Sonia Baelo-Allué is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where she currently teaches U.S. Literature and British and American Culture.

Mónica Calvo-Pascual is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where she teaches Contemporary U.S. Literature and British Culture.

(Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: An Introduction. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual

Section I. Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

1. Before Humanity: Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and Becoming Inhuman. Stefan Herbrechter

2. From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism: A Critical Approach. Maite Escudero-Alías

3. Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online. Alexandra Glavanakova

Section II. Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement

4. Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks. Loredana Filip

5. Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson's "The Belonging Kind" and Eggers's The Circle. Francisco Collado-Rodríguez

6.Subjects of the 'Modem' World: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy's Satin Island. Margalida Massanet Andreu

Section III. Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio)Technology

7. The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy's C: Traumatic Secrets and the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society. Susana Onega

8. Don DeLillo's Zero K: Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation. Carmen Laguarta-Bueno

9. A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement: Speciesist and Political Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability in M. Night Shyamalan's Split. Miriam Fernández-Santiago

Section IV. Posthumanity: Post-Anthropocentric Scenarios

10. The Call of Anthropocene: Resituating the Human through Trans- & Posthumanism;

Notes of Otherness in Works of Jeff Vandermeer and Cixin Liu. Justus Poetzsch

11. "Am I a person?" Biotech Animals and Posthumanist Empathy in Jeff Vandermeer's Borne. Monica Sousa

12. Posthuman Cure: Biological and Cultural Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam. Esther Muñoz-González

13. Posthuman Transformation in Helen Marshall's The Migration. Sherryl Vint

Conclusion: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual