Dr. Rogers was an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder earning a degree in Spanish, Magna Cum Laude. A Phi Beta Kappa initiate at CU, he has been active in the Wabash College chapter since his arrival in 1998. In 1995, Dr. Rogers was awarded the Petry Fellowship for Dissertation Research at the University of Kansas and spent a semester at the Universidad Autónoma de México investigating the relationship between the publishing industry and aesthetics in 20th-Century Mexican Literature. Dr. Rogers was a José M. Osma Fellow at the University of Kansas and after completing an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature, he joined the Wabash faculty in 1998. His research in recent years has focused on gender and race in contemporary Latin American literature.