Carmen Laguarta-Bueno teaches teaches at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza. She graduated in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza in June 2015. In February 2021, she received her PhD cum laude after defending her thesis, written under the supervision of Profs. Francisco Collado-Rodríguez and Sonia Baelo-Allué, and for which she obtained the “Extraordinary Doctorate Award” (granted by the University of Zaragoza). Carmen has also been an academic visitor at the University of California, Riverside (2018), Trinity College, Dublin (2019) and New York University (2021).
Her present research focuses on contemporary US fiction and her main research interests range from trauma studies to transhumanism and critical posthumanism. She is the author of Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction (Routledge, 2022). Her most recent essays include “Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)” (Utopian Studies, 2024), “Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): Transhumanism, Metafiction and the Ethics of Increasing Human Happiness Levels through Biotechnology” (Atlantis, 2022) and “Trauma and Existentialism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)” (Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2019). Carmen has recently guest co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of American Culture, titled “Recent Reflections on the Posthuman Condition in American Literature and Culture” (2024), and the volume The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).