2001

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez was a guest of honor and lead speaker at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaisssance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry at Ohio State University (October 17-20). Her plenary address discussed the integration of Spanish and Creole poets in early colonial Lima, capital of the viceroyalty of Peru. She was invited to participate in the Symposium on Baroque/Neo-Baroque sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages of the University of Chicago (October 25-26) with a presentation showing the relationship of religious art, portraiture, and illustrated chronicles depicting Inca genealogy. On November 1, she lectured at Columbia University on "Murúa, Guaman Poma y las reinas del Incario."

2002

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez was awarded the title of Profesora Honoraria from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, the oldest institution of higher learning in the Americas, at a ceremony on January 24, 2002 in Lima, Peru. She received the honor for her contributions to the study of Peruvian literature, including the editing and publication of unknown colonial texts, the promotion of Andean culture, and her role as founder and general editor of the journal Colonial Latin American Review.

Juan Manuel Burga Díaz, President of the University of San Marcos, chaired the ceremony in which Distinguished Professor Chang-Rodríguez received the corresponding medal and diploma. She gave a lecture on the relationship between humanistic studies and cultural diversity in the early years of San Marcos at the ceremony, which was attended by high-ranking officials from Peruvian universities as well as the former president of Peru, Valentín Paniagua. Cristóbal Aljovín, special assistant to the President for international relations, read the decree justifying the award; Carlos García Bedoya, Coordinator of the Department of Literature, offered the traditional laudatio reviewing the intellectual trajectory of the honoree. Professor Chang-Rodríguez responded with a lecture on the relationship between humanistic studies and cultural diversity in the early years of San Marcos.

This year Distinguished Professor Chang-Rodríguez served as a member of the steering committee of the Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit hosted by the University of Arizona from 16 to 19 May 2002. Sponsored by the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities, the Society of Early Americanists and Colonial Latin American Review, the journal founded and directed by Distinguished Professor Chang-Rodríguez, the aims of the conference were two-fold: to foster a dialogue among scholars researching the Colonial culture of the Americas; and to disseminate material pertaining to the various literary traditions through its web site http://www.mith2.umd.edu/ summit/Ibero_Anglo.html. Professor Chang-Rodríguez presented a paper on early Andean women poets. She was recently elected to the Board of the International Institute of Ibero American Literature, the premiere professional organization for literary scholars in that field.

Also, she edited Historia de la literatura mexicana: La cultura letrada en la Nueva España del siglo XVII. This 744-page book in which leading critics from Europe and the Americas have participated, is the second volume of a new history of Mexican Literature published by Siglo XXI, one of the most prominent editorial houses in the Hispanic world. In addition to coordinating the volume, Professor Chang-Rodríguez contributed the introduction and an essay analyzing 17^th century lyric poetry in Mexico. The book was presented at The Americas Society in New York on November 5^th, and at the 16^th Guadalajara International Book Fair (Mexico) on December 1st. She has contributed the following book chapters: "Clarinda y el catálogo de mujeres ilustres en su Discurso en loor de la poesía (1608)." Homenaje a Luis Jaime Cisneros. Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez, ed.. 2 Vols. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2002. 1: 745-58. (Spanish translation of an article published in Calíope 4. 1-2 (1998): 94-106), and "Las mujeres españolas en el Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno: intersecciones genéricas y culturales." Homenaje a Franklin Pease. G.Y. Rafael Varón Gabai et al, eds. 2 Vols. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2002. 1: 345-55.

She also attended three by invitation conferences. The first was sponsored by the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago (March 8-9) to promote interest in their collections and publicize research opportunities. On the 19^th and 20^th of April, she participated in a symposium on "Peru in Black and White and in Color: The Unique Texts and Images in the Colonial Andean Manuscripts of Martín de Murúa and Guaman Poma de Ayala," sponsored by the Catholic University of Peru, the Newberry Library and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago. Her conference paper underscored the singular fashion in which the criollos were depicted in the chronicle written by the native historian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. In the third symposium (September 22-26) sponsored by the University of Córdoba (Spain) and the city of Montilla and devoted to the life and works of the Peruvian writer Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, she presented a paper on La Florida del Inca (1605), viewing this chronicle as a bridge between the Caribbean and the Andean worlds.

During the Fall '02 semester Professor Chang-Rodríguez was invited to lecture at the University of Pennsylvania on "Guaman Poma de Ayala y las mujeres españolas de Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno" (October 10th) and at the University of Puerto Rico on "Monjas, modas y matrimonios españoles en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno" (November 13th). 

2003

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez presented a paper analyzing the process of representation in La Florida del Inca, the 1605 chronicle written by the Peruvian author Garcilaso de la Vega, at the 5th International Congress of Golden Age Literature, sponsored by the Universidad Nacional del Comahue from April 10-12 in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. On April 16th she lectured at the Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires on Garcilaso and his La Florida del Inca, situating it in the field of historical works written about the Spanish territories now part of the United States. Her article, "Las Coyas incaicas y la complementariedad andina en la Historia (c. 1616) de Martín de Murúa," on the depictions of the Inca queens in the 17th century chronicles written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Martín de Murúa and published in Studi Ispanici in 1999, was selected to appear in the Andean web site www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma sponsored by the Royal Libray of Copenhagen in connection with the digitalization of First New Chronicle and Good Government, the 1615 illustrated history written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.

In addition, she delivered the Inaugural lecture, "Contigüidades culturales: Cuba y La Florida del Inca (1605)," of the Hispanic Cultures Seminar at Harvard University on September 29, 2003. She presented the lead lecture on "The Relationship of Literature, Anthropology and Images" in the Summer Course Bellas Artes/ Bellas Letras (El paradigma mexicano), sponsored by the Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and held at El Escorial, Spain, from August 25-29, 2003. Professor Chang-Rodríguez organized and presided the session on "Lírica virreinal y patria americana" at The Colonial Americas: First International Interdisciplinary Symposium, sponsored by Georgetown University, Washington D.C., October 9-11, 2003. Her review of In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature-Precolumbian to the Present, edited by Miguel León Portilla, Earl Shorris with Sylvia S. Shorris, Ascensión H. de León Portilla and Jorge Klor de Alva (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), appeared in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 67 (Fall 2003): 88-89.

On October 24-25, 2003 Professor Chang-Rodríguez participated with an invited paper, "Casos cubanos en La Florida del Inca (1605), " in the symposium Colonial Latin American Literature: A State of the Art sponsored by Yale University. Her chapter "Entre el Caribe y los Andes: Cuba y La Florida del Inca (1605)," appeared in Nictimene... sacrílega. Estudios coloniales en homenaje a Georgina Sabat-Rivers, a book coordinated by Mabel Moraña and Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, and co-published in 2003 by the Mexican university Claustro de Sor Juana and the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature in Pittsburgh. 

2004

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez participated in the "Curso de Literatura Hispanoamericana: temas y géneros, historia y maravilla" (8-12 March 2004) sponsored by the Universidad de Málaga where she lectured on "El deslumbramiento de América y los cronistas andinos." In March 29-31 she lectured on the Andean chronicler Guaman Poma de Ayala and taught a master class on the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at the University of Northern Illinois. Her essay on "Amarilis: Epístola a Belardo," appeared in "Yo con mi viveza". Textos de conquistadoras, monjas, brujas, poetas y otras mujeres de la colonia, edited by Luisa Campuzano and Catharina Vallejo (Cuadernos Casa 41, La Habana-Montreal: Casa de las Américas and Concordia University, 2003), pp. 48-57; an article by Chang-Rodríguez on two early Peruvian poets, "Ecos andinos: Clarinda y Diego Mexía en la Primera Parte del Parnaso Antártico (1608)," was published in Calíope (Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry) 9.1 (2003): 67-80. The third revised edition of Distinguished Professor Chang-Rodríguez' popular anthology of Spanish-American literature, Voces de Hispanoamérica. Antología literaria, co-edited with Professor Malva E. Filer, was published in Boston by Thomson and Heinle (2004).

In June she was invited to participate in the Foro Borges, sponsored by the Cervantes Institute of New York and the Transatlantic Studies Program of Brown University (17 to 18 June 2004). Her presentation discussed Atlas (1989), a book-collage prepared by the acclaimed Argentinian writer and María Kodama. She delivered the keynote address "Guaman Poma valora a los virreyes del Perú," at the congress Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA), held at the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 9-13 August, 2004; while in Lima, Chang-Rodríguez participated in the 7th Seminar on Peruvian Colonial Chroniclers sponsored by the University of San Marcos with a lecture highlighting the colonial links among Cuba, Perú and the United States as evidenced in La Florida del Inca, the 1605 chronicle written by the first mestizo author from the Americas, Garcilaso de la Vega. At the 35th Congress of the International Institute of Ibero American Literature held at the Université de Poitiers (28 June to 1 July 2004), Chang-Rodríguez presented a paper treating gender and colonialism in La Florida del Inca. She has received a grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the United States Universities to study women writers in viceregal Peru. The current issue (Vol. 14. No. 3) of The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education features her interdisciplinary research.

She has contributed essays to the following publications: "Las veleidades de la representación: Guaman Poma, Murúa y la coya Chimpu Urma," in La formación de la cultura virreinal. II. El siglo XVII, eds. Karl Kohut and Sonia V. Rose ( Frankfurt am Mein: Vervuert; Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2004), 243-63; "Castellanos y peruleros en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala", in Proceedings of the 14^th Congress of the International Association of Hispanists, eds . Isaías Lerner, Alejandro Alonso and Robert Nival, Vol 4. (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004), 101-09. Her article "¿Virreyes virtuosos? El juicio de Guaman Poma de Ayala," appeared in Iberoromania 58 (2003), 25-48. She was a key-note speaker in the Hispanic Celelebration Lecture Series sponsored by Hofstra University in Fall '04 with a presentation on "Crisscrossing Perú with Native Historian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala."

2005

Dr. Chang-Rodríguez's book La palabra y la pluma en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, was published by the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP, 2005; 205 pp.). It discusses how the native historian Felipe Guaman de Ayala uses his Andean heritage and appropriates European culture to represent, in words and images, his unique perception of Spanish conquest and colonization. Her article, "La mirada femenina y el orgullo novohispano," appeared in the issue of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 655 (January 2005):25-30, dedicated to colonial Spanish-American poetry, and her note on "Santa Rosa de Lima (y de Puerto Rico), " was published in Foro, the cultural supplement of the daily El Nuevo Día (San Juan), on 15 May 2005. On 12 May 2005 she lectured at Eötvos Lorand University , Budapest, Hungary, on "Guaman Poma de Ayala, cronista del Perú;" and on 23 May 2005, at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain, on "Cruzando culturas y atravesando territorios en La Florida del Inca (1605)." She participated electronically in a symposium organized by the University of San Marcos and the Academia Diplomática, both of Lima, Peru, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's chronicle about Hernando de Soto's 1539 expedition to La Florida."

She was a lead lecturer at the international symposium "Spanish-American Utopias and Don Quijote," University of Salamanca (5-7 October 2005); her illustrated conference discussed the early impact of Cervantes' masterpiece in the Andean region. The Ministry of Foreign Relations of Peru invited Chang-Rodríguez's participation in the 19th International Book Fair held at Guadalajara, Mexico (26 November to 4 December 2005), in which Peru was the honored country. There she lectured on the chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and chaired a section on the indigenista writer José María Arguedas. Professor Chang-Rodríguez has contributed the following publications: "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), pp. 277-91; " Lírica novohispana y santidad criolla: Sigüenza y Sor Juana le cantan a la Guadalupana," Rememorando el pasado - Recuperando el futuro. Nuevos aportes para el estudio de la América Colonial,  Ed. Veronica Salles-Reese (Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2005), pp. 300-11; "Género y jerarquía en La Florida del Inca," Identidades. Reflexión, Arte y Cultura Peruana (Cultural supplement of El Peruano) 4.90 (8 August 2005): 3-5. and "El Inca Garcilaso en su centenario," Mula Verde Review, 1 ( November 2005). In recognition for her work as founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Colonial Latin American Review, Chang-Rodríguez was selected runner-up in the international competition for Distinguished Editor sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) and was awarded a diploma at the 2005 MLA Convention held in Washington D.C.

2006

In the Spring 2006 Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez lectured on the study of colonial literature in the United States at the Instituto Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Lima, Peru (17 January 2006); she delivered the key-note address at the Annual Graduate Student Conference (March 3-4) sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of the University of Miami at Coral Gables; her lecture stressed the shared history of the Americas through a discussion of La Florida del Inca (1605) by the Peruvian writer Garcilaso de la Vega. At the Americas Society of New York, Chang-Rodríguez served as academic adviser for Points of Contact: Five Centuries of Cultural and Economic Exchange Between Asia and Latin America. The series of programs held in April and May underscored intercontinental links dating back to the 16th century, and early trade between the Philippines and the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico) through the Galeón de Manila. She has contributed the following publications: "Quimera histórica y reafirmación indígena en La Florida del Inca (1605)," Studi Ispanici (2005), pp. 267-76; "Guaman Poma valora a los virreyes del Perú," Memorias de JALLA 2004. Sextas jornadas andinas de literatura iberoamericana, Ed. Carlos García Bedoya (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2006), pp. 325-344; and "La fuente de la juventud y La Florida del Inca (1605)," Letras (Cultural magazine, San Juan de Puerto Rico), 8 January 2006. Chang-Rodríguez was recently invited to join the Colonial Dialogues, an interdisciplinary colloquium fostered by departments from the Humanities and the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2006 she also edited, with an introduction, a chronology and 55 images, Beyond Books and Borders: Garcilaso de la Vega and La Florida del Inca (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006), and Franqueando Fronteras: Garcilaso de la Vega y La Florida del Inca (Lima: Catholic University of Peru, 2006). The books, appearing simultaneously in English and Spanish, collect the essays from the 2003 symposium held at the City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, to mark the 4^th centennial of the publication in Lisbon (1605) of La Florida del Inca. Chang-Rodríguez has contributed the following book chapter: "El asombro americano y los cronistas indígenas del Perú. Guaman Poma ante los virreyes españoles," in Literatura hispanoamericana. Historia y maravilla, ed. Guadalupe Fernández Ariza (Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2005), pp.19-47. At the congress of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature (Genova, Italy, 26 June-1 July 2006), she presented a lead lecture on: "La Florida del Inca: proyección americana y transatlántica;" and at the 3^rd International Congress of Spanish-American Literature, Universidad de Puerto Rico in Arecibo (16-18 November 2006), honoring the acclaimed writer Luis Rafael Sánchez, she was invited to lecture on Devórame otra vez, his collection of essays. 

2007

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages) has published the following book chapters: “El periplo peruano de don Quijote,” in Cervantes and/ on/ in the New World, Julio Vélez-Sainz and Nieves Romero-Díaz (ed.), Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2007, 89-114; and “Clarinda, Amarilis y la ‘fruta nueva’ del Parnaso peruano,” in La mujer en la historia del Perú (siglos XV al XX), Carmen Meza y Teodoro Hampe (ed.), Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú, 2007, 17-35; her note “Charlando con Cervantes y con Ayala,” appeared in Hispania 89. 4 (2006): 867-69. At the invitation of the Graduate Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, in August 2007 Professor Chang-Rodríguez delivered a key-note lecture on “Evangelization, Literacy and Culture in the Spanish Colonies of the New World” and taught a seminar on the Spanish chronicles describing the early contact period in the Americas. Chang-Rodríguez read a paper on the poetry of Hernando Domínguez Camargo at the International Symposium of Colonial American Studies held at the University of San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador, 5-9 June 2007. She organized and moderated a panel devoted to “Colonialism and Modernity in Spanish American Literature” held on April 17, 2007 at the Americas Society in New York City. The Revista de la Universidad de México (Núm. 33, Nov. 2006) published a long interview by the Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa to Raquel Chang-Rodríguez about her recent book, La palabra y la pluma en Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (2005), on the Peruvian native historian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.