Dr Rodney Taveira

Rodney Taveira is the Academic Director, Honours, Internships, and Postgraduate Coordinator, and a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the United States Studies Centre. Rodney joined the Centre in 2011 from the University of New South Wales, and he has been a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. His research on US fiction, television, art, cinema, and American humour has appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture, Cultural Studies Review, Comparative American Studies, and in edited collections. He writes popular pieces on American society and culture, and he has been interviewed on national television and radio. His current monograph, ‘The Cinematic Face of American Literature,’ argues that new critical perceptions on violence, sexuality, and the way writing makes meaning are observed in contemporary American fiction when it is read through the lens of visual culture.