This issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English features a special and a general section. The articles included in the special section, “Borders, Intersections and Identity in the Contemporary Short Story in English” derive from a stimulating conference sponsored by the Research Project Intersections: Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Contemporary British Women Writers (FEDER/AEI – FEM2017-83084-P) and the Research Group Discourse and Identity (GRC2015/002, GI_1924) in affiliation with the ENSFR (European Network for Short Fiction Research). The conference, organized by the guest editors Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido Romero, Noemí Pereira Ares, was held at the Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on 23 and 24 May 2019 and served as a springboard for the granting of a European project, Short Forms Beyond Borders (2020-1-FR01-KA103-078350) with 5 other university partners, among which Angers, one year later.
The opening section, ...