Emily A. Maguire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida, 2011) and Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean, (University Press of Florida, 2024), and the co-editor, with Antonio Córdoba, of Posthumanism in Latin(x) American Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2022). Her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, and Revista Iberoamericana, among other places.