Women's and Gender Studies

Dr. Nelson Rodriguez

Office: Forcina 371
Phone: X 3396
Email: nrodrigu@tcnj.edu

Nelson

Nelson M. Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Critical Theory in Education

Nelson M. Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in cultural studies and critical theory in education from The Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching areas include: gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies; critical masculinity studies; popular culture; critical theory and philosophy of education; critical pedagogy; and qualitative research methodology. His most recent publication (with William F. Pinar) is Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education, and he is currently working on several new book projects, including: Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education.

Currently Nelson’s research draws from the critical methodology of Queer Theory in order to interrogate the "regime of compulsory heterosexuality," especially within contexts of education. In particular, Queer Theory is utilized as a framework for reimagining the meanings and practices of heterosexuality in non-hegemonic terms. In this way, Queer Theory is conceived as both a language of critique and of hope and possibility.

In Press, Forthcoming, and Published Books:

Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education (with John Landreau), in press (2009). New York & The Netherlands: Springer. Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose.

Queer Theory and Education: A Critical Introduction, forthcoming (2009). Publisher: TBA.

Keywords for Critical Theory and Cultural Studies in Education (with Joe L. Kincheloe), forthcoming (2009). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education.

Queer Pedagogies: Theory, Praxis, Politics (with Cris Mayo), forthcoming (2009). Publisher: TBA.

Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education (with William F. Pinar), Peter Lang Publishing, May 2007. Series: Complicated Conversation: A Book Series of Curriculum Studies.

Dismantling White Privilege: Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness (with Leila Villaverde), Peter Lang Publishing, November 2000. Series: Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education.

White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America (with Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, and Ronald Chennault), St. Martin’s Press, September 1998. Winner of the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics’ Choice Award.

Books in Preparation:

Queer Masculinities in Popular Culture: A Critical Anthology

Transgender Youth: Schooling, Education, and Gender Politics

Queer Heterosexual Studies and Education: A Critical Reader

LGBT Studies and Queer Theory in Education: Theoretical Tensions, Pedagogical Possibilities

Queering Straight Teachers and Foucault’s Ethical Care: A Philosophical Reflection

Critical Explorations of the Self in Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education

Queering Critical Pedagogy

Toward a Liberal Arts that Counts: Cultivating “Criticality” with Gender and Sexuality Studies

Cultural Pedagogy and the Paradoxical Figure of the Queer-Straight

Book Chapters, Journal Articles, and Encyclopedia Entries:

Rodriguez, N. (in press, 2009). Brokeback Mountain and the construction of queer masculinity: Cultivating agency in a critical pedagogy. In N. Rodriguez & J. Landreau (Eds.), Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education. New York & The Netherlands: Springer.

Rodriguez, N & Landreau J. (in press, 2009). Queer masculinities in education: An introduction. In N. Rodriguez & J. Landreau (Eds.), Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education. New York & The Netherlands: Springer.

Rodriguez, N. (in press, 2009). Queer theory. In Eva Baker, Barry McGaw, Penelope Peterson (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

Rodriguez, N. (in press, 2009). Queer boys as girl-boys in popular culture. In S. Steinberg & M. Kehler (Eds.), Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Rodriguez, Nelson. (in press, 2009). (Still) making whiteness visible: Implications for (teacher) education. In S. Steinberg (Ed.), Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Rodriguez, N. (2008). Brokeback Mountain. Men and Masculinities, 10(3), 376-378.

Rodriguez, N. (2007). Queering the course of masculinity studies. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 4(2), 107-112.

Rodriguez, N. (May, 2007). Queer theory and the discourse on queer(ing) heterosexuality: Pedagogical considerations. In N. Rodriguez & W. F. Pinar (Eds.), Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education (pp. 277-307). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Rodriguez, N. (May, 2007). Preface: Just queer it. In N. Rodriguez & W. F. Pinar (Eds.), Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education (pp. vii-xiii). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Rodriguez, N. (2000). Projects of whiteness in a critical pedagogy. In N. Rodriguez & L. Villaverde (Eds.), Dismantling White Privilege: Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness (pp. 1-24). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Rodriguez, N. (1998). Emptying the content of whiteness: Toward an understanding of the relation between whiteness and pedagogy. In J. Kincheloe, S. Steinberg, N. Rodriguez, & R. Chennault (Eds.), White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America (pp. 31-62). New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Rodriguez, N. (1998). Queer youth as political and pedagogical. In W. F. Pinar (Ed.), Queer Theory in Education (pp. 173-185). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers.

Research Fellow:

The International Project for Critical Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://freire.education.mcgill.ca/

Editorial Board Membership:

Journals:

International Journal of Critical Pedagogy

http://freire.education.mcgill.ca/ojs/index.php/home/index

Book Series:

Explorations of Educational Purpose

http://www.springer.com/series/7472