Theater & Music Theater Guest Artists
Christofer Rodelo
Photo courtesy Christofer Rodelo
About
Christofer Rodelo is an assistant professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University in May 2022. His dissertation, “Exhibiting Black and Brown: Race, Spectacle, and the Archive of Latinx Performance,” received honorable mention for the 2023 Best Dissertation Award from the Latinx Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Social Science Research Council, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, Huntington Library, Newberry Library, the Harry Ransom Center, and various internal sources at UC Irvine, Harvard, and Yale.
His writing appears or is forthcoming in Small Axe, A Journal of Caribbean Criticism, TDR/The Drama Review, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Journal of Homosexuality, and the edited volume New Directions in Latinx History from Routledge Press. He is the principal investigator of Performing Latinx Histories, a digital humanities project that archives and maps various Latinx performance traditions of the past. At UC Irvine, he is the co-founder and co-director of the Latinx Humanities Research Cluster, a university-wide hub for scholars working in the Latinx humanities broadly defined. He is a faculty fellow with “The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, Speculation” Working Group, funded by the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative and Andrew W. Mellon at the University of Illinois, Chicago.