Rodney Taveira
Lecturer in US Studies
Rodney Taveira joined the United States Studies Centre in 2011. He was awarded his PhD in English from the University of Sydney in 2010. He was previously Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales.
Rodney researches American literature and visual culture. He has taught courses on American silent film, contemporary American fiction, and transnational writing and cinema. He has published on contemporary American fiction, literary responses to 9-11, and the interrelation of cinema, photography, painting, and literature. He is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally titled, “The Cinematic Face of American Literature.” Rodney argues that new critical perceptions on violence, sexuality, and the way writing makes meaning are observed in major works such as the global novels of Thomas Pynchon, the crime fiction of James Ellroy, and the literary paranoia of Don DeLillo when they are read through the lens of film theory, film history, and the wider field of visual media.
