Emily A. Maguire is an associate professor of Spanish at Northwestern University where she specializes in literature of the Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida, 2011) and has published articles on contemporary Caribbean Literature, Afrocubanismo, Black Internationalism, Latina/o science fiction, and Cuban cyberpunk. She is currently writing a book on Caribbean science fiction.