María Abizanda-Cardona is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zaragoza. In 2023 she was granted a four-year competitive Research Fellowship (FPU) by the Spanish Ministry of Education to carry out her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr. Sonia Baelo-Allué. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies from the Universidad de Zaragoza, for which she was granted an Extraordinary Degree Award, and a Master’s Degree in Literary and Cultural Studies in Anglophone Countries from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her doctoral research explores the representation of posthumanity in 21st-century crime fiction by American authors, focusing on the effects of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies over definitions of personhood, ethics and social relations. Her research interests include critical posthumanism, transhumanism and biopolitics. Recent publications include “Beyond SF: Reading the posthuman in crime fiction” (European Journal of American Culture, 2024). She has also been an academic visitor at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of California, Riverside.