Overview
Rocío Corral García is a Visiting Lecturer in the Writing Workshop at Cornell University's John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. In her writing classes, she invites students to consider how writing helps us think, and how it reveals possibilities and contradictions that might otherwise remain unnoticed. Drawing on her background in literary studies, she uses close reading techniques to help students move from observation to interpretation and put those insights to work in developing their own arguments. Her experience across different academic and linguistic traditions, together with her work as a writing tutor, informs her commitment to helping students find their voices and navigate different contexts beyond the classroom.
Research Focus
Rocío holds a Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Cornell University. Her research draws on political theology to examine the intersections of sovereignty and gender in early modern English and Spanish drama, with particular attention to the aesthetic and political dimensions of power. Her interest in how cultural forms shape and challenge established ways of thinking extends to her teaching. At Cornell, she has taught First-Year Writing Seminars on literature and medicine, travel writing, and representations of queenship. In her current seminar, Writing the Global Table: Food, Culture, Identity, she explores food as a lens to investigate how the seemingly ordinary act of eating is embedded in larger histories and relations of power. Ultimately, she hopes to equip her students to move across diverse discourse communities in the real world.