Marguérite Corporaal is Professor of Anglophone Literature and Culture at Radboud University, and an expert on the cultural memories and heritage of European famines. She was the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant for Consolidators for a project researching the early literary legacies of Ireland’s Great Famine (2010-15), as well as the principal investigator of the VICI project Redefining the Region: The Transnational Dimensions of Local Colour (NWO, 2019-25). Furthermore, Corporaal led the consortium of Heritages of Hunger (NWO-NWA, 2019-25) which investigated the legacies of six modern European famines in teaching, commemoration, heritage making, and musealisation. Corporaal is the author of Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870 (Syracuse UP, 2017), and co-editor of, amongst others, Famines and the Making of Heritage (Routledge, 2024). Presently, Corporaal researches cultural representations and heritage of nineteenth-century cholera epidemics in Ireland, Britain and Canada; the nineteenth-century Irish diaspora in relation to epidemic diseases; as well as textbook, museum, and heritage narratives about pandemics.

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Marileen La Haije is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Cultures at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on arts-based practices addressing mental health and human rights in Latin America and Europe. Her work on creative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic includes research on narrative roleplaying games at the Tobar García Children’s Hospital for Mental Health in Buenos Aires during 2020-21 (Barugel, S. & La Haije, M. 2024, Journal of Childhood Studies).

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