The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Aníbal González Pérez was born in 1956 in San German, Puerto Rico. He’s a Modern Latin American literature professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Yale University. In 1982, he finished his PhD at the same institution. He’s the author of La crónica modernista hispanoamericana (J. Porrúa Turanzas, 1983), La novela modernista hispanoamericana (Gredos, 1987), Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative (Cambridge UP, 1993), Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna (Siglo XXI, 2002; Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (University of Texas Press, 2002), A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (Támesis, 2007), and a critical edition of the novel Redentores by Manuel Zeno Gandía (Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2010). His most recent book, In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel, was published in 2018 by University of Pittsburgh Press. He founded the Bucknell University Press’s Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series; and he edited the Cambridge University Press’s Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series from 1995-1997. In 2001, González Pérez was also awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant. Currently, he’s a member of the editorial and advisory boards of Decimonónica, Latin American Literary Review, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, among others. 

Works Cited

“Anibal González Pérez.” Yale University, https://span-port.yale.edu/people/anibal-gonzalez-perez.

“Aníbal González.” Yale University, https://ezrastiles.yalecollege.yale.edu/anibal-gonzalez.