On December 10, 2018, Ian Javier Pérez Zayas, defended his thesis titled New Ways to Breathe: An Anthology of Things to Come, a translation from English into Spanish of Un nuevo pulmón: antología del porvenir by various authors.
The Thesis Committee, formed by David Auerbach, Ph.D., Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte, Ph.D., and thesis advisor Jane Ramírez, M.A., awarded his thesis the grade bueno.