Dylan E. Rodríguez
Associate Professor
INTS 4030
(951) 827-4707
Dylan Rodríguez is an Associate Professor at UCR, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and his M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees from Cornell University in Africana Studies (Magna Cum Laude) and the College Scholar Program, as well as a Concentration Degree in Asian American Studies.
Dr. Rodríguez is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist whose interests traverse the fields of critical race studies and cultural studies, with focal attention to the intersections of race, state violence, and community/identity formation. His work attempts to engage with the field of radical and revolutionary praxis that has emerged in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, across the different sites and moments of struggle against global racism, white supremacy, and other forms of institutionalized dehumanization. His political, philosophical, and theoretical interests are especially devoted to visualizing notions of “freedom,” “liberation,” “community,” and “justice” that productively, creatively critique and disarticulate dominant definitions. Among other political-intellectual collectives, he has worked with and/or alongside such organizations as Critical Resistance (a leading force in the contemporary prison abolitionist movement, see criticalresistance.org), INCITE! (a progressive antiviolence movement led by radical women of color, see incite-national.org), the Critical Filipino and Filipina Studies Collective (cffsc.focusnow.org), and the editorial board of the internationally recognized journal Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.
Prof. Rodríguez' first book, Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime was published in 2006 by the University of Minnesota Press. His essay-length writings have appeared in such scholarly journals as Radical History Review, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Social Justice: a Journal of Crime, Conflict, & World Order, and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. Some of his other written work has been included in such anthologies as Warfare: Prison and the American Homeland (ed. Joy Ann James) (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse (eds. Tiongson, Gutierrez, and Gutierrez) (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006), Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest (ed. Arif Dirlik), (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2006), and Radical Philosophy Today, Vol. 2: The Problems of Resistance, (Steve Martinot, ed.) (Amherst, NY: Humanity Press, 2001).
Prof. Rodríguez welcomes any correspondence, and is available for a wide variety of speaking engagements. In addition to presenting papers at numerous conferences, including meetings of the American Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, the Radical Philosophy Association, and the Organization of American Historians, he has also delivered keynote and plenary lectures at campuses across the country, including Brown University, Bowdoin College, the University of Oregon, the University of Illinois, Stanford University, New College of San Francisco, and SUNY Binghamton. Dr. Rodríguez has been interviewed by a number of print and broadcast media outlets, including KPFA (Berkeley, CA), KPFK (Los Angeles, CA), KPOO (San Francisco, CA) and The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA).