Within my general interests in Latin/x American studies, I work especially on Caribbean and Mexican literature, visual arts, and media. I am interested in geographies of various scales and dimensions (big/small, mundane/extreme, political/affective, human/nonhuman, technological/ecological), coloniality and indigeneity, as well as multiracial and multilingual migrations. Most recently, I have been focusing on speculative fiction, film, and poetry.
Cosmic Encounters:
Speculative Fiction and the Contested Politics of Futurity in Latin America, 1966-2025
How does Latin American speculative fiction imagine the cosmos, and what does that imagination reveal about lived experiences in relation to future horizons like modernization, revolution, and postcolonial sovereignty?
“Cosmic Dismemberment: Decolonizing Space Exploration in Cuban Science
Fiction.”
Future Spaces of Power: The Cultural Politics of Digital and Outer Spaces. Eds.
Caroline Alphin, E. Leigh McKagen, and Shelby E. Ward, Bloomsbury, 2025, 77-98.
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