Raquel Chang-Rodriguez

Distinguished Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures

Division of Humanities and the Arts

Office: NAC 6/305
Phone: (212) 650-7920/6731
E-mail: rchangrodriguez@ccny.cuny.edu

About Raquel Chang-Rodriguez

Distinguished Professor of Spanish-American literature and civilization, Dr. Chang-Rodriguez has researched indigenismo, Colonial chronicles and lyric poetry, and the relation of texts and images. She is the author, editor and compiler of fifteen books, as well as the recipient of several grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship. Among her recent publications are La palabra la pluma en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (Catholic University of Perú, 2005), and the edition of a collection of essays appearing simultaneously in English and Spanish, Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega y La Florida del Inca (Catholic University of Perú) 2006). Chang-Rodríguez is the founding editor of the prize-winning journal Colonial Latin American Review. She is Profesora Honoraria do the Universidad Nacional de San Marcos (Lima, Perú) and Honorary Associate of the Hispanic Society of America. Prof. Chang-Rodriguez also teaches at the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Education

Ph.D., New York University

Publications

Professor Chang-Rodríguez has the following significant academic publications: “Aquí, ninfas del sur, venid ligeras.” Voces poéticas 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 corónica y buen gobierno (Lima: PUCP, 2005), La cultura letrada en la Nueva España del siglo XVII. 2nd. Volume of the new Historia de la literatura mexicana (México: 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 apropiación del signo: tres cronistas indígenas del Perú (Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1988), etc.

Vita

Last Updated: 10/8/08