Yanira Rodríguez

Yanira Rodríguez
  • Associate Professor
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: YRodriguez@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University
  • M.A. in Journalism, Syracuse University
  • M.F.A. in Poetry, Syracuse University

Research Interests

Third World Women and Hip Hop FeminismsCommunity Literacy/PublishingIntergenerational Social Movement Principles, Histories and RhetoricsMedia RepresentationsCommunity Accountable ScholarshipOrganizer Ethos Formation in the AcademyPrintmaking and other Multimodal LiteraciesThe Underground Press

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

List of Publications

  • Rodríguez, Yanira. “Pedagogies of Refusal: What it Means to (un)Teach a Student Like Me.” Radical Teacher, 2019, pp. 5-12 Rodríguez, Yanira and Ben Kuebrich. “The Tone it Takes: An 18-day Sit-in at Syracuse University.” Unruly Rhetorics. Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Nancy Welch, and Susan Jarratt, Pittsburgh UP. Nov. 2018 Kannan, Vani, Ben Kuebrich and Yanira Rodríguez. “Unmasking Corporate-Military Infrastructure: Four Theses.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, 2016. Burns, Michael, Timothy Dougherty, Ben Kuebrich, and Yanira Rodríguez. “Soundwriting as Resistance: Toward a Pedagogy for Liberation.” Soundwriting Pedagogies, edited by Courtney Danforth and Kyle Steadman. Chapter accepted and full collection under review at Computers and Composition Digital Press. http://ccdigitalpress.org/book/soundwriting/burns-et-al/index.html Aug. 2018 Rodríguez, Yanira, Ben Kuebrich and Tamara Issak. “An Interview with Ira Shor.” This Rhetorical Life, 7 May 2016. Rodríguez, Yanira, Karrieann Soto, and Ben Kuebrich. “On Ferguson.” This Rhetorical Life, 24 Oct. 2014. Rodríguez, Yanira and Ben Kuebrich. “(Social) Media Representations of Venezuela Protests.” This Rhetorical Life, 27 May 2014