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'''Rolena Adorno''' is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at [[Yale University]] and bestselling author. |
'''Rolena Adorno''' is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at [[Yale University]] and bestselling author{{Citation needed}}. |
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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".<ref>[[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.</ref> |
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".<ref>[[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.</ref> |
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Rolena Adorno is an American humanities scholar, the Spanish Sterling Professor at Yale University and bestselling author[citation needed].
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.[4]
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Rolena Adorno to Speak at the Library of Congress Oct. 12 | Library of Congress". Loc.gov. 2012-09-26. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ "Rolena Adorno | National Endowment for the Humanities". Neh.gov. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
- ^ a b "Rolena Adorno". Pbk.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
External links
- "Rolena Adorno | Department of Spanish and Portuguese". Span-port.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
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