Rick Rodriguez

Assc Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: rick.rodriguez@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., English, Loyola University Chicago Chicago

M.A., English, Florida International University Miami FL

B.A., English, Florida International University Miami FL

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2025IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2024FYS1000Freshman Seminar
Fall 2024FYS1000Freshman Seminar
Fall 2024FYS1000Freshman Seminar
Fall 2024FYS1000Freshman Seminar
Fall 2024ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2024ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2024ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2024ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Fall 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2023ENG4500Contemporary American Literatu
Spring 2023ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2023ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2022ENG4450The Modern Short Story
Fall 2022ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Spring 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2022ENG3950Topics in Literature
Spring 2022ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Fall 2021ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2021ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2021ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2021ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2020ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2020ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2020ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2020ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Fall 2019ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Fall 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2019ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2018ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2018ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2018ENG3215Literature and Globalization
Spring 2018ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2018ENG3032Ethnic Literature
Fall 2017ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2017ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Fall 2017ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2017ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2017ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2017ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2016ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2016ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2016ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2016ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2016IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2015ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2015ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2015ENG4510The American Novel
Fall 2014ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2014ENG3032Ethnic Literature
Spring 2014ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Spring 2014ENG2150Writing II
Fall 2013ENG3020Survey American Literature I
Fall 2013ENG2100Writing I

Books

Rodriguez, R. (2019). Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. New York, NY, Palgrave.

Journal Articles

Rodriguez, R. (2025). A Place for Utopia in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review,

Rodriguez, R. (2022). Crowning Revolution. American Studies, 61(1). 87-106.

Rodriguez, R. (2019). Jose Marti's Confederate Affinities. Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, 16. 31-42.

Rodriguez, R. (2018). Between North and South: Cuba and the Ends of U.S. Sovereignty. Canadian Review of American Studies, University of Toronto, 48(2). 146-70.

Rodriguez, R. (2016). The Servant's Laughter in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 26(4). 275-93.

Rodriguez, R. (2012). Sovereign Authority and the Democratic Subject in Poe. Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, Wiley-Blackwell, Washington State University, 44(1). 39-56.

Book Chapters

Rodriguez, R. Posthumous Fidelities. Jose Marti in Context Cambridge UP.

Presentations

Rodriguez, R. (2018, March 22). Less Than Civil: Jose Marti Immigration Chronicles. Climate. Albaquerque, New Mexico: C19:Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

Rodriguez, R. (2017, October 14). Jose Marti's Confederate Affinities. Jose Marti Weekend at Governors Island. Governors Island, NY: Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York.

Rodriguez, R. (2017, June 27). The Chola Widow's Silence in Melville's Encantadas. International Melville Conference. King's College, London, England: The Melville Society.

Rodriguez, R. (2017, January 5). Jose Marti's Confederate Affinities. MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA

Rodriguez, R. (2016, March 17). Jose Marti and the Ends of American Sovereignty. Unsettling. The Pennsylvania State University: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

Rodriguez, R. (2016, October 20). A Revolutionary Sense of the Common. Work-in-Progress Workshop. : Baruch English Department.

Rodriguez, R. (2015, October 2). America's Imperiled Pastoral. Symposium on Pastoral. The Graduate Center, CUNY: The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) at The Graduate Center (CUNY); The Department of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center (CUNY).

Rodriguez, R. (2014, October 17). The Servant's Laughter in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Studying-Up Conference. New York, NY: Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Rodriguez, R. (2013, October 12). Tears and Fears: Making Sense of Haiti in the Age of Emotion. Revolutionary Atlantic, 1780-1830. Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne: The Charles Brockden Brown Society.

Rodriguez, R. (2013, January 5). The Servant's Laughter and the Dissolution of Colonial Authority in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. MLA Annual Convention. Boston, MA: Modern Language Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2010, November 19). 'I have never head of such a nation as Americans': Algerian Piracy and the Crisis in Republican Sovereignty. ASA, Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: American Studies Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2009, December 30). Freedom Bound: Cuba in the Imperial Imaginary. MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia: Modern Language Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2007, October 12). Melville's Pisgah View. ASA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA: American Studies Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2006, December 28). What's so Funny about Algerian Captivity?. MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA: Modern Language Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2005, March 11). (Dis)enchantment at Ground Zero. ACLA Annual Meeting. State College, PA: American Comparative Literature Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2005, December 29). Displacing Revolution. MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA: Modern Language Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2004, October 1). The Haitian Revolution and the Political Life of Sensation of the Early Republic. American Cultures Colloquium. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, Department of English.

Rodriguez, R. (2004, November 30). Sensational Views from/of the Tropics. ASA Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA: American Studies Association.

Rodriguez, R. (2004, May 28). Emire, Slave Insurrection, and the Culture of Sensation. ALA Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: American Literature Association.

Research Currently in Progess

Rodriguez, R.(n.d.). book chapter on Melville. In Progress.

Rodriguez, R.(n.d.). Rebel Souths. In Progress.

A comparative examination of the literature of the U.S. Civil War and Cuba's wars of independence.

Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Academic Leave (Fall 2020)WSAS Office of the Dean2020
Global Themed Freshman Learning Community Course (with course release)Weissman College2016

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Department Curriculum CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
English Department Executive CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Department Curriculum CommitteeCommittee ChairPresent
Honoring the Work of Michael StaubPanelist4/8/2024
Joel Segall Staged Reading of The TempestFaculty Discussant3/11/2024
Achy Obejas Reading : Wasserman Jewish Studies CenterFaculty Discussant3/28/2023
Early American Literature Search CommitteeCommittee Member12/15/2022
Latinx Literature Search CommitteeCommittee Member5/14/2021
Committee on Social and Academic EventsCommittee Member8/28/2020
Student Poetry Event Faculty Organizer12/10/2019
Honors Admission CommitteeCommittee Member1/28/2018
WSAS representative to Zicklin School of BusinessCommittee Member8/29/2017
Art-a-Thon FestivalCommittee Member3/7/2017
Secretary5/28/2016