Kristian Vasquez
Kristian E. Vasquez is an transdisciplinary scholar of contemporary Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x cultural production, performance, and aesthetic strategies in the United States and beyond. His dissertation project—Coloniality of the Wor(l)d: Aesthetics, Heresy, and the Decolonial Spirit of Xicanacimiento in California—phenomenologically investigates how an avant-garde of Xicana/o/x artists of musical, visual, and literary practices in California since the 1990s have confronted what he calls the coloniality of the wor(l)d by conjuring heretical aesthetic forms. This work has been supported by the UC Chancellor’s Fellowship, the Louis H. Towbes Fellowship, the Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellowship, and the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. His writings have appeared in scholarly, artistic, and political outlets, such as Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Culture, and Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons. He is currently an advanced PhD candidate in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara.