Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies
Latina/Latino Studies Program
510 East Chalmers
Champaign, IL 61820
Rolando J. Romero
Associate Professor of
Latina/Latino Studies
Latina/Latino Studies Program
510 East Chalmers
Champaign, IL 61820
Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara, 1988. Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Concentration: 20th Century Latin American Literature.
M.A. University of Texas at San Antonio;, 1981. Concentration: 20th Century Spanish American and Spanish Literature.
B.S. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., PA 1979. Concentrations: Department of Foreign Languages: 18th and 19th Century Spanish Literature.; Wharton School: Economics with Finance Major.
Faculty Director, Study Abroad Program at Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign. Summer 2002.
Director, Latina/Latino Studies Program. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Aug. 1996-Aug. 1999.
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Department. Fall 1996-Present.
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 1995-1996.
Program Faculty member of Modern Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Program Faculty member for Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Senior Scholar, Fulbright Commission, Erlangen, Germany, Fall 1997.
Visiting Professor, University of California at Irvine, April-June 1994.
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Spring 1996.
Visiting Professor, Escuela de Comunicación, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México, March 1987.
Visiting Professor, Univ. Autónoma de Coahuila, México. School of Letters and Philosophy, March 1985.
Fulbright Fellowship, Senior Teaching Scholar, Erlangen, Germany, Fall 1997.
Program Faculty, "Rethinking American Studies," NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers in American Studies, Summer 1995.
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, 1992-1993.
Dartmouth's Seminar in Critical Theory, Summer 1991.
Center for Twentieth Century Studies Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Project: Materializing Culture, 1990-1991.
NEH Seminar, Brown University, Early Latin American Texts: Spanish and Indigenous Exchange, Summer 1990.
Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation, 1986-87.
Graduate Fellowship to University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982-1983; 1985-1986.
Henry Ralph Ringe Scholarship to University of Pennsylvania, 1973-1977.
Latina/Latino Graduating Class of 2004 Faculty Award. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Campus Research Board. "Prodigal History: Gonzalo Guerrero and the Politics of Memory." $9,000. Spring 2005.
Rockefeller Foundation. "Cultural Studies and Disciplinary Boundaries in Latin/o America." Oct. 21-23, 1999. $15,300.
Sloan Center for Advanced Technology. Teaching Enhancement Grant. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. September 1998. $3,000.
University of Illinois, State of the Art Conference (with Idélber Avelar), $10,000.
Wisconsin Humanities Committee (with William Velez), $7500 grant to organize UW Milwaukee's April 25-27 1991 conference on Hispanic History and Culture. Funding for the conference also included $1500 matches from all the UW system campuses.
Center for Latin America, $1000 Research Grant, 1989-1990.
Yearly travel grants from the Center for Latin America, 1986-1993.
"Legends of the Fall: Phallocentrism and Democracy in Mexico." Discourse 26.1&2.
"Latino Cultural Capital: Use, Identity and Power." Rebellious Readings. Ed. Carl Gutiérrez Jones. Santa Bárbara: Center for Chicano Studies, 2004. 187-195.
"Richard Rodríguez." Latino and Latino Writers. Ed. Alan West-Durán. 2 Vols. New York: Scribner's Sons/Gale Group, 2004. 455-474.
"Divino Narciso: The Political Exile Gaze." Review Essay. Discourse 22.1 (Winter 2000): 117-124.
Imperial Disclosures. Eds. Rolando J. Romero & Elena Delgado. Special Issue of Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 22.3/23.1 (Fall 2000- Winter 2001).
Feminism, Nation & Myth: La Malinche. Eds. Rolando J. Romero & Amanda Nolacea Harris. Houston: Arte Pùblico Press. In Press. Spring 2005.
"The Alamo, Slavery and the Politics of Memory." Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century. Eds. Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi H. Quiñonez. Indiana UP, 2002. 366-377.
"The Irony of Romantic Representation: Modes of Production in Chicana and Chicano Art." Las Artes y la cultura popular en México. Groeningen: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos, 1998. 11-31.
"Violencia, cuerpo y estética: El orientalismo y Farabeuf de Salvador Elizondo." Juan García Ponce y la Generación del Medio Siglo. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1998: 431-439.
"Troublemakers." As We Are Now: Essays by Urban Mixbloods. W.S. Penn. Editor. Berkeley: U of California P., 1998. 199-218.
"The Postmodern Hybrid: Do Aliens Dream of Alien Sheep?" The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization. Eds. Carl Good and John V. Waldron. Temple UP, 2001. 196-211. A preliminary version of the article was also published in Postscript 16, 1 (Fall 1996): 41-52. A subsequent shorter version appeared in Writing as Revision. 2nd. Edition. Eds. Beth Alvarado, Barbara Cully, and Michael Robinson. Boston: Pearson, 2003. 110-117.
"La revisión histórica de Lope de Aguirre." Confluencia 12, 1 (Fall 1996). 17-27.
"The Moon and the Gutter: Border, Women and Migration." Discourse 1 & 2 (Winter 1995): 84-106.
"Materialismo, Feminismo y Postestructuralismo en la teoría crítica chicana: Calibán, La Malinche y Cabeza de Vaca." De Historia, Lingüísticas, Retóricas y Poéticas. Vol. 1 of Actas Irvine-92: Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Irvine: Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 1994. 5 vols. 214-222.
"Sartorial Eyes: Cultural Transvestism and History." Gestos 17 (Abril 1994): 79-98.
"Border of Fear, Border of Desire." Borderlines 1, 1 (September 1993): 36-70.
"Salvador Elizondo." Spanish American Authors: The Twentieth Century. Angel Flores, editor. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1992. 297-300.
"Spanish and English: The Question of Literacy in Hunger of Memory." Confluencia 6, 2 (Spring 1991): 89-100.
"Ficción e historia en Farabeuf." Revista Iberoamericana 151 (abril-junio de 1990): 403-418.
"La narrativa descentralizada de Juan García Ponce." Tinta 5 (Primavera de 1987): 69-76.
"La estética de Salvador Elizondo." La crítica literaria en Latinoamérica. Stanford: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1987. 187-193.
"La Onda, el sentido del humor y el compromiso político." Interview with René Avilés Fabila." Tinta 5 (Primavera de 1987): 3-13.
"La sátira en 'El triángulo perfecto' de René Avilés Fabila," Mester 13, 1 (May, 1984): 73-84.
1. Review of Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, by Richard Rodríguez. Discourse 16, 3 (spring 1994): 168-170.
2. "Postdeconstructive Spaces." Review Article of Border Writing: The Multidimensional Text, by Emily Hicks. Siglo 20/20th Century 11 (1993): 225-235.
3. Review of Farabeuf, by Salvador Elizondo. Trans. John Incledon. New York: Garland, 1992. Review of Contemporary Fiction 13, 1 (Spring 1993): 271-72.
4. Review of Conversations with Moctezuma: Ancient Shadows Over Modern Life in Mexico, by Dick J. Reavis. Latin American Anthropology Review 3, 1 (1992): 32-33.
5. Review of Last Laugh and Other Stories, by Hugo Martínez Serros and Lesser Evils, by Gary Soto. Hispania 73 (September 1990): 671-672.
6. "Incomunicación y soledad." Rev. of Todo el amor, by René Avilés Fabila. El Búho, Sunday Literary Supplement to Excélsior (August 24, 1986): 1. Reprinted in Hispamérica 16, 48 (December 1987): 131-132.
LLS 100: Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies
LLS 200: Introduction to 19th Century U.S. Latina/Latino Literature.
LLS 201: Introduction to 19th Century U.S. Latina/Latino Literature (Advanced Composition)
LLS 260: 20th Century U.S. Latina/Latino Literature
LLS 342: U.S. Latina/Latino Literature, History, and Iconography
SPAN 442 Gendering 20th-Century Mexico City
LLS 242 U.S. Latina/Latino Literature, History and Iconography
LLS 200/201 Introduction to 19th Century US Latina/o Literature
SPAN 256 Latin American Authors
Cultural Boundaries and Interdisciplinary Boundaries in Latino/a America. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. With Idelber Avelar, Elena Delgado, Mauricio Parra. October 21-23, 1999.
Constructing Latina/Latino Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. April 2-3, 1998.
U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on La Malinche. University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. August 26-28, 1999.
Aliens: The Cultural Construction of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. With Tom Longoria and Felipe Rodríguez. October 5-7, 1995.
Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. With William Vélez. April 1991.
"Mexico in US Feminism." IASA international Congress, University of Ottawa, CANADA, August 18-20, 2005. Forthcoming.
“Third Wave Latinas.” 11th Annual San Antonio College Multicultural Conference. San Antonio College. San Antonio, TX. April 19-21, 2005.
"Mexico's Generación de Medio Siglo and Post-Chicano Literature." Symposium on Chicano/a Literature 1974-2004/Congreso de Literatura Chicana 1974-2004. New Mexico Highlands University. Las Vegas, New Mexico. October 23, 2004.
"Displacement and Culture." Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloomington. October 6, 2004.
"Es santa mas no es mujer: The Riddle of Santa Anna in the 19th Century." Popular Culture, American Culture, and Southwest Texas Popular Culture Associations National Conference. San Antonio, Texas, April 7-10, 2004.
"José Emilio Pacheco, la mexicanidad, y la Generación de Medio Siglo." Brown University's Biannual Conference on Transatlantic Studies. Providence, RI. April 14-17, 2004.
"Latin@ Narrative, Canonicity, History." International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. April 22-24, 2004.
"El cuerpo de la democracia: epistemología y mexicanidad." "Rethinking Mexico: Cultural Citizenship in a Globalized Nation" Panel. Modern Languages Association Conference. San Diego. Dec. 27-30, 2003.
"Gonzalo Guerrero en el texto de Fray Joseph de Buenaventura." Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. University of Arizona [Conference held in Mexico City]. July 1-3, 2003.
"Chicano Baroque." International American Studies Association. Leiden University. May 21-25, 2003.
"Between Men: Gendering the Nation on Film." University of California at Irvine. May 1-3, 2003.
"Santa Anna and the Politics of Memory." New York. Modern Languages Association Conference. Dec. 27-30, 2002.
"Latina/Latino Cultural Capital: From Essentialism to Ethics." University of Vermont. 9th Annual Hispanic Forum, "Narratives of Transformation in the Hispanic World." October 10-11, 2002.
"Latina/Latino Cultural Capital: Use, Identity and Power." University of California at Santa Barbara. Rebellious Readings Conference. May 15-May 18, 2002.
"The Alamo, Slavery and the Politics of Memory." Dec. 27-30, 2000. Modern Languages Association Conference. Chicago, IL
"Cultural Studies in Latin/o America: The Story of O." Cultural Studies in Latin/o America Conference. October 21-24, 2000. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
"Chicana/Chicano Studies, Caribbean and Martí." Monuments of the Black Atlantic Conference. May 24-27, 2000. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
"Malinche's Other." U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on La Malinche Conference. August 26-28, 1999. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
"Literature of Dispossession." Emory University. February 18, 1999.
"The Border and the Undocumented Worker" International Studies and Ethnic Studies. University of Wisconsin, Parkside. April 13, 1998.
"Possession and Dispossession in the 19th Century U.S. Latino Novel." Frederic Alexander Universität Nuremberg-Erlangen. Feb. 2, 1998.
"Territorialization: The Construction of a Chicana/Chicano Identity." January 21, 1998. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Tübingen, Germany.
"Roots of Chicano Art in Mexican Culture." University of Groningen, Netherlands. Nov. 13, 1997.
"Do Aliens Dream of Alien Sheep?" Inaugural Lecture. Visions of Hybridity: Cultural Transformations in North America. Greifswald, Germany. Nov. 7, 1997. Also presented at the University of Illinois YMCA Lecture Feb 07, 1997.
"A Historical Overview of Chicano/a Culture." Illinois Wesleyan University, May 23, 1996.
"Hibridación y crítica" Visiones de la Frontera: Sus espacios simbólicos, Festival Internacional de la Frontera, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, May 3, 1996.
"Post-Malinche: Chicano/a Discourse on Cultural Identity." University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 27, 1996.
"The Streets and Hybridity." International Conference on "The Street in North American Barrios." Universite Paris 7, Paris, France. March 16-18, 1995.
"The Moon and the Gutter: Women, Border and Migration." University of California at Irvine. Irvine, CA. February 27, 1995.
"Why US Latinos are Academic Troublemakers." UW-Milwaukee. Sept. 15, 1994.
"Travestismo cultural e historia." Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Irvine, March 17, 1993.
"The Encounter in Chicano Literature." Le Moyne College, Syracuse NY, October 5, 1992.
"Literature and Politics in Contemporary Mexican Literature." De Paul University's Panel on"Politics in Contemporary Mexican Literature." (With Carlos Monsiváis). Chicago, Illinois, May 11, 1990.
"La escritura y el psicoanálisis en Juan García Ponce." Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, December 3, 1987.
"Literature and Communication." Association of Professionals of the Sciences of Communication, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, March 4, 1987.
"Esteticismo y nacionalismo en la literatura mexicana del siglo veinte." University of the State of Coahuila. Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, September 17, 1985.
"Santa Anna and the Ambivalence of Memory." Modern Languages Association Conference. Dec. 27-30, 2002. Forthcoming.
"Chicano Baroque." American Studies Association. Houston, Texas. November 14-17, 2002. .
"Malinche Revisited: Gender, Chiapas, and the Free Trade Agreement." Brown University. Geografías de Carlos Fuentes. Apri 17-20, 2002.
General Editor, Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 1996-Present.
Judge, University of California-Irvine. Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, 1994.
Consultant on Video Project "Mountain's Mist and Mexico" which aired on the Milwaukee PBS Station and Wisconsin Public Television (Oct. 3, and 9, 1995 respectively). Picked up nationally in 1996 by the Public Broadcasting System. Translated and aired in nationally in Mexico in October 1996.
Consultant on Milwaukee's Latino Arts, Inc. Wisconsin Humanities Committee's funded project on "Latino Migration to the Milwaukee" mural project. 1996.
Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. 1990-1996.
Delegate Assembly, Modern Languages Association, 1995-1998.
Chancellor's Search Committee. 2004.
Chair. Campus Wide Faculty Senate Committee on the Library. 2004.
Faculty Senate. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2000-2002.
Writing Across the Curriculum Campus-Wide Advisory Committee Under the Provost. 1999-Present
Chair, Campus Committee on Student Financial Aid. 1999-2000.
"Latino Writings in the United States." MLA's "What's the Word" Radio Program. Broadcast Nationally Spring 2000.
"Indigenous Always: The Legend of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico." Chief Academic Consultant. Broadcast by PBS in September-October, 2001.
"The Postmodern-Hybrid: Do Aliens Dream of Alien Sheep?"; WEFT Community Radio. Urbana, Illinois. February 11, 1997.
"Are We Americans?" Milwaukee Public Television. August 26, 1997.
"Mountain's Mist and Mexico." PBS, Fall 1997.
"Latin American Literature." PBS Television Program
"Latino Focus." Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Discussion with Sandra Cisneros and Marina Pérez de Mendiola), May 5, 1992.
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