Conference news 🎤📚
Rubén Peinado-Abarrio (Univ. Zaragoza) presented the paper “The Posthuman Body in Ban en Banlieue” at PLGS 2026 (Female CorpoRealities) at Universidad de Alcalá.
Exploring posthuman embodiment & feminist corporealities 👏
New publication 🎉📚
Our team member Rubén Peinado Abarrio has just published the book chapter “An Animal State: the Human-Dog Entity in Drifts”.
A posthumanist reading of multispecies intimacy, embodiment & feminist “decreation.”
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
Really excited to share that my article "Doing Science Otherwise: Material Performativity and Posthuman Spacetimematterings in @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Southern Reach Series" has just been published by Anglia: Journal of English Philology in open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 🤩🤩
Delighted to contribute this chapter on posthumanism, secrecy, and transparency in @egangoonsquad.bsky.social's work.
Many thanks to @drjuanlperez.bsky.social y Paula Martín-Salván for their editorial work, and to all contributors 🙏
Open access: peterlang.com/document/14991
📚✨ New article!
María Ferrández-Sanmiguel (@maria-fsm.bsky.social) explores posthuman science, material performativity & nonhuman agency in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (Anglia, 2026).
🔗 doi.org/10.1515/ang-...
#Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #Ecocriticism
📚🔍 New Open Access chapter!
Sonia Baelo-Allué (@soniabaeloallue.bsky.social) examines posthumanism, secrecy & transparency in Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box” and The Candy House.
🔗 doi.org/10.3726/b22736
#Posthumanism #Surveillance #OpenAccess #ContemporaryFiction
We've had such an interesting and lively discussion!
We're already looking forward to the next Literary Criticism Workshop, which (spoiler alert) will be held on May 7th.
Keep an eye on this page to stay posted!
Our team member Dr. Rubén Peinado Abarrio introduced the fascinating perspective of autotheory, and afterwards the students discussed Kate Zambreno's short story "Insekt or Large Verminous Thing".
🌟 Literary Criticism Workshop 🌟
Great turnout today in the latest edition of the #LiteraryCriticismWorkshop held today.
@filoinglesauz.bsky.social
Posthuman Fridays 📚✨ Book rec
This week we’re reading Pew by Catherine Lacey — a haunting meditation on identity, silence, and the limits of community. An unnamed, unknowable figure unsettles a small town simply by refusing to be defined. Who gets to belong—and at what cost?
🎥 #PosthumanFridays Research Highlight
This week we feature the work of @mirfersan.bsky.social, whose research explores the intersections between posthumanism, digital culture, and contemporary North American literature.
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHsS...
📚 New session of the Literary Criticism Workshop at Universidad de Zaragoza!
🗓 20 March | ⏰ 12:00 | 📍 Room B3.2
“Autotheory and Kate Zambreno’s short story: Insekt or Large Verminous Thing”
Session led by Rubén Peinado Abarrio.
Open to anyone interested in literary theory and criticism. ✨
Members of our team presented yesterday the poster “Posthumanismo, relacionalidad e IA en la docencia de literatura norteamericana” at the IX Jornadas del Observatorio Permanente de Innovación Docente.
🔗 Check out the whole event here: www.youtube.com/live/YKRZ1uY...
📢 Call for Papers!
“Unbound, Unfinished, Ongoing: A Kate Zambreno Symposium”
📍 Online
📅 23 Oct 2026
🗓 Abstract deadline: 1 July 2026
🔗 sites.google.com/view/kate-za...
Check out the thirty-fifth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Carlota Arrillaga Vázquez discusses the influence of William Apess on Sherman Alexie's "The Exaggeration of Despair" 🎙️✨
@posthumanuz.bsky.social
youtu.be/Yl16dIN55k0?...
🌿📚 #PosthumanFridays
This week: Sobre Dios. Pensar con Simone Weil by Byung-Chul Han.
A luminous meditation on attention, silence & decreation in dialogue with Simone Weil.
Against hyperproductivity and digital saturation, Han invites us to rediscover meaning through stillness and vulnerability.
Very pleased to contribute to this collective volume on literary criticism and ethics
Short overview of my chapter (context, key questions, references) 👇
www.growkudos.com/publications...
Full chapter (open access) 👇
brill.com/display/book...
(Choose your preferred level of commitment😉)
We’re live on ResearchGate! 🚀👩🔬
Explore our research on posthumanism & crime fiction 📚✨
Meet the team & check our projects here 👉 www.researchgate.net/lab/The-Post...
#PosthumanStudies #AcademicTwitter #ResearchTeam
📚💡 Both chapters contribute to cutting-edge debates in posthumanist theory, literary ethics, AI studies & environmental humanities — and both are Open Access!
👏 Huge congratulations to our co-PIs Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual!
In her chapter, Mónica Calvo-Pascual addresses the posthuman turn in the age of the Anthropocene 🌱🔥
• 🌎 Environmental crisis & the Sixth Extinction
• 📡 Techno-science & global capitalism
• 🧩 Post-anthropocentric agency
🌍📖 Chapter 27
“Critical Posthumanism, New Materialism and the Ethics of Inclusion in Speculative Fiction”
by Mónica Calvo-Pascual
(pp. 641–664)
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
In this chapter, Sonia Baelo-Allué explores how cybernetic posthumanism & transhumanism engage with the Fourth Industrial Revolution ⚙️💻
She examines ethical debates around:
• 🧬 Human enhancement
• 🤖 Artificial intelligence
• 🧠 Distributed cognition
🤖📖 Chapter 26
“The Ethics and Literature of Cybernetic Posthumanism, Transhumanism and the Technological Other in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”
by Sonia Baelo-Allué
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
📢 We’re delighted to announce that our PIs
@soniabaeloallue.bsky.social and Mónica Calvo-Pascual have published two Open Access chapters in the Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics, edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau (@limlit-unizar.bsky.social). 👇
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
Check out the thirty-second episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Laura María Sánchez Trujillo discusses the influence of Emily Dickinson on Adrienne Rich's "Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law" 🎙️✨
@posthumanuz.bsky.social
youtu.be/nclZ6PMmEnU?...
This week’s #PosthumanFridays pick is The Overstory by Richard Powers — a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that places trees at the heart of the narrative 🌳
📢 Friday PhD Talk #23 will be delivered by @luiskleiser.bsky.social
The title of his talk is “From the Classroom to the PhD: Being an Outsider, a Part-Time Researcher, and a Public Speaker.”
⏰ Thursday 27th February, 12:00h
📌 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Zaragoza)
🔬✨ Today we celebrate the outstanding women researchers in our group on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#11F).
Science is stronger, more diverse, and more innovative because of women. 💜
@filoinglesauz.bsky.social
In addition, next Thursday, our predoctoral researchers Amanda Cámara Gamazo, Alessandra Martín González, and Denisa Alexandra Mircea will carry out an outreach activity at IES Río Gállego, continuing our commitment to research dissemination and gender equality in science.