Lecturer
Biography
Randy Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary scholar with a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His interests and training merge expertise in American cultural and intellectual history; Latine and Chicanx literary and cultural studies; comparative ethnic studies; autobiography and narrative studies; gender, sexuality and nationalism; political theory; and Latin American studies. He has applied his critical comparative and integrative intellectual approach in his published work on controversial essayist Richard Rodriguez and in his classroom pedagogy where cultural, ideological, and material patterns and their effects are identified and critiqued.
COURSES TAUGHT:
LLS 100 (INTRO TO LATINA/LATINO STUDIES)
LLS 240/SPAN 240/ENGL 224 (LATINA/O POPULAR CULTURE)
LLS 250/MACS 250 (LATINAS/OS ON THE BRONZE SCREEN)
LLS 316/PS 316 (LATINA/LATINO POLITICS)
LLS 355/AAS 355/SOC 255 (RACE AND MIXED RACE)
LLS 365 (CHICANA/LATINA AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, TESTIMONIO)