{"id":9886,"date":"2024-08-02T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/?post_type=people&p=9886"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:44:21","slug":"maia-giladi","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/directory\/maia-giladi\/","title":{"rendered":"Maia Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed"},"featured_media":9887,"template":"","role":[10436],"filter":[10490],"class_list":["post-9886","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","role-aa-faculty","filter-spanish-and-portuguese"],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1730998050:745"],"_edit_last":["745"],"_thumbnail_id":["9887"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":[""],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed"],"ecpt_position":["Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies"],"ecpt_degrees":["PhD, George Washington University"],"ecpt_expertise":["Latinx literature and culture, multiethnic literature, Latin American literature and visual culture, aesthetic theory, speculative fiction studies, horror"],"ecpt_office":["San Martin Center Room 263"],"ecpt_hours":["Fall 2024 Office Hours - T 10:30AM-1:30PM"],"ecpt_bio":["

Maia\u00a0Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed is Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and affiliated faculty in the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies<\/a> (LACLxS). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in\u00a0Latino Studies<\/em>,\u00a0ASAP\/Journal<\/em>,\u00a0MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US<\/em>,\u00a0Studies in American Fiction<\/em>, and edited volumes with Palgrave McMillan and Cambridge University Press. Her first book,\u00a0Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence<\/a><\/em>, examines how portrayals of destruction paradoxically foreground pleasure in humor, narrative beauty, and the grotesque. She argues that through literary devices called \u201cdoom patterns\u201d\u2013\u2013devices such as thematic repetition, non-linear narration, character fragmentation, and unresolved plots\u2013\u2013readers are consistently returned to instances of destruction and historical violence that reveal the ongoing nature of imperial, racial, and ethno-national violence.<\/p>\r\n

Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed is currently at work on her second book project, tentatively titled,\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Recipe: Protest and Destruction in Hemispheric Venezuelan Imaginaries<\/em>, which traces the scenes and sites of Venezuelan protest in a transnational context. Through literary, visual, and cultural analysis, Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed investigates the mobilization of what she calls \u201caesthetics of the unfinished\u201d to understand how Venezuelan subjects in Caracas, Miami, Madrid, and beyond incite radical political identities. This interdisciplinary project resituates Venezuela in Latinx literary and cultural studies, through its attention to manifestations of disturbance, unrest, and failure. Beginning with her family\u2019s migration to Venezuela because of two cataclysmic events\u2014the Holocaust and the Spanish Civil War\u2014The Devil\u2019s Recipe<\/em>\u00a0investigates photography, building blueprints, soap operas, modern dance, film, literature, and the highway to\u00a0<\/em>show how notions of the unfinished cohere oppositional publics in Venezuela and its global diaspora.<\/p>\r\n

In addition to her research, Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed serves as the Vice President of the Motherboard for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), was a founding executive committee member 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<\/a> and Palgrave\u2019s SFF: A New Canon<\/a> 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 also extends to the digital stage: she is the creator and curator of The Zombie Archive<\/a>, 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.<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["

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