Liesder Mayea Rodríguez Ph.D.

• Ph.D., Spanish, University of California, Riverside
• Chancellor's Fellowship
• M.A., Spanish, San Diego State University
• B.A., Art History, Spanish, and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
• A.A., Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Southwestern College

Current Research

Current research in part focuses on the Quixote and the diverse cultural, literary, religious, and mythological sources or contexts for the classic work. Mayea Rodriguez is also writing a study of drama from a historiographical point of view, and using a comparative perspective going as far back as classical (greek) drama, shakesperean drama, and the Spanish comedia. This evidently implies reviewing authors such as Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca.

Description of Research

Research has focused on the classics of Western Literature, with specific emphasis in the Spanish classics. Furthermore, Mayea Rodriguez's masters thesis focused on Erasmus of Rotterdam and Miguel de Cervantes, and a comparative approach to literature and painting during the transitory period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Spain.

Experience

• Chancellor's Outstanding Fellowship UCR

• Phi Beta Kappa 

• Omicron Delta Kappa

• Sigma Delta Pi