North American Academy of the Spanish Language honors CCNY Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor of Hispanic literature and culture at The City College of New York, is the latest leading academic elected a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), which is an affiliate of the Spanish Royal Academy. She’s been recognized by ANLE for her contributions to Spanish American literary and cultural studies and her many publications including those on the Spanish presence in early La Florida. 

ANLE serves 60 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. It’s also one of 23 academies on four continents serving 600 million Spanish speakers. 

A specialist in colonial literature, Chang-Rodríguez has written, edited, and co-edited several books. Her notable titles include:

• “La apropiación del signo: tres cronistas indígenas del Perú;” 
• “El discurso disidente: ensayos de literatura colonial peruana;” 
• “Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama;” and 
• “La palabra y la pluma en “Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno.” 

In 2006, Chang-Rodríguez coordinated the collection “Franqueando fronteras: Garcilaso de la Vega y ‘La Florida del Inca,’” which was released simultaneously in the U.S. and Peru (English translation: “Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and ‘La Florida del Inca’”).  A second collection was titled “Between the Sword and the Pen: Inca Garcilaso and his ‘Royal Commentaries’.”

In addition, Chang-Rodríguez edited “Seventeenth Century Literary Culture in New Spain”, the second volume of a new history of Mexican literature. She recently co-edited with fellow CCNY Professor Carlos Riobó “Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa: A Retrospective,” and currently directs a five-volume project sponsoring a new literary history of Perú. 

Chang-Rodríguez has contributed to national and international projects such as “Latin American Writers”; “History of Literature in the Caribbean”; “Diccionario Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina”; “The Encyclopedia of Latin American History”; “Storia della civiltá letteraria”; and the “Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900.” In 1992, she founded the “Colonial Latin American Review,” a prize-winning, interdisciplinary journal that she directed until 2003. 
 
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