Christopher González — author, professor, thinker. A pen nib trailing an ink-red road through misty hills.

How stories work. Why they matter. Who gets to tell them.

Christopher González is a scholar of narrative and Latinx popular culture — Professor and Chair of English at SMU, author of eight books, and writer of the Storywork newsletter.

Christopher González
A page from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, a 14th-century Mixtec pictorial manuscript telling history in sequential painted figures
Codex Zouche-Nuttall, Mixtec, 14th century — graphic narrative, six hundred years before anyone called it comics. Public domain.

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Christopher González with novelist Hanya Yanagihara at the MELUS 2026 conference
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Christopher González with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Adam Johnson at SMU
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