John Morán González, Ph.D.

John Morán González is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a Ph.D. degree in English and American literature from Stanford University in 1998. He has published about American literature in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Western American Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics. He is the author of two books: Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican-American Literature (University of Texas Press, 2009), and The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (Ohio State University Press, 2010). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is co-editor (with Laura Lomas) of The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which was selected as a 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He is also a founding member of the award-winning non-profit public history project Refusing to Forget, which is dedicated to critically memorializing state violence in the South Texas borderlands, 1910-1920. He is currently Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin and on the Board of Directors for Humanities Texas.