Carmen Morán from the University of Valladolid speaks about masking in different arts at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Salamanca

The paper “Nostalgia for the Animal in Contemporary Hispanic Literature” is the result of collaboration between the Antropolit Project (Project PID2023-147092OB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, EU) and MASKS. It was presented at the 6th International Conference on Exocanonical Studies, “On the Margins of Literature: From Oblivion to Nostalgia,” held at the University of Salamanca from October 15–17, 2025.

The presentation began with a theoretical framework drawing on well-known references (Berger, 1977; Lippit, 2000), and addressed various cases of human–animal masking and avatarization in the visual arts and, above all, in contemporary Spanish literature.

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