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Summary c.v. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez 1/3
Education
RAQUEL CHANG-RODRIGUEZ
Summary Curriculum Vitae
Distinguished Professor of Spanish-American Literature and Culture
City College (CCNY) and Graduate Center (GC)
City University of New York (CUNY)
Ph.D., New York University
Research Interests
Spanish American literature and culture, specifically the literature of the Colonial Period
(prose, poetry and theater of the Andean area and Mexico); “Indigenismo;” the
relationship of image and text in literary discourse. Peninsular Literature: Golden Age
prose and drama.
Books and Editions
Publications (selected)
1. “Aquí, ninfas del sur, venid ligeras.” Voces poéticas virreinales. Ed., introduction,
and bibliographies. Madrid/Frankfurt: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2008.
2. (ed.) 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.
3. La palabra y la pluma en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno. Lima: PUCP,
2005.
4. (coord.) La cultura letrada en la Nueva España del siglo XVII. 2 nd . Volume of the
new Historia de la literatura mexicana. México: Siglo XXI-UNAM, 2002.
5. Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama.
Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1999.
6. El discurso disidente: ensayos de literatura colonial peruana. Lima: PUCP, 1991.
7. La apropiación del signo: tres cronistas indígenas del Perú. Tempe: Center for Latin
American Studies, Arizona State University, 1988.

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Book Chapters
“Poetry and Prose Literature.” Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies 1530-
1900. Ed. Joanne Pillsbury (in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art). 3 Vols. Norman: U of Oklahoma P,
2008. 1: 388-406.
“La Florida del Inca: vínculos novohispanos y proyección americana.” Nuevas lecturas
de “La Florida del Inca”. Ed. Carmen de Mora y Antonio Garrido Aranda.
Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert: 2008. 67-82.
“Spanish Women in First New Chronicle and Good Government: The Intersections of
Culture and Gender.” Ed. Mabel Moraña and Carlos Jáuregui. Revisiting the
“Colonial Question” in Latin America. Madrid/Frankfurt:
Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2008.
“Diálogos poéticos transatlánticos.” Ed. Pedro Ruiz Pérez. Cánones críticos en la poesía
de los Siglos de Oro. Madrid: Academia del Hispanismo, 2008. 291-309.
“El periplo peruano de don Quijote.” Cervantes and/ on/ in the New World. Ed. Julio
Vélez-Sainz and Nieves Romero-Díaz. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2007. 89-
114. Selected to appear in: Utopías americanas del Quijote. Ed. José Carlos
González Boixo. Salamanca: Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua, 2007.
83-100.
“Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis and Sor Juana.” A
Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Ed. Susan Castillo and Ivy
Schweitzer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 277-91.
Articles
“¿Virreyes virtuosos El juicio de Guaman Poma de Ayala.” Iberoromania (Germany) 58
(2003): 25-48.
“Clarinda's Catalogue of Worthy Women in her Discurso en loor de la poesía (1608).”
Calíope 4. 1-2 (1998): 94-106. Spanish version in: Homenaje a Luis Jaime
Cisneros. Ed. Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez. 2 Vols. Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Peru, 2002. 1: 745-58.
Entries on: Comentarios Reales (1:1143-51), Relación de antigüedades deste reyno del
Pirú (3:3984-86), Garcilaso de la Vega Inca (2: 1906-14), and Joan de
Santacruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua (3:4345-46), for the Diccionario
Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina (DELAL). Ed. Nelson Osorio T.
3 Vols. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho-Monte Á vila, 1995.

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“Las ciudades de Primer nueva corónica y los mapas de las Relaciones geográficas de
Indias: un posible vínculo.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 41
(1995): 95-19.
“The Conquest of Peru Through the Native Looking Glass.” Romance Quarterly 40. 2
(1993): 97-106.
Entries on: Pedro de Oña, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Alonso Carrió de la
Vandera. Ed. Carlos A. Solé and Maria Isabel Abreu. Latin-American Writers.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. 1:59-63, 71-77, 107-11.
Awards and Prizes (selected)
Awards
The Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United
States Universities, 1990, 2004.
New York Council for the Humanities, 1987.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 1981.
Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship, 1980.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 1975.
Prizes
Honorable Mention: Finalist (1 st runner up), International Competition for Distinguished
Editor, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), Awarded at the MLA
Convention, December 2005.
Profesora Honoraria, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú, 2002.
Honorary Associate, The Hispanic Society of America, 1996.
Significant Achievement Award, Ohio University, 1990.
Founders Day Certificate for Outstanding Scholarship, New York University, 1973.
Professor Chang-Rodríguez is the founding editor of Colonial Latin American Review,
the prize winning journal devoted to studying the colonial period from an
interdisciplinary perspective. She has served twice (1985-87; 1997-2000), as President of
the International Institute of Iberoamerican Literature [Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI)], the leading professional organization promoting the
study of Latin American literature and culture, and is on the editorial board of a number
of journals from the USA and abroad: Calíope, Chasqui, Ciberletras, Colonial Latin
American Review, Hofstra Hispanic Review, Itinerarios, Review: Latin American
Literature and Arts, Revista Hostosiana, and Scientiae Humanae. A frequent key-note
speaker at conferences and symposia, Chang-Rodríguez co-anchored Charlando con
Cervantes, a program of interviews with prominent personalities sponsored by CUNY-
TV and the Instituto Cervantes (1995-04).