Manuel Martin-Rodriguez

Manuel Martin-Rodriguez is a Professor at the University of California, Merced, affiliated with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and the Department of Literatures and Languages. His research focuses on Chicano/a/x and Latino/a/x literature, film studies, literary theory, and children's literature.

• Ph.D., 1990 — University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.A., 1987 — University of Houston
• Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica, 1985 — Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

He has contributed to interdisciplinary research groups such as "La tradición clásica y humanística en España e Hispanoamérica" and "U.S. Literatures in Spanish" at Universidad de León, Spain. His honors include membership in the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and Real Academia Española.

Professor Martin-Rodriguez has edited significant works like Gaspar de Villagrá. Historia de la nveva Mexico (2010) and Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (2003). He co-edited The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (2015), addressing intersections of queer studies and Chicanismo.

He serves on editorial boards of The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe, Silva: Estudios de Humanismo y Tradición Clásica, and other journals. His advisory roles include the "Pasó por aquí" Series (University of New Mexico Press) and Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage.