Lucia Bennett Ortega

Lucía Bennett-Ortega is a researcher at the University of Granada, Spain. She earned her undergraduate degree in English Studies in 2020 and her master’s degree in English Literature and Linguistics in 2021. She completed her PhD with funding from a Spanish Competitive PhD grant (FPU, Ministry of Education, 2021–2025). Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Dr. Miriam Fernández-Santiago, examines the fiction of Richard Powers. Lucía has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Glasgow (April–July 2023), supported by an FPU Mobility Scholarship, and at the University of Illinois Chicago (January–July 2024), supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. Her research and publications focus on critical posthumanism, disability studies, vulnerability studies, and feminist criticism.