Christopher González is Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Endowed Chair and serves as Chair of the Department of English. A scholar of twentieth-century American literature, multiethnic U.S. literatures, film, comics, and narrative theory, he is the author, co-author, and editor of eight books, with two more forthcoming.
His work includes Reel Latinxs, winner of the 2020 International Latino Book Award, and Permissible Narratives, which received Honorable Mention for the 2019 Perkins Prize for the most significant contribution to narrative studies. His memoir, Big Scary Brown Guy, was published in 2024. His scholarship and teaching explore questions of form, power, and representation across literary and visual media, with particular attention to narrative authority and cultural politics.
He is president of MELUS (the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), founding director of SMU's Narrative Now initiative, and editor of two book series: Narrative Theory and Culture (Routledge) and World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction (U of Texas P). He earned his PhD from The Ohio State University, where he was affiliated with Project Narrative.
He writes Storywork, a newsletter about how stories work, why they matter, and who gets to tell them.