David J. Vázquez

David J. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Director of the Program in Latina/o/x Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is co-editor of Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (Temple, 2019), which won the MLA Prize for an Edited Volume, and the author of Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity (Minnesota, 2011). He is co-editor, with Hsuan Hsu, of The Molecular Intimacies of Empire, a special forum of The Journal of Transnational American Studies. He has published numerous journal articles in Symbolism, American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, CENTRO, and Latino Studies and contributed to the Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature and Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas. In addition to his current affiliations, he is a former director of the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies at the University of Oregon and a past fellow at the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University and at the Oregon Humanities Center at the University of Oregon. His new book project, titled Decolonial Environmentalisms: Race, Genre, and Latinx Culture is under contract with the University of Texas Press.