Overview
Lu Han is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Studies. Her areas of interest include Mexican Studies, Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Theory and Indigenous Studies, Speculative Fiction, Popular Cinema, Environment and Technology, Race and Diaspora, Multiethnic and Multilingual Poetics, and Contemporary Art Criticism. Her dissertation, “Strange (Dis)encounters: Latin American Speculative Futures in the Space Age,” examines how cultural imaginaries of extraterrestrial contact from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, as well as their U.S. diasporas, stage the relationships among embodied others, technoscience, and futurity, offering alternative ways to theorize nationhood, migration, and indigeneity.