Theses defended in the last years

Dr. Sergio Salvador. “Wired for Inequality: Power and Privilege in the Cyberpunk Dystopia.” University of Zaragoza, 25th May 2026. Thesis supervised by Dr. Francisco Collado Rodríguez and Dr. María Ferrández San Miguel. 

Dr. Lucía Bennett Ortega. “Posthuman Disabled Ontologies in Richard Powers’ Fiction.” University of Granada, 19th May 2026. Cum laude (unanimous). Thesis supervised by Dr. Miriam Fernández Santiago.

Roberto Olavarría Choín. “Revising Paganism in the Fiction of HP Lovecraft”. University of Granada, 24th January 2025. Thesis supervised by Dr. Miriam Fernández Santiago.

Dr. Esther Muñoz González. “Trauma and Post-Humanity in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction.” University of Zaragoza, 17 March 2021. Cum laude (unanimous). Thesis with International Mention. Supervisors: Drs. Mónica Calvo Pascual and Francisco Collado Rodríguez.

Dr. Carmen Laguarta Bueno. “Trauma, Post-Humanity and (Post-) Apocalypse in Contemporary American Fiction.” University of Zaragoza, 26 February 2021. Cum laude (unanimous). Thesis with International Mention. Supervisors: Drs. Sonia Baelo Allué and Francisco Collado Rodríguez. PhD With Distinction (Premio extraordinario de Doctorado).

Dr. María Ferrández San Miguel. “Mapping E.L. Doctorow’s Ethical Pursuit: Trauma and Gender Articulations in Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and City of God.” University of Zaragoza, 3 April 2017. Cum laude (unanimous). Excellence and International Mention. Supervisor: Dr. Francisco Collado Rodríguez.

Dr. Bilyana Vanyova Kostova. “Impossible Voices, Incredible Stories. Textual Experimentation and the Representation of Trauma in the Novels of Jeffrey Eugenides.” University of Zaragoza, 7 September 2015. Excellence and International Mention. Supervisor: Dr. Francisco Collado Rodríguez.