John Morán González, Ph.D.

Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies

Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of English
University of Texas at Austin
204 W 21st Street B5000
Calhoun Hall, Room 226
Austin, Texas 78712-1164
Phone 512-471-8117
Email john.moran.gonzalez@utexas.edu

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Areas of Expertise:

  • Culture
  • Literature
  • U.S. Latinx History

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.