Call for Papers: Sexual Diversity of/in the Margins. New Queer Trends in Hispanic Cultures (+more info)

2025-11-17

Coordination

Danae Gallo González
Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone literatures and cultures at Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany). Her research focuses on the (self-)representation of “non-white” and/or trans* and queer bodies in Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Brazil and Equatorial Guinea across different media, including literature, film, Instagram and YouTube, from decolonial and/or new materialist perspectives. Among her publications are:

  • Gallo González, D. (2021). Towards a new scene of enunciation? Trans* characters in Spanish TV series from the Transition to Angie in Cuéntame cómo pasó and beyond. In D. Gallo González (Ed.), Trans time: Projecting transness in European (TV) series* (pp. 139–170). Campus-Verlag.

  • Gallo González, D. (2022). Tras el rastro del evú: Los discursos de la homofobia en La bastarda (Obono, 2016) y Juntos antes que anochezca (Ada, 2018). Quo Vadis Romania, 59–60, 182–200. [Special issue: Guinea Ecuatorial: La pluralidad de sus culturas, lenguas y literaturas].

  • Gallo González, D. (2023). Afropunk en Instagram de la mano de José Esteban Muñoz: De la “desidentificación” al “sentimiento y la sensación de lo común marrón”. Perspectivas Afro, 2(2), 371–386.

Dieter Ingenschay
Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Literatures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), and specialist in literature and gender. His other thematic foci include literature and the metropolis and Judeo-Hispanic literatures. Among his publications are:

  • Ingenschay, D. (Ed.). (2006). Desde aceras opuestas: Literatura/cultura gay y lesbiana en Latinoamérica. Iberoamericana-Vervuert.

  • Ingenschay, D. (Ed.). (2018). Eventos del deseo: Sexualidades minoritarias en las culturas/literaturas de España y Latinoamérica a finales del siglo XX. Iberoamericana-Vervuert.

  • Ingenschay, D. (2023a). Pedro Lemebel – paradigma de la diversidad. In B. Callsen & P. Seidel (Eds.), Cuerpos diversos: Estéticas de diversidad corporal en España y América Latina en los siglos XX y XXI (pp. 237–248). edition tranvía / Verlag Walter Frey.

  • Ingenschay, D. (2023b). Temática trans* en la pantalla actual: La Veneno, de Javier Ambrossi y Javier Calvo, Una mujer fantástica, de Sebastián Lelio. EU-topías. Revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos, 25, 5–16. https://doi.org/10.72033/eutopias.25.27119

  • Ingenschay, D. (2024). “Hablo por mi diferencia”: Articulaciones del yo en las culturas homosexuales hispanoamericanas de los siglos XX y XXI. Iberoamericana-Vervuert.

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    One of the key developments of the last fifty years is that the group of people now referred to by the acronym LGBTIQ+ is no longer regarded as a marginal, exotic or extravagant phenomenon, but as part of social and cultural reality. This reality has found expression in a multitude (still growing) of artistic artefacts (literary, cinematic and others), as well as in a vibrant and ongoing theoretical discussion.

    Nevertheless, the notion of the “marginal” (which emerged early in order to grasp non-heteronormative cultures) still serves to characterise what is specific about this production (cf. Notaro 2020, Veldhuis 2022). Marginality, as understood in this special issue, refers on the one hand to the general discrimination of sexual minorities by a phallogocentric majority, and on the other to the impressive range of responses and artistic creations that contest that marginality. These responses involve a number of concrete dimensions: theory (queer/cuir, new materialist, ecocritical, etc.), history (coloniality and decoloniality, canonical/anti-canonical positions) and even geography (peninsular regions, the Americas, Equatorial Guinea, etc.). In this sense, marginality (or a convergence of marginalities) promises to capture and describe new forms, nuances and modulations of sexodiverse culture in the Hispanic world.

    Building on the important contributions of socio-historical and aesthetic studies of sexual diversity, and on the growing interdisciplinarity and intersectionality of Gender Studies, this special issue proposes to examine literary, filmic, televisual and other artefacts that explore transitions, changes and border zones, from philosophy to popular culture. We aim to build on earlier work and continue its legacy, while bearing in mind that barriers still exist and continue to emerge in Spanish-speaking countries, in parallel with the numerous and troubling relapses into fundamentalist heteronormative, homophobic and more generally LGBTIQ+-phobic positions that we are witnessing in the international context, often fuelled by far-right ideologies.

    Focus of the special issue
    This issue explores new artistic expressions of sexual dissidence at the margins of the Hispanic world, both within and beyond its Western regions.

    Descriptors
    By way of example, submissions may address topics such as:

    • Historical and contemporary LGBTIQ+ issues in film, television and other media

    • Artistic articulations of LGBTIQ+ life forms in fiction and autobiography

    • History, present and future perspectives of LGBTIQ+ movement theories

    • Queer bodies and corporeality in new artistic artefacts

    • LGBTIQ+ experiences and lived realities in their ideological contexts (postcolonialism, neo-Marxism, etc.)

    • New trends in the fields of Feminism/Motherhood/Transfeminism

    • Sexual dissidences beyond the Western/colonial world

    • Theoretical convergences in queer studies

    International relevance: Contributions from different public and private institutions and from diverse international geographical contexts will be especially valued.

    Languages: Proposals are accepted in Spanish and English.

    Editorial guidelines: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESLG/about

    All research articles must follow academic standards in line with the IMRaD format: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion + Conclusions. References must follow APA 7, and all articles will be published with their corresponding DOI (where applicable).

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    Key dates

    Deadline for submission of academic article proposals: 30 September 2026

    Deadline for submission of review proposals related to the thematic dossier: 1 December 2026

    Publication of the dossier: First issue of 2026

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    References

    -Aliaga, J. V., & Martínez Oliva, J. (Eds.). (2022). Espejos contraespejos: Trazos biográficos, diversidad sexual y arte en Hispanoamérica y España [Mirror/Countermirror: Biographical traces, sexual diversity and art in Latin America and Spain]. Egales.

    -Domínguez Ruvalcaba, H. (2016). Translating the queer: Body politics and transnational conversations. Bloomsbury.

    -Duval, E. (2021). Después de lo trans: Sexo y género entre la izquierda y lo identitario [After the trans: Sex and gender between the left and identity politics]. La Caja Books.

    -Gallo González, D. (Ed.). (2022). Trans* time: Projecting transness in European (TV) series. Campus Verlag.

    -Halberstam, J. (2018). Una guía rápida y peculiar de la variabilidad de género [A quick and quirky guide to gender variability]. Egales.

    -Ingenschay, D. (Ed.). (2018). Eventos del deseo: Sexualidades minoritarias en las culturas/literaturas de España e Hispanoamérica [Events of desire: Minority sexualities in the cultures/literatures of Spain and Latin America]. Iberoamericana.

    -Lanuza, F., & Carrasco, R. (2013). Queer & cuir: Políticas de lo irreal [Queer & cuir: Politics of the unreal]. Fontamara.

    -Mérida, R. M. (2016). Transbarcelonas: Cultura, género y sexualidad en la España del siglo XX [Transbarcelonas: Culture, gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Spain]. Bellaterra.

    -Mérida, R. M. (Ed.). (2023). Memoria a la intemperie: (Auto)biografías trans hispánicas [Memory in the open: Hispanic trans (auto)biographies]. Universitat de Lleida.

    -Notaro, S. R. (2020). Marginality and global LGBT communities: Conflicts, civil rights and controversy. Palgrave Macmillan.

    -Pérez-Sánchez, G. (2007). Queer transitions in contemporary Spanish culture. State University of New York Press.

    -Peralta, J. L., & Huard, G. (Eds.). (2023). Transitar la memoria: Archivos y ficciones trans en América Latina y España[Traversing memory: Trans archives and fictions in Latin America and Spain] [Special issue]. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, 22, 381–517. https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/kamchatka/issue/view/1616

    -Preciado, P. B. (2022). Dysphoria mundi. Anagrama.

    -Sifuentes-Jáuregui, B. (2002). Transvestism, masculinity, and Latin American literature. Palgrave.

    -Trávez Falconí, D., Castellanos, S., & Viteri, M. A. (2014). Resentir lo queer en América Latina: Diálogos desde/con el Sur [Re-feeling the queer in Latin America: Dialogues from/with the South]. Egales.

    -Trujillo, G. (2009). Deseo y resistencia: Treinta años de movilización lesbiana en el Estado español [Desire and resistance: Thirty years of lesbian mobilisation in the Spanish state]. Egales. (E-book published in 2021).

    -Trujillo, G. (2014). De la necesidad y urgencia de seguir queerizando y transformando el feminismo: Unas notas para el debate desde el contexto español [On the need and urgency to continue queering and transforming feminism: Notes for the debate from the Spanish context]. ex æquo, 29, 55–67.

    -Veldhuis, C. B. (2022). Doubly marginalized: Addressing the minority stressors experienced by LGBTQ+ researchers and research. Health Education & Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981221116795

    -Zurian, F., & García Ramos, F. (Eds.). (2021). Una mirada queer sobre el cine español del siglo XX: Guía didáctica [A queer gaze on twentieth-century Spanish cinema: A teaching guide]. Fundamentos.