Melissa M. González

Melissa M. González is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies and Core Faculty in both Latin American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. Her research focuses on queer, U.S. Latina/o and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. She is finishing a book manuscript, “Queer Ambivalence: Latina/o American Sexual Cultures in the Age of Gay Marriage,” that documents and analyzes Latina/o divergences from and critiques of mainstream gay respectability politics in the American hemisphere, where gay marriage is now available to nearly 80% of the total population. Her work has appeared in American Quarterly, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage: Volume VI, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.