Cristina Rhodes
Office: DHC 107
Phone: x1632
Email: CSRhodes@ship.edu
Education:
PhD, Texas A&M University - Commerce (2018)
MA, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (2016)
BA, Longwood University (2013)
Teaching Interests:
- Latinx Studies and Literature
- Magical Realism
- Ethnic Studies and Literature
- Social Justice
- Diverse Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Contemporary American Literature
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
- ENG 213: Writing and Research about Literature
- ENG 358: Ethnic Literature
- ENG 370: Queer Studies
- ENG 445: Special Topics (Latinx Youth and Their Literatures)
Current Projects:
In addition to several articles on Latinx youth activism, the day of the dead, and multi-ethnic children's literature, I've been working on a monograph about fantastic bodily transformations in Latinx children's and young adult literature. This project is tentatively titled Speculative Bodies and the Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literature.
Featured Publications:
“Carmelita Torres and Bodies of Resistance: Reclaiming Young Latinas’ Bodies within Hegemonic Discourse.” Latino Studies (forthcoming)
“Imagining the Future: The (Im)Possibilities of Queerness in Two Latinx Speculative Young Adult Novels.” Label Me Latino/a (2021)
“Corporeal, Phenomenological, and Activist Transformations in Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (2021)
“Processes of Transformation: Theorizing Activism and Change through Gloria Anzaldúa’s Picture Books,” Children’s Literature in Education (2020)
“‘Seemingly on the inside ... but really on the outside’: Reading for Mirrors in Mexican Whiteboy,” Research on Diversity in Youth Literature (2018)
“Constructing the Twentieth-Century Child: Postcolonial Retellings of Estevanico from Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (2017)
“Female Empowerment and Undocumented Border-Crossing in Bettina Restrepo’s Illegal,” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature (2017)