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David Diego Rodríguez, PhD

Permanent Lecturer

Hispanic and Italian Studies

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Contact

Building & Room:

1624 UH

Address:

601 S. Morgan St.

Email:

ddr@uic.edu

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Drop-In Hours and Classes - Spring 2023
Sunday
Monday 08:00am – 08:50am
Tuesday
Wednesday 08:00am – 08:50am
Thursday
Friday 08:00am – 08:50am
Saturday

Selected Publications

Rodríguez, David Diego. Glossary for Workbook to Accompany Spanish for Law Enforcement. Patricia Rush and Patricia Houston. Upper Saddle, New Jersey: Pearson, 2005.

—. Online Spanish exercises for Rumbos: Curso intermedio de español, second edition. Jill Pellettieri, Norm López-Burton, Robert Hershberger, Rafael Gómez, and Susan Navey-Davis. Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning, 2011.

—. “The Duke of URL?” Teaching for Success 12.3 (2000): 6.

—. “How to Turn Your Syllabus into a Contract.” Teaching for Success 12.1 (2000): 8.

—. “Index Card Roulette.” Teaching for Success 11.7 (1999): 7.

—. “To Call or not To Call.” Teaching for Success 11.6 (1999): 2.

Education

Ph.D., Hispanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2004. (Dissertation: Postmodernist C(ha)osmos: Reading Historiographic Metafiction in Juan Goytisolo and Abel Posse.)
M.A., English, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1995
M.A., Hispanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1995
B.A., English, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1993
B.A., Spanish, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1993
A.A., Liberal Arts, Richard J. Daley College, Chicago, Illinois, 1990

Selected Presentations

Rodríguez, David Diego. “Carlos Saura’s Carmen: What actually Happens?” presented at 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference: “Approaches to Hispanic and Lusophone Studies in the New Millennium,” Miami University of Ohio, February 8, 2003, Oxford, Ohio.

---. “The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo: Metafiction and Parody” presented at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, 24 February 2001, Louisville, Kentucky.

---. “The Albanians in The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo: Leitmotif for Exile” presented at Graduate Student Conference, Covering New Ground: Explorations in Humanities Research, The Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 23 February 2001, Chicago, Illinois.

---. “Goytisolo, Cervantes y Brecht: El sitio del espacio ambiguo” presented at the 16th Mid‑America Conference on Hispanic Literature, 22 September 2000, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

---. “Los albaneses en La saga de los Marx: ¡Vaya confusión!” presented at the 15th Mid‑America Conference on Hispanic Literature, 8 October 1999, University of Missouri‑Columbia, Columbia, Missouri.

---. “From [Your College Course Here] 101 to Life 101: Taking Responsibility for Your Actions” presented at the Teaching for Excellence Conference, 29 October 1999, in Springfield, Illinois.