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Faculty

The Institute Faculty Speakers Bureau lists full- and part-time faculty members, their areas of scholarly and professional expertise, who teach in the Institute and are interested and available as guest lecturers to classes, consultants to the community, and collaborators on projects.

Flora Gonzalez
Professor (1986)
B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Yale University
On Leave

Dr. González's teaching interests include Latin American fiction and non-fiction, the literatures of the Caribbean and feminist writing. She has published widely on the topic of the Latin American novel since the 1960s, including her book Jose Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place (Wayne State UP, 1995) (Chile). In collaboration with Rosamond Rosenmeier, she edited and translated In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems by Excilia Saldana (UP of Florida, 2002) (Cuba). She has published non-fiction in The Americas Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review and anthologized in RE-Membering Cuba (U of Texas P, 2002). In 1997-1998 she was a Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University and is presently an affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center of Latin American Studies at Harvard. Professor González has taught at Dartmouth College, Middlebury College and The University of Chicago. She is a member of the greater Boston Latino Consortium and her latest book is Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts (U of Virginia P, 2006). She is currently at work on a memoir about her Cuban-American experience entitled On the Other Side of the Glass.

José Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time Cover In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems by Excilia Saldaña Cover 


Full Time Faculty

Deirdre Conlon, Scholar-In-Residence

Diana Sherry, Scholar-In-Residence


Mirta Tocci, Artist-in-Residence

Erika Williams, Scholar-In-Residence

Departmental Faculty Who Teach in the Institute
John Anderson
Elizabeth Baeten
Flora Gonzalez
Roger House
Mark Leccese
Wyatt Oswald
Melinda Robins
Murray Schwartz
James Sheldon
Stephen Shipps
Part Time Faculty
Amy Aroopala
Matthew Battles
Steven Beeber
Gaynor Blandford
James Byrne
Claudia Castaneda
Robert Dulgarian
Lance Eaton
Nigel Gibson
John Hodge
Alden Jones
Cynthia Miller
Roseanne Montillo
Jason Roush
Meta Wagner
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