Professor Elizabeth Ginway received a Publication Subvention Grant for her book Cyborgs, Sexuality and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction published in 2020 by Vanderbilt University Press. The book interprets the literary and cultural representations of the human body as reflected in the speculative fiction of Mexico and Brazil, emphasizing the effects of technology (bodies as cyborgs), the emergence of non-traditional sexualities, and the social implications of a present haunted by an embodied past (bodies as vampires and zombies). The book portrays the effects— and ravages—of modernity in these two nations, addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications for the human body.