Maria C. Gonzalez

María C. González is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston and a leading authority on Mexican-American literature, Chicana writers, feminist and queer theory. Born in El Paso, Texas, she has been a prominent LGBT studies scholar and rights activist, serving as president of the National Women's Studies Association (2002-2003) and chair of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (2022-2023). She is the author of Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists: Toward a Feminist Identity (1996) and is currently completing a manuscript on Chicana lesbian writers and queer theory.