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Marcos Gonsalez

Marcos Gonsalez
Marcos Gonsalez is a writer and doctoral candidate in English Language and Literature based in New York City. His memoir about coming of the queer son of an undocumented Mexican immigrant and Puerto Rican mother in white America, Pedro’s Theory, is forthcoming with Melville House. His essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Ploughshares, Inside Higher Education, Ploughshares, Catapult, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere.


Walking Through Jose Esteban Muñoz’s New York City

Marcos Gonsalez on the Great Queer Theorist’s Life and Legacy
May 23, 2025  By Marcos Gonsalez
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What It Means to Choose Whiteness

Marcos Gonsalez on Racism, Violence, and Innocence
March 30, 2021  By Marcos Gonsalez
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Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen

Marcos Gonsalez on Diversifying Our Readings of the Canon
December 11, 2019  By Marcos Gonsalez
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My Decade of Falling in Love with the Writing of José Esteban Muñoz

Marcos Gonsalez Looks Back at a Landmark Queer Text, Cruising Utopia
August 29, 2019  By Marcos Gonsalez
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Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

What Shakespeare's "Thing of Darkness" Tells Us About Gatekeeping and Language
July 26, 2019  By Marcos Gonsalez
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