Eduardo González

Professor
Latin American Literature and Cinema

German and Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone: 410-516-4615
E-mail: cocuyo@jhu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Eduardo González, Director of the Spanish and Latin American Subdivision, does teaching and research in the literatures and related histories of Hispanic America, Spain, and the United States. He joined the Hopkins faculty in 1981 and is the author of four books, Carpentier, el tiempo del hombre (1978), La persona y el relato (1985), The Monstered Self (1992), and Cuba and the Tempest (2006). He is a member of The Film and Media Studies Program and the Humanities Center’s Honors Board and Co-Director of The Johns Hopkins-Cuba Exchange Program. His current teaching and research involve such areas as: literature and cultural politics in Latin America, the Caribbean, and The United States; the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, film history and culture in relationship with literature. He founded and led the Johns Hopkins and Fernando Ortiz Foundation Seminars held in Cuba between 1997-2004 with the participation of a diverse group of Hopkins students and Cuban scholars and artists.  His forthcoming book Cuba and the Fall: Christian Text and Queer Narrative will be published in 2010.  He is working on two book projects: Pedro Almodóvar Measure for Measure and The Chimerical South.

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