My research focuses on how speculative and Weird literature incorporates monstrosity and estrangement to challenge traditional ideas of identity, transformation, and otherness. I analyze narratives that unsettle familiar frameworks, offering new ways to think about difference and the limits of understanding.
Feel free to visit my ResearchGate page for more information.
Primary Research Interests:
– Monstrosity and Estrangement: Examining how these narrative elements are used in speculative and Weird literature to question conventional ways of relating to others, in particular in the contexts of Disability and Queer Studies.
– Comparative Narratives Across Periods: Exploring connections between medieval literature and contemporary speculative fiction to reveal shared preoccupations with otherness, transformation, and estrangement.
– World Literature and Global Canons: Investigating narratives across linguistic (as well as geographic, cultural, and political) divides through the complications introduced by translation and reception.
Current Scholarship:
– Dissertation: “Facing the Monster: The Ethical Challenge of Weird Fiction” (Nov 2025)
– Edited Volume: Casas Tomadas: Monsters and Metaphors on the Periphery of Latin American Literature (Vernon Press, 2025). Link here.
– Book Chapter: “Goremands: Human Cannibalism and Eating the Other in Contemporary Women’s Fiction” in No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes (Vernon Press, July 2024). Read here.
-“Book Review: Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas (Eds.), South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories, and Media (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021)” Gothic Nature. Vol 4, pp. 320-26. Read here.
Public Projects:
– Podcast Episode: “Breton Werewolves” episode, The French History Podcast (February 2024). Listen here.
– Podcast Series: AutoFictions (forthcoming)
– The Lamplight Project (forthcoming)
Carlos A. González, PhD 