Bio
Rachel Haywood (Ph. D. in Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University). Professor Haywood’s scholarship on Latin American science fiction crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries between Hispanists and Brazilianists and between literary and cultural studies. Her book, The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press 2011), examines the sf produced in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico during the extended nineteenth century. Her current work focuses on the writing, publishing, and reception of science fiction in Latin America during the space race era.
Professor Haywood is a co-editor of the journal Extrapolation and of the book series Studies in Global Science Fiction for Palgrave Macmillan for Palgrave Macmillan, and she serves on the editorial boards of the journals Science Fiction Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Alambique: Revista Académica de Ciencia-Ficción y Fantasía / Jornal Académico de Ficção Científica e Fantasia; she is subeditor for Latin American and Iberian science fiction for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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Grants and awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2017)
- Latin American Science Fiction Research Grant, University of South Florida Humanities Institute and University of South Florida Libraries (2016)
- ISU Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, Iowa State University (2009)