Christopher Rivera
	Email: crivera bilkent.edu.tr Contact Number: +90 (312) 290 1552 Office: G-114/A Title: Instructor Department of American Culture and Literature Bilkent University 06800 Bilkent Ankara, Turkey

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Christopher Rivera, instructor in the Department of American Culture and Literature, received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Comparative Literature & Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, in 2010. He received his MA from Indiana University in Hispanic Literature and his BA in Spanish Education from the University of Delaware. His major research areas of interest include the Americas, Latina/o literary and cultural studies, film, popular culture and media studies. He conducts research on how issues of identity, otherness, postcoloniality, and race/ethnicity affect a subject’s sense of authenticity in America. Currently Christopher is revising two chapters of his dissertation entitled, "Admission as Submission: Richard Rodriguez’s Autobiographies as an Epistemology of Penetration," for publication in the 2011.