We are a small team of young researchers with a wide range of skills and experience, some of us specialise in critical theory (such as philosophy, sociology, and literature) others are active artistic practitioners. We all work closely with some aspect of Posthumanist thinking and want to connect with researchers who share our research interests.
Omara Dyer-Johnson
Postgraduate Researcher working towards a P.h.D in Black Studies
Her research is about the ways contemporary Afrofuturism has depicted Black futurity and the importance of these narratives in speculative fiction. While Afrofuturism is not always associated with Posthumanism, discussions about the parameters of humanity which have often excluded Black people overlap and are reoccurring questions within Omara’s research.
Email: omara.dyer-johnson@nottingham.ac.uk
Nathan Gubbins
Postgraduate Researcher studying towards a P.h.D in Archeology and Ancient History
Nathan is a PhD student in the department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester. Whilst his background is in World Archaeology and Classics, his research has taken a new direction looking at the changes that occurred over the course of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in Britain. Specifically, Nathan wants to challenge the hard demarcated distinction between the two time periods by looking specifically at the changes in depositional practices throughout these periods. In this he is using posthumanist philosophies to move beyond binary thinking and anthropocentricism. He challenges modern and post-modernist anthropocentricism dominant in current approaches to archaeology.
Email: nmg12@leicester.ac.uk
Jayde Martin
Postgraduate Researcher working towards a P.h.D in English Literature
Jayde’s research focuses on genetic identity and the human body in science-fiction literature. Often, contemporary identity formation manifests itself as a relationship between genetic composition of a human individual and the species of Homo sapiens. Therefore, her thesis explores how science-fiction literature complicates this through the trope of genetic manipulation and the representation of non-human/posthuman characters.
Email: jxm428@student.bham.ac.uk
Sarah Walden
Postgraduate Researcher and Experimental Artistic Practitioner
Sarah is an experimental media artist examining the situated knowledges of neurodivergence through the lens of post-structuralist and feminist posthumanist theory. Sarah’s practice encompasses the performance of neurodivergence, the form and function of glitch art, and the materiality of analogue and digital film in an experimental context, along with narrative and sensuous engagement with the radically ‘other’. She is a Midlands3Cities PhD candidate at Birmingham School of Art (Birmingham City University).
Email: sarah.walden@mail.bcu.ac.uk
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