Rolando Romero
Rolando Romero
rromero @ uiuc.edu
4080 Foreign Language Building
(217)333-9487

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ROLANDO ROMERO

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

Associate Professor, Latina/Latino Studies Program
Program Faculty member of Modern Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Program Faculty member for Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara, 1988. Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Concentration: 20th Century Latin American Literature.

M.A. University of Texas at San Antonio;, 1981. Concentration: 20th Century Spanish American and Spanish Literature.

B.S. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., PA 1979. Concentrations: Department of Foreign Languages: 18th and 19th Century Spanish Literature.; Wharton School: Economics with Finance Major.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Legends of the Fall: Phallocentrism and Democracy in Mexico." Discourse 26.1&2.
"Latino Cultural Capital: Use, Identity and Power." Rebellious Readings. Ed. Carl Gutiérrez Jones. Santa Bárbara: Center for Chicano Studies, 2004. 187-195.
"Richard Rodríguez." Latino and Latino Writers. Ed. Alan West-Durán. 2 Vols. New York: Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 2004. 455-474.
"Divino Narciso: The Political Exile Gaze." Review Essay. Discourse 22.1 (Winter 2000): 117-124.
Imperial Disclosures. Eds. Rolando J. Romero & Elena Delgado. Special Issue of Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 22.3/23.1 (Fall 2000- Winter 2001).
Feminism, Nation & Myth: La Malinche. Eds. Rolando J. Romero & Amanda Nolacea Harris. Houston: Arte P󹢬co Press. In Press. Spring 2005.

COURSES TAUGHT

SPAN 442     Gendering 20th-Century Mexico City
LLS 242        U.S. Latina/Latino Literature, History and Iconography
LLS 200/201 Introduction to 19th Century US Latina/o Literature
SPAN 256     Latin American Authors
SPAN 227
SPAN 495

 

Click for more information...