Professor Rodríguez has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize given by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA for her book, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings. This prize is given for an outstanding book in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer studies in literature and cultural studies.

This is the second time that a Berkeley GWS member has won this prize, in 2014 Mel Chen’s book Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect also won this prestigious book award for queer studies.