Faculty

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.