Associate Professor, Department of English
Associate Professor, Latina/Latino Studies Program
Richard T. Rodríguez is Associate Professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research, teaching, and writing are grounded in U.S. Latino/a cultural studies, with particular interests in literary and film studies, the visual arts, popular culture, critical theory, and gender/sexuality studies. Professor Rodríguez’s publications include articles and reviews in American Quarterly, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Theatre Journal, Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities, and Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives. His book on kinship discourse and the family as an organizing principle in Chicano/a cultural politics is forthcoming with Duke University Press. At Illinois he was recently awarded the Latina/o Congratulatory Ceremony Faculty Award and the LGBT Resources/Office of the Dean of Students Faculty Leadership Award. COURSES Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies
Writing Latino/a Chicago
Latinas/os on the Bronze Screen
The Poetics of Healing: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo
Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Literature
Critical Approaches to Literature
Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Latino/a Literature and Film
Race and Masculinity in American Culture PUBLICATIONS Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (forthcoming with Duke University Press).
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