sobre lenguas y culturas en contacto en la
novela rosa

Reunión de investigadores de diversas universidades europeas y americanas
que trabajan cuestiones interdisciplinares que tienen que ver con las
relaciones socioculturales y lingüísticas que se reflejan en las novelas
románticas.

 Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their
nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women.
However, in the last decade a number of scholars have approached the study
of the romance novel with critical rigor and avoiding the condescending
treatment of previous analyses. Quite often in romance novels we encounter
characters that have very different backgrounds: come from different
countries and cultures, speak different languages, belong to very different
social strata or are, in some other way, an “Other” to the rest of the
characters and/or the intended readers. This International Seminar examines
novels in which the main characters or other important characters in the
text can be considered as “Other”, with special consideration given to
linguistic and cultural others. The topics covered include:
English-language novels that take place in the Canary Islands or other
Atlantic /Caribbean islands; paradise discourse; cross-cultural clashes;
languages in contact: codeswitching and/or language mixing; bilingualism,
biculturalism and identity; metalinguistic references and/or speech
representation; the “Other” as a romance hero or heroine; gender
discourses
This International Seminar is organized by the “Discourse, Gender &
Identity” Project Group (grant FFI2014-53962-P, funded by the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) and the Research Team
“Sociolinguistic & Sociocultural Studies” working at the ULPGC
Department of Modern Languages.

Programme:
WEDNESDAY, 21
8,45: Registration - Information desk opens also for document collection.
9,00: Welcome and Seminar Opening Act by the Dean of the Faculty of
Philology, the Head of the Department of Modern Languages and the
Organizing Committee
9,30: Laura Vivanco (Independent scholar, Edinburgh): "Changing
Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its
Context"
10,00: María del Mar Pérez Gil (ULPGC): “‘Every inch a Spaniard’:
Images of Spain in Popular Romance Novels”
10,30: Inmaculada Pérez-Casal (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela):
“Lisa Kleypas and the ‘outcast’ hero: a diachronic study”
11,00: COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Luz-Mar González-Arias (Universidad de Oviedo): “Across the
Atlantic: Loving the Significant Other in Emma Donoghue’s Landing”
12,00: Maureen Mulligan (ULPGC): “‘He is a man any woman might love,
but no sane woman would marry’: Cultural Clashes in Romantic Travel
Texts”
12:30: Ramón Soto Crespo (University of Illinois): “Archipelagoes of
romance: The Caribbean Sea and Archipelagic Trash Fictions”
13,00: María Jesús Vera-Cazorla (ULPGC): “‘And they drive on the
wrong side of the road’. An analysis of the Anglo-centric vision of the
Canary Islands in three romance novels”
13,30: LUNCH
16,30: GUIDED WALKING TOUR TO OLD TOWN (VEGUETA)
Meeting point: Gabinete Literario

THURSDAY, 22
9,30: Aline Bazenga (Universidade da Madeira): “Language awareness in
four popular romances set in Madeira Island”
10,00: María Isabel González Cruz (ULPGC): “English/Spanish
codeswitching and borrowing in a sample of romances set in the Canaries”
10,30: Miquel Pomar-Amer (Universitat de les Illes Balears):
“Distinctively Majorcan features in Helen Walsh’s The Lemon Grove and
Emma Straub’s The Vacationers”
11,00: COFFEE BREAK
11,30: María del Pilar González de la Rosa (ULPGC): “‘In a flash of
severe temper’: Acknowledging Gender and the Representation of Women in a
sample of Romance Novels set in the Canaries”
12,00: Johanna Hoorenman (Utrecht University): “Private Treaties:
Historical and contemporary Lakota Sioux romances by Kathleen Eagle”
12,30: María Henríquez Betancor (ULPGC): “Imagery of Lovers in Book
Covers: A Gender Approach to Romantic Novels”
13,00: Elisa Costa-Villaverde & María Jesús Vera Cazorla (ULPGC):
“Bridget Jones’s Diary in novel and film: text and image as different
re-readings of female identity in romance novel and romantic comedy
film”
13,30: LUNCH
16,30: GUIDED TOUR BY BUS TO BANDAMA VOLCANO CRATER AND A VISIT TO THE
REMAINING SITES OF THE BRITISH HERITAGE IN LAS PALMAS
Meeting point: Fuente Luminosa.

FRIDAY, 23
9,30: Jayashree Kamble (LaGuardia Community College CUNY): “From Xinjiang
to the British Isles: Examining Escapism and the “Othering” of Romance
Heroines in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy”
10,00: María Ramos-García (South Dakota State University): “The
Otherness of supernatural lovers: Metaphors for diversity or something
else?”
10,30: Susana De los Heros (University of Rhode Island): “Mocking
romances:
Intercultural and interlinguistic relations in Jane the Virgin”
11,00: COFFEE BREAK
11,30: Ángeles Mateo del Pino (ULPGC): “Romanticismo gore o la
(de)construcción del «amor» caníbal”
12,00: Ana María García (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata): “Eros
no ha muerto: el impacto del género romance en el horizonte de las
teorizaciones feministas contemporáneas”
12,30: SEMINAR CLOSING ACT AND FAREWELL LUNCH