Eduardo González is a leading scholar of modern Caribbean literature and culture whose work is characterized by a persistent engagement with questions of national, cultural, and sexual identity. In cutting-edge studies such as The Monstered Self, Cuba and the Tempest, and Cuba and the Fall, he has pursued these questions in tightly wrought analyses of literature and film supported by a thoroughgoing knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and political philosophy. Prof. González pursues his interest in identity formation beyond the geographic fields of Latin American and Caribbean literatures to contemporary world literature and cinema. His current writing involves the literatures of the American South, Spain, and the Caribbean. He is also at work on a project on the cinema of Almodóvar and plays by Shakespeare. His interest in Cuba and its democratization has resulted in several exchanges between Johns Hopkins and the Fernando Ortiz Foundation held in Havana on chosen seminar topics with the participation of Hopkins undergraduates and Cuban scholars and artists. He is near completion of a manuscript by the title of: Life is a Dream Next Door: Essays on Drama and the Race against Death.