Lucía Bennett is a PhD candidate and FPU research fellow at the University of Granada.
She graduated in English Studies at the University of Granada in July 2020 and was granted the UGR Extraordinary End-of-Degree Distinction. In October 2020 she was awarded with a Departmental Collaborative Grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and she completed her master’s degree in English Literature and Linguistics in September 2021. Lucía was then granted a Spanish Competitive PhD grant (FPU) by the Spanish Ministry of Education to carry out her doctoral research on Richard Powers’ fiction at the University of Granada.
Her main research interests include critical posthumanism, disability studies, and feminist criticism. From September 2024, she is the SAAS (Spanish Association of American Studies) Young Scholars Coordinator. Her recent publications include “Examining the Refugee Identity and the Ethics of Hospitality in Richard Powers’ Generosity (2009)” in English Studies, “Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self” in Alicante Journal of English Studies, and “The Opera that Never was: Dylan Thomas and Igor Stravinsky’s Projected Collaboration” in Atlantis. Lucía has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Glasgow (3 months) and at the University of Illinois in Chicago (6 months) funded by a Fulbright Scholarship.