Dr. Gil'Adí's book-in-progress explores representations of violence in contemporary Latinx and multiethnic speculative fiction. Stories of colonization, slavery, and migration generate what she identifies as "doom patterns": moments of non-linear description, character fragmentation, thematic repetition, and plot irresolution that instigate narrative apocalypse. Such recurring, seemingly unending instances of unearthly destruction con, the critical consensus that Latinx and multiethnic literatures since the 1960's advance "social justice" in all its liberal and radical guises. Dr. Gil'Adí argues that instead of participating in aesthetic remedy, contemporary Latinx and multiethnic speculative fiction imagines imperial, racial, and ethno-national violence as problematic textual "pleasures" unto themselves. Her project expands definitions of "genre fiction," Latinx literature, and, indeed, latinidad: in discussions of Cristina García and Junot Díaz and in Latinx-inflected readings of other writers across the Americas, Dr. Gil'Adí exposes the speculative in Latinx and multiethnic texts often read as simply "realist" stories of acculturation and homecoming, thereby redefining what we understand as Latinx literary and cultural studies.