Stephen “Kip” Tobin

Stephen “Kip” Tobin is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA, specializing in Mexican fantastic literature, science fiction, and posthumanism. He holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University (2015), with research emphasizing speculative ecocriticism and climate fiction. Tobin teaches courses on Mexican and Latin American science fiction, cinema, and posthumanism, including Mexican Climate Change Fiction and Posthumanism from the Periphery. He co-led Inclusive Gatherings, an initiative promoting equity in education, and organized the Surviving the Anthropocene symposium (2022). In 2024, he received UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. His first monograph, Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity from Mexican Cyberpunk Literature (2023), explores visual regimes in Mexican SF, with a second book on climate fiction in progress.

His research spans Mexican cyberpunk, speculative ecocriticism, and critical theory, with publications in Latin American Literature Today, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Tapuya. Tobin actively engages with contemporary authors like Pepe Rojo and Yoss in his courses, fostering direct dialogue between students and creators. He is a key figure in the Mexicanx Initiative, advocating for Latin American science fiction’s global recognition, highlighted during WorldCon76 (2018).