María Abizanda-Cardona is a PhD candidate at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). In 2021 she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, for which she was granted an Extraordinary Degree Award, and later completed a Master’s Degree in Literary and Cultural Studies in Anglophone Countries at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In 2022 she was granted a four-year national competitive Research Fellowship (FPU) by the Spanish Ministry of Education to carry out her doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Sonia Baelo Allué.
Her thesis explores the representation of posthumanity in 21st-century crime fiction by American authors, focusing on the effects of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies over definitions of personhood, ethics and social relations. Her research interests include critical posthumanism, transhumanism and biopolitics. Recent publications include “Beyond SF: Reading the posthuman in crime fiction” (European Journal of American Culture, 2024). She has also been an academic visitor at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of California, Riverside.