LIST OF PANELS

1) Trans-textuality in American Literature, Film, and Culture

Panel Chair: Jesús Ángel González

Institution: Universidad de Cantabria

E-mail: gonzalezja@unican.es

2) Crossing as Empowerment: the Boundaries of Theatrical Illusion

Panel Chair: Barbara Ozieblo

Institution: Universidad de Málaga

E-mail: ozieblo@uma.es

3) Life-Writing In The U.S.: Negotiating Border, Inter-, and Trans- Identities

Panel Chair: Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico

Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

E-mail: idurangi@filol.ucm.es

4) The Transgressional Impulse in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction

Panel Chair: Francisco Collado Rodríguez

Institution: Universidad de Zaragoza

E-mail: fcollado@unizar.es

5) ‘White Indians’ and Other Trans-Identities: Comparative Readings of the Experience of Adopted Captives

Panel Chair: Mª Ángeles Toda Iglesia

Institution: Universidad de Sevilla

E-mail: mtoda@us.es

6) Transgressing Boundaries: The Interrelationship of Poetry and the Visual Arts

Panel Chair: Viorica Patea Birk

Institution: Universidad de Salamanca

E-mail: vioricap@usal.es

7) Transnationalism and Masculinities: U.S. Literary and Filmic Representations

Panel Chair: Josep M. Armengol

Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

E-mail: JoseMaria.Armengol@uclm.es

8) Transnational/Transcultural Female Bodies in American Literature

Panel Chair: Eulalia Piñero Gil

Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

E-mail: eulalia.pinero@uam.es

9) Characterizing Diaspora Literatures in the U.S. Today

Panel Chair: Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz

Institution: Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao

E-mail: ibarrola@fil.deusto.es

10) Transactions: Financial Elites, the Politics of Austerity and the Destruction of the Welfare State

Panel Chair: Dan Fyfe

Institution: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

E-mail: dfyfe@dfm.ulpgc.es

11) Food Crossings: From Transgenics to Black Vegans

Panel Chair: Salvador Rodríguez Nuero

Institution: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

E-mail: salvador.rodriguezn@upm.es

12) Music Which Crosses Borders: Sounds and Songs Which Come and Go

Panel Chair: Ángel Chaparro Sainz

Institution: Universidad del País Vasco

E-mail: angel.chaparro@ehu.es

13) Opaquely Transparent: Crisscrossing Identities in American Literature and Film

Panel Chair: Isabel González Díaz

Institution: Universidad de La Laguna

E-mail: igonzad@ull.es

14) The Trials and Tribulations of Translation

Panel Chair: Michael A. Rockland

Institution: Rutgers University

E-mail: rockland@rci.rutgers.edu

15) Trans-Communication: Making Matter Talk

Panel Chair: Irene Sanz Alonso

Institution: Universidad de Alcalá

E-mail: irene.sanza@uah.es

16) Encounters of the Third Space Kind: American Science Fiction as the Experience of Coming Across Otherness

Panel Chair: Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo

Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

E-mail: Angel.Mateos@uclm.es

17) Crossing the Border in American Culture

Panel Chair: Ana María Manzanas Calvo

Institution: Universidad de Salamanca

E-mail: amanzana@usal.es

18) The Historical Significance of Border Crossing in the United States

Panel Chair: María Luz Arroyo Vázquez

Institution: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

E-mail: larroyo@flog.uned.es

19) Miscellaneous Panel

Panel Chairs: Begoña Simal/Víctor Junco

Institution: Universidade da Coruña/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

E-mail: bsimal@udc.es / vjunco@dfm.ulpgc.es