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Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing

16 June 2025

Literary convergences: Gender, genre and fandom in contemporary Spanish literature. Escritoras, lectoras, fans

Speakers
Laura Huelin (La nave invisible)
Blanca Rodríguez (President of Pórtico)
Lola Robles (writer and independent researcher)

Laura Huelin (La nave invisible)
Laura Huelin holds a BA in Spanish Philology from the University of A Coruña. She has been involved in different initiatives in the SFF fandom. She was an influential creator of ‘La nave invisible’, a website dedicated to women-authored SFF; she created the podcast ‘Solo faltan los aliens’, about speculative concerns; and she co-organised the AnsibleFest, centered in feminist SF, among other tasks. She habitually writes in her own blog, Canal Nostalgia.

Blanca Rodríguez (President of Pórtico)
Blanca Rodríguez has been the President of Pórtico (the Spanish Association of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror) since 2019. With more than 30 years of history, this association represents the centre of Spanish SF fandom, and Blanca Rodríguez has been instrumental in its organisation. As a translator, she has translated the work of Ursula K LeGuin, James Tiptree Jr, Joseph Conrad, or Kameron Hurley, among others. Her children book ‘Las aventuras de Undine. La gran tormenta’ (2013) has sold more than 5000 copies.

Lola Robles (writer and independent researcher)
As an author, researcher and activist, Lola Robles has dedicated herself to women-authored science fiction. Her research on Pilar Pedraza, or James Tiptree Jr has been published in different scientific journals, and she co-edited (together with Teresa López-Pellisa) the anthologies ‘Distópicas y Poshumanas’ (2019). She has extensive fictional production, highlighting ‘Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist’ (2016, trans. Lawrence Schimel), or ‘En regiones extrañas’ (2016), recipient of the Ignotus Award. In 2020, she received the Gabriel Award for a life-long contribution to the genre in Spain.