Image Credit: Sanderson, Bill. “The gyri of the thinker’s brain as a maze of choices in biomedical ethics.” Scraperboard drawing, 1997. Wellcome Collection. [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)] Therapy or Enhancement? Bioethics in Transhumanist Science Fictional Interpretations of the Body Since the Enlightenment, the idea of perpetual progress and the hegemony of rationality have…
Author: Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui
Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country (EHU, Spain) and member of REWEST: Research Group in Western American Literature and Culture. In 2023, she was awarded a four-year grant by the Basque Government to carry out her thesis on posthuman consciousness in contemporary American space opera. She has published a book chapter on hybrid identities in science fiction with Tirant lo Blanch and is currently co-editing the volume Unravelling Myth in the Fantastic: Theories, Tropes and Cultural Transgressions for Peter Lang (2025). Her academic interests include the literature/science intersection, posthumanism, transhumanism, cognitive narratology and science fiction poetics.