Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer, and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created Department of Black Study, as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Rodríguez was elected president of the American Studies Association by his peers in 2020, the same year in which he was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars.
Rodríguez's lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He is devoted to studying and teaching the historical, collective genius of rebellion, survival, and insurgent futurity that radically challenge dominant forms of authority, power, and institutionality.
He is the author of three books, Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Reception 5:30 pm at BB4-G, followed by lecture from 7-9 pm, streamed on the Critical Studies Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series Youtube channel.