Richard T. Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, English and
Latina/o Studies

Office: 102C English
Office Phone: 265-6787

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SPECIALIZATIONS

American literature, especially 20th-21st century ethnic literature; U.S. Latino/a literature and cultural production; Chicano/a cultural studies; film studies; contemporary visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; and critical theory.

COURSES

ENGL 201: Critical Approaches to Literature

LLS 360: 20th-Century U.S. Latino/a Literature

ENGL 300: Writing about Literature -- Topic: The Poetics of Healing: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo

ENGL 274: Literature and Society --Topic: Writing Latino/a Chicago

ENGL 460: Literature of American Minorities --Topic: Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Literature and Film

ENGL 274: Literature and Society --Topic: Race, Sex, and Masculinity in American Literature and Culture

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Next of Kin: The Family in Chicana/o Cultural Politics (forthcoming with Duke University Press).

"Glocal Matters: A Response to Jose E. Limon." forthcoming in American Literary History 20:1-2 (2008).

“Imagine a Brown Queer: Inscribing Sexuality in Chicano/a-Latino/a Literary and Cultural Studies” (review essay). American Quarterly (June 2007).

Review of ¡Gaytino! Performance by Dan Guerrero. Theatre Journal (May 2007).

“Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic.”  Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 31:1 (Fall 2006). Expanded version forthcoming in The Chicano Manual of Style, ed. Chon A. Noriega.  Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, 2007

“Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana” and “Kid Frost.”  In Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. Deena J. González and Suzanne Oboler.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 

Chicanos, Latinos and Cultural Diversity: A Reader.  Co-edited with Dionne Espinoza, Ester E. Hernández, and Lionel Maldonado (Kendall Hunt, 2004).

“Eugene Rodríguez: History Feeds the Soul.”  In Eugene Rodríguez: The Middle of Somewhere.  Artist catalog.  2004. 

 “The Verse of the Godfather: Signifying Family and Nationalism in Chicano Rap and Hip Hop Culture.”  In Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities, ed. Alicia Gaspar de Alba.  New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2003. 

“Film in the United States.”  In Mexico and the United States, ed. Lee Stacy.  Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2003. 

“Serial Kinship: Representing La Familia in Early Chicano Publications.”  Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 27:1 (Spring 2002). 

“On the Subject of Gang Photography.”  Aztlán: A Journal of   Chicano Studies 25:1 (Spring 2000). Reprinted in Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives, ed. Louis Kontos, David Brotherton, and Luis Barrios.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 

Review of Urban Exile: The Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.  Theatre Journal 52: 1 (March 2000).