Christián González Reyes (they/he) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. Their scholarly work focuses on Central American, Mesoamerican, Mexican, and Central American diasporic literature and visual media. They are interested in how Central America has been conjured in the postwar period, both inside and outside of the Central American Isthmus. Indigenous and Latin American Marxisms inform their work.
The Edward E. Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowship will support Christián’s work on Central American-Canadian influence on cultural production in Toronto. Specifically, Christián will examine the work of Salvadoran-Canadian writer Carlos Bucio to think through questions of citizenship, diaspora, and belonging. Christián proposes framing Bucio’s writings in a bidirectional continuum that dialogues between Central American-Canadians and the Central American homelands. Thinking of these transregional and transhistorical dialogues serves as a political reclamation, in which Central America is not solely tied to the Central American Isthmus, but is in movement and is now imagined to include the diaspora in Canada.
Christián holds BAs in Literatures in Spanish (Honors with highest distinction) and Latin American Studies from UC San Diego. They also have an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley.
