Recent Approaches to the Posthuman Conference

Our volume The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights (@Palgrave) is currently in production! We can’t wait to see the finished book and to share it with the world 🤩 link.springer.com/book/978303183… Stay tuned for more updates!

Our introduction, "Recent Reflections on the Posthuman Condition in American Literature and Culture" is also available here: intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

And closing the special issue, @L_Erbentraut's "Posthuman icons: Virtual YouTubers’ bodies beyond the cyborg"

We are absolutely thrilled to share that our guest-edited special issue "Recent Reflections on the Posthuman Condition in American Literature and Culture" has just been published by @EJACjournal 🤩 Full issue available here: intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…

📢📢📢 Predoctoral grant offer Our current project "The Posthuman Wound: Subject and Agency in 21st century North American Fiction" (PID2022-137627NB-I00) offers a posting for a FPI predoctoral grant. 🔗 Link to the call: ae.unizar.es/?app=touz&opci… ⬇️ More info:

We're going to take a few days off to recover, but we'll contact you very soon to talk about our future plans. Stay tuned!

And of course our tireless collaborators, María Abizanda Cardona (@mariaabizandac), Laura Larrodera Arcega (@L_Larrodera), Marta Bagüés Bautista (@martabagues), Paula Serrano and Adriana Lobato Villarreal. THANKS!

Thanks are also due to all those who have made this conference possible: @FiloInglesaUZ, @unizar @posthuman_uz, the research team “Contemporary Narratives in English”, @acad_euro, @FacultadFiloZgz. We couldn’t have done it without your support!

And it’s a wrap!!

Adriana Lobato Villarreal presents the paper “Reluctantly Human: A Study of Boundaries and Cyborgs in NK Jemisin’s The Broken Earth” @nkjemisin #posthumanconf23

Laura García Soria’s paper is “The Alien and the Sublime: Posthuman Identities in Annihilation” @jeffvandermeer #posthumanconf23

Session 9B, “Posthuman otherness”, includes papers by Laura García Soria (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Adriana Lobato Villarreal(University of Zaragoza) @LimLit_unizar #posthumanconf23

M. Inmaculada Parra-Martínez’s paper is “The Last of Us: Humans and Post-humans after a Real Pandemic” and Rosa M. Moreno-Redondo’s paper is “(Post)humanist Cooperation in a Postnatural World: Mike Carey’s Speculative Fiction in the Rampart Trilogy” #posthumanconf23

Last but not least, Session 9A, “Disaster narratives and the posthuman”, includes papers by María Inmaculada Parra-Martínez (U. of Murcia) and Rosa María Moreno-Redondo (Universitat de les Illes Balears) #posthumanconf23