J. Javier Rodriguez
Assistant Professor
Specialty
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, Mexican-American literature, cultural studies.
Degrees
B.A., North Texas State University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Profile
J. Javier Rodríguez investigates literary, historical, and cultural interactions between Mexico and the United States. His article on James Russell Lowell’s The Biglow Papers is forthcoming from Arizona Quarterly, and a book-length study on Mexican War literature in the United States and Mexico is under review at the University of Texas Press. His current projects include Stephen Crane and Mexico, the literature of South Texas, and contemporary globalization in United States literature. In 2005, he
helped develop and participated in a literary retreat organized by the Illinois
Humanities council which brought together African-American and Latino/a faculty
and students for an intercultural exchange. He has given paper presentations on
Mexican literature, American war literature, and Mexican bandits in literature.
Rodríguez is a former Ford Foundation doctoral fellow.
Recent publications
“The Mexican War in James Russell Lowell’s The Biglow Papers.” Arizona Quarterly, forthcoming.
Contact Information
219 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7170
rodriguez.77@nd.edu