Raquel Chang-Rodriguez
Distinguished Professor
Building
North Academic Center
Office
6/305
Phone
212-650-7920
212-650-6731

Raquel Chang-Rodriguez
Profile
- Raquel 颁丑补苍驳-搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄, Ph.D. New York University, is Distinguished Professor of Spanish-American literature and culture at the Graduate Center and the City College, CUNY, where she co-directs the C谩tedra Mario Vargas Llosa. She has held visiting appointments at Colgate University (Colgate Professor of the Humanities) and Columbia University. Among other books, 颁丑补苍驳-搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄 has written: El discurso disidente: ensayos de literatura colonial peruana (1991), Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama (1999), La palabra y la pluma en 鈥淧rimer nueva cor贸nica y buen gobierno鈥 (2005), Cartograf铆a garcilasista (2013) and Luis Jer贸nimo de Or茅 and his&苍产蝉辫;鈥搁别濒补肠颈贸苍鈥 (c. 1619): A Peruvian鈥檚 Account of Spanish Florida) (2021). She has edited and co-edited important collections such as Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and 鈥淟a Florida del Inca鈥 (2006), Literatura y cultura en el Virreinato del Per煤: apropiaci贸n y diferencia (2017), Vol. 2 of Historia de las literaturas en el Per煤, and Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa. A Retrospective (2020). 颁丑补苍驳-搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄 has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in journals and collections from Europe and the Americas, and has contributed to major national and international projects such as Latin American Writers (1989), History of Literature in the Caribbean (1994), Diccionario Enciclop茅dico de las Letras de Am茅rica Latina (1995), the Encyclopedia of Latin American History (1996), the Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Art History and Archaeology (2008), The Oxford Handbook on the Latin American Novel (in press). In 2013 she was the guest academic co-editor of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, dedicated to Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Prize winner. Professor 颁丑补苍驳-搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄 is the founding editor of Colonial Latin American Review, the prize-winning journal devoted to studying the colonial period from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her research projects have been supported by the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, The Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain鈥檚 Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Organization for American States, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Professor 颁丑补苍驳-搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄 currently serves as board member of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, and Revista de la ANLE. From 1997-2000, she was the President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). A frequent key-note speaker at conferences and symposia, Chang- Rodr铆guez was the co-anchor of 鈥淐harlando con Cervantes,鈥 a program of interviews with prominent personalities from the Hispanic world sponsored by CUNY-TV and the Instituto Cervantes. She is an Honorary Associate of the Hispanic Society of America, Doctor Honoris Causa from the National and Kapodistriac University of Athens, Greece, 鈥渕iembro correspondiente鈥 of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua, the recipient of the 鈥Enrique Anderson Imbert,鈥 Career Achievement Award of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and 鈥渕iembro de n煤mero鈥 of the ANLE, an affiliate of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.
Education
Ph.D., New York University
Publications
Professor 颁丑补苍驳-搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄 has the following significant academic publications:
Cartograf铆a garcilasista (Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 2013)
Entre la espada y la pluma. El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y sus "Comentarios Reales." Introduction and ed. Lima: Fondo Editorial, PUCP, 2010
鈥淎qu铆, ninfas del sur, venid ligeras.鈥 Voces po茅ticas virreinales (Madrid/Frankfurt: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2008)
Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006)
Franqueando fronteras: Garcilaso de la Vega y La Florida del Inca (Lima: PUCP, 2006)
La palabra y la pluma en Primer nueva cor贸nica y buen gobierno (Lima: PUCP, 2005)
La cultura letrada en la Nueva Espa帽a del siglo XVII. 2nd. Volume of the new Historia de la literatura mexicana (M茅xico: Siglo XXI-UNAM, 2002)
Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1999)
El discurso disidente: ensayos de literatura colonial peruana (Lima: PUCP, 1991)
La apropiaci贸n del signo: tres cronistas ind铆genas del Per煤 (Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1988), etc.