HTUC is pleased to announce that Dr. Maria Gonzalez will be a featured speaker at the 2022 Unity Banquet, September 24, 2022!
María C. González is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston and with expertise in American literature, Mexican-American novelists, Chicanx writers, and Feminist and Queer Theory. Gonzalez is the author of Contemporary Mexican American Women Novelists: Toward a Feminist Identity. Currently completing a book on the influence of Chicana lesbian writers and queer theory in Chicanx literary studies, she is the co-editor of Voices Breaking Boundaries’ three volume series collection of transnational art and essays, Borderlines. Past president of the National Women’s Studies Association and current chair of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, she has served on the editorial boards of the NWSA Journal, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, NACCS Annual Proceedings, and Chicana/Latina Studies Journal. A Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and one of the founders of the GLBT Studies Minor and the LGBT Resource Center at the University of Houston, she has served on the Faculty Senate as chair of the following committees: Educational Policies and Student Affairs, Budget and Facilities, and Faculty Affairs. A political activist and past president, vice-president, screening chair, and board member of the Houston LGBTQ+ Political Caucus, Gonzalez is the treasurer of Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Scholars. Gonzalez is also a civic activist and has served as a Precinct Chair for the Harris County Democratic Party and a Presiding Precinct Judge in her neighborhood precinct.
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