Mónica Cano Abadía

Mónica Cano Abadía holds a PhD in Philosophical Studies from the University of Zaragoza, where she completed a doctoral thesis on Judith Butler and the possibilities for social transformation. She has also undertaken advanced studies with Rosi Braidotti at the *Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene* Summer School and the *Deleuze and Fascism* seminar at Utrecht University (the Netherlands); with Judith Butler in *The Critique of Violence Now*; and with Achille Mbembe in the *Life Futures* course at the European Graduate School.

She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka (Croatia) and in the Political Philosophy Section of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Graz (Austria).

She has published numerous research articles combining Judith Butler’s perspective with critical posthumanisms and new feminist materialisms. More recently, she co-edited the special issue *“Vulnerability” in Contemporary Feminist Theory* of *Redescriptions* with Tuija Pulkkinen and is one of the editors of the *Feminist Responses to Populist Politics* issue of *The European Journal of English Studies*.

She is one of the organisers of the International Seminar on Posthumanisms and New Materialisms at the University of Zaragoza. She has also participated in the research project *Justice, Citizenship and Vulnerability: Narratives of Precarity and Intersectional Approaches* at the University of La Laguna.

She currently teaches in the Master’s Programme in Gender Studies at the University of Graz and works as a bioethics expert at the BBMRI-ERIC research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources. As part of BBMRI-ERIC, she participates in the EOSC-Life project, which aims to create an open and collaborative digital space for biological and medical research.