| Name: | Alberto González Valdés |
| Title: | Teaching Assistant Professor |
| Area: | Spanish |
| Phone: | 252-328-4132 |
| Fax: | 252-328-6233 |
| E-mail: | gonzalezvaldesa@ecu.edu |
| Office: | Bate 3311 |
| Address: | Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures Mailstop #556, 3324 Bate Bldg. East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 |
BACKGROUND
PhD in Hispanic American Literature, U. Connecticut
M.A. in Spanish, U. Connecticut
M.A. in Education-Urban Public School, Cambridge College, Mass
Licenciatura en Filología, University of Havana, Cuba.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Contemporary Latin-American Literature and Culture
Afro-Caribbean Literature and Culture
Popular Culture and Urban Hip Hop Literature
Independent Film, and other alternative forms of Arts
Applied linguistic
PUBLICATIONS
Poetas del 2004. Miami: Instituto de Cultura Peruana. (5 pp.) 2004
Narradores del 2004. Miami: Instituto de Cultura Peruana. (5 pp.) 2004
Poetas del barrio. Hartford Public Library. (Poetry-10 pp.) 2002
Noventa Millas Interminables. Hartford: Board of Ed. (Testimony-80 pp.) 2000
Mi amigo Juan. Habana: Editorial Gente Nueva. (Novel-167 pp.) 1994
Entre los ojos el espejo. Havana: Editora Prov. (Poetry -30 pp.) 1990
Essays:
"Afro-American Cultural Diaspora: Transculturation through Hip Hop… in the Caribbean and Beyond" forthcoming in Cuban Transfer. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim/Zürich/NewYork. Series Passages Transdisciplinary Cultural Perspectives. 2012
"Inventos: The Cuban Culture Surviving During the Special Period" under submission to Cuba: Imagination Beyond Utopia, Exile, and Loss. Illinois State University. 2011
LITERARY PRIZES
1994. Mi amigo Juan (Novel) First Prize "Pinos Nuevos" Cuba.
1994. Mi amigo Juan de Cuba. First Prize 'Rosa Blanca" Cuba (Books Contest)
1987. Puntos cubanos (Poetry) First Prize "Frank País" Cuba.
1986. Cuando la luz se va (Short Stories) First Prize "Frank País" Cuba.
1986. Campo cultural (Short Stories-Book) First Prize "13 de Marzo" Cuba.
