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 U.S. 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 a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Riverside.
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- María Abizanda Cardona Receives First Prize at UC Riverside Early Career Scientist Symposium
- Our Research Group at The Poetics and Politics of Literary Assemblages (University of Málaga, 18–20 May 2026)
- Exploring the History and Myths of Crime Fiction at the XIII Festival Aragón Negro
- IDEN participa en la X Jornada del Observatorio Permanente de Innovación Docente de la Universidad de Zaragoza
- Nuestra investigadora María Abizanda-Cardona participa en el Festival Aragón Negro 2026
- Our Research Group at SEING VI (Universidad de Zaragoza, May 2026)
- New Session of the Literary Criticism Workshop
- IX Jornadas del Observatorio Permanente de Innovación Docente
- 11F Las investigadoras en clase
- XVIII Jornadas de Innovación e Investigación Educativa
- La noche de la investigación 2025
- La noche de la investigación 2025
- Publication volume Innovación docente e investigación en arte y humanidades: desafíos de la enseñanza y aprendizaje en la educación superior
- Publication special issue “Recent Reflections on the Posthuman Condition in American Literature and Culture”
- VI CIDICO
- AEDEAN 2024
- European Researchers’ Nights 2024
- SEING 2024
- International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
- European Researchers’ Night 2023
- SAAS 2023
- Conference Recent approaches to the posthuman