Eliza Rodriguez 
Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean of Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
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Biography
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson is Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at LMU, and coauthor of Funny Looking: Humor, Queer Latina/o Camp, and Ugly Betty. She is the editor of Stunned Into Being: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes and coeditor of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics. Her latest book project, Style, Aesthetics, and the Body: Chicana/o/x Cultural Production and the Making of Latinidad examines the way style and aesthetics work on the body to create individual and collective forms of subjectivity, paying particular to the way Chicana/o/x cultural production works to articulate a critical, solidarity-driven Latinidad. Her latest essay “I Love You Like Chicanos Love Morrissey”: Affect, World-making, and Latinidad,”can be found in the ASAP journal.
Education (3)
Cornell University: Ph.D., Postgraduate Studies 2002
Cornell University: M.A., Graduate Studies 1998
University of California at Los Angeles: 1994, Undergraduate Studies
Areas of Expertise (6)
Cultural Studies
Feminist Theory
Latina Literature
Feminist Discourse
Critical Theory
Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Affiliations (5)
- American Studies Association (ASA)
- SoCal Latinx
- Latina/o Studies Association
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
Languages (2)
- Spanish
- English
