Laura Larrodera Arcega is a PhD candidate in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She collaborates in the research group The Posthuman Wound: Subject and Agency in the North American Literature of the 21st Century. Her research explores, through a critical posthumanist lens, robot narrators in Feminist and Queer North American Science Fiction from the 2010s. She maps the narrative techniques employed to capture these more than human perspectives. Moreover, she examines the potential benefits and problems of the association of this type of figure with trans and nonbinary identities and how it may affect reader’s conception of gender, sexuality and sex. She is interested in gender, sexuality, the posthuman, the inhuman, bodies, robot narratives, entanglements, hybridity, queer identities, science fiction, horror and video games.

Selected publications

Larrodera-Arcega, Laura  “Indenture Rights for All: Challenging the Human Status Quo in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous.” In The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture. Eds. María Ferrández-Sanmiguel, Esther Muñoz-González and Carmen Laguarta-Bueno. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83701-2_5

Larrodera-Arcega, Laura. “Transgressing the Code of Desire: Queering the Posthuman in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous”. Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 29, Dec. 2025.

https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/28470