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Roderick Hernandez

Roderick Hernandez

Associate Professor of English
Specialties: Latino/a Literature; American Literature

Contact Information
Office: LaCorte Hall, B-324

Rod Hernandez received his Ph.D. and M.A. in English from Stanford University, and his B.A. in English from UCLA. His areas of expertise are twentieth-century American literature, ethnic and gender studies, and Latinx literatures and cultures. From 2001-03 he was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at UCLA, where he researched transnational and cross-cultural approaches to postwar American poetry. He has published essays in The Américas Review, Callaloo, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.

Undergraduate Courses Taught

  • ENG 230: Graphic Narratives and Cultural Differences
  • ENG 340: American Literature to 1865
  • ENG 345: Latina/o Literature
  • ENG 347: Literature of Ethnicity and Gender
  • ENG 490: Satire in Latinx Literature and Culture

Graduate Seminars Taught:

  • ENG 552: American Fiction and the Historical Romance
  • ENG 555: American Tragedies, Transnational American Imaginary