The Buzz: Jose B. GonzalezBy Rick Koster Who: Jose B. Gonzalez, 39, of New London. Why you should know him: Gonzalez is a professor of English at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London. He was recently named Poet of the Year by the New England Association of Teachers of English and he read his work …
CGA Professor Brings Multicultural Flavor To English CoursesJose B. Gonzalez Earns State’s Faculty Of The Year Award By Bethe DuFresneDay Staff Columnist New London — Jose B. Gonzalez, associate professor of English at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, is the recipient of the Connecticut Department of Education’s Faculty of the Year Award in higher education. A native speaker …
The Tyrant is Dying: No Conga LinesBy Carlos Eire, Ph.D. News of Fidel’s brush with death brought the news media to my door, literally and figuratively. The journalists were not alone. Even long-lost friends suddenly surfaced, eager to hear what I had to say about this turn of events. Among those who came knocking, was the New York …
Absent Fathers and Lost Lovers: The Romance of Conquest in Margarita Engle’s Skywriting and Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cubanby Myra Mendible, Ph.D. “Every person of the Caribbean is an exile from his own myth and his own history, and also from his own culture and his own Being, now and always. . . .”–Antonio Benitez-Rojo–The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the …
By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Scholar in Residence and Chair of the Department of Chicana/Chicano and Hemispheric Studies, Western New Mexico University In many ways, Sun, Stone, and Shadows fulfills the promise of its editor—to present a Pleiades of the best short story writers of Mexico in the first half of the 20th century. …
