Miriam Fernández-Santiago

is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Granada, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on critical theory, postcolonial narrative and the cultures and literatures of English-speaking countries. She is the current Head of the English Department of the University of Granada and lead researcher of research group “Studies in Literature, Criticism and Culture” (Ref. GRACO-HUM 676). At present, her research interests include Critical Posthumanism, Trauma and Disability Studies, which she is pursuing within research project “Recent North American fiction and the 4th Industrial Revolution: From Posthumanity to Privation and Social Change” (Ref. PID2019-106855GB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation. She also leads the research projects “Interfaces: Representing Human Vulnerability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (P20_00008) and “Representing Vulnerability as an Element of Social Cohesion or Exclusion” (A-HUM22-UGR-20) funded by the EU and the Andalusian Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities