María Ferrández-Sanmiguel, Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, specializes in North American Literature, focusing on contemporary US fiction and ethics. Her research explores the posthuman and nonhuman elements in speculative fiction. Recent works include articles in Critique and Extrapolation, and the monograph Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow (2020).
Esther Muñoz-González, Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, specializes in contemporary US fiction with a posthumanist focus. Her research explores dystopian representations of the future and cli-fiction in Gothic texts. She has published in impactful journals and edited volumes, including a recent monograph titled Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood Dystopias (2023).
Carmen Laguarta-Bueno, a University of Zaragoza faculty member, specializes in contemporary US fiction, exploring trauma, transhumanism, critical posthumanism, and bioethics. Author of Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction (2022), her recent essays delve into virtual immortality, transhumanism, metafiction, and the ethical aspects of enhancing human happiness through biotechnology.