Rolena Adorno

Rolena Adorno

Rolena Adorno is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at Yale University and bestselling author.

Writing in 2001, and in the context of a favorable review of a "magnificent study" that she coauthored, James Axtell called her "perhaps the preeminent student of colonial Latin American literature".[1]


Honours

She was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize of the Modern Language Association of America for her book, The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative.[2]

On 06 November 2009, she was made a member of the National Endowment for Humanities by President Barack Obama.[3]

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and sits on the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library.[4][5]

Bibliography

Some of her most notable works are:[4]

  • Guaman Poma and His Illustrated Chronicles
  • The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative
  • Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
  • With Patrick Pautz, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

References

  1. ↑ James Axtell, untitled review of Rolena Adorno and Patrick Pautz, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 58 (2001), pp. 475–479.
  2. ↑ "Rolena Adorno to Speak at the Library of Congress Oct. 12 | Library of Congress". Loc.gov. 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  3. ↑ "Rolena Adorno | National Endowment for the Humanities". Neh.gov. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  4. 1 2 "Rolena Adorno". Pbk.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  5. ↑ "Governance | The John Carter Brown Library". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  • "Rolena Adorno | Department of Spanish and Portuguese". Span-port.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-27.


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