Liesder Mayea Rodríguez Ph.D.
Director of Latin American Studies; Department Chair of Modern Literature and Languages; Associate Professor; Faculty Athletic Representative
Spanish, Latin American Studies, Modern Languages
Education
- Ph.D., Spanish, University of California, Riverside
- Chancellor’s Fellowship
- M.A., Spanish, San Diego State University
- B.A., Art history, Spanish, and comparative literature, San Diego State University
- A.A., sociology, anthropology, and philosophy, Southwestern College
Professional Background
Current Research
Current research focuses in part on Don Quixote and the diverse cultural, literary, religious, and mythological sources and contexts of the work. Mayea Rodríguez is also writing a historiographical study of drama using a comparative perspective that reaches back to classical Greek drama, Shakespearean drama, and the Spanish comedia. This work includes the study of authors such as Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca.
Description of Research
Research has focused on the classics of Western literature, with particular emphasis on Spanish classical literature. Mayea Rodríguez’s master’s thesis examined Erasmus of Rotterdam and Miguel de Cervantes through a comparative approach to literature and painting during the transitional period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Spain.
Academic Experience
- University of Redlands, assistant professor, Spanish
Publications
- Contexts for Don Quixote and Quixotism: Beyond Hero or Fool. University of California dissertation, 2009.
- Erasmo, Cervantes: Literatura y arte español durante la vida de ambos personajes. San Diego State University, 2006.
- “The Future of the Latin American Nation State.” Osa Mayor: Journal of the University of Pittsburgh 19 (2008): 101–107.
Awards and Service
- Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellowship, University of California, Riverside
- Omicron Delta Kappa
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Sigma Delta Pi