Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Richard T. Rodríguez

Associate Professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies

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Education

Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley

Courses

Chicano/a Narrative (graduate seminar), Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literature, Critical Approaches to Literature, Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Literature and Film, Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies, Latinos/as on the Bronze Screen, Perspectives in Latina/Latino Studies (graduate seminar), Race and Masculinity in American Culture, The Poetics of Healing: William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo, Writing Latino/a Chicago

Research Interests

Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.

Publications

Books

  • Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
  • Chicanos, Latinos, and Cultural Diversity: An Anthology (co-edited with D. Espinoza, E. Hernandez, and L. Maldonado). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2004.

Book Contributions

  • "The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies." A Concise Companion to American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2010.
  • "Carnal Knowledge." Gay Latino Studies, ed. Michael Hames-Garcia and Ernesto J. Martinez. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
  • "The Verse of the Godfather." Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities, ed. Alicia Gaspar de Alba. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2003.
  • "On the Subject of Gang Photography." [Reprint.] Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Journal Articles

  • "Glocal Matters: A Response to José E. Limón ." American Literary History 20.1-2 (2008): 183-186.
  • "Imagine a Brown Queer: Inscribing Sexuality in Chicano/a-Latino/a Literary and Cultural Studies." American Quarterly 59.2 (2007): 493-501.
  • "Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic." Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 31.2 (2006): 127-137.
  • "Serial Kinship: Representing La Familia in Early Chicano Publications." Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 27.1 (2002): 123-138.
  • "On the Subject of Gang Photography." Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 25.1 (2000): 109-147.

Essays

  • "Eugene Rodríguez: History Feeds the Soul." Eugene Rodríguez: The Middle of Somewhere. Artist Catalog, 2004.
  • "Gender, Genealogy, and Counter-Memory: Remembering Latina/o Cultural Histories." (Exhibition catalog essay.) Gender, Genealogy, and Counter-Memory. San José, CA: MACLA, 2001.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • "Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana." Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. Deena J. Gonzalez and Suzanne Oboler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • "Kid Frost." Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, ed. Deena J. Gonzalez and Suzanne Oboler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • "Film in the United States." Mexico and the United States, ed. Lee Stacy. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2003.

Reviews

  • Rev. of Orange County: A Personal History, by Gustavo Arellano. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 34.2 (2009): 221-223.
  • "Live to Tell." Rev. of Queer Latino "Testimonio," Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails, by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé.GLQ 15.4 (2009): 654-656.
  • Rev. of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory, by Lázaro Lima. Latino Studies 6.3 (2008): 355-357.
  • Rev. of ¡Gaytino! Performance by Dan Guerrero. Theatre Journal 59.2 (2007): 309-310.
  • Rev. of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr., ed. Chon A. Noriega. Theatre Journal 52.1 (2000): 140-141.

Works in Progress

  • "Subject to Fantasy: Sexuality, Space, and the Politics of Latino Male Representation"; "Writing Latino/a Chicago: An Anthology."