He currently holds the position of Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
In 2010, he received the John K. Walsh award for his article "La urgente presencia de las Siete Partidas".
He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Universidad de Salamanca, Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the École Normale Supérieure (Lettres et Sciences Humaines) and Columbia University, where he was chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures from 2013 to 2016.
[1] Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco's extensive research has made significant contributions to the understanding of medieval law, chivalry, Romance studies, and Iberian society in the Middle Ages.
[2] More recently, in Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages, connects Alfonso X of Castile's use of the vernacular and kin attention to the material production of legal texts in the Siete partidas to a desire to expand and consolidate power over his subjects.