González Echevarría was born in
Sagua La Grande in 1943;[1] his family moved to
Havana when he was 13, and after the
Cuban Revolution, his family emigrated to
Tampa in the US, where relatives on his father's side had already moved.[2] His mother was a PhD and teacher of philosophy.[3]
González Echevarría received his bachelor's from the
University of South Florida in 1964, his master's from
Indiana University in 1966, and a second master's and doctorate from
Yale in 1970.[4] After receiving his doctorate with a thesis titled 'Aproximación estructuralista a 'La vida es sueno,' ensayo de un método' , González Echevarría taught at Yale and then at
Cornell (1971-1977).[5] Since 1977, he has taught at Yale, where he was awarded the first endowed chair in Spanish (R. Selden Rose) in 1985.[5] In 1991, he was named Bass Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, and in 1995, Sterling Professor, the highest-ranking university chair at Yale.[5]
Awards and honors
His Myth and Archive won the 1989–90 MLA's
Katherine Singer Kovács Prize[6] and the Latin American Studies Association's 1992 Bryce Wood Book Award,[7] and The Pride of Havana received the Dave Moore Award for the Best Baseball Book of 2002.[7] His Lecturas y relecturas won the 2013 Premio Annual de la Crítica (Book Prize in Criticism) in Cuba.[8]
^Santiago, Fabiola (November 9, 2004).
"The intellectual sports buff". The Miami Herald. Miami, Florida. p. Tropical Life 3. Retrieved February 2, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.