Eva Pelayo Sañudo holds a PhD in gender and diversity from the University of Oviedo and currently teaches at the University of Cantabria (Spain). Her fields of research are American literature, ethnic, gender and postcolonial studies. Her monography Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets (2021) has been awarded several prizes.

• Introduction to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Writing and his "Intimate Dystopia" Never Let Me Go Chapter 1. Gendered Capitalism: A Critical Analysis of Educational, Economic and Cultural Systems The Value of Bodies: Sports, Health and Chastity Spatial Segregation and Dehumanization The Ethics of Caring as a (Feminist) Utopia Chapter 2. Ecocriticism: "Environmental Dystopias" and the Post-Pastoral Unsettling Environments in Environmental Dystopianism Hailsham and Beyond: Discovering (the Limits of) a "Phantasy Land" Chapter 3. Looking for Hope: The Role of Love and Art, and Other Religious Undertones of Redemption Something to Go On: Deferrals ‘Your Art Will Display your Souls! A Road to Salvation: Religion, Determinism and Free Will Chapter 4. “Speculative Memoir”: Blending Autobiography and Science Fiction Memory, Identity and Writing: Generic Approaches to Interpret Never Let Me Go The (De)Formation of Identity in Never Let Me Go: Representing Trauma and Nostalgia Index