Professor Emerita Flora González's teaching interests include Latin American fiction and non-fiction, the literatures of the Caribbean and feminist writing. In 2009 she was the recipient of the Helaine and Stanley Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching at Emerson College. She has two scholarly works, José Donoso's House of Fiction (Wayne State UP, 1995), and Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts (U of Virginia P, 2006). In collaboration with Rosamond Rosenmeier, she edited and translated In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems by Excilia Saldaña (UP of Florida, 2002). She is currently at work on a series of essays about Cuban literature and culture. She received her PhD from Yale University in 1982 and was a Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University in 1997-1998. She taught at Emerson College in Boston from 1986 to 2015.