Welcome to the website of the research projects «The Posthuman Wound: Subject and Agency in the North American Literature of the 21st Century» (PID2022-137627NB-I00. 2023-2026), «Contemporary North American Fiction and the 4th Industrial Revolution: From Posthumanity to Privation and Social Change» (PID2019-106855GB-I00. 2020-2023) and «Trauma, Culture and Posthumanity: The Definition of Being in Contemporary American fiction» (FFI2015-63506-P. 2016-2020).
This week, our PIs are taking part of the conference “Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture”, celebrated at the Università di Genova.
Our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué will deliver the paper “A Narratology of the Posthuman Wound: The Posthuman Trauma Novel in 21st Century US Fiction”.
In turn, Mónica Calvo-Pascual will present the paper “Agency, Ethics and Posthumanity in Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland”.