Rolena Adorno

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

Rolena Adorno

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]

Lawsuit

In 2017, a former Spanish professor at Yale filled a lawsuit claiming that the Yale's Spanish and Portuguese department perpetuated a culture of harassment and discrimination. [6] According to the lawsuit, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, department chair Rolena Adorno and department professor Noel Valis made “unsupportive and negative” statements in retaliation for plaintiff’s speaking out against discrimination and sexual harassment, which had an impact in the plaintiff’s tenure denial in 2015. The university newspaper Yale Daily News points out that despite a request for the administration to recuse Echevarria, Adorno and Valis from the vote, they were allowed to participate and each voted against granting tenure to the plaintiff. [7]

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. "Rolena Adorno". Pbk.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  5. "Governance | The John Carter Brown Library". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  6. "Case 3:17-cv-01104-VLB | US District Court" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  7. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/07/07/former-spanish-prof-alleges-sexual-harassment-retaliatory-firing-in-lawsuit/
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