Joshua Javier Guzmán Named Next Editor of Aztlán Journal

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is thrilled to announce Joshua Javier Guzmán, associate professor and vice chair of graduate affairs in the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, has been selected to be the next editor in chief of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Guzmán will begin his term January 1, 2026, succeeding current editor Charlene Villaseñor Black.

 

Professor Guzmán is a scholar of minoritarian performance, a cultural theorist, and a queer Latinx, first-generation college student from the Texas-Mexico border. He is the author of Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style (NYU Press, 2024). His scholarship has appeared in two award-winning collections—Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. (Prestel, 2017) and Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious"(Routledge, 2018)—as well as peer-reviewed journals Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, English Language Notes, and Social Text. He recently co-edited a forthcoming dossier in Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism on the work of the late performance studies scholar and critical theorist José Esteban Muñoz, and he has extensive experience with peer review as it pertains to interdisciplinary academic research and publishing.

 

Congratulations, Professor Guzmán!

 

The CSRC wishes to thank Professor Villaseñor Black for leading Aztlán with vision and care since 2016.

 

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies is published by University of California Press in collaboration with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. Aztlán has been the leading journal in the field of Chicanx studies since 1970.

 

For information regarding submissions, and to subscribe (digital and print), please visit https://online.ucpress.edu/aztlan