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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).

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Posted on June 1, 2018January 28, 2025

ExRey Conference 2018

Some of the members of our research team attended the conference ExRe(y): Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culure.

Posted on January 15, 2017January 28, 2025

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Research group on US literature at @fyl_unizar (Universidad de Zaragoza). Posthumanism, science fiction, trauma studies.

Posthuman Friday ✨ - Research highlight This week Posthuman Friday ✨ - Research highlight

This week we spotlight the research article “Surveillance Capitalism and the Normalization of Digital Surveillance: An Analysis of Dave Eggers’s The Every (2021)” by our team member Carmen Laguarta-Bueno. 

The article explores how Eggers satirizes a world where surveillance is normalized and largely accepted, making use of concepts like “surveillance capitalism” and “favorably disposed normalization.” 

Watch the full video to see how recent contemporary fiction mirrors our own increasingly monitored world.

#PosthumanFridays #Posthumanism #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Dave Eggers #TheCircle #TheEvery #ContemporaryFiction
🚨 New on ResearchGate! 🚨 Check out The Posthuman 🚨 New on ResearchGate! 🚨

Check out The Posthuman Wound Research Team 👩‍🔬📚

Explore our projects, publications, and researchers working on posthumanism & American fiction 🖋️🔬✨

Follow our journey 👉 https://www.researchgate.net/lab/The-Posthuman-Wound-Research-Team-Sonia-Baelo-Allue 🌐

#PosthumanStudies #ResearchTeam #CrimeFiction #AcademicLife
🌍📚 New Open Access Chapter! We’re delighted to sh 🌍📚 New Open Access Chapter!

We’re delighted to share that Mónica Calvo-Pascual @monica_calvo7 has published Chapter 27 in the Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics (Brill), edited by Susana Onega-Jaén and Jean-Michel Ganteau (@limlit_).

🔎 Critical Posthumanism, New Materialism and the Ethics of Inclusion in Speculative Fiction
📖 Pages 641–664 | Open Access
🔗 DOI: 10.1163/9789004715516_029

This chapter explores the posthuman turn in contemporary theory and literature, examining how critical posthumanism and new materialism challenge anthropocentric frameworks in the age of the Anthropocene.

Through readings of speculative fiction by Larissa Lai and Rivers Solomon, the chapter foregrounds an emerging ethics of inclusion that rethinks agency, responsibility, and relationality in a time marked by ecological crisis and technological transformation.

👏 Congratulations on this outstanding Open Access contribution!

#Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #SpeculativeFiction #Anthropocene #LiteraryStudies #OpenAccess
📚✨ New Open Access Publication! We’re delighted t 📚✨ New Open Access Publication!

We’re delighted to share that our co-PI Sonia Baelo-Allué @sonia.baelo.allue_unizar has published a new chapter in the Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics, edited by Susana Onega-Jaén (@limlit_) and Jean-Michel Ganteau

🔎 Chapter 26: The Ethics and Literature of Cybernetic Posthumanism, Transhumanism and the Technological Other in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

📖 Pages 616–640 | Open Access
🔗 DOI: 10.1163/9789004715516_028

This chapter examines cybernetic posthumanism and transhumanism in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where physical, biological, and digital technologies converge. It explores how emerging techno-human assemblages challenge traditional binaries and reshape concepts of agency, identity, and the “technological other.”

It also analyses how contemporary literature engages with ethical debates surrounding:
• Human enhancement
• Distributed cognition
• Artificial intelligence
• Posthuman identity

👏 Congratulations on this outstanding contribution to literary ethics and posthumanist studies!

#Posthumanism #LiteraryCriticism #FourthIndustrialRevolution #AI #OpenAccess #HumanitiesResearch
📚🧬 Posthuman Fridays 📚🧬 This week’s pick is The O 📚🧬 Posthuman Fridays 📚🧬

This week’s pick is The Overstory by Richard Powers — a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that places trees at the center of the story and asks us to rethink our relationship with the natural world.

Through a series of interconnected lives, the novel reveals how forests communicate, endure, and shape human destiny. As these stories slowly intertwine, science, activism, and wonder collide in a powerful meditation on time, responsibility, and survival.

If you’re drawn to literary fiction that blends nature and philosophy, you will be captivated by The Overstory. 

#TheOverstory #RichardPowers #LiteraryFiction #EnvironmentalFiction #PosthumanFridays #Bookstagram #Posthumanism #ReadingRecommendations
🔬✨ 11F | International Day of Women and Girls in S 🔬✨ 11F | International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Today we celebrate the brilliant women researchers who are part of our research group. Their work, commitment, and intellectual leadership continue to shape critical conversations in our field and beyond.

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we recognize not only their achievements, but also their role in mentoring, inspiring, and opening paths for future generations of scholars.

Science is stronger, richer, and more innovative because of women. 💜

#11F #WomenInScience #WomenResearchers #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #AcademicResearch #GenderEquality

🔬✨ 11F | Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia

Hoy celebramos a las brillantes investigadoras que forman parte de nuestro grupo de investigación. Su trabajo, compromiso y liderazgo intelectual siguen impulsando debates críticos en nuestro ámbito académico y más allá.

En este Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia, reconocemos no solo sus logros, sino también su papel como mentoras, referentes e impulsoras de nuevas generaciones de investigadoras.

La ciencia es más fuerte, diversa e innovadora gracias a las mujeres. 💜

#11F #MujeresEnLaCiencia #Investigadoras #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujerYLaNinaEnLaCiencia #Investigacion #IgualdadDeGenero
📚 Research transfer! Our predoctoral researcher @ 📚 Research transfer!

Our predoctoral researcher @m_abizanda and @martabags (@limlit_) have delivered a lecture on research in the Humanities for high school students at @iestiemposmodernos with the occasion of the International Day of Women in Science.
Posthuman Friday ✨ Jenny Offill’s Weather isn’t j Posthuman Friday ✨

Jenny Offill’s Weather isn’t just a novel — it’s a mirror to the “new risk society” of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this article, Rubén Peinado-Abarrio explores how Offill’s fragmented, digitally inflected style captures an anxious, interconnected world, where subjectivity is shaped by networks, uncertainty, and shared vulnerability. Fragmentation becomes a posthuman aesthetic — and a call for collective thinking and action. 🌍🔗

🔗 Read the article:
https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/21977

#PosthumanFriday #Posthumanism #JennyOffill #RiskSociety #CriticalPosthumanism #LiteraryTheory #AcademicInsta #ClimateAnxiety
📚👩‍🔬 Research goes beyond the university—and into 📚👩‍🔬 Research goes beyond the university—and into the classroom

Next Monday, our predoctoral researchers María Abizanda-Cardona and Marta Bagüés Bautista will deliver a talk at IES Tiempos Modernos as part of the initiative “Women Researchers in the Classroom”, in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11F).

In addition, next Thursday, our predoctoral researchers Amanda Cámara Gamazo, Alessandra Martín González, and Denisa Alexandra Mircea (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, English Studies) will carry out an outreach activity at IES Río Gállego, continuing our commitment to research dissemination and gender equality in science.

Through these activities, students will engage with current research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, reflect on what counts as scientific knowledge, and explore why women’s presence in research and positions of social impact truly matters.

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📚👩‍🔬 La investigación va más allá de la universidad… y llega al aula

El próximo lunes, nuestras investigadoras predoctorales María Abizanda-Cardona y Marta Bagüés Bautista impartirán una charla en el IES Tiempos Modernos en el marco de la iniciativa «Las Investigadoras en el Aula», con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia (11F).

Además, el próximo jueves, nuestras investigadoras predoctorales Amanda Cámara Gamazo, Alessandra Martín González y Denisa Alexandra Mircea (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Filología Inglesa) llevarán a cabo una actividad de divulgación en el IES Río Gállego, continuando nuestro compromiso con la difusión de la investigación y la igualdad de género en la ciencia.
🧠📚 Posthuman Fridays — Book Recommendation Jenny 🧠📚 Posthuman Fridays — Book Recommendation

Jenny Offill’s Weather is a novel for living with climate anxiety, political dread, and everyday fragility. 
Fragmented, funny, and quietly brutal, it captures what it means to feel the end of the world in the middle of daily life.

#PosthumanFridays #BookRecommendation #JennyOffill #Weather #ClimateFiction #Posthumanism #ContemporaryFiction
🧠📱 POSTHUMAN FRIDAYS What happens when trauma mee 🧠📱 POSTHUMAN FRIDAYS

What happens when trauma meets the internet?

In today’s post, we dive into “The posthuman trauma novel: Reconfiguring subjectivity in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking about This (2021)”, an article by our co-PI @sonia.baelo.allue_unizar that reads Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This as a narrative where digital subjectivity, fragmentation, and trauma collide.

From meme-driven collective consciousness to embodied grief, the novel exposes how online life reshapes the self — and how real trauma breaks through the illusion of digital detachment.

Check out the full article here: https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ejac_00124_1

#PosthumanFridays #PosthumanStudies #TraumaNarratives #DigitalSubjectivity #ContemporaryFiction #PatriciaLockwood #CriticalPosthumanism #InternetCulture #LiteratureAndTheory
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🎓 Exciting seminar alert! Our team member @miria 🎓 Exciting seminar alert! 

Our team member @miriamfernandezsantiago will be delivering a talk on:

“Writing an Abstract: The Difficulties of a Simple Task”
as part of SAAS Young Scholars.

📝 Learn practical tips and insights on abstract writing and how to tackle this deceptively tricky task!

📲 Scan the QR code to register and secure your spot!

#AcademicLife #SAASYoungScholars #Seminar #AbstractWriting #ResearchTips #HigherEd #WritingSkills
✨ New Publication Alert! ✨ We’re thrilled to shar ✨ New Publication Alert! ✨

We’re thrilled to share that our talented team members Ana Chapman and Miriam Fernández‑Santiago have just published a thought‑provoking article on AI: Reality or Fiction, now live on Substack! 🚀🧠

🔍 Join the conversation on what artificial intelligence really means — separating fact from fiction and exploring its impact on our world.

Read the full piece via the link! 🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/anachapmanuma/p/inteligencia-artificial-realidad?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Substack #NewArticle #Research #TechAndSociety #ThoughtLeadership
Our predoctoral researcher María Abizanda-Cardona Our predoctoral researcher María Abizanda-Cardona has just presented the poster “Fostering Critical Thinking through Literature: Assessing the Literary Criticism Workshop as a Teaching Innovation Experience in English Studies” at the XVIII Conference on Teaching Innovation and Educational Research (Universidad de Zaragoza).

The presentation took place in Thematic Panel I-A: Rethinking Teaching Innovation in the New Regulatory Context, a space dedicated to sharing and debating innovative practices that respond to the changing landscape of higher education. 📚💡

The poster was developed by a group of Literature PhD students from the Department of English and German Studies to showcase the results of their three-year ongoing teaching innovation project, which investigates how literary analysis can be used to foster critical thinking, analytical skills, and reflective engagement in the English Studies classroom.

👏 Congratulations to María and the whole team for this important contribution to teaching innovation and educational research!

#TeachingInnovation #CriticalThinking #EnglishStudies #HigherEducation #AcademicLife #UNIZAR #ConferencePoster #EducationalResearch
🍬 Posthuman Fridays (a little late, but still post 🍬 Posthuman Fridays (a little late, but still posthuman 👀)

The Candy House (2022) by Jennifer Egan imagines a world where memories can be uploaded, shared, and traded through a technology called Own Your Unconscious. What happens when your past becomes data — and your identity something others can access, remix, or monetize?

Through a dazzling web of interconnected stories, Egan explores surveillance, digital selves, and the quiet violence behind the promise of “free” connectivity. As one character warns: never trust a candy house.

If you’re fascinated by how technology reshapes what it means to be human, this near-future novel will haunt you long after the last page.

#PosthumanFridays #TheCandyHouse #JenniferEgan #SpeculativeFiction #DigitalIdentity #MemoryAndTechnology #BookRecommendation #Posthuman #SciFiLit
✨ New Contribution from Our Team! Don’t miss “Hop ✨ New Contribution from Our Team!

Don’t miss “Hope to Do Some Good, No Matter How Fed Up You Are”: Ecoterrorism, Trauma and Ecological Affect in The Ministry for the Future by Laura García Soria, a compelling ecocritical exploration of climate affect, ecological trauma, and radical environmental activism in Kim Stanley Robinson’s powerful novel 🌍🔥. This piece tackles how ecological emotions — from anxiety to despair — intersect with radical responses to climate collapse and how these affective landscapes challenge and reflect our posthuman present.

🔗 Tap the link to read the full article! https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/28455

Stay tuned for more highlights from our researchers 😍

#Posthumanism #ClimateFiction #Ecocriticism #EnvironmentalAffect #AcademicResearch #EstudiosNorteamericanos #TeamResearch #MinistryForTheFuture #ClimateJustice #EcoAnxiety #NovelStudies
✨ Team Research Highlight! Check out “Transgressi ✨ Team Research Highlight!

Check out “Transgressing the Code of Desire: Queering the Posthuman in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous” by Laura Larrodera‑Arcega 🎓⚡️

In this exciting piece, Laura explores how Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous dismantles binaries of gender and desire by centering queer and trans identities alongside bio‑engineered beings — challenging heteronormative codes and imagining posthuman futures that are fluid, disruptive, and vibrant. Through a queer posthumanist lens, this article shows how speculative fiction can unsettle norms and open up new ways of thinking about bodies, technology, and identity 📚🤖💫

🔗 Tap the link in bio to read the full article! https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/28470

Stay tuned for more from our researchers 👀

#Posthumanism #QueerTheory #SpeculativeFiction #AnnaleeNewitz #Autonomous #AcademicResearch #TeamResearch #EstudiosNorteamericanos #CyborgStudies #GenderAndTech
✨ Spotlight on Posthumanism! Check out “Black Uto ✨ Spotlight on Posthumanism!

Check out “Black Utopia and Body Agency in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Mónica Calvo Pascual — a powerful engagement with Black utopian futures, critical posthumanism, and radical forms of kinship and body agency within Solomon’s groundbreaking novel. This article explores how non‑normative identities and affective bonds disrupt colonial and Enlightenment constructions of the human in speculative fiction, offering fresh perspectives on autonomy, resistance, and more‑than‑human relationality 📖⚡️

🔗 Link to read the full article! https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/28501

Stay tuned for more highlights from our team’s contributions 👀

#Posthumanism #BlackUtopia #CriticalTheory #RiversSolomon #LiteraryAnalysis #AcademicResearch #EstudiosNorteamericanos #TeamResearch #ReadersRecommendation
✨ New from our team! Dive into “Critical Perspect ✨ New from our team!

Dive into “Critical Perspectives on the Already Posthuman World”, an introduction to the Posthumanism section of the special issue, co‑authored by Rubén Peinado Abarrio and Ana Chapman 🧠🔍.

This piece sets the stage for thinking beyond traditional humanist frameworks, inviting us to explore how posthuman theory reshapes our understanding of bodies, technologies, environments, and identities in today’s complex world — where the “posthuman” is not just future speculation but a lens on the present.

📖 Tap the link to read the full article! https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/28501

Stay tuned — we’ll be unpacking more contributions from our researchers soon 👀

#Posthumanism #AcademicResearch #CriticalTheory #EstudiosNorteamericanos #TeamResearch #NewPublication #BeyondHumanism #MoreThanHuman
📣 New Special Issue out now! We’re thrilled to an 📣 New Special Issue out now!

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue on Posthumanism in Estudios Norteamericanos, edited by two members of our team:
Rubén Peinado Abarrio and Ana Chapman 🧬📚

This issue brings together cutting-edge research on posthuman theory, literature, culture, and the politics of the more-than-human, offering powerful new ways to think about bodies, technology, ecology, and identity in the contemporary world.

✨ It also includes publications by several of our own researchers, showcasing the breadth and depth of work being done across our team.

Stay tuned — we’ll be sharing more posts soon with highlights and details on each of these contributions 👀

🔗 Link to explore the full issue: https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/issue/view/1606

Huge congratulations to Rubén and Ana for this fantastic achievement! 👏

#Posthumanism #SpecialIssue #AcademicPublishing #CriticalTheory #AmericanStudies #MoreThanHuman #LiteraryStudies #ResearchSpotlight
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