John Morán GonzálezJohn Morán González (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998) is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Meican American Literature (2009) and The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (2010). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, Aztlán, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Symbolism, Western Historical Quarterly and Western American Literature. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature (2016). Read More Read Less