Thursday, April 6 at 6:30PM
UConn Bookstore, Storrs Center, 1 Royce Circle
R. Joseph Rodríguez reads and discusses the balance of working as a high school educator, academic and professor, and co-editor of English Journal.
R. Joseph Rodríguez is a literacy educator, researcher, and author of Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites (2017), Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature: Critical Perspectives and Conversations (2019), This Is Our Summons Now: Poems (2022), and several academic articles, book chapters, critical essays, and narrative poems. Rodríguez is a teacher educator at St. Edward’s University and teaches secondary English language arts and reading. A graduate of public schools in Houston, he grew up in a bilingual, bicultural home and pursued university studies in language learning, literary criticism, and literacy education. Rodríguez has a BA from Kenyon College (Modern Languages and Literatures, BA, 1997), University of Texas at Austin (English, MA, 1999), and University of Connecticut (Curriculum and Instruction, PhD, 2001). He is coeditor of English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Rodríguez is the recipient of awards and grants from NCTE, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Education Association Foundation. He lives in Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas.
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