Aníbal González

Ph.D. Yale University 1982, Professor.

Phone: 203-432-1149

Email: anibal.gonzalez@yale.edu

Areas of interest include: Modernismo; Latin American Literature; Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean; interrelations of journalism and literature; literature and ethics.

Among other works, he has authored the following books: La crónica modernista hispanoamericana (Madrid: Porrúa Turanzas, 1983); La novela modernista hispanoamericana (Madrid: Gredos, 1987); Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), and Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (Austin: U of Texas Press, 2002). A Spanish translation of Killer Books was published in 2002: Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna, (México: Siglo XXI Editores). His most recent book is A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (London: Tamesis, 2007). His forthcoming books are: Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel (University of Texas Press), and a critical edition of Redentores by Manuel Zeno Gandía (University of Puerto Rico Press). He is the recipient of a 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, and is currently at work on a study of the role of religion in the modern Spanish American novel.

He is the founder and general editor of the Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series of Bucknell University Press, and was general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series of Cambridge University Press from 1995 to 1997. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Comparative Literature Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington U. in St. Louis), Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Latin American Literary Review, and in the Advisory Committee of PMLA.