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).
We’re thrilled to announce a very exciting research transfer project launched by our team member Miriam Fernández Santiago, in collaboration with the research group Studies in American Literature and Culture (Universidad de Granada, Spain).
In the Podcast North American litearture, students discuss different topics related to our research and US literature in general. 🎙️📻🗣️📚
Keep an eye on this blog to be updated with the release of new episodes, or catch them all at our Youtube channel!
For the time being, you can check out the following episodes:
The first episode of the Podcast North American Literature discusses binaries of settler and native in the narratives of John Smith.
The second instalment of the podcast discusses the Puritan origins of the American dream in relation to Fitzgerald’s work.
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!
Our team member María Ferrández-San Miguel will be delivering the lecture “Consejos para presentar los méritos a una plaza de Asociadx o AYD” for SAAS Young Scholars.
Our team member Miriam Fernández Santiago will be delivering the keynote “The Neo-Apollonian: A Posthumanist Sign of the Digital Times” next Wednesday as part of the cycle of conferences Literature(s) in English (I): Imaginative Encounters.
Literature(s) in English (I): Imaginative Encounters is a seminar organized by the Master in Advanced English Studies at the University of Salamanca and the University of Valladolid. It brings together experts from several international universities working on different periods of English and American literature.
The Literature(s) in English (I) seminar will be mostly held online, via Zoom. Anyone who wishes to attend the seminar is expected to register, using the following link.
All our team members’ contributions tackle educational innovation from the perspective of critical posthumanism and digital technologies.
Our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué tackles the teaching of literature from a posthumanist pedagogy in the chapter “La enseñanza de la literatura norteamericana contemporánea desde una perspectiva posthumana: Una propuesta didáctica”.
Miriam Fernández-Santiago puts forward another didactic proposal for the literature classroom in the chapter “El alumnado posthumano frente al replicante digital: Uso del Chat GPT en la enseñanza de ensayos en educación superior”.
Rubén Peinado-Abarrio presents an activity proposal centered on creative writing in the chapter “Taller de escritura creativa electrónica como actividad extraescolar para el Grado en Estudios Ingleses”.
Ana Chapman explores virtual student exchanges from a posthumanist perspectives in the chapter “La Descorporealización Posthumana en Actividades Colaborativas en Intercambios Virtuales en la Enseñanza Universitaria”.
Our predoctoral student Laura Larrodera-Árcega explores the use of the epistolar genre in the literature classroom in “Creando redes posthumanas y espacios de vulnerabilidad a través de lo epistolar en el aula de literatura”.
Our predoctoral researcher María Abizanda-Cardona articulates a posthumanist approach to 21st century skills in the chapter “Una aproximación a las habilidades del siglo XXI en el aula EFL desde la pedagogía posthumanista”.
Our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué contributes the article “The posthuman trauma novel: Reconfiguring subjectivity in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking about This (2021)”. Check it out here!
Our co-IP Mónica Calvo-Pascual contributes the article “Ethico-onto-epistem-ology and traumatic memories in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep and Sorrowland”. Access it here!
Our predoctoral student María Abizanda-Cardona presents part of her thesis research in the article “Beyond SF: Reading the posthuman in crime fiction”. Take a look here!
Plus, the special issue is introduced by our team members Esther Muñoz-González, María Ferrández-San Miguel and Carmen Laguarta-Bueno, who’ve done a fantastic job at putting together the volume. Check it out here.
Definitely an interesting publication for researchers interested in critical posthumanism in literature.
This week, our team members have taken part in the VI Congreso Internacional de Innovación Docente e Investigación en Educación Superior “Desafíos de la Enseñanza y Aprendizaje en la Educación Superior”.
Our team members delivered their papers in the symposium “El impacto de los enfoques pedagógicos post humanistas y las herramientas digitales en la enseñanza de las humanidades”.
Miriam Fernández-Santiago delivered the paper “El alumnado posthumano frente al replicante digital: uso del Chat GPT en la enseñanza de elaboración de ensayos”.
María Abizanda-Cardona delivered the paper “Una aproximación a las habilidades del siglo XXI en el aula EFL desde la pedagogía posthumanista”.
Ana Chapman delivered the paper “La descorporealización posthumana en actividades colaborativas en intercambios virtuales en la enseñanza universitaria”.
Laura Larrodera delivered the paper “Creando redes posthumanas y espacios de vulnerabilidad a través de lo epistolar en el aula de literatura”.
Rubén Peinado-Abarrio delivered the paper “Taller de escritura creativa electrónica como actividad extracurricular para el Grado en Estudios Ingleses”.
Lastly, Sonia Baelo-Allué delivered the paper “La enseñanza de la literatura norteamericana contemporánea desde una perspectiva posthumana: una propuesta didáctica”.
#CIDICOVI was a great forum for applying the insights of our research on posthumanism into education and sharing our thoughts and perspectives on innovation. Our team members have for sure food for thought!
This week, several of our team members are taking part in the 47th edition of the AEDEAN Conference, held at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla).
To open the first day’s sessions, our predoctoral researcher María Abizanda-Cardona delivered the paper “Technology and the True Crime Industry in Jason Pinter’s Past Crimes (2024)”.
Our predoctoral researcher Laura Larrodera delivered the paper “I Defy You, Time! The Epistolary as a Medium of Queer Posthuman Resistance in Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose The Time War”.
In the critical theory panel, Miriam Fernández-Santiago delivered the paper “The Neo-Apollonian. A Posthuman Aesthetics for the Early 21st Century”.
Our predoctoral researcher Lucía Bennet delivered the paper “Intersecting Critical Posthumanism and Post-Truth: Human Identity in the Digital Era”.
Our predoctoral researcher Laura García Soria delivered the paper “Earth as Home: Terraforming Earth and the crisis of human identity”.
To open day 2, Rubén Peinado-Abarrio has delivered the paper “The Wounded Posthuman Condition in Kate Zambreno’s The Light Room”.
Esther Muñoz-González has delivered the paper “Remnants of Humanity: Exploring Identity in TJ Klune’s The Life of Puppets (2023) through Posthuman and Queer Gothic Lenses”.
To close the conference’s second day, Francisco Collado-Rodríguez has delivered the paper “Narratives ad infinitum: Borges’s Influence on Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day (2018)”.
Last but not least, our team members Miriam Fernández-Santiago, Ana Chapman and Lucía Bennet-Ortega hosted a lively discussion in the round table “The Posthuman Wound: Digital Vulnerability in Contemporary North-American Literature”.
We’ve had a very thought-provoking week in Sevilla! It’s been a pleasure to share the research we’re conducting in our group and to get to learn from our colleagues from all over Spain.
This year, our team members have prepared a day packed full of events in different Spanish cities.
To kick off the morning, Ana Chapman and Marta Martínez-López have delivered the talk “Ser posthumano sin perder la humanidad” to a full house in Granada.
Back in Zaragoza, our predoctoral researcher María Abizanda-Cardona has taken part of the Speed dating event in Caixaforum.
Additionally, our predoctoral researcher Laura García Soria delivered the talk “¿Qué significa ser posthumano… (y por qué no tienes que alarmarte)?”.
Back to Sevilla, Ana Chapman also participated in the speed dating event, chatting about our research with the public.
To close off this very busy day with a pinch of humor, Miriam Fernández-Santiago delivered the monologue “Eres Posthumano/a y lo sabes”.
And that’s a wrap on this year’s events for European Researchers’ Night! It’s been a pleasure to chat with the public and share our research in Zaragoza, Granada and Sevilla.
This week, our PIs are taking part of the conference “Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture”, celebrated at the Università di Genova.
Our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué will deliver the paper “A Narratology of the Posthuman Wound: The Posthuman Trauma Novel in 21st Century US Fiction”.
In turn, Mónica Calvo-Pascual will present the paper “Agency, Ethics and Posthumanity in Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland”.
