Ruben Quintero

Ruben Quintero is a Professor Emeritus of California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), who taught in the English Department (1988-2020) and received a CSULA Outstanding Professor Award in 2001. His Ph.D. (1988) and A.M. (1983) degrees from Harvard University are in English and American Literature and Language. He earned B.A. degrees in Philosophy (1978) and English (1980) from CSULA. His book publications include Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art (1992), which received a University of Delaware Press Manuscript Award for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1990, and A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern (2007; 2011, paperback). Serving in the U.S. Army, 1969-71, he was awarded a Combat Infantry Badge (CIB), Purple Heart, and other service medals. As a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff, 1972-1981, he was awarded The American National Red Cross Certificate of Merit, For Selfless and Humane Action (August 3, 1977) and Commended for Courageous Actions by Los Angeles County Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess (July 12, 1978). Currently, he is co-authoring a book with Prof. Michael Arndt, Cal Lutheran University, who was a comrade-in-arms in Echo Recon 1/8 of the 1st Air Cavalry Division in 1970. Their shared combat experience in the Vietnam War and its relationship to their lives and their art is the subject of their forthcoming book. His autobiographical My Mother’s Scrapbook (2020) is his first KDP book.