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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).

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Posted on June 1, 2018January 28, 2025

ExRey Conference 2018

Some of the members of our research team attended the conference ExRe(y): Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culure.

Posted on January 15, 2017January 28, 2025

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Research group on US literature at @fyl_unizar (Universidad de Zaragoza). Posthumanism, science fiction, trauma studies.

🌟 Literary Criticism Workshop 🌟 Great turnout tod 🌟 Literary Criticism Workshop 🌟

Great turnout today in the latest edition of the #LiteraryCriticismWorkshop held today at @fyl_unizar. 

Our team member Dr. Rubén Peinado Abarrio introduced the fascinating perspective of autotheory, and afterwards the students discussed Kate Zambreno's short story "Insekt or Large Verminous Thing". 

We've had such an interesting and lively discussion! We're already looking forward to the next Literary Criticism Workshop, which (spoiler alert) will be held on May 7th. 

Keep an eye on this page to stay posted!

#LiteraryCriticism #Autotheory #KateZambreno #LiteraryStudies #AcademicWorkshop #Unizar
Posthuman Fridays 📚✨ Book rec This week we’re rea Posthuman Fridays 📚✨ Book rec

This week we’re reading Pew by @catherinelacey_ - a haunting meditation on identity, silence, and the limits of community. An unnamed, unknowable figure unsettles a small town simply by refusing to be defined. Who gets to belong, and at what cost?

#PosthumanFridays #BookRecommendation #Posthumanism #LiteraryFiction #CriticalTheory #ReadingCommunity
🔬📚 #PosthumanFridays Research Highlight This week 🔬📚 #PosthumanFridays Research Highlight

This week we spotlight the work of our team member Miriam Fernández-Santiago, whose research explores the intersections between posthumanism, digital culture, and contemporary North American literature. Her work examines how technological transformations and the Fourth Industrial Revolution reshape human subjectivity, vulnerability, and cultural representation.

In this video, Miriam reflects on posthuman thought and its implications for understanding literature, technology, and the evolving relationship between humans and the digital world.

Her research is part of broader projects on posthuman agency and subjectivity in 21st-century North American narrative, including the collaborative project The Posthuman Wound.

🎥 Watch the video through the link in our bio and discover how posthuman theory helps us rethink culture, technology, and the future of the humanities.

#Posthumanism #DigitalHumanities #AmericanLiterature #CriticalTheory #ResearchHighlight #PosthumanWound
📚✨ New session of the Literary Criticism Workshop 📚✨ New session of the Literary Criticism Workshop

Join us on Friday, 20 March at 12:00 in Room B3.2, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza for a new session of the Literary Criticism Workshop.

This session, titled “Autotheory and Kate Zambreno’s short story: Insekt or Large Verminous Thing”, will be led by our team member Rubén Peinado Abarrio.

The workshop offers a space to explore literary theory and discuss texts in a dynamic and relaxed environment. This time, we will engage with the intersections between autotheory, experimental writing, and contemporary literary criticism through the work of Kate Zambreno.

📖 Open to everyone interested in literature and literary criticism.

📍 Room B3.2 – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
🗓 20 March
⏰ 12:00

#LiteraryCriticism #Autotheory #KateZambreno #LiteraryStudies #AcademicWorkshop #Unizar
📚✨ Members of our research team and @limlit_ parti 📚✨ Members of our research team and @limlit_ participated in the IX Jornadas del Observatorio Permanente de Innovación Docente @fyl_unizar at the Universidad de Zaragoza, an event dedicated to sharing innovative teaching practices and strengthening the links between research, pedagogy, and professional competencies.

Our team members M. Ferrández (@maria_fsm_unizar), S. Martínez (@silviamfalquina_unizar), S. Baelo (@sonia.baelo.allue_unizar), M. Abizanda, and F. Collado presented the poster:

“Posthumanismo, relacionalidad e Inteligencia Artificial en la docencia de literatura norteamericana: una reflexión pedagógica desde la innovación docente universitaria.”

The project reflects on how posthumanist theory, relational thinking, and AI can reshape the teaching of American literature, encouraging critical engagement, collaborative learning, and new forms of interpretation in the literature classroom.

A great opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues and continue exploring how humanities teaching can evolve in a rapidly changing technological landscape. 🚀📖🤖

#InnovaciónDocente #Posthumanism #DigitalHumanities #AIinEducation #AmericanLiterature #UniversityTeaching #Unizar
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS “Unbound, Unfinished, Ongoing: 📢 CALL FOR PAPERS

“Unbound, Unfinished, Ongoing: A Kate Zambreno Symposium”

We invite scholars and researchers to submit proposals for a one-day online symposium dedicated to the work of Kate Zambreno—novelist, critic, and one of the most compelling voices in contemporary experimental writing.

The symposium will take place 23 October 2026 (online) and is hosted by Complutense University of Madrid and University of Zaragoza. 

The event is organized by our research team member Rubén Peinado.

🗓 Abstract deadline: 1 July 2026

We welcome contributions engaging with Zambreno’s work and its intersections with:
📚 autofiction and life-writing
🖋 feminist and experimental criticism
🧠 archives, memory, and literary fragments
🌍 contemporary literary cultures

🔗 Full CFP and submission details:
https://sites.google.com/view/kate-zambreno-symposium/inicio

Share with colleagues and join the conversation!

#CFP #KateZambreno #LiteraryStudies #Autofiction #FeministCriticism #CallForPapers
🌿📚 Posthuman Fridays - Book recommendation This w 🌿📚 Posthuman Fridays - Book recommendation

This week’s recommendation: Sobre Dios. Pensar con Simone Weil by Byung-Chul Han.

In this brief yet luminous essay, Han enters into dialogue with Simone Weil to reflect on one of the most urgent questions of our time: how do we recover meaning in an age of hyperproductivity, digital saturation, and spiritual exhaustion?

Through concepts such as attention, decreation, silence, beauty, and affliction, Han reinterprets Weil as an ethical and spiritual compass for the 21st century. Against the logic of efficiency and constant performance, this book invites us to embrace emptiness, stillness, and vulnerability as transformative forces.

Not a conventional theological text, but a profound meditation on transcendence, fragility, and resistance in late capitalism.

A quiet, powerful read for those thinking about posthuman vulnerability, attention, and the politics of interiority. ✨

#PosthumanFridays #ByungChulHan #SimoneWeil #CriticalPosthumanism #Philosophy #SlowThinking
Posthuman Friday ✨ - Research highlight This week Posthuman Friday ✨ - Research highlight

This week we spotlight the research article “Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)” by our team member Carmen Laguarta-Bueno. 

The article explores how Eggers satirizes a world where surveillance is normalized and largely accepted, making use of concepts like “surveillance capitalism” and “favorably disposed normalization.” 

Watch the full video to see how recent contemporary fiction mirrors our own increasingly monitored world.

#PosthumanFridays #Posthumanism #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Dave Eggers #TheCircle #TheEvery #ContemporaryFiction
🚨 New on ResearchGate! 🚨 Check out The Posthuman 🚨 New on ResearchGate! 🚨

Check out The Posthuman Wound Research Team 👩‍🔬📚

Explore our projects, publications, and researchers working on posthumanism & American fiction 🖋️🔬✨

Follow our journey 👉 https://www.researchgate.net/lab/The-Posthuman-Wound-Research-Team-Sonia-Baelo-Allue 🌐

#PosthumanStudies #ResearchTeam #CrimeFiction #AcademicLife
🌍📚 New Open Access Chapter! We’re delighted to sh 🌍📚 New Open Access Chapter!

We’re delighted to share that Mónica Calvo-Pascual @monica_calvo7 has published Chapter 27 in the Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics (Brill), edited by Susana Onega-Jaén and Jean-Michel Ganteau (@limlit_).

🔎 Critical Posthumanism, New Materialism and the Ethics of Inclusion in Speculative Fiction
📖 Pages 641–664 | Open Access
🔗 DOI: 10.1163/9789004715516_029

This chapter explores the posthuman turn in contemporary theory and literature, examining how critical posthumanism and new materialism challenge anthropocentric frameworks in the age of the Anthropocene.

Through readings of speculative fiction by Larissa Lai and Rivers Solomon, the chapter foregrounds an emerging ethics of inclusion that rethinks agency, responsibility, and relationality in a time marked by ecological crisis and technological transformation.

👏 Congratulations on this outstanding Open Access contribution!

#Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #SpeculativeFiction #Anthropocene #LiteraryStudies #OpenAccess
📚✨ New Open Access Publication! We’re delighted t 📚✨ New Open Access Publication!

We’re delighted to share that our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué @sonia.baelo.allue_unizar has published a new chapter in the Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics, edited by Susana Onega-Jaén (@limlit_) and Jean-Michel Ganteau

🔎 Chapter 26: The Ethics and Literature of Cybernetic Posthumanism, Transhumanism and the Technological Other in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

📖 Pages 616–640 | Open Access
🔗 DOI: 10.1163/9789004715516_028

This chapter examines cybernetic posthumanism and transhumanism in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where physical, biological, and digital technologies converge. It explores how emerging techno-human assemblages challenge traditional binaries and reshape concepts of agency, identity, and the “technological other.”

It also analyses how contemporary literature engages with ethical debates surrounding:
• Human enhancement
• Distributed cognition
• Artificial intelligence
• Posthuman identity

👏 Congratulations on this outstanding contribution to literary ethics and posthumanist studies!

#Posthumanism #LiteraryCriticism #FourthIndustrialRevolution #AI #OpenAccess #HumanitiesResearch
📚🧬 Posthuman Fridays 📚🧬 This week’s pick is The O 📚🧬 Posthuman Fridays 📚🧬

This week’s pick is The Overstory by Richard Powers — a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that places trees at the center of the story and asks us to rethink our relationship with the natural world.

Through a series of interconnected lives, the novel reveals how forests communicate, endure, and shape human destiny. As these stories slowly intertwine, science, activism, and wonder collide in a powerful meditation on time, responsibility, and survival.

If you’re drawn to literary fiction that blends nature and philosophy, you will be captivated by The Overstory. 

#TheOverstory #RichardPowers #LiteraryFiction #EnvironmentalFiction #PosthumanFridays #Bookstagram #Posthumanism #ReadingRecommendations
🔬✨ 11F | International Day of Women and Girls in S 🔬✨ 11F | International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Today we celebrate the brilliant women researchers who are part of our research group. Their work, commitment, and intellectual leadership continue to shape critical conversations in our field and beyond.

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we recognize not only their achievements, but also their role in mentoring, inspiring, and opening paths for future generations of scholars.

Science is stronger, richer, and more innovative because of women. 💜

#11F #WomenInScience #WomenResearchers #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #AcademicResearch #GenderEquality

🔬✨ 11F | Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia

Hoy celebramos a las brillantes investigadoras que forman parte de nuestro grupo de investigación. Su trabajo, compromiso y liderazgo intelectual siguen impulsando debates críticos en nuestro ámbito académico y más allá.

En este Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, reconocemos no solo sus logros, sino también su papel como mentoras, referentes e impulsoras de nuevas generaciones de investigadoras.

La ciencia es más fuerte, diversa e innovadora gracias a las mujeres. 💜

#11F #MujeresEnLaCiencia #Investigadoras #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujerYLaNinaEnLaCiencia #Investigacion #IgualdadDeGenero
📚 Research transfer! Our predoctoral researcher @ 📚 Research transfer!

Our predoctoral researcher @m_abizanda and @martabags (@limlit_) have delivered a lecture on research in the Humanities for high school students at @iestiemposmodernos with the occasion of the International Day of Women in Science.
Posthuman Friday ✨ Jenny Offill’s Weather isn’t j Posthuman Friday ✨

Jenny Offill’s Weather isn’t just a novel — it’s a mirror to the “new risk society” of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this article, Rubén Peinado-Abarrio explores how Offill’s fragmented, digitally inflected style captures an anxious, interconnected world, where subjectivity is shaped by networks, uncertainty, and shared vulnerability. Fragmentation becomes a posthuman aesthetic — and a call for collective thinking and action. 🌍🔗

🔗 Read the article:
https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/21977

#PosthumanFriday #Posthumanism #JennyOffill #RiskSociety #CriticalPosthumanism #LiteraryTheory #AcademicInsta #ClimateAnxiety
📚👩‍🔬 Research goes beyond the university—and into 📚👩‍🔬 Research goes beyond the university—and into the classroom

Next Monday, our predoctoral researchers María Abizanda-Cardona and Marta Bagüés Bautista will deliver a talk at IES Tiempos Modernos as part of the initiative “Women Researchers in the Classroom”, in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11F).

In addition, next Thursday, our predoctoral researchers Amanda Cámara Gamazo, Alessandra Martín González, and Denisa Alexandra Mircea (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, English Studies) will carry out an outreach activity at IES Río Gállego, continuing our commitment to research dissemination and gender equality in science.

Through these activities, students will engage with current research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, reflect on what counts as scientific knowledge, and explore why women’s presence in research and positions of social impact truly matters.

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📚👩‍🔬 La investigación va más allá de la universidad… y llega al aula

El próximo lunes, nuestras investigadoras predoctorales María Abizanda-Cardona y Marta Bagüés Bautista impartirán una charla en el IES Tiempos Modernos en el marco de la iniciativa «Las Investigadoras en el Aula», con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia (11F).

Además, el próximo jueves, nuestras investigadoras predoctorales Amanda Cámara Gamazo, Alessandra Martín González y Denisa Alexandra Mircea (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Filología Inglesa) llevarán a cabo una actividad de divulgación en el IES Río Gállego, continuando nuestro compromiso con la difusión de la investigación y la igualdad de género en la ciencia.
🧠📚 Posthuman Fridays — Book Recommendation Jenny 🧠📚 Posthuman Fridays — Book Recommendation

Jenny Offill’s Weather is a novel for living with climate anxiety, political dread, and everyday fragility. 
Fragmented, funny, and quietly brutal, it captures what it means to feel the end of the world in the middle of daily life.

#PosthumanFridays #BookRecommendation #JennyOffill #Weather #ClimateFiction #Posthumanism #ContemporaryFiction
🧠📱 POSTHUMAN FRIDAYS What happens when trauma mee 🧠📱 POSTHUMAN FRIDAYS

What happens when trauma meets the internet?

In today’s post, we dive into “The posthuman trauma novel: Reconfiguring subjectivity in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking about This (2021)”, an article by our co-PI @sonia.baelo.allue_unizar that reads Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This as a narrative where digital subjectivity, fragmentation, and trauma collide.

From meme-driven collective consciousness to embodied grief, the novel exposes how online life reshapes the self — and how real trauma breaks through the illusion of digital detachment.

Check out the full article here: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ejac_00124_1

#PosthumanFridays #PosthumanStudies #TraumaNarratives #DigitalSubjectivity #ContemporaryFiction #PatriciaLockwood #CriticalPosthumanism #InternetCulture #LiteratureAndTheory
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🎓 Exciting seminar alert! Our team member @miria 🎓 Exciting seminar alert! 

Our team member @miriamfernandezsantiago will be delivering a talk on:

“Writing an Abstract: The Difficulties of a Simple Task”
as part of SAAS Young Scholars.

📝 Learn practical tips and insights on abstract writing and how to tackle this deceptively tricky task!

📲 Scan the QR code to register and secure your spot!

#AcademicLife #SAASYoungScholars #Seminar #AbstractWriting #ResearchTips #HigherEd #WritingSkills
✨ New Publication Alert! ✨ We’re thrilled to shar ✨ New Publication Alert! ✨

We’re thrilled to share that our talented team members Ana Chapman and Miriam Fernández‑Santiago have just published a thought‑provoking article on AI: Reality or Fiction, now live on Substack! 🚀🧠

🔍 Join the conversation on what artificial intelligence really means — separating fact from fiction and exploring its impact on our world.

Read the full piece via the link! 🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/anachapmanuma/p/inteligencia-artificial-realidad?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Substack #NewArticle #Research #TechAndSociety #ThoughtLeadership
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