Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M.

Professor of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He has published the books Cantas a Marte y das batalla a Apolo: Cinco estudios sobre Gaspar de Villagrá (2014), With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships Across the Centuries (2014, edited), a scholarly edition of Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nveva Mexico (2010), Gaspar de Villagrá: Legista, soldado y poeta (2009), Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (2003), La voz urgente: Antología de literatura chicana en español (1995, 1999, and 2006), and Rolando Hinojosa y su "cronicón" chicano: Una novela del lector (1993). His scholarly articles have appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals, Martín-Rodríguez was recently elected Académico de Número by the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.