Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza. She completed her PhD on the work of Brian McCabe with the dissertation entitled “The Redefinition of Scottish Identity and the Relation Self-Other(s) in the Fiction of Brian McCabe” in 2006, and was then awarded with the competitive scholarship Saltire Society for Scottish Studies by the British Arts Council.

She was also founding editor of the Publishing house Jekyll and Jill (2011–2016) and has received several awards such as Premio al Libro Mejor Editado (2011, 2012 and 2015, Gobierno de Aragón).

Her main research interests include contemporary speculative fiction, feminist SF, as well as issues of transmodern identity and narrativity. Among her more recent publications are Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English (Routledge, 2019, reissued in 2021); and the articles “Ectogenesis and Representations of Future Motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season” (Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. 43.1.(June 2021): 55-71); “Transcending the Scottish Postmodern City: Ken MacLeod’s Future Urban Geographies” (Complutense Journal of English Studies. Vol. 29 (2021)), as well as “Trauma, Reproduction and Breeding in Catherine Brophy’s Dark Paradise,” in Trauma, Memory, and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2023).