Articles

Gil’Adí, Maia and Justin Mann, “New Suns.” Special Issue Introduction. ASAP/Journal. 6.2 (2021): 244-251.

Gil’Adí, Maia, “‘I think about you, X—’: Teaching Junot Díaz after “The Silence.” Latino Studies 18. 4 (2020): 507-530.

Gil’Adí, Maia, “Sugar Apocalypse: Sweetness and Monstrosity in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban.” Studies in American Fiction 47.1 (2020): 97-116.

Gil’Adí, Maia. “Alexander Apóstol: Phantasmagoric Landscapes and Aesthetics of the Unfinished in Global-Venezuelan Imaginaries.” Cluster on Latinx Speculative Fiction in ASAP/J (December 2019). 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Fukú, Postapocalyptic Haunting, and Science-Fiction Embodiment in Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro.’” Posthumanizing the World: Speculative Aesthetics in Latin(x) American Science Fiction, edited by Emily McGuire and Antonio Cordoba (Palgrave McMillan, 2022), pp. 91-122.

“Latinx Speculative Fiction, Speculative Latinx.” Latinx Literature and Critical Futurities1992-2020, edited by William Orchard, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

Editorial Work

Gil’Adí, Maia and Justin Mann, “New Suns,” available here.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Ivalisse Rodriguez. Love War Stories. Feminist Press, 2018. Pleiades Magazine vol. 39 no. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 180-185

Review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Prime Meridian. Innsmouth Free Press, 2017. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction (2019).

Review of Ylce Irizarry. Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016. MELUS vol. 42 no. 3 (Fall 2017), pp. 231-233.

Review of Laura Halperin. Intersections of Harm: Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Latino Studies vol. 15 no. 3 (Autumn 2017), pp. 395-397.

Review of Gordon K. Mantler. Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Aztlán vol. 40 no. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 275-279.

New Worlds of Speculation: a special issue of ASAP/Journal edited by Maia GIl’Adí and Justin Mann, is now available on ProjectMuse and through membership in ASAP.

A collection of articles, short essays, interviews, photographs, and musical liner notes by Amber Jamilla Musser, Michelle Huang, Ayendy Bonifacia, John Ribó, Takeo Rivera, Carolyn Fornoff, Michael Owuna, Jonathan Leal, and many more, offer an extended meditation on the speculative arts by and about people of color.