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Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez

Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez

Assistant Professor

Contact

Assistant Professor
Theatre Arts
Office Phone(909) 537-3055
Office LocationPA-107
UEC - Miscellaneous Projects & Grants
Office Phone(909) 537-3055
Office LocationPA-107

Office Hours

Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday: 11:15 pm-12:15 pm
Wednesday:
Thursday: 11:15 pm-12:15 pm
Friday:
Saturday:

Bio

Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez holds a PhD from the UCLA department of Theatre Film and Television. He has collaborated with Spanish-speaking theatre groups in the U.S. including Grupo malayerba from Ecuador, Yuyachkani from Peru and Teatro de los andes from Bolivia. His translations include Argentinian, Mexican, and portions of many American plays. He is also the 2021 co-winner of the Lowrider Studies Scholar-Activist of the Year Award, and was a member of the Young Scholars Symposium Institute for Latino Studies at University of Notre Dame. In 2021 and 2022 he participated in the Mellon School for Theater & Performance Research at Harvard university.

ORCID iD- 10.1017/s0954586723000113

Click here for a short biographical podcast interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kXl6JuJFgMHacvJZ3fTQw

 

 

 

Education

PhD, Department of Theater Film and Television—University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

Master of Fine Arts, Theater—University of California, San Diego, 2002

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theater (Actor Training Program)—University of Utah, 1999

Single Subject Credential/Preliminary English—National University, 2008

Courses/Teaching

Fundamentals of Directing

Dramatic Literature of Identity: Latinx Theatre 

Theatre in the Classroom

Theatre for Youth: History and Literature

Acting for All Majors

Research and Teaching Interests

Theatre Education

Chicana/o Culture

Aztec Philosophy

Performance Studies

Lowriding

The Watts Towers