David J. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Program Director of Latina/o/x Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of two monographs: Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futurity in Latinx Cultural Production (Texas, 2025) and Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity (Minnesota, 2011). He is also co-editor of Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (Temple, 2019), which won the 2022 MLA Prize for an Edited Volume. His current projects include a new monograph, tentatively titled “Days of Futures Past: Latinx Science Fiction and Speculative Futurity” and a co-edited special theme of the journal Diálogo entitled “Re(creating) Latinx Outdoors.” Vázquez is a co-founder and member of the Tierra Vida Collaborative, a group of humanities practitioners working across multiple institutions and producing numerous forms of peer-reviewed scholarship. In addition to his current affiliations, he was formerly the Head of the Department of English at the University of Oregon and director of of the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies at the University of Oregon. In 2024/25 he was the William C. and Ida Friday Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
