Ana Patricia Rodríguez is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches courses in Latin American, Central American, and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include Central American and U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures; Central American cultural production in the U.S.; transnational migration and cultural production; diaspora studies; violence and postwar/trauma studies; gender studies; U.S. Latina/o popular culture; community-based research; and Latina/o education (K-16).
Areas of Interest
- U.S. Latina/o Diasporas
- Latino/a Transmigration & Transnationalism
- Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Degrees
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Degree DetailsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D. in Literature
SPAN 798Z U.S. Latina/o Diasporas (Graduate course); SPAN 408G Northern Triangle: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras;
SPAN 408X Central American Diasporas;
SPAN 408L Latina/o Communities and Language Struggles;
SPAN 408i Latino/a Transmigration & Transnationalism (El Salvador);
SPAN 361 Latin American Literatures and Cultures I: From Pre-Columbian to Colonial Times;
SPAN 303 Approaches to Cultural Materials in the Hispanic World;
SLLC 299P Engaging "Glocal" Communities and Languages
SPAN 408X Central American Diasporas;
SPAN 408L Latina/o Communities and Language Struggles;
SPAN 408i Latino/a Transmigration & Transnationalism (El Salvador);
SPAN 361 Latin American Literatures and Cultures I: From Pre-Columbian to Colonial Times;
SPAN 303 Approaches to Cultural Materials in the Hispanic World;
SLLC 299P Engaging "Glocal" Communities and Languages
Professor Rodríguez has published numerous articles on the cultural production of Latinas/os in the United States and Central Americans in the isthmus and in the wider Central American diaspora. Her books include De la hamaca al trono y al más allá: Lecturas críticas de la obra de Manlio Argueta (co-edited with Linda J. Craft and Astvaldur Astvaldsson; San Salvador: Universidad Tecnológica, 2013) and Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures (University of Texas Press, 2009).
Current Students
Former Students
African American Studies Department
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aprodrig [at] umd.edu
