📢 This week, several of our team members took part in the #LimLitConference2025, organized by our colleagues from the LIMLIT Research Group at the University of Zaragoza. It was an inspiring week full of vibrant discussions, critical reflections, and interdisciplinary exchanges! ✨
Throughout the conference, our researchers presented their latest work exploring posthumanism, relationality, and contemporary American literature:
📃 Ana Chapman delivered the paper “The Narrative of ‘Murmure’ and ‘Memor’: Relationality and Evolution in Marshall’s The Migration.”
📃 Our co-PI Mónica Calvo-Pascual presented “Body Agency and Radical Kinship in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts.”
📄 María Ferrández-San Miguel shared her work “Mourning the Human? Posthuman Death and Ontological Vulnerability in Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy.”
📄 Miriam Fernández-Santiago discussed “The Posthuman Wound: Neo-Apollonian Aesthetics for Transcendental(ist) Relations in the Literary Productions by Tao Lin and Francesca Ferrando.”
On day 2, our doctoral student Aurora Rodríguez-Bermejo Fraile presented “The Embodied Other: New Materialism and Critical Posthumanism in The Deep (2019).”
📄 In the same panel, Esther Muñoz-González delivered “Resurrected Identities: The Posthuman and Gothic Relationality in Kelly Link’s The Book of Love.”
📄 Our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué explored “Narrating Relationality: Language, AI, and the Nonhuman in Louisa Hall’s Speak.”
📄 Rubén Peinado-Abarrio presented “Mise en abyme as a Feminist Strategy in Recent US Fiction.”
On day 3, our predoctoral researcher Laura García-Soria delivered “‘A New Structure of Feeling’: Social Media, Planetarity and Relationality in The Ministry for the Future.”
The conference wrapped up after three intense days of engaging talks and meaningful academic exchanges. It’s been a pleasure to share our research and connect with colleagues from Zaragoza and beyond.
