Rolena Adorno
Rolena Adorno is an American humanities scholar, university professor and bestselling author.
Life and Career
She was born and raised on an farm in Iowa. She studied Spanish literature at the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1974. She later taught at Syracuse, Ohio State, and Princeton universities and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She joined the Yale senior faculty in 1996.[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:[5]
- Guaman Poma and His Illustrated Chronicles
- The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative
- Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction