Ileana Rodríguez

Ileana Rodríguez (born October 8, 1939 in Chinandega, Nicaragua[citation needed]) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the Ohio State University, and she is also affiliated with the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA).

Her areas of research fall within Latin American literatures and cultures, more precisely post-colonial theory and feminist and subaltern studies, with a focus on literatures from Central America and the Caribbean.

The aim of her work is to comment on gender and ethnicity and reveal how language reflects the state of politics and society in Latin America.

After her tenure she travelled to Nicaragua after the victory of the Sandinista Revolution and she worked at the Ministry of Culture under the direction of Ernesto Cardenal and taught at the  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Managua.

The aim of her work is to comment on gender and ethnicity and reveal how language reflects the state of politics and society in Latin America.