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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鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellow in English at UCLA, where he researched transnational and cross-cultural approaches to postwar American poetry. He has published essays in The Am茅ricas Review, Callaloo, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.
Selected Recent Publications
鈥淭he Spectacular Anthropocene.鈥� Angelaki 21.4 (Fall 2017): 19鈥�34.
鈥淭he Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes鈥檚 Dark Pastoral.鈥� Creatural Fictions: Literary Engagements with Species Difference. Ed. David Herman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
鈥淪ynge and Synge: Science and Irish Modernism.鈥� Modernist Cultures 10.2 (July 2015): 178鈥� 200.
鈥淧ositive Inertia: D. H. Lawrence and the Aesthetics of Generation.鈥� Journal of Modern Literature 38.1 (Fall 2014): 38鈥�55.
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