Nelson M. Rodriguez

Nelson M. Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The College of New Jersey, where he serves as Coordinator of the Sexuality and Queer Studies Program. His scholarship spans the fields of queer and gender studies, Foucault studies, critical pedagogy and cultural studies, and education. His recent publications include "LGBTQ+ Studies in Education: Theoretical Interventions in Curriculum and Pedagogy"; "Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader"; "Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education: Friendship as Ascesis"; "Queer Pedagogies: Theory, Praxis, Politics"; "Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education: An International Guide for the Twenty- First Century"; "Educators Queering Academia: Critical Memoirs"; "Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education"; and "Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education." Rodriguez’s forthcoming books are "Foucauldian Philosophy and Implications for Educational Research: Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France" (2026, Routledge) and "Teaching Critical Sexuality Studies" (2027, Palgrave).