Clelia O. RodrÃguez
Biography
Dr. Clelia O. RodrÃguez is a global scholar, speaker, author, mom and auntie born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Lenka Peoples, currently teaching in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, 91±¬ÁÏ (91±¬ÁÏ). She earned her MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. She is the 2022 ACPA Latinx Network Community Advancement Service Award for her support and encouragement towards the needs of Latinx students and professionals in higher education and has been nominated for awards in Excellency in teaching at 91±¬ÁÏ. She spent three years traveling the world as a Professor of Human Rights in a Study Abroad program in the United States, Nepal, Jordan, and Chile. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Ghana. She has done research archival work on colonialism in Spain, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico and Equatorial Guinea. As a Policy Gender Advisor, she has worked in Cuba, Bolivia, and Kenya, most recently. She is the founder of SEEDS for Change, a learning transnational collective that brings together Black, Indigenous and people from the Global Majority to co-create land-based and Indigenous ways of knowing. She is the author of Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Pain and Oppression. Her work has been published in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, in the Journal of Popular Education, Critical Pedagogy and Militant Research in Chile, the Black Youth Project, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, Postcolonial Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education and the Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
Academic Positions
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LecturerUniversity of Toronto/91±¬ÁÏ, CTL, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jan 2020 - Present
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Associate ProfessorUnivesity of Toronto/91±¬ÁÏ, Social and Justice Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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Visiting Assistant ProfessorWestern University, Modern Languages and Literatures, London, Ontario, Canada, Aug 2018 - Present
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InstructorUniversity of Michigan, Romance Languages and Literatures, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
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ProfessorSchool of International Training, , United States, Jan 2014 - Jun 2016
Degrees
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PhD, Cultural/Hispanic Studies/GenderUniversity of Toronto,
Toronto ON
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MA, Cultural/Hispanic Studies/PhilosophyUniversity of Toronto,
Toronto ON
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BA (Specialized Honours)York University,
Toronto ON
Canada
Scholarly & Creative Works
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Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pegagogies of Liberation and Radical Imagi(N)nation2023, Information Age PublishingClelia O. RodrÃguez, Josephine Gabi
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Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression, and Pain2018, Fernwood PublishingClelia O. RodgrÃguez
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When Aunties Speak: Listening Matters!2023, Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education: Dispatches from the Field (A. Kempf and H. Watts Eds)Clelia RodrÃguez
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The Anatomy of One Size Fits All2023, Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry: Civilization, Decolonization, Cultural Legacy, and Transitions (MA Gardetti and RP Larios-Francias Eds)Clelia RodrÃguez
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Untitled2020, Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Post-Colonial Perspectives (G. Caliskan ed)Clelia RodrÃguez
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The Path of the Snail2022, Hostos Review/Revista HostosianaClelia RodrÃguez
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Fui, soy, seré: (Mal)nacida. (Mal)hablada. (Mal)educada. (Mal)aventurada2021, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's StudiesClelia RodrÃguez
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Pedagogies Under the Microscope2021, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education JournalClelia RodrÃguez
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On Radical Love2020, OverlandClelia RodrÃguez
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The Poetics of One's Testimony2022, Journal of Curriculum and PedagogyClelia RodrÃguez
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Untitled XI2019, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the SouthClelia RodrÃguez
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Cuerpos indÃgenas en una ciudad cualquiera: ¿Quién habla? ¿Quién escucha?.2019, Trenzar. Revista de Educación Popular, PedagogÃa CrÃtica e Investigación MilitanteClelia RodrÃguez
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The #Shithole Syllabus: The Politics of Undoing History2018, Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal of the Theory and Practice of TeachingClelia RodrÃguez
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Reconfiguring Historical Colonial Identity: A Cartographic Approach to El Párroco de Niefang by JoaquÃn Mbomio Bacheng"2014, Postcolonial StudiesClelia RodrÃguez
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A Nnanga, mi vieja amiga lástima que no sepa leer2014, Revista IberoamericanaClelia RodrÃguez
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Cuban Women Struggle with Gendered Health Issues2003, Women & EnvironmentsClelia RodrÃguez
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Playing with Cages, #4506, and No me de la nana2019, North Dakota QuarterlyClelia RodrÃguez
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Liberals use "unity" to Systematically Silence Women of Colour. It's Time to be Divisive.The Black Youth ProjectClelia RodrÃguez
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Help Wanted2018, Latino RebelsClelia RodrÃguez
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How Academia Uses Poverty, Oppression, and Pain for Intellectual Maturbation2017, RaceBaitRClelia RodrÃguez
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Academic Rawness and the Colonized Coffee that Fuels it2017, RaceBaitRClelia RodrÃguez
Research Interests
- Decolonizing approaches to teaching and learning
- Pedagogies of Liberation
- Popular Education and Cultural Studies in Education
- Ancestral-based knowledge
- Cultural-informed curriculum
- Land-based Education
- Gender/Feminist Studies
Teaching Interests
As educators-in-the-making, we have a lifelong journey to embrace, share and disseminate teaching values based on the Anishinaabe peoples: Courage, Bravery, Love, Respect, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Truth. I am a daughter of the corn, hija del maÃz as we say in El Salvador. The pedagogies of the land is what sustains me in my role as a learner-teacher.
The passing of intergenerational teachings through storytelling sustains my community in the ongoing struggle against colonialism. I manifest from day one my intentions based on indigenous-informed values and actions I have received from my grandparents and great-grandparents. I share them with you today: The land does not need saving. She needs respect. In my teachings, I foster courage and bravery to collectively imagine and co-create pedagogies of liberation, showing compassion as we crawl in patience.