DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Emily A. Maguire specializes in modern Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. Her first book, Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida, 2011), shows how Cuban writers in the first half of the twentieth century drew from both ethnography and literature in their re-valorization of Afro-Cuban culture as a source of Cuban-ness. Her second book, Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean (University Press of Florida, 2024), explores the ways in which recent science fiction engages with Caribbean temporality. She is the co-editor, with Kahlila Chaar-Pérez, of a special issue of Discourse, After Glissant: Caribbean Aesthetics and the Politics of Relation (2014), and the co-editor, with Antonio Córdoba, of Posthumanism in Latin American Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Her articles have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Estudios, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, The Routledge Companion to Latino Literature, and The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature, among other places.

Professor Maguire is affiliated with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and is on the core faculty of the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, the principal forum for cross-disciplinary, trans-historical scholarship on poetics at Northwestern. She is also a participant in The Future of Facts in Latin America, an SSRC-sponsored working group.

Professor Maguire welcomes inquiries to advise undergraduate and graduate projects on 20^th and 21^st century Caribbean literature and intellectual history, Latin American science fiction and speculative literature, Latin(x) American poetry, and other topics related to 20^th and 21^st century Latin American and Caribbean literature and popular culture.

Schedule an appointment with Professor Maguire here.