Faculty Profile

Ph.D., Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University-Bloomington
B.A., Humanidades, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

A specialist in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, Dr. González-Barrios completed his B.A. in humanities from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and his Ph.D. at Indiana University-Bloomington. Before joining Spelman College, he worked as a visiting professor at The College of William and Mary, Virginia, and at Bennington College, Vermont.

Most of his research to date has focused on analyzing the relationship between avant-garde art and politics from a transatlantic perspective, particularly during the two decades that preceded the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its ramifications to the present. Dr. González-Barrios' research interests also include political theory, border studies and film and media studies, which have inspired a wide array of courses on contemporary topics such as migration and displacement, direct democracy, mass media and propaganda, and social activism through art.

SFLS 354 Spanish Theater and Confinement: A Philosophical and Political Reflection on Reclusion
SFLS 351 Daughters of the Trail: Female Writers and New Narratives in Spanish
SFLS 454 African Americans and the Spanish Civil War
SFLS 430 Federico García Lorca and His Time
SFLS 425 Golden Age Prose: Renaissance and Baroque
SFLS 350 Cinema and Social Change in Latin America
SFLS 321 Global Hispanophone Civilization and Culture
SFLS 308 Introduction to Cultural Studies in Spanish
SFLS 312 Survey in Contemporary Peninsular Literature (XVIII-XXI)

Contemporary Literatures in Spanish
Avant-garde Studies
Political Philosophy and Theory
Transatlantic and Border Studies

Wifredo Lam en España (1923-1938): La lenta construcción del ‘caballo de Troya’ (Transmodernity, Fall 2021). (Merced, California, USA)

“La gitana y el Estado: Una lectura libertaria de ‘Preciosa y el aire’, de Federico García Lorca”. Vorágine, Revista Interdisciplinaria de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. 2 Núm. 4, Enero 2021, pp. 138-161. (Santiago de Chile, Chile)

"Días de ira (1930) de Helios Gómez: La encrucijada del artista revolucionario de entreguerras". Neophilologus (2019). (Leiden, Netherlands)

“La edad de oro de Luis Buñuel: El lenguaje fílmico de la anarquía”. Lenguaje, poesía y la búsqueda del sentido. Peter Lang, 2018. 70-89. (New York City, USA)