Cristobal Garza Gonzalez

As a young student, psychology, psychoanalysis, and counseling were my passions. Following my vocation, I completed a B.A. in psychology and worked in prevention and intervention against domestic violence, in counseling private practice, and taught ENL at college level. While pursuing this path, I developed a keen interest in teaching languages and literature. An invitation to be a teaching assistant at Earlham College shifted my professional goals and I decided to become a full time language educator. As a graduate student, I produced and delivered conference papers on Latin American literature, Spanish drama, Golden Age narrative, World literature, and other fields. My training in psychology helped me develop a solid critical approach to literary production and, most importantly, it provides me with the skills and awareness to be attentive to the needs of my students.

Service and committees

• SST Ecuador Faculty Leader, spring and summer of 2024
• Coordinator of GC Spanish/English Conversation Partners, Sept 2019-
• Member of the organizing committee of Goshen College Academic Symposium, 2021-2023
• Member of search and hire committees for Professor of Theater, 2020; Professor of Art, 2022; Professor of Theater, 2023, Visiting Professor of Indonesian, 2023, and English Literature Professor, 2024.
• Member of the grant writing committee for Equipping Scholars for Globally Engaged Learning
• Director of the staged reading of Las Nuevas Tamaleras, by Alicia Mena, a play in Spanglish, fall 2022, and spring 2023
• Instructor/editor of a blog project based on experiences at a shelter for migrants in Texas, summer 2022
• Maple Scholars research director, summers of 2020 and 2022
• Co-advisor of GC Latino Student Union (LSU) fall 2022-
• Mentor in the GC New Faculty Mentorship, 2022-2023
• GC IDEAS trip to Ecuador, participant, summer 2022

Education

• B.A., Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 1995
• M.A., Spanish, Miami University of Ohio, 2008
• Ph.D., Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, 2019

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “How to use the IU campus to teach Spanish: Yincana or Take a Picture!” 2018 IU Foreign & Second Language Share Fair
• “México y Alemania: Crónica de una literatura no anunciada”. 2018 Indiana University, Diálogos Graduate Conference
• “A Classy Lady: Identity Politics in Diablo guardian”. 2011 University of Kentucky, Foreign Language and Literatures Conference
• “Ausencias siniestras en La casa de Bernada Alba”. 2016 Indiana University, Diálogos Graduate Conference
• “Nacionalismo ambivalente en Ulises Criollo”. 2008 University of Chicago, Graduate Conference
• “Machismo e Inmadurez en Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda”. 2005 Indiana University, Diálogos Graduate Conference

PUBLICATIONS:

• “México y Alemania: Crónica de una literatura no anunciada”. Latin American Literary Review 50, 100 (2023).
• Review of Una realidad más amplia: Historias desde la periferia bicultural / A Larger Reality: Speculative Fiction from the Bicultural Margins, edited by Libia Brenda Castro Rojano, 2018 Somos en Escrito (2019).
• “Reflections on Writing, Traveling, and Documenting All the Agents and Saints (2017): A Conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest”.  Chiricú Journal 3.1 (2018)
• Interview with Sam Quinones. Hiedra Magazine 5 (2015)
• Review of El libro uruguayo de los muertos, by Mario Bellatin (2012). Hiedra Magazine 2 (2014)