Maia Gil’Adí is Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and affiliated faculty
in the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS). Her first book, Doom Patterns: Latinx
Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence is forthcoming with Duke University Press. It examines how portrayals of
destruction paradoxically foreground pleasure in humor, narrative beauty, and the grotesque and argues that
through literary devices called “doom patterns” (devices such as thematic repetition, non-linear narration, character
fragmentation, and unresolved plots), readers are consistently returned to instances of destruction and historical
violence. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Latino Studies, ASAP/Journal, MELUS, Studies in American
Fiction, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and edited volumes with Palgrave McMillan and Cambridge University Press.
In service to the profession, Gil’Adí is the 2nd Vice President of the Motherboard for the Association for the Study of
the Arts of the Present (ASAP), was a member of the founding executive committee for the Latina and Latino
Literature forum of the Modern Language Association, has served as co-chair of the Latinx section of the Latin
American Studies Association, and serves on the editorial board of Label Me Latina/o and Palgrave’s SFF: A New
Canon series. She is also the recipient of a six-month Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens
and Scholars. Her research in speculative fiction extends to the digital stage, where she is the creator and curator
of The Zombie Archive. This is an archival resource for lovers of the zombie figure as well as zombie scholars, in
which they can find various sources that center around how the zombie functions in the cultural imaginary as a
source of anxiety and fascination. A resource for literature, film, art, cultural events, and scholarly sources
surrounding the zombie in all its manifestations.

BOOKS:

Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence (in production, Duke University Press)

ARTICLES:

Gil’Adí, M. “Wood, Cloth, Plaster: Impenetrable Affects in Marisol” (in progress)
Gil’Adí, M. and Justin Mann. “New Suns” Special Issue Introduction. ASAP/Journal. 6.2 (2021): 244-251.                                          Gil’Adí, M. “‘I think about you, X—’: Re-reading Junot Díaz after ‘The Silence’” Latino Studies 18.4
(2020): 507-530.
Gil’Adí, M. “Sugar Apocalypse: Sweetness and Monstrosity in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban.” Studies
in American Fiction 47.1 (2020): 97-116.
Gil’Adí, M. “Alexander Apóstol: Phantasmagoric Landscapes and Aesthetics of the Unfinished in Global-
Venezuelan Imaginaries.” ASAP/J Latinx Speculative Fiction Cluster, “The Futures of Latinx
Speculative Fictions” (December 2019)

ARTICLES IN PROGRESS:

“Teaching Afro-Caribbean Horror” in “Black Speculations/Black Futures,” edited by Justin L. Mann and
Samantha Pinto. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
“Wood, Cloth, Plaster: Impenetrable Affects in Marisol”

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Gil’Adí, M. “Fukú, Postapocalyptic Haunting, and Science-Fiction Embodiment in Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro.’”
Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction, edited by Emily Maguire and Antonio Córdoba
(Palgrave McMillan, 2022), pp. 91-122.
Gil’Adí, M. “Latinx Speculative Fiction, Speculative Latinx.” Latinx Literature and Critical Futurities, 1992-
2020, edited by William Orchard, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).