HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society

Dr Alicia Castillo Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies, Gender and Sexuality at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) in Dublin City University. She lectures and researches on the field of Feminist studies with a focus on the social and cultural representations of different forms of gender-based violence, conflict, and memory. She is the co-author of New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory (Palgrave).Dr Angelos Bollas is an Assistant Lecturer in the School of Sociology at Maynooth University. His research focuses on societal discrimination in relation to sexuality, cultural representations of masculinities, expressions of masculinities that challenge normative understandings of gender and sexuality, as well as pedagogical considerations around inclusion and diversity. He is the author of Contemporary Irish Masculinities and Sexualised Governmentalities (Springer).

• 1. Viral Echoes: Revisiting the Cultural Memory of HIV/AIDS - Alicia Castillo Villanueva & Angelos Bollas.- 2. Beyond the Spectacle: Rethinking Media Representations of HIV/AIDS and Social Suffering - Angelos Bollas.- 3. #BeMoreJill and the Limited Visibility of Female Carers in It’s a Sin - Janey Umback.- 4. Incorrigibility and Becoming-Child: Portrayals of People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Works of Cuban Writer Miguel Angel Fraga - Mirta Suquet.- 5. Remembering ‘Risky’ Sex: Viral Hauntology and Post-Crisis Cruising Discourses - David O'Mullane.- 6. Embodied Topologies: Space and the Place of Memory among Women Living with HIV in South Africa - Elizabeth Mills.- 7. Mothering with HIV - Denise Proudfoot & Ellie Marley.