Elisa Andrea Viteri MarquezDoktorand
Om mig
I am a PhD student at the Department for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. In my project, I aim to explore contemporary works of speculative fiction in Arabic, in particular dystopian and science fiction novels. My project approaches these novels from a post-humanist perspective, focusing in the relationship between humans and non-humans, the planetary scale of existance, and the mediation of technology.
I have a professional and academic background as a translator and interpreter (Spanish - English - Arabic), political science & conflict, and disaster management. I have several years of experience as a humanitarian worker in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Sudan.
Presentations and papers:
- Much more than humans in Arabic speculative fiction: new scenarios of becoming, Presentation at the Thirteenth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo (Norway), 27th September 2025.
- Saharan dust: AI and the future of humanity in North African Arabic science fiction, Online presentation at the panel ‘Literary metaphors of pollution and colonialism in the global South’ at the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) Conference, University of Maryland (USA), 9th July 2025.
- Capitalist Utopias, Images of the Future and Revolutions: a Posthumanist Take on North African Arabic Speculative Fiction, Presentation at the panel at the 2nd International Congress of Ecological Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain), 30th June 2025.
Previous works:
- Viteri Marquez, E. A. (2020). Literary masculinities in contemporary Egyptian dystopian fiction. MA thesis. Stockholm University. Available at Diva website.
- Viteri Marquez, E. A. (2022). Protecting the Nile: Egypt’s crisis exploitation of the GERD crisis (2011-2021). BA thesis. Swedish Defence University. Available at Diva website.
Other projects:
- Co-organizer of the Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group at Stockholm University, together Andrew Jones, Professor of Archaeology at SU. This reading group is open to anyone interested. We meet once a month to comment on the reationship between speculative fiction and our life in planet Earth. Link to the Environmental Humanities and Speculative Fiction Reading Group at SU.
- Collaborator at the EArtH project, an collaborative initiative that draws upon rigorous IPCC findings to reimagine artworks, aiming to foster a deeper public understanding and engagement with climate change’s impacts. Link to the EArtH project blog.
Full profile in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisaviteri