Beyond Human

Beyond Human probes Spanish cultural production across hundreds of years to query the damaging ideologies and ecological practices that have perpetuated human and non-human suffering.

Maryanne L. Leone is a professor of Spanish and chairperson of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures at Assumption University.
Lino Shanna :

Shanna Lino is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at York University’s Glendon College.

"Beyond Human is an important collection of seventeen original essays traversing the environmental humanities in the context of Spanish literary and cultural studies. It is thus a compelling tour de force of non-human agencies, transcorporeality, ecohorror, material ecofeminisms, the Anthropocene debates, and more in Spanish naturecultures."

Samuel Amago, Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia, and author of Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain :

"Comprised of a lively array of new readings of Spanish cultural production from the Renaissance to the present,　Beyond Human is a must-read for scholars interested in cultural studies and environmental humanities. Spanning a half-millennium, the volume expands the archive of Spanish ecocritical thought and practice with compelling, theoretically informed essays authored by leading and emerging scholars on the social, cultural, political, and historical foundations of Spain’s present ecocidal conjuncture."

Eugenia Afinoguénova, Professor of Spanish, Marquette University:

"Bringing together Spanish cultural studies, environmental studies, and ecocriticism, this versatile volume renews the repertoire of theoretical approaches to Spanish literature and culture by modelling ecocritical analyses of texts, films, and graphic novels. The contributors showcase the relevance of ecocritical and environmental analyses from the seventeenth century onwards. This book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and all those interested in Spain or environmental cultural studies."