Keynote Speakers
Periodicals as Cultural Assemblages
Málaga, 3–5 September 2025
We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the 13th Annual ESPRit Conference. Their lectures will address central themes of the conference from distinct disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
Catherine Delyfer
University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Keynote Title: “Testing the Generic Boundaries of the Periodical: Assembling The Magazine with Lucy Raeburn”
Catherine Delyfer is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and a member of the Centre for Anglophone Studies (C.A.S., EA 801). Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, art, gender studies, and the interplay between text and image in periodicals and illustrated books.
She is the author of Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siècle Writing: The Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880–1931 and has co-edited multiple scholarly volumes and journal issues on aestheticism, intermediality, and gender. She currently serves as joint editor of Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism.
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María Isabel Hernández Toribio
Complutense University of Madrid
Keynote Title: “Ciberpragmática y periodismo: las redes sociales de algunas publicaciones”
María Isabel Hernández Toribio is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research lies at the intersection of pragmatics, discourse analysis, and digital communication, with recent work focused on speech act theory in online platforms.
She has published on digital discourse in contexts such as cultural institutions, tourism platforms, audiovisual media, and advertising. She is currently Academic Secretary of the Complutense Institute for the Teaching of Spanish and the Master’s in Creative Writing.
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