David J. Vázquez (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25

David Vázquez completed a draft of one chapter and began a draft of a second chapter of his book-in-progress, Days of Futures Past: Latinx Science Fiction and Speculative Futurity. 

He also completed much of the background research on science fiction criticism over the past five decades for the book. 
During the fellowship period, Vázquez completed the index and final production files for Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futurity in Latinx Cultural Production (University of Texas Press, in press July 2025). 

In addition, he worked on several collaborative projects:

• “Who Are We to Fight the Alchemy: Alchemical Collaboration as Praxis to Get Beyond the ‘Human(ities)’ and the ‘Environment,’” which was submitted to the journal Resilience for peer-review.
• With coeditors Vázquez completed two collaboratively edited special journal issues: “Re(creating) Latinx Outdoors,” a special issue of Diálogo (forthcoming, 2025) and a special provocation of ASAP/J on Renee Hudson’s book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas (Fordham University Press, in press May 2025).

Finally, he began preliminary work on a collaboratively authored article on Alfonso Cuaron’s film, Children of Men, that has been solicited for an edited volume on the film.