I began teaching Chicana/o literature in the mid-1990s as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I
Author: Ralph E. Rodriguez
Ralph E. Rodriguez is the author of two books Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity (2005) and Latinx Literature Unbound: Undoing Ethnic Expectation (2018). The title story of his collection The Music Inside You is forthcoming in The Iowa Review (spring 2020). He is Professor of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and English at Brown University.