Profile (CV) of the research teaching staff

Journal articles

• Duce, Violeta. Questioning Standard Definitions of Trauma: Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) as a Literary Representation of Trauma in Transmodern Times. ENGLISH STUDIES (AMSTERDAM). 2025. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2025.2520769
  
  
• Duce, V. Social Media and Female Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''s Americanah. EUROPEAN LEGACY. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2021.1891667
  
  

Scientific chapters

• Violeta Duce. Adichie's "The American Embassy" and "Jumping Monkey Hill": a transmodern response to Transmodernity. TRANSMODERN PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES IN ENGLISH. 2019
  
  

Projects

• Literature Of(f) the Limit: Pluriversal Cosmologies and Relational Identities in Contemporary Writing in English. 01/09/22 - 31/08/26
  
  
• La literatura en la era transmoderna: celebración, límites y transgresión. 01/01/18 - 30/09/22
  
  

Teaching Innovation Projects

• CLUB DE LECTURA Y CULTURA 2.0 FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN. 02/09/24 - 31/08/25
  
  
• AI-assisted enhancement and mutual interdependence in the guided flippedinduction of English grammar in university teaching and learning processes. 01/09/24 - 31/08/25
  
  
• Repositorio digital de recursos lúdicos para el aprendizaje del inglés militar (MILEN). 01/09/24 - 31/08/25
  
  
• CLUB DE LECTURA FACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN: CUANDO LEER ES PARTE DE TU VOCACIÓN (ID 4854). 03/09/23 - 31/08/24
  
  

Supervision of undergraduate dissertations

• EL USO DEL INGLÉS COMO HERRAMIENTA DE COMUNICACIÓN, COLABORACIÓN Y COORDINDACIÓN EN EL ÁMBITO MILITAR: IMPLEMENTACIÓN MEDIANTE SISTEMAS DE COMUNICACIÓN POR RADIO . . Universidad de Zaragoza. Sobresaliente. 11/05/26
  
  

Participation in conferences

• PLGS International Conference 2026: "Female CorpoRealities". Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). ““You’re not progressing”: An Intersectional Reading of the (Ageing) Female Body in Adichie’s Dream Count”. Alcalá. 15/04/26
  
  
• XVIII Jornadas de Innovación Docente e Investigación Educativa. Participativo - Póster. Grammatical competence mediates the decoding and structural production of Officer Cadets’ speech in English language. Zaragoza. 16/01/26
  
  
• XVIII Jornadas de Innovación e Investigación Educativa. Participativo - Póster. El impacto de la capacitación docente en la ecología de aprendizaje del área de idiomas del Centro Universitario de la Defensa (CUD). Zaragoza. 15/01/26
  
  
• 48th AEDEAN Conference/48 Congreso de AEDEAN. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). “All you wanted was to be a girl. It is so simple. Yet so hard.”: An Analysis of Intersectional Girlhood(s) in Abi Daré’s And So I Roar (2024). Vitoria-Gasteiz. 12/11/25
  
  
• 19º Congreso Internacional sobre Narrativas Contemporáneas en Lengua Inglesa: The Relational Turn in the Literary Anglosphere: Writing Connection and Interdependence. Organizativo - Otros. Zaragoza. 22/05/25
  
  
• 19th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English. The Relational Turn in the Literary Anglosphere: Writing Connection and Interdependence Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). “Relationality across Borders: A Transmodern Reading of Women’s Migratory Experiences in Chika Unigwe’s Better Never than Late (2020)”. Zaragoza. 21/05/25
  
  
• 47th AEDEAN Conference Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). The Importance of (Self-)Representation: Adunni’s herstory in Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice. Sevilla. 08/11/24
  
  
• English Studies Today: Research in Times of Change. V Seminar in English Studies - SEING 2024. Participativo - Otros. PhD Experiences Roundtable. Zaragoza. 03/05/24
  
  
• I Seminario de Escritoras Contemporáneas. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: La literatura como ejercicio revelador y transformador de la realidad. Universidad de Huelva. 23/04/24
  
  
• II Congreso IEDIS en Empleo, Sociedad Digital y Sostenibilidad. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Transmodern Narratives and Transcultural Identities in a Globalized World. Zaragoza. 01/06/23
  
  
• 16th International Conference of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS). Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Home, (Un)Belongingness and Transculturality: Outlining Domestic Spaces in Adichie’s The Thing around Your Neck (2009). Granada. 28/03/23
  
  
• 17th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English Transmodern Literatures Of(f) the Limit. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun: Pushing the Boundaries of Contemporary Trauma Fiction. Zaragoza. 30/03/22
  
  
• II AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Transmodern Response to our Transcultural and Globalized Paradigm. Alicante. 02/07/21
  
  
• SEING II: English Studies Across Genres, Media And Modes. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Response to the New Cultural Logic of Transmodernity. Zaragoza. 25/09/20
  
  
• I Encuentro Doctoral transfronterizo, Universidad de Pau (UPPA) - Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR). Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Transmodern Response to our Transcultural Paradigm. Zaragoza. 15/10/19
  
  
• 16th International ISSEI Conference. Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Americanah: Social Media and Female Empowerment in the African Diaspora. Zaragoza. 02/07/19
  
  
• SEING, "Research in a Globalised World". Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Hair and African Aesthetics: The Recovery of Agency in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Zaragoza. 10/05/19
  
  
• 42nd AEDEAN Conference. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Redefining African Female Identity in Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with me. Córdoba. 07/11/18
  
  
• Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English. Participativo - Ponencia oral (comunicación oral). Adichie’s ‘The American Embassy’ and ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’: A Transmodern Response to the Contemporary Cultural Paradigm. Zaragoza. 26/04/17
  
  

Research stays

• WWU MÜNSTER. MÜNSTER. Alemania. 01/05/22 - 31/07/22
  
  

Organization of R&D activities

• International Conference "Transmodern Literatures of(f) the Limit". 30/03/22 - 01/04/22
  
  
• 16th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI): "Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy". 02/07/19 - 05/07/19
  
  

Research evaluation activities

• Revisión de artículos en revistas científicas o tecnológicas. RAEI Alicante Journal of English Studies. España. 01/01/25 - 31/12/25
  
  
• Revisión de artículos en revistas científicas o tecnológicas. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies. España. 01/09/24 - 30/09/24
  
  

UNIZAR teaching of the last six courses

• English in nursery school I. Degree in Nursery School Education. During academic year 2026-27
  
  
• English language IV. Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Organisational Engineering. From the 2025-26 course to the 2026-27 course
  
  
• English language I. Degree in Defense and Security Studies. During academic year 2024-25
  
  
• English in nursery school I. Degree in Nursery School Education. During academic year 2023-24
  
  
• English in primary education II. Degree in Primary School Education. During academic year 2023-24
  
  
• English language IV. Degree in English. During academic year 2023-24