Carlos A. González

Carlos is a PhD candidate and scholar in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University. They specialize in 20th and 21st century Spanish and French Weird literature. They have chapters forthcoming in Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature, which they edited, and in No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes, both from Vernon Press. Carlos regularly presents on contemporary Spanish, French, and other global horror and Weird literature, but their real passion is their work as a Teaching Fellow where they accompany students through encounters with literary monsters from the Middle Ages to today. They also volunteer and teach with the Antrim Literature Project, a public facing initiative to make the study of literature accessible beyond the paywalls of the university, with a lecture series on the Gothic and a podcast centered on strange texts, both to be released soon. They are currently working on a dissertation entitled Facing the Monster: The Emptiness of Empathy in the Work of Mariana Enríquez and Antoine Volodine which explores the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas in Spanish and French Weird fiction, asking what monsters can teach us about literature, fear, and each other. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their spouse, their shih tzu Klaus, and the creature that lives under their bed.