MARICEL ORÓ-PIQUERAS

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Dr. Maricel Oró-Piqueras is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Linguistics, Universitat de Lleida (Catalunya, Spain). She is also a member of research Group Dedal-lit since it started to work on the representation of fictional images of ageing and old age in 2002. Within Group Dedal-Lit, She is member of ENAS, European Network of Ageing Studies. In 2007, she finished and defended her PhD thesis entitled “Ageing Corporealities in Contemporary English Fiction: Redefining Stereotypes”, which was published in book format by Lap Lambert in 2011. She has presented research in national and international conferences and has published articles in Journal of Aging Studiesand Odisea. Revista de Estudios Ingleses, among other. She is currently conducting research on British contemporary writer Penelope Lively’s fiction as well as getting immersed in the portrayal of ageing and old age in TV series. She is particularly interested in analysing images of ageing in contemporary fictional representations, both written and audiovisual, and see to what extent limiting stereotypes and cultural believes attached to both the ageing experience and old age contribute have an impact in our day-to-day ageing process. 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN AGEING STUDIES:

ARTICLES:

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “When the Personal and the Historical Collide: Re-imagining Memory in Penelope Lively’s Making It Up”. Life Writing. Volume 14, Issue 1. 2017. 57-68.  DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2016.1204210.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Towards old age through memory and narrative in Penelope Lively’s The Photograph and How it all began”. Journal of English Studies. Volum 12. 2014. pp. 113-125. ISSN: 1576-6357, 1695-4300. https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/jes
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The Complexities of Female Ageing: Four Women Protagonists in Penelope Lively’s Studies”. Journal of Aging Studies. Volume 36. 2016. 10-16.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Demythologising Female Ageing through Narrative Transgression in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tigerand Angela Carter’s Wise Children”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Vol. 58, Issue 2. 2016. 146-155. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2016.1169156
  • Oró-Piqueras, Maricel. “Female Ageing: Revising Reifungsroman in Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark and Love, Again”. Odisea. Revista de Estudios Ingleses. 2014. 
  • Oró-Piqueras, Maricel. “Challenging Stereotypes? The Older Woman in TV series Brothers and Sisters”. Journal of Aging Studies.2014. 20-25. ISSN: 0890-4065; DOI 10.1016/j.jaging.2014.08.004.
  • Oró-Piqueras, Maricel. "The Loneliness of the Dying in Two Contemporary English Novels". The Gerontologist. 2014. ISSN: 1758-5341. DOI: 10.1093/gernto/gun003.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending”. Coolabah. N. 13, 2014. 87-95. ISSN: 1988-5946. http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/Coolabahissues.html
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Narrating Ageing: Deconstructing Negative Conception of Old Age in four Contemporary English Novels”. Journal of Aging Studies. N. 27, 2013. 47-51. ISSN: 0890-4065. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2012.10.001.
  •  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406512000734
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The ‘dys-appearing Body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbourand Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough?”. Societies. N. 4. Volume 2, 2012. 270-285. ISSN: 2075-4698. DOI: 10.3390/soc2040270. http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/2/4/270
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Perpetuating our secrets: Ageing and Memory in Doris Lessing’s The Grandmothers”. Interactions, Ege Journal of British and American Studies. Ege University Press. Vol.19, 2010. 65-74. ISSN: 1300-574-X.
  • Oró-Piqueras. M. “Female Aging: Between Fiction and Real Life”. Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts. N. 3, 2009. 222-233. ISSN: 1932-5614. DOI: 10.1080/19325610903134488. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19325610903134488#.UwcVsoXM3h4
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Forever Young: Consumer Culture and the Ageing Body in Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Body’.” Miscelánea. A Journal of English and American Studies. N. 36, 2007. 89-100. ISSN: 1137-6368.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Invisible Environments: Old Age and its Spaces.” Odisea.Vol. 6. 2006, 171-180. ISSN: 1578-3832.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Old Women, Young Souls: History as a Matter of Living.” Anuari de Filologia. Volum XXIV. Secció A. Número 11, 2002. 81-88. ISSN: 1131-6861.

BOOKS:

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. Ageing Corporealities in Contemporary English Fiction: Redefining Stereotypes. Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. (ISBN 978-3-8433-9378-2)
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. i Miquel Baldellou, M. (eds). Anthology of Cultural Ageing. Testimonies from Catalunya and England / Antologia de l’envelliment cultural. Testimonis de Catalunya i Anglaterra. Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2007. (ISBN: 978-84-8409-245-2)

BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • Oró-Piqueras, Maricel. "Fictionalising Biography Throughout the Life-course: Creative Memory in Penelope Lively’s Making It Up (2005)". Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. Núria Casado and Emma Domínguez. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. (ISBN: 978-3-0343-2278-2). 81-102.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. "Wisdom versus Frailty in Ursula K. Le Guin's Voicesand Doris Lessing's "The Reason for It". Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Health, Life Expectancy, and Life Course Identity. Eds. R. Maierhofer, U. Krienenberg, B. Ratzenboeck. Bielefield: Transcript Verlag. 2014. 285-296.
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Wrinkles and Selves: Time and Memory through the Ageing Body in Penelope Lively’s Spiderweband Doris Lessing’sLove, Again”. Acculturating Age. Approaches to Cultural Gerontology. Ed. B. Worsfold. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2011. 249-262. (ISBN: 978-84-8409-348-8)
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The Indian Rebirth of the British Retired in Deborah Moggach’s These Foolish Things”. Flaming Embers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire. Ed. Nela Bureu. Peter Lang, 2010. 205-218. (ISBN: 978-3-0343-0438-2)
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “From Childhood to Old Age with a Sigh in Julian Barnes’s Staring at the Sun”. Women Ageing through Literature and Experience. Ed. B. Worsfold. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2005. 83-90. (ISBN: 84-8409-175-9)
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The Ups and Downs of Ageing in Rose Tremain’s Sadler’s Birthday and The Cupboard”. The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English. Eds. N. Casado Gual and M. Vidal Grau. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2003. 113-124. (ISBN: 84-8509-969-5)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. "Time and Memory Apparently Untouched: The Ravages of Time in Penelope Lively's The Photograph and How it all Began". 37th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Oviedo (Spain). 13-15 November 2013.

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The Ageing Female Protagonist in Penelope Lively’s novels”. 38th AEDEAN Conference. Alcalá de Henares (Spain). 12-15 November 2014.

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “When the personal and the historical collide: Re-imagining Memory in Penelope Lively’s Making It Up”. Memory Frictions: Conflict-Negotiations-Politics. International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English. Universidad de Zaragoza. Zaragoza. 6-8 May 2015.

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Representations of female ageing and sexuality in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Angela Carter’s Wise Children, and Doris Lessing’s “The Grandmothers””. Intersections of Ageing, Gender, Sexualities Conference (IAGES). University of Surrey, Regne Unit. 6-7 July 2015.

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. "Enhancing Gendered Healthy Ageing through Creativity in Penelope Lively's Fiction". SIforAGE International Conference. Envisioning a New World. Universitat de Barcelona, 19-21 October 2016.

  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Angela Carter y sus niñas sabias”. Mujeres Sabias: entre la teoría y la práctica. XXV Años de Estudios de Género. Ed. Fundación Isonomía. Castellón de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I de Castellón de la Plana, 2004. 381-386. (ISBN: 84-689-2053-3). http://www.uji.es/bin/publ/edicions/ds.pdf
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The Self and the Other: The Motif of Doubles and Mirrors in Angela Carter’s Last Novels”. Estudios de Filología Inglesa. Actas de las IV Jornadas de Filología Inglesa. Eds. Garrido, Mª Luisa et alii. Córdoba: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 2004. 311-318. (ISBN: 84-7801-715-1)
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “The Ageing Other: Who is the One Reflected in the Mirror?” Proceedings of the XXVIII AEDEAN Conference. Universitat de València. 2005. (ISBN: 84-3706-3159)
  • Oró-Piqueras, M. “Nueva concepción del cuerpo femenino a través de las mujeres maduras de Doris Lessing”. Mujeres Jóvenes ¿Nuevos Feminismos?. Ed. Fundación Isonomía, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón de la Plana. 2005. 263-267. (ISBN: 84-690-0085-3). http://www.uji.es/bin/publ/edicions/mj.pdf

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

  • . “The Postmodern Paradises of the New Eves: Fantasy in Angela Carter’s Last Novels.” Angela Carter, 20th Century Fabulator. Universidad de Huelva, 16 March 2001.
  • . “The Self and the Other: the Motif of Doubles and Mirrors in Angela Carter’s Last Novels.” IV Jornadas de Filología Inglesa. Universidad de Córdoba, 29-31 October 2001.
  • . “Old Women, Young Souls: History as a Matter of Living.” Hystorical Fictions: Women, History and Authorship. University of Wales Swansea, 5-7 August 2003.
  • . “From Childhood to Old Age with a Sigh in Julian Barnes’s Staring at the Sun.” The Art of Ageing. An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Textualising the Phases of Life. Universitat de Lleida, 6-8 November 2003.
  • . “Postmodern Biographies: Reader Called to Interpretation in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot.” V Jornadas de Filología Inglesa. Universidad de Córdoba, 10-12 May 2003.
  • . “Female Ageing: Between Fiction and Real Life.” Invention: Literature and Science. 10th Conference, organised by The British Comparative Literature Association. University of Leeds, 12-15 July 2004.
  • . “Invisible Environments: Old Age and Its Spaces.” RC-11 Sociology of Aging – Inter-Congress Conference. Ageing Societies and Ageing Sociology: Diversity and Change in a Global World. University of Surrey, Roehampton, 7-9 September 2004.
  • . “Angela Carter y sus niñas sabias.” XXV Años de estudios de género. Mujeres Sabias: entre la teoria y la práctica. Universitat Jaume I de Castellón de la Plana, Fundación Isonomía, 27-29 September 2004.
  • . “The Ageing Other: Who is the One Reflected in the Mirror?” XXVIII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. Universitat de València, 16-18 December 2004.
  • . “Forever Young: Consumer Culture and the Ageing Body in Hanif Kureishi’s “The Body”.” Culture and Power: Recycling Culture. 10th International Conference of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 21-23 September 2005.
  • . “Glimpses of Old Age in Julian Barnes’s The Lemon Table.” 9th International Conference on the Short Story in English. 'Views from the Edge: Short Story Revisited'. University of Lisbon, 21-25 June 2006.
  • . “Deep Inside the Experience of Ageing through Fiction.” The Ageing Jigsaw: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Old Age. British Society of Gerontology, 35th Annual Meeting. University of Wales Bangor, 7-9 September 2006.
  • . Presentation of poster: “Aspects of Ageing in Literature”
  • Authors: Nela Bureu, Maricel Oró-Piqueras, Marta Miquel, Elena Pérez, Brian Worsfold.
  • Conference: The Ageing Jigsaw: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Old Age. British Society of Gerontology, 35th Annual Meeting University of Wales Bangor, 7-9 September 2006.
  • . “Ageing and Wisdom.” Daldays. Universitat de Lleida, 12-13 April 2007.
  • . “Perpetuating our Secrets: Ageing and Memory in Doris Lessing’s The Grandmothers.” Second International Doris Lessing Conference. Nation, Politics and Identity. Leeds Metropolitan University, 6-8 July 2007.
  • . “The dys-appearing body in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Forster’s Have the Men Had Enough?” 9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE-9). University of Aarhus (Denmark), 22-26 August 2008.
  • . “Wrinkles and Selves: Time and Memory through the Ageing Body in Penelope Lively’s Spiderweb and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again.” 6th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology. Extending Time, Emerging Realities, Imagining Response. Universitat de Lleida, 16-18 October 2008.
  • . “Going back to Savage Stage: the Need to Recover Knowledge in Doris Lessing’s “The Reason for It””. 10th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE-10). University of Turin (Italy), 24-28 August 2010.
  • . “Narrating Ageing: “the Outer – from the Inner” in four Contemporary English Novels”. Theorizing Age: Challenging the Disciplines. 7th Symposium on Cultural Gerontology. Maastricht University. 6-9 October 2011.
  • . “Wisdom versus Frailty: Ursula Le Guin’s Voices and Doris Lessing’s ‘The Reason for It”. The Health of the Nation. Ege University, Izmir (Turkey). 30 March – 2 April 2012.
  • . “The Loneliness of the Ageing in Contemporary English Fiction”. 3rd International IRIS Conference on Identity. Perverse Identities. Identities in Conflict. Universitat de Lleida. 14-16 de Novembre de 2012.
  • . “Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending”. Looking Back to Look Forwards. Universitat de Barcelona. 10-15 de December de 2012. (Invited Communication)
  • . "Female Ageing: The Body as Other in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark and Love, Again". Marvelous Bodies: Corporeality in Literature, an International Conference. Saint Louis University, Madrid. 24-25 May 2013.
  • . “The Ageing Woman in TV Series Brothers and Sisters”. International Women, Ageing and Media Summer School Research. University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham (U.K.). 23-24 July 2013.
  • . "Time and Memory Apparently Untouched: The Ravages of Time in Penelope Lively's The Photograph and How it all Began". 37th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Oviedo (Spain). 13-15 November 2013.
  • . "Undermining Retirement as Leisure Time in D. Moggach's These Foolish Things". Senior Tourism. Multi- and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Universitá Ca'Foscari, 28 February 2014. (Invited Communication)
  • . "Heroine or Charicature? The Older Woman in Desperate Housewives". 8th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology 2nd Conference of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS), National University of Ireland, Galway,10-12 April 2014.
  • . “The Ageing Female Protagonist in Penelope Lively’s novels”. 38th AEDEAN Conference. Alcalá de Henares (Spain). 12-15 Novembre 2014.

COURSES:

  • –“Three Wise Men – Are you serious? Ageing and Wisdom in Edgar Allan Poe’s and Julian Barnes’s Short Fiction”. Curs de lliure elecció, 3 ECTS, with Marta Miquel Baldellou. Universitat de Lleida, November 2006.
  • –“Three Wise Men – Are you serious? Ageing and Wisdom in Edgar Allan Poe’s and Julian Barnes’s Short Fiction”. Curs de lliure elecció, 3 ECTS, with Marta Miquel Baldellou. Universitat de Lleida, November 2007.