Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen is Senior 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.

Her main research interests include contemporary speculative fiction, feminist SF, motherhood, 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; 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. She is also co-editing Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction. Mothers Out of this World. Sara Martin and Jessica Aliaga Lavrjsen, Palgrave, 2025; and has also recently edited two special volumes on on “Motherings in Contemporary Speculative Fiction” for Hélice. Critical Thinking on Speculative Fiction (Winter 2024 and Spring 2025).