EMMA DOMÍNGUEZ RUÉ
Emma Domínguez-Rué graduated in English at the University of Lleida (Cataluña) she studied her master in English Literature at the University of Swansea (United Kingdom). Her doctorate dissertation was published in 2011 entitled Of Lovely Tyrants and Invisible Women: Invalidism as Metaphor in the Fiction of Ellen Glasgow (Berlin: Logos Verlag). Apart from ageing studies, she has worked on narratives of illnesses, contemporary detective fiction and Victorian and Gothic fiction from a feminist perspective.
She is an Associate teacher and Coordinator of the English degree at the University of Lleida. Recently she has coedited three volumes about Ageing: Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the Social Science (transcript 2016, with Linda Nierling), Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer: A Collection of Essays (Peter Lang 2016, with Núria Casado-Gual and Brian Worsfold) and Re-discovering Age(ing) Through Narratives of Mentorship: Essays in Cultural Gerontology (Peter Lang 2018, with Núria Casado-Gual and Maricel Oró-Piqueras).
SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT OF THIS PROJECT:
Books
Emma Domínguez-Rué and Linda Nierling, eds. (2016): Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8376-2957-6
Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué and Brian Worsfold, eds. (2016): Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Bern: Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-0343-2199-0
Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué and Maricel Oró-Piqueras, eds. (2019): Re-discovering Age(ing): Narratives of Mentorship. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8376-4396-1
Publications
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2018): The art of doing good. Aging, creativity and wisdom in the Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Journal of Aging Studies – Vol. 44 (pp.22-27), ISSN 0890-4065
Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué and Maricel Oró-Piqueras. (2019). Of Wisdom, Growth, and Gratitude: Revisiting the Mentor Figure within the Framework of Ageing Studies. In Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué and Maricel Oró-Piqueras, eds. Re-discovering Age(ing): Narratives of Mentorship. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 9-20.
Emma Domínguez-Rué. (2019).Your Child of Sorts. In Núria Casado-Gual, Emma Domínguez-Rué and Maricel Oró-Piqueras, eds. Re-discovering Age(ing): Narratives of Mentorship. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 171.
Emma Domínguez-Rué. (2019). The Mirror Stage of Old Age. In Sarah Falcus, Raquel Medina and Aagje Swinnen (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer.
Oró-Piqueras, Maricel, Domínguez-Rué, Emma, Mina-Riera, Núria, y Casado-Gual, Núria. "La lectura y escritura creativa como herramientas de análisis y transformación de la vejez: un taller con mayores". Artículo en proceso de evaluación en revista científica.
Pujolràs-Noguer, Esther, Emma Domínguez-Rué, and Maricel Oró-Piqueras. 2021. “Exploring the Interstices of Aging and Narrative Agency in M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. nº 82, pp. 79-93. DOI: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.82.06
Conference Papers
Emma Domínguez-Rué, Núria Casado Gual et al. (2016): The Creativity of the Older Woman Writer: Ten Case Studies. The SIforAGE International Conference 'Envisioning a New World: Social Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing', Barcelona (Spain) 2016.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2016): Senior Techs: Ageing and Technology from the Perspective of the Social Sciences. The SIforAGE International Conference 'Envisioning a New World: Social Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing', Barcelona (Spain) 2016.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2016): Reinventing Womanhood: Carolyn Heilbrun / Amanda Cross and Post-Menopausal Empowerment. The SIforAGE International Conference 'Envisioning a New World: Social Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing', Barcelona (Spain) 2016.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2017): The Art of Doing Good. Ageing, Creativity and Wisdom in the Isabel Dalhousie Novels by Alexander McCall-Smith. 1st INDEST International Conference, Lleida (Spain) 2017.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2017): So Miss Marple Got Engaged: Age Identity and Gender Normativity in The Sunday Philosophy Club Series by Alexander McCall-Smith. International Conference on Gender Studies – Identity, Alterity and Gender Normativity, Cambridge (UK) 2017.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2018): Wise Choices in Late Life: Wisdom and Reinvention of the Self in the Isabel Dalhousie Novels by Alexander McCall-Smith. 'Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions and Reflections in Time' International Conference, London (UK) 2018.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2018): Age Identity and Gender Normativity in Detective Fiction: the Amateur Sleuth. Hannover-Herrenhausen Symposium 'Perspectives of Cultural Ageing', Hannover, Germany 2018.
Emma Domínguez-Rué (2019): Ageing and Gender (Non)Conformity: the Amateur Sleuth and Alexander McCall-Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie. International Conference on Gender Studies –Gender Non-Conformity, Oxford (UK) 2019.
Emma Domínguez-Rué, (Re-)Reading Ageing and Gender: Reading, Wisdom and Quality of Life in Older Age. Congrés: International Conference on Gender Studies “Mapping Gender”