About the Creator
Christofer Rodelo is an Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies in the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine. He is a performance and literary historian who examines Latinx and Black Latinx expressive cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth century. His research focuses on the role of the spectacular body—as represented in literature, drama, popular culture, and historical memory— in shaping U.S. formations of race, gender, nation, and migration.