Latest publications

2023

Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen. Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction. Routledge, 2023. ISBN: 9781032232416.

2022

Abizanda Cardona, María. “Narrating the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers”. Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos 26 (2022) doi:10.12795/REN.2022.i26.10. (Available here).

Baelo-Allué, Sonia. «Technological Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020).» Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature. Eds. Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. New York: Routledge, 2022. 135-149. ISBN: 9781032130323. (Available here)

Calvo Pascual, Mónica. «Vulnerability and Risk in Larissa Lai’s Critical Dystopias.» Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature. Eds. Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. New York: Routledge, 2022. 166-180. ISBN: 9781032130323. (Available here)

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. «When Immortality Becomes a Burden: Transhuman Vulnerability and Self-Consciousness in William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984).» Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature. Eds. Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. New York: Routledge, 2022. 150-165. ISBN: 9781032130323. (Available here)

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature. New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 9781032130323.

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. «Introduction: Current Literary Representations of Vulnerability. Ethical and Aesthetic Concerns.» Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature. Eds. Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-16. ISBN: 9781032130323. (Available here)

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died A Lot.” Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction. Eds. Sherryl Vint and Sümeyra Buran. Palgrave, 2022.

Ferrández San Miguel, María. “Towards an Ethics of Affinity: Posthumanism and the Question of the Animal in Two SF Narratives of Catastrophe.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2022). ISSN: 0011-1619, 1939-9138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2095248 (Available here)

Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen. “Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): Transhumanism, Metafiction, and the Ethics of Increasing Human Happiness Levels through Biotechnology”. Atlantis 44.2 (2022): 222-238. (Available here)

Peinado-Abarrio, Rubén. “’Fragmented and bewildering:’ The New Risk Society in Jenny Offill’s Weather.” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 26 (2022). ISSN: 1133-309-X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12795/REN.2022.i26.11 (Available here)

Peinado-Abarrio, Rubén. “Disappropriation and Composting in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.” Complutense Journal of English Studies 30 (2022): 101-109. ISSN: 2386-3935. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.82240 (Available here).

2021

Baelo-Allué, Sonia and Mónica Calvo Pascual. Posthumanism and Transhumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Series. London and New York: Routledge. 2021. ISBN: 9780367655136.

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. “Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson’s ‘The Belonging Kind’ and Egger’s The Circle.” Posthumanism and Transhumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Eds. Sonia Baelo-Allué y Mónica Calvo-Pascual. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 0367655136.

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam and Ana Chapman. “Post-postmodernist Aesthetics of Irrelevance: Textual Disability as Narrative Prosthesis (The Lin/Wallace Connection).” Critique. Studies in Contemporary Fiction. (2021) DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2021.1996326. 

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Posthumanist Trauma: An Intrasectional Approach to Accountable Determinacy in Current North American Narrative.” Journal of English Studies vol 19 (2021): 73-95. ISSN 1576-6357. https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4370. (Available here).

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Accountable Metaphors. Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei.” Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43.1 (June 2021): 20-38. ISSN: 0210-6124. http://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.02. (Available here).

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Agential Materialism and the Feminist Paradigm. A Posthumanist Approach.” Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies 10 (2021): 31-40. ISSN: 2444-1198. https://doi.org/10.15366/jfgws2021.10. (Available here).

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Vulnerable: Intersecting Disability and Precarity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Case of Mr. Robot (2015-2019).” Discourse, Dialogue and Characterisation in TV Series. Eds. Carmen Gregori-Signes, Miguel Fúster Márques and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller. Granada: Comares, 2021.

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Split. A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement. Speciesist and Political Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability.” Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Eds. Sonia Baelo and Mónica Calvo. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780367655136.

Ferrández San Miguel, María. “Resilient Cyborgs: Trauma and the Posthuman in Pat Cadigan’s Synners (1991).” Extrapolation 62.3 (2021). 247-268. Online ISSN: 2047-7708; Print ISSN: 0014- 5483. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2021.14

Laguarta-Bueno, Carmen. “Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016). Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation.» Posthumanism and Transhumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative. Eds. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual. Routledge, 2021. 126-141.

2020

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. “Narratives of the Rocket: Chabon’s ‘Amnesiac’ Revisitation of Pynchon’s Posthuman Zone.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Routledge), vol. 61.1 (2020): 91–103. ISSN: 0011-1619. DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2019.1650710 (Available here)

Ferrández San Miguel, María. “Ethics in the Anthropocene: Traumatic Exhaustion and Posthuman Regeneration in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy.” English Studies 101.4 (2020). 471-486. Print ISSN: 0013-838X Online ISSN: 1744-4217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1798138

Nadal, Marita. “Transcending Boundaries: Posthuman Transformations in Mid-19th Century US Fiction”. Literatures in English: Transcending Boundaries: Migrations, Dislocations, and Literary Transformations. Studies in English and Comparative Literature (SECL). Eds. Igor Maver, Wolfgang Zach and Astrid Flögel. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2020. 251-261. ISBN: 978-3958095915.

2019

Baelo-Allué, Sonia. “Transhumanism, Transmedia and the Serial Podcast: Redefining Storytelling in Times of Enhancement.” IJES, International Journal of English Studies, 19.1, (2019): 113-131. ISSN 1578-7044. Doi: 10.6018/ijes.335321. (Available here).

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Of Language and Music.  A Neo-Baroque, Environmental Approach to the Human, Infrahuman and Superhuman in Richard Powers’ Orfeo.” Anglia 137.1 (2019): 126-146. ISSN: 1865-8938, 0340-5222. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0008.

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Narrative Exhaustion and The Posthuman Narrative Self In Tao Lin’s Taipei.” Nikial, Julia and Izabella Kimak, eds. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millenial North-American Literature and Culture. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019, 59-60 ISBN: 978-3 631-79557-6.

2018

Calvo Pascual, Mónica. “Girl Meets Boy: Postcyborg Ethics, Individual Identity and Collective Rights in the Posthuman Age”. Journal of English Studies 16 (2018): 7-25. ISSN 1576-6357 DOI: 10.18172/jes.3498 (Available here).

Calvo Pascual, Mónica. “The new children of the earth: Posthuman dystopia or a lesbian’s dream in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl”. Orbis Litterarum 73 (2018): 405-17. ISSN 0105-7510 DOI: 10.1111/oli.12190 (Available here).

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. “On Human Consciousness and Posthuman Slavery: Representations of the Living Dead in T. S. Eliot, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gibson.” In A Critical Gaze from the Old World. Transatlantic aesthetics and culture series; vol. 9. Isabel Durán et al., eds. Bern, Berlin, Wien, New York: Peter Lang, 2018. 117–35. ISBN: 978-3-0343-3480-8. DOI: 10.3726/b14768. (Available here)

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Accounting for Feminist Myths. A Critical Posthumanist and Agential Materialist Approach.” Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. 199-212.

Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. “Agential Materialism and the Problem of Iteration”. Crystals Beneath the Surface. Eds. Mauricio Aguilera and Margarita Carreter. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2018. 81-90.

Ferrández San Miguel, María. “Appropriated Bodies: Trauma, Biopower and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’ and James Tiptree, Jr.’s ‘The Girl Who Was Plugged In.’” Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 40.2 (2018): 27-44. ISSN: 0210-6124. DOI: http://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2018-40.2.02. (Available here)

Laguarta Bueno, Carmen. “Transhumanism in Dave Eggers’ The Circle: Utopia vs. Dystopia, Dream vs. Nightmare.” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 1 (2018): 165-188. ISSN 1133-309-X. (Available here)

2017

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. “The Imperfections of a Future Past: Trauma, Posthumanity, and Sci-Fi in William Gibson’s ‘The Gernsback Continuum’.” Letterature d’America, vol. 37 (2017): 177-94. ISSN: 2037-6952. (Available here)

2016

Collado-Rodríguez, Francisco. “Intratextuality, Trauma and the Posthuman in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 57.3 (2016): 229–41. ISSN: 0011-1619. (Author’s postprint available here)