Rodolfo Jose Cortina

Background

Rodolfo Jose Cortina was born on February 23, 1946, in Guantanamo, Oriente, Cuba, to Rodolfo and Livia Gomez Cortina.

Education

Cortina attended Texas A & M University, and in 1966 he got his B.A., and at the Case Western Reserve University, he got M.A. in 1968, and Ph.D. in 1977.

Career

From 1967 to 1969, Cortino worked at the Cuyahoga County Community College, on Cleveland, Ohio, as an instructor. In 1968, he was a lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland. In Beloit College, in Beloit, Wisconsin, he was an instructor, from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1977, Cortina worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and associate professor, from 1977 to 1986. In 1980, Rodolfo was a chairperson at the Wisconsin Governor’s Special Commission on Cuban Resettlement. Then, from 1981 to 1984, Cortina was a member of the board of directors at the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and a member at the Wisconsin Governor’s Hispanic Commission in 1983.

In Florida International University, in Miami, Rodolfo Cortina was an associate professor, during 1986 - 1988, and professor from 1988 to 1995. Also, in 1995, he worked at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas, as the professor of Spanish. At the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Cortina was a visiting professor. In 1991, he worked at the University of Alicante, as visiting professor.

Achievements

• Rodolfo Cortina is known as the author of Blasco Ibanez and the Evocative Novel and editor of Hispanic s in the United States.

Works

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  • Cuban American Theater
  • Hispanic American Literature: An Anthology
  • Hispanos en los Estados Unidos

Membership

• Modem Language Association of America

• Latin American Studies Association

• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

• Society for Values in Higher Education

• Phi Sigma Iota

Personality

Cortina immigrated to the United States in 1961.

Connections

Cortina married Lynn E. Rice on January 3, 1970. They have a daughter Olivia Augusta.

Father:

Rodolfo Cortina

Mother:

Livia Gomez Cortina

Wife:

Lynn E. Rice

Daughter:

Olivia Augusta