Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

Roberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University, renowned for his critical works on Spanish and Latin American literary traditions, including authors like Cervantes, Borges, and García Márquez. He received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His scholarship spans literary criticism, history, and the study of the baroque in Spanish and Latin American cultures.