Dr. John González

Biography

John Morán González is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin and serves as the Department Chair. His academic focus includes Mexican American Latino literary studies, and he has authored significant works such as "Border Renaissance: Texas Centennial Emergence Mexican American Literature" and "The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives Post-Reconstruction American Novels." He also edited "The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature," published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. González has affiliations with the Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), the Center for Women and Gender Studies, and the Comparative Literature program, and holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies and the Department of American Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in American Literature at Stanford University in 1998, preceded by an M.A. in English Literature in 1991 and a B.A. in English Literature from Princeton University in 1988. His research interests encompass Latino/a literature, Chicano/a literature, late nineteenth-century American literature, narrative theory, and postcolonial studies.

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