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Books
Rodriguez, R. (2019). Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. New York, NY, Palgrave.
Journal Articles
Rodriguez, R. (2025). A Place for Utopia in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, 51(1). 40-61.
Rodriguez, R. (2022). Crowning Revolution. American Studies, 61(1). 87-106.
Rodriguez, R. (2019). Jose Marti's Confederate Affinities. Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, 16. 31-42.
Rodriguez, R. (2018). Between North and South: Cuba and the Ends of U.S. Sovereignty. Canadian Review of American Studies, University of Toronto, 48(2). 146-70.
Rodriguez, R. (2016). The Servant's Laughter in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 26(4). 275-93.
Rodriguez, R. (2012). Sovereign Authority and the Democratic Subject in Poe. Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, Wiley-Blackwell, Washington State University, 44(1). 39-56.
Book Chapters
Rodriguez, R. Posthumous Fidelities. Jose Marti in Context Cambridge UP.
Presentations
Rodriguez, R. (2018, March 22). Less Than Civil: Jose Marti Immigration Chronicles. Climate. Albaquerque, New Mexico: C19:Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
Rodriguez, R. (2017, October 14). Jose Marti's Confederate Affinities. Jose Marti Weekend at Governors Island. Governors Island, NY: Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York.
Rodriguez, R. (2017, June 27). The Chola Widow's Silence in Melville's Encantadas. International Melville Conference. King's College, London, England: The Melville Society.
Rodriguez, R. (2017, January 5). Jose Marti's Confederate Affinities. MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA
Rodriguez, R. (2016, October 20). A Revolutionary Sense of the Common. Work-in-Progress Workshop. : Baruch English Department.
Rodriguez, R. (2016, March 17). Jose Marti and the Ends of American Sovereignty. Unsettling. The Pennsylvania State University: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
Rodriguez, R. (2015, October 2). America's Imperiled Pastoral. Symposium on Pastoral. The Graduate Center, CUNY: The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) at The Graduate Center (CUNY); The Department of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center (CUNY).
Rodriguez, R. (2014, October 17). The Servant's Laughter in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Studying-Up Conference. New York, NY: Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rodriguez, R. (2013, October 12). Tears and Fears: Making Sense of Haiti in the Age of Emotion. Revolutionary Atlantic, 1780-1830. Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne: The Charles Brockden Brown Society.
Rodriguez, R. (2013, January 5). The Servant's Laughter and the Dissolution of Colonial Authority in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. MLA Annual Convention. Boston, MA: Modern Language Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2010, November 19). 'I have never head of such a nation as Americans': Algerian Piracy and the Crisis in Republican Sovereignty. ASA, Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX: American Studies Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2009, December 30). Freedom Bound: Cuba in the Imperial Imaginary. MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia: Modern Language Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2007, October 12). Melville's Pisgah View. ASA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA: American Studies Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2006, December 28). What's so Funny about Algerian Captivity?. MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA: Modern Language Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2005, December 29). Displacing Revolution. MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA: Modern Language Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2005, March 11). (Dis)enchantment at Ground Zero. ACLA Annual Meeting. State College, PA: American Comparative Literature Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2004, November 30). Sensational Views from/of the Tropics. ASA Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA: American Studies Association.
Rodriguez, R. (2004, October 1). The Haitian Revolution and the Political Life of Sensation of the Early Republic. American Cultures Colloquium. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, Department of English.
Rodriguez, R. (2004, May 28). Emire, Slave Insurrection, and the Culture of Sensation. ALA Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: American Literature Association.
Research Currently in Progess
Rodriguez, R.(n.d.). Rebel Souths. In Progress.
A comparative examination of the literature of the U.S. Civil War and Cuba's wars of independence.