Explosivity: Following What Remains, with photographs by Andrea Gaffney, officially out on April 1st, 2025, from the University of Minnesota Press | Talk: Online on March 20th, 2025 at 17:00 UTC: “Explosives & other violent inheritances,” an event by the Military Surplus: Toxicity, Industry and War research network at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge. | 2025 AAG, Detroit MI, “author meets critics” book panel (3/27/2025 at 2:30PM). | Public book talk for Shaping S.F., Wednesday April 16, 7:30pm at 518 Valencia in San Francisco.
Book chapter with Julie Sze: “Watefront/battlefront: Vallejo’s Black landscapes of resistance against police and environmental violence” out now from Routledge.
Communication
✉︎ Email: jarbona [at] ucdavis [dot] edu *available for video or voice calls by appointment. I have Signal. Se habla español.
Advising
American Studies undergraduate majors: Please reach out if you’d like to schedule an appointment or contact me first with a preliminary draft of your emphasis plan.
Office hours
Mondays at 4pm on Zoom (email me for the link if you’re not in my class) or by appointment in person.
I’m available for other video or in-person appointments (by request). Public or media inquiries, collaboration opportunities, or grad/post-grad research interest: please kindly email me (see above). I can also provide an encrypted Signal link. Thank you!
Pronouns & Pronunciation
he/him/his
My name is in Spanish. It’s pronounced with an audible ‘R’ at the end: Javier. I use Arbona or Arbona-Homar (the H is completely silent and pronounced “Omar” with emphasis on the last syllable, like this: omár). I don’t have a middle name. Arbona is my paternal last name, therefore I’m not “Javier Homar” nor “Professor Homar.” Professor Arbona is fine with me.