Randy Ontiveros
Director of Honors Humanities, College of Arts and Humanities
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, English
Affiliate Associate Professor, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliate Associate Professor in U.S. Latina/o Studies, American Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
rjo@umd.edu
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Education
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of California, Irvine
Research Expertise
American
Comparative Literature
Film Studies and Cultural Studies
Latinx Studies
LGBTQ Studies
Postmodern and Contemporary
Randy Ontiveros is the Director of Honors Humanities and an Associate Professor in the English Department, with affiliations in U.S. Latina/o Studies, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of California, Irvine. At Maryland, he researches and teaches in the field of Latinx literary and cultural studies.
Professor Ontiveros has published articles and book chapters on topics ranging from Latinx environmentalism to television coverage of the Mexican-American civil rights movement. His book In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement was published by New York University Press in 2013. Currently, he is writing a book entitled “Crabgrass Frontera: The Suburbs in Latinx Politics and Cultures.” In 2015 Professor Ontiveros won the prestigious University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Award for Teaching. In 2016 he was awarded the Donna B. Hamilton Award for Teaching Excellence in General Education at the University of Maryland. In 2023 he won the Faculty Service Award for his service contributions to the College of Arts and Humanities.
