Marcial Gonzalez, Associate Professor

Office: 435 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-4957

Areas of Interest

20th-Century American Literature. Chicano/a Literature. Critical Theory. Cultural Studies. Marxism. Theories of Narrative & the Novel.

Current Research

I am currently working on a book project entitled "Farm Workers in Chicano Literature: The Making of Racial-Transnational Subjects," which focuses on the lives and struggles of Mexican farm laborers as represented in Chicano narratives from 1960-1990. This project seeks to link the experiences of Mexican farm workers in the U.S. to the building of an American empire in the twentieth century.

Professional Statement

I received a B.A. in English from Humboldt State University in 1992, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Utah in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 2000. I have been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Berkeley’s Department of English since 2000.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class and Reification (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).

“Reception and Authenticity: Danny Santiago’s Famous All Over Town” in New Directions in American Reception Study, eds. Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 179-194.

“The River Bottom Ranch” (fiction) in The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace, eds. Peter Scheckner and Mary Boyes (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008).

“Postmodernism, Historical Materialism, and Chicana/o Cultural Studies,” Science and Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis 68:2 (Summer 2004): 161-186.

“A Marxist Critique of Borderlands Postmodernism: Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Chicano Cultural Criticism” in Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth Century Literature of the United States, eds. Bill Mullen and Jim Smethurst (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003): 279-97.

“Jameson’s ‘Arrested Dialectic’: From Structuralism to Postmodernism,” Cultural Logic: Marxist Theory and Practice 2:2 (Spring 1999): http://eserver.org/clogic/.

Office Hours

F 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm