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Angelos Bollas is an independent scholar. His research focuses on sociology, cultural studies and education. He has authored and edited eight books including Contemporary Irish Masculinities (Routledge, 2024), Sexualised Governmentalities (Springer, 2024), Fashionable Queerness (Emerald, 2024), HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 with Alicia Castillo Villanueva), The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney (Routledge, 2025), Designing Curricula for Student Autonomy and Engagement (Springer, 2026 with Cathryn Bennett), Voices of Resistance (Emerald, 2026 with Alicia Castillo Villanueva) and Health and Care in Crisis in Sally Rooney’s Literary Universe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 with Elsa Adá-Hernández). Angelos has a PhD in Cultural Studies, five Master’s degrees and two Bachelor’s degrees. He is currently studying for his third Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and is a Learning Experience Designer at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Alicia Castillo Villanueva is an Associate Professor of Gender and Hispanic Studies at Dublin City University. Her research examines gender-based violence, memory politics and feminist cultural practices in contemporary Spain and other post-dictatorial societies. She has written widely on trauma, postmemory, silence and feminist forms of justice. She is a co-editor of HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (Palgrave, 2024), New Approaches to Translation, Conflict and Memory: Narratives of the Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship (Palgrave, 2019), and is currently editing The Routledge Handbook of Gender, Memory, and Violence in the Hispanic World. Her recent work explores postmemory, the ethics of repair and the role of culture and sound in feminist responses to gender-based violence.