Jaime Rodriguez Matos

Jaime Rodriguez Matos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fresno, where he has been employed since 2018. His academic career includes prior roles as Lecturer at Fresno State (2016-2018) and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2007-2016).

Education:

• Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
• M.Phil., Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
• M.A., Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
• B.A., Spanish Language and Literature, University of New Hampshire

Rodriguez Matos specializes in Latin American poetry, nihilism, infrapolitics, and temporal theory. His work interrogates the intersections of philosophy and literary form, particularly focusing on the deconstruction of time in works by José Lezama Lima, Eduardo Lalo, and Álvaro García Linera. Current research explores neo-revolutionary rhetoric and anarchic political thought in Latin America.

His published and forthcoming articles address themes such as Lacanian critiques of hegemony, the ontologies of the present, and the formless in Caribbean politics. Rodriguez Matos has presented at international conferences including the Latin American Studies Association and the University of California, Irvine Humanities Commons cluster.

Selected Publications:

• Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time (Fordham University Press, 2017)