González, Ann B.
González, Ann B.
Professor Emerita
Winningham 103C
EDUCATION:
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina (1983)
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina (1975)
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1971)
BOOKS:
- Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers, Second Series, edited by William Luis and Ann González, Vol. 145 (Detroit: Gale Publishing Co., 1994). (Text averages 250,000 words).
- Fabián Dobles and the Post-Colonial Challenge (Cranbury, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005) (200pp MS.)
- Resistance and Survival: Children’s Narrative from Central America and the Caribbean. University of Arizona Press. 2009. (220pp MS).
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010.
http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx?page=reviewdisplay&pids=3604455 - Colorín Colorado: Introduccíon a literatura y juvenil. Textbook in press. Panda Publications. 400+ ms. pp. Due out May 2013.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
- “La inautenicidad de modelos feministas eurocéntricos en el contexto latinoamericano: La narrativa de Gioconda Belli” in Visiones y revisiones de la Literatura Centroamericana. Compiled by Jorge Román-Lagunas. Guatemala: Oscar de León Palacios, 2000, pp. 167-175.
- “(Re)Visiones de la conquista: La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies de Rosario Aguilar” in Otros testimonios: Voces de mujeres centroamericanas. edited by Amanda Castro. Guatemala: Letra Negra, 2001, pp.167-173.
- Los perros mágicos de los volcanes: Cruzando fronteras.” Accepted for publication for an anthology of essays on Manilo Argueta, eds. Astvaldur Astvaldsson, Linda J. Craft, Ana Patricia Rodríguez. In press.
- Two entries for Encyclopedia of United States-Latin American Relations. Ed. Thomas M. Leonard, Sage CQ Press, 2012. Entry titles”Cardenal Ernesto” (750 words), p. 132-133 and “Inter-American Children’s Institute” (500 words), p. 476-477.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
- “The Origin and Appropriation of ‘Mambrú’ in Hispanic Children’s Literature,” no. 22 Postscript (Spring 2005), 60-68.
- “Transgressing Limits: Belli’s El taller de las mariposas.” Ciberletras. 17 (2007). 14pp.
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v17/gonzalez.htm - Costa Rican Identity and the Stories of Carmen Lyra.” SECOLAS Annals 52 (2008), 73-82.
- “The Question of Race: Joaquín Gutiérrez and Cocorí.” Caribe. 10.2 (2007-2008): 1-17.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Central American literature, Spanish American narrative, literary translation, Hispanic Children’s Literature.