Melissa González
Graduate Student
B.A. in English, M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese from Columbia University. Her interests include feminist and queer theory, film studies, twentieth-century Latin American and U.S. Latino literature and culture. In 2007 she completed the requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Scholarship offered by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
She has published “Resisting the ‘Fatal Allurement’ of Local Color: María Cristina Mena’s Mexico in American Magazine and The Century Magazine” (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume VI. Ed. Antonia I. Castañeda and A. Gabriel Meléndez. Houston: Arte Público P, 2006. 124-142).
She has presented the following papers: “Paradise Absent: Trauma and the Therapeutics of Narrative in Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Vista del amanecer en el trópico” (NYU and Columbia Graduate Student Conference, New York, April 2004);“Behind the Mask of Local Color: María Cristina Mena’s Translational Subversions” (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage: The Importance of Region, New Mexico, November 2004); “Autochthony and the Chthonic: Alejo Carpentier’s Journey into the selva in Los pasos perdidos” (NYU and Columbia Graduate Student Conference, New York, April, 2006).
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