Faculty Profile

Dr. Rodney Rodriguez Professor of Spanish Chairperson, Modern Foreign Languages Department

Education:

• B.A., Florida State University, 1968
• M.A., Northwestern University, 1969
• Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Spanish narrative of the 18th and 19th centuries, with a special interest in the novels of Perez Galdos; modern Spanish poetry; history of Spanish Jewry.

Publications:

Books: Momentos cumbers de las literaturas hispánicas:  Introducción al análisis literario (Prentice Hall, 2003), Revista de Guatemala: Indice Literario (Guatemala, 1986), Alfonso Sastre, La Cornada (New York, 1978). Articles on 18th and 19th century Spanish narrative in Estudios Ibero-Americanos, Letras femeninas, Romance Quarterly, Actas del Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Revista de Estudios Hispancios, Letras de Deusto, Anales Galdosianos, Hispanic Journal. Women Writers of Spain (1989). Articles on Machado in Explicacion de Textos Literarios, Boletin de la Institucion Fernan Gonzales, Divergencias y unidad (Madrid, 1990). Other articles and reviews in Inter-American Review of Bibliography, La Torre, Boletin de la Biblioteca de Menendez y Pelayo, Hispania, Modern Philology.

Other Activities:

Chair, Spanish SAT II Test Development Committee, active with the Spanish Advanced Placement Program of the College Board; Consultant to the College Board, Educational Testing Service, and American Council on Education.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• SPAN 217:  Spanish for Heritage Speakers
• SPAN 350:  Masterworks in Spanish

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7341
• Office: Miguel 407
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: rodney.rodriguez@manhattan.edu

Page last updated by N. Cave on Jan. 3, 2005