This week, the Spanish Association of American Studies will host its 17th Conference in Alicante!
As every edition, our team members can’t miss this biannual appointment with American Studies in Spain, and presented their research across the different pannels.
Our team member Miriam Fernández-Santiago chaired the panel “Posthuman fantasies: Dreaming America along the utopian-dystopian arch”. In it, our team member Esther Muñoz González delivered the paper “Disrupting Identity: Posthumanism and the Evolution of the Gothic in Catherine Lacey’s Pew (2020)”. In session 2, Rubén Peinado Abarrio presented the paper “New Materialism and the Wounded Self in Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness”. In session 3, our predoctoral researcher Lucía Bennet Ortega delivered the paper ““I Only Want My Life Back”: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Mass Media in Richard Powers’ Generosity”. In session 4, Carmen Laguarta Bueno delivered the paper “Ted Chiang’s “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning”: Transhumanism, Cognitive Enhancement, and the American Dream”. Lastly, Ana Chapman presented the paper “Dreaming in the Digital Age: Constructing a Personal Narrative in The Sleepless”.
Besides, our co-PI Mónica Calvo-Pascual chaired the panel “Technological nightmares and post humanity in contemporary US Fiction”. In Session 1, our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué delivered the paper “From Dreams to Nightmares: The Posthuman Trauma Novel in 21st century US Fiction”. Then, Mónica Calvo-Pascual delivered the paper “American Nightmares, Trauma and Posthumanity in Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland”.
We’ve had some very enriching days in Alicante, exchanging with our mates in American Studies. Looking forward to the next edition!